JIHAD WATCH 10/05/2019

UK: Former ice cream seller turned Islamic State jihadi begs to come home because he misses home and his mother
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 04, 2019 05:00 pm

“A British ice cream seller who went to join ISIS in Syria five years ago has pleaded to come home because he misses his mother and his life in Cardiff. Aseel Muthana left Wales for Syria in February 2014, aged 17, following his brother Nasser and another friend in joining the jihadist group.” Muthana argues that he had good intentions […]
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Islamic Republic of Iran: Imprisoned ex-Muslim pastor’s children denied education because they won’t study Quran
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 04, 2019 04:00 pm

“Imprisoned Iranian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani has gone on a hunger strike to protest the regime’s attempt to bar his children from completing their education because they refuse to study Islam and read the Quran…..The policy requires all students to take a course on the Quran.” Nadarkhani’s suffering as an apostate highlights the lack of human […]
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Kosovo welcoming back Islamic State jihadis and their families, carefully protecting them from the public
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 04, 2019 03:00 pm

Thousands of foreign Islamic State supporters are held in Kurdish camps in Syria, and while most EU countries refuse to repatriate them, Kosovo is bringing them back. A picture speaks a thousand words: the Pristina airport in Kosovo “was shut down to the public when the 32 women, 74 children and four men were brought […]
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France: Muslim who killed 4 was subject of counterterror report in 2015, wife told him “Only Allah will judge you”
By Robert Spencer on Oct 04, 2019 02:22 pm

Clearly Michael Harpon’s wife knew that he was going to wage jihad. That must be why she was arrested, which was left unexplained at the time. “Killing at the police headquarters: why the terrorist track is favored,” translated from “Tuerie à la préfecture de police : pourquoi la piste terroriste est privilégiée,” Le Parisien, October […]
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France: Muslim who killed 4 had links to jihad group, police reverse themselves, now treating murders as terrorism
By Robert Spencer on Oct 04, 2019 02:13 pm

They previously ruled out the possibility of terrorism, but reality caught up with them. “Paris police bloodbath WAS a terrorist attack, anti-terror cops believe: Knifeman who slaughtered four police colleagues has links to radical Islamist terrorist organisation, search of his computer and phone records reveals,” by Peter Allen, Mail Online, October 4, 2019 (thanks to […]
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Mourning the Israeli Left in Washington, DC
By Andrew Harrod on Oct 04, 2019 02:00 pm

Following the 1990s Oslo Accords peace process, Israel experienced “disappointment, and then boom….The Second Intifada was unbelievable….Things were blowing up all over the place, all over the place, on a daily basis.” So stated the Israeli-American academic Galia Golan at a September 27 Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) panel in Washington, DC, that, intentionally […]
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As Islamic Republic of Pakistan escalates threats against India, Turkey building warships for Pakistanis
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 04, 2019 01:00 pm

In mid-August, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan threatened to “teach Delhi a lesson” and vowed a “fight until the end against any Indian violations in disputed Kashmir.” Then later in the month, Khan escalated his threats of a nuclear war with India over Kashmir. Khan also recently said that the struggle against India over Kashmir […]
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Kenya: Kidnapped Italian aid worker forced to convert to Islam
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 04, 2019 12:00 pm

During her kidnapping last year, a woman and four children were wounded when jihadists armed with AK-47 rifles opened fire during the attack. Italian intelligence officials have now claimed that Silvia Romano has been forced to “convert to Islam and marry a Somalian man.” This is a phenomenon we often see in jihad-infested territories: infidel […]
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Nigeria: Catholics tell president “we are tired of burying our priests” as genocide of Christians continues
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 04, 2019 11:00 am

“Catholic leaders in Nigeria have decried the reigning state of unrest and violence in the country, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to step up to his responsibility of protecting Nigerian citizens.” Expect nothing to be done. “Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, who is himself of the Fulani ethnic group, has encouraged a narrative that minimizes the importance […]
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The Last Two Sikhs In Helmand
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Oct 04, 2019 10:00 am

This was a very small story. It was about a very small group of people. Two, to be exact, the last two Sikhs in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. But this story tells us a lot about Muslim behavior. LASHKAR GAH, HELMAND, AFGHANISTAN – Like many other Afghans, Satnam Singh rides on a bicycle to work […]
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France: Muslim who killed 4 screamed “Allahu akbar” twice in his apartment before the murders, went to local mosque
By Robert Spencer on Oct 04, 2019 09:00 am

As more details such as these come out, it will be harder for the French authorities to maintain that this was not a jihad terror attack. But they’ll manage to find a way. “Attack at the police headquarters in Paris: according to a witness, the killer shouted ‘Allah Akbar!’ the night before,” translated from “Attaque […]
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France: Terrorism inquiry ruled out in killing of 4, govt spox says “you’re not a terrorist because you’re Muslim”
By Robert Spencer on Oct 04, 2019 08:00 am

“Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said authorities had opened a murder investigation, for the moment ruling out a terrorism inquiry.” “Government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye said on France Info today that Paris prosecutors have decided to open a murder probe over the events ‘which are not falling under terrorism at this stage of the investigation’. The spokeswoman […]
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