Islamist Wave 2013 - Overview & Updates

Fitz Saturday 6 Jul 2013

Vatican: Francois Murad shot, not beheaded

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By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
7/3/2013
Catholic Online ( www.catholic.org )

Updated information conflicts with earlier account.

The Vatican has admitted that circumstances surrounding the death of Fr. Francois Murad, were "not fully understood" when it released a statement last week about the martyrdom of the Catholic cleric. Catholic Online was one of the leading outlets that broke the news that Murad had been beheaded.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Last week, we presented the story that Fr. Francois Murad, a Franciscan priest working in Syria had been beheaded by Syrian jihadists. The story was accompanied by a video which our sources claimed depicted the beheading of Murad.

It now appears those reports, owing to the nature of the conflict in Syria, were correct except that the attendant video may not depict the martyrdom of the friar after all. Instead, the video appears to show that another cleric, as yet precisely unidentified, was brutally murdered.

What is apparent is that there are conflicting reports from multiple sources that Murad was either beheaded or shot. What is agreed is that he was brutally murdered by jihadists. Reports from the region continue to conflict.

However, the report is correct in that Murad was martyred on June 23, by jihadists. New reports suggest he was shot while taking refuge in the monastery of St. Simon. Allegedly now, jihadits rebels entered the monastery to ransack the place and Murad was shot while attempting to defend his sister nuns.

It now becomes a mystery as to who was martyred in the video. The reason why was explained in Arabic: those being killed were guilty before Allah and deserved death. The victims were identified as Christians. Jihadists have earned a reputation for dealing out summary justice to both supporters of the Assad regime as well as Christians.

What is most essential to relate is that Christians all across the region are in great jeopardy as militant Islamist militias join the Free Syrian Army with the hopes of hijacking the revolution there and establishing an Islamic state.

The United States and allies are now equipping these same rebels with modern, sophisticated weaponry.

Several local sources have shared with international media outlets the fact that Murad most likely died when he was shot inside the monastery. His death is merely the latest in a lengthening series of martyrdoms as Christians face an ever-increasing stream of violence at the hands of ever more radical jihadists.

Catholic Online will continue to share news on this development as it is released by the Vatican.

© 2013, Distributed by NEWS CONSORTIUM.

Mike Saturday 6 Jul 2013

Pakistan has seen a great deal of Islamist [or suspected Islamist] violence in the last three weeks leaving dozens dead. Here are a couple stories from PressTV.ir.

Sunday Jun 30, 2013

Multiple bomb blasts leave 53 people dead in Pakistan

A Pakistani soldier stands near a burning bus at the site of a bomb blast in Quetta on June 15, 2013.

A series of bomb attacks across Pakistan has left at least 53 people dead and many others injured, officials say.

In the deadliest attack on Sunday, a bomb blast ripped through a checkpoint close to a Shia neighborhood in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing 28 people.

“Twenty-eight people have been killed and more than 51 others are injured,” said senior police official Mir Zubair.

“Nine women, a minor girl and four boys were also killed in the attack,” Zubair added.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has claimed responsibility for Sunday’s deadly attack in Quetta.

Meanwhile, 17 people were killed in another violent bomb attack in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

Jamil Shah who is spokesman for the government-run Lady Reading Hospital in the city said more than 45 people were also wounded in the blast. He further said at least four children and one woman were among the dead.

Officials also said that in two other separate bombings in the tribal region of Waziristan, eight people, including four security officials, lost their lives.

On June 27, two people were killed and five others injured in a bomb attack carried out near a mosque in a suburb of Quetta.

Reports say acts of violence have claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people in Pakistan over the past six years.

Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001, when Pakistan entered an alliance with the United States in the so-called war on terror.

Thousands more have been displaced by the wave of violence and militancy sweeping across the country.

MR/AS

Saturday Jun 15, 2013

Bus bomb blast kills 11 women in southwest Pakistan

Pakistani police inspect a damaged university bus after it was destroyed by a roadside bomb on the outskirts of Quetta on June 18, 2012. (File photo)

At least eleven women have been killed and several others injured when an explosion tore through a women's university bus in the troubled southwest Pakistan.

The blast took place at about 3:00 p.m. local time (1000 GMT) inside Bahadur Khan Women University in the Baruri area of Quetta, situated 690 kilometers (428 miles) southwest of Islamabad, on Saturday.

"It was an improvised explosive device placed in the women’s university bus," city police chief Zubair Mahmood said, adding that at least 22 people were also injured in the attack.

The bomb exploded after the girl students had boarded, and the bus was leaving the university.

Eyewitnesses said the bus was completely destroyed in the blast, and a fire broke out following the explosion.

The bodies of the deceased and injured women were shifted to the Bolan Medical Complex. Hospital sources said several of the injured women were in critical condition.

Police cordoned off the site after the blast, and launched an investigation. No group has claimed responsibility for the act of violence so far.

Meanwhile, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has issued a statement strongly condemning the bomb attack.

He ordered medical personnel to provide the best medical treatment to the blast victims.

Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s Baluchistan Province, has seen an upsurge in violence recently, and is suffering from a fresh spate of militancy, sectarian violence and Taliban attacks.

Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since October 2001, when Pakistan joined an alliance with the United States in its so-called war on terror.

Since late 2009, there has been an upswing in militant attacks in Pakistan and thousands more have been displaced by the wave of violence and militancy sweeping across the country.

MP/SS

anunnaki Saturday 6 Jul 2013

What a worthless religion and what a worthless people. Glassify them.

Angocachi Saturday 6 Jul 2013

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/25/arab-women-islamic-law_n_1625570.html

Not only are Arab women just as supportive of Islamic law as Arab men, but Islamist Arab men are more supportive of women's rights than secularist Arab men. You've been in Sweedoon too long and have been ingesting Western illusions regarding the Neareast. Sharia is devised mostly for women. The facets of it Western feminists bitch about, like dress codes and gender segregation are for the benefit of wives, measures to prevent the prevalence of adultery we find in, for example, the West. It's a tough on crime system, to keep the neighborhood safe for women and their young families. It's a religion tailored to the wife with children, to address her fears.

Muslims know what Sharia is and why they want it. It's Westerners who are baffled by Islamic zeal and adhere to their own religion only nominally, if at all.

Knock it off and give your ancestor's faith a fair shake. Your children would be fortunate to have a Shariah system in place of the insane liberalism Scandinavia has plummeted into.

Angocachi Saturday 6 Jul 2013

Theo said: ↑

They'd say yes, because to say "no, I don't want to live under Sharia" is essentially to renounce that you are a Muslim. And if they do, they don't have anything else. Hence they don't want to be asked, they just want someone to do the right thing.

Anyone who saw young Muslim behaviour in the West knows that they give any western liberal faggot 100 points leg-up in degeneracy, they are just prisoners of their own identity that they stick to merely due to tradition.

Muslims are probably the sort of people who'd most easily be subjected to American nation building. They really want all these McD, all these cheap whores, all those fancy cars. They are dying for it. They just want a Muslim variation of American consumerism, where they can still pretend that the whole shit is "Allah-approved and certified", Saudi style.

They've been so well subjected to American nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan?

2nd and 3rd generation Muslim diaspora are more zealous than their immigrant parents. They're born into societies urging them to abandon their religion and acclimate, a society that makes it easy for them to drop all piety, yet they go the other way.

Theo Sunday 7 Jul 2013

Its a thing in the making. The Japanese also attacked occupation army at first. It all begins with a bunch of children running after a jeep, throwing chewing gum at them. Its about children, not parents.

This is part of their quest for self-identification especially during transition from puberty to adulthood where they are looking for a group that they can call "theirs". "Muslim" identity in a postmodern Western world is of course as real, as say "homosexual" identity. Its just personal selection: I want to identify with someone, so since I bang guys/have ancestors from a civilization that's muslim/play computer games, so this is what my artificial identity will be. It has nothing in common with zeal experienced by a person actually born into a culture (in fact this kind of identity-searching Muslim zeal is grounded in having little to no contact with the actual Muslim world, so a lot of romanticizing can take place).

Muslim identity will die off in Western countries as well, as as soon as worthwhile alternatives appear catered to people with traditionalist leanings OR as soon as standard institutes serving to provide more generic identities such as nation are galvanized.

Theo Sunday 7 Jul 2013

A bunch of camelfuckers will be the last people on Earth expected to create any 'system' for the cradle of civilization.

Angocachi Sunday 7 Jul 2013

The Sinai, aside from hosting AQ camps in the mountains, is home to tribalistic well-armed mafia networks and they are far removed from Cairo's governance. It has and will continue to serve as a refuge for enemies of the state, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and so forth. If a civil war begins, it's a natural rebel stronghold. Here's an article detailing the situation in the Sinai this month, but first a map of Egypt that gives an idea of the provincial loyalties.

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During the 2012 presidential election 2nd round, Morsi took the green. Secularist rival & Mubarak underling Shafiq took the purple.

Here's the first round, before lesser candidates were removed.
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Islamism prevailed at the ballot under "Mursi & A. Fotouh" (green and dark blue)... all other provinces (purple, red, light blue) are majority Secularist.

Morsi's worst showing was in order;
Port Said, Red Sea, Alexandria, and Cairo... all where he received less than 17% in the first round. These are the cities that supported his ouster.

Here's another of the Nile River Delta.
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CAIRO — A full curfew was imposed by Egypt’s military across the northeastern Gaza-bordering towns of Rafah and Sheikh Zowayyed in the volatile Sinai Peninsula . Shops were forced to shut down and streets were blocked by military troops in anticipation of street battles between security forces and heavily armed supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi.

Several eyewitnesses told Al-Monitor that the curfew was imposed without prior notice or official announcement; it was enforced on Friday night as armed confrontations continued to escalate. The North Sinai Governorate headquarters based in the Mediterranean port of El-Arish was raided by dozens of armed Islamists in the aftermath of the Wednesday military coup led by Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi that ousted the Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsi.

On Friday afternoon, a round of armed confrontation between Morsi’s supporters and security troops, both military and police, ended in a total fallback of security forces and the full occupation of the massive governor’s building by infuriated and heavily armed Islamists demanding the return of the deposed president.

Another round of confrontations kicked off as security forces attempted to take over the occupied building. El-Arish’s central hospital reported 30 injuries, including 3 policemen.

Armed occupiers of the governorate building raised Islamist flags and pictures of Morsi on top and over the façade of the building. Meanwhile, two police officers were shot dead by masked men in a four-wheeler in a shoot-and-run attack a few miles west of El-Arish.

Before dawn on Friday, six simultaneous attacks targeted five security checkpoints in North Sinai, including the Goura checkpoint near the Multinational Forces and Observers base, El-Masoura in Rafah, the airport checkpoint south of El-Arish, and Sheikh Zowayyed’s main checkpoint. The attack also targeted the Rafah Central Security Barracks a few kilometers from the Gaza border. The string of attacks left one police officer dead and two seriously injured.

Egypt’s state-owned MENA news agency declared the complete shutdown of Rafah Border Crossing Terminal after the attack on the central security barracks, a heavily guarded fortress that has regularly come under armed assaults since January 2011.

Meanwhile, Sinai’s tribal population is apparently living a state of significant division over the military coup against Morsi. The chairman of the independent Sinai Tribes Coalition, I brahim al-Menaei , a revered and widely feared chief of the 70,000 member Sawarka tribe, told Al-Monitor that “some tribes endorse Morsi’s elected legitimacy while others support the coup.”

“The coalition members continue to support the legitimacy of President Morsi that I think we should all respect; we are against a coup that overthrows an elected president,” said Menaei. “We urge every tribe and citizen to be patient, exercise self-restraint and to put the national interest above any political allegiances.”

Menaei called on the Ministry of Interior and its police forces to “prove themselves by law and professionalism. There are negative signals of the police flexing their muscles in parts of Sinai. I warn them that no one will tolerate such acts or the return of Hosni Mubarak’s security crackdowns.”

He explained that everyone’s fear of a much-anticipated return of security brutality has swayed thousands of people to either support Morsi, or to turn a blind eye on what his supporters are doing amid such a crisis.

“We suffered harsher security crackdowns than any other part of Egypt; it completely stopped under Morsi for different reasons, good and bad reasons,” Menaei said. He said people would not allow the situation to return to the way it was before Morsi became president.

The tribal chief’s remarks were confirmed by fellow Bedouins in other parts of Sinai, Ahmed el-Herish, the Qararsha tribe chief whose powerful mediation helped Egypt’s military and police force resolve several security calamities since January 2011, told Al-Monitor that “the military’s unaccepted coup has unleashed the police thugs again.”

“Under Morsi, the police’s criminal hands were cuffed, but as soon as al-Sisi toppled him they started detaining people at checkpoints and hunting anyone who they think is an Islamist, they are back to terrorizing civilians and will ultimately start a war that no one will be able to contain it,” said Herish, who survived an assassination attempt by police officers on June 26, a few days before the massive
protests against Morsi began last weekend.

“Al-Sisi stood watching as we were hunted down by the police, the criminals in uniform, and now he led a coup against his president. We are totally against this coup and have no confidence in what comes after, we expect a return to security brutality but we will never allow it. Al-Sisi is responsible for such an explosive situation.”

Meanwhile, several of Sinai’s political activists fiercely condemned attacks waged by Morsi’s supporters and highlighted the contrast in reactions to ousting Morsi.

“Every tribe in Sinai is representative of its members and includes supporters and opposition, we cannot generalize, even tribal leaders avoid generalizing,” said Mustafa Singer, a native of Sheikh Zowayyed and prominent leftist activist and writer.

“As a revolutionary youth current and active participants in Egypt’s transformation, we will not be against the nation and stand watching the military falling under heavy armed attacks. We are clearly seeing the popular will standing in the face of one sector of the community that has already adopted violence, carried guns and waged attacks on authorities and opposition,” added Singer.

Singer told Al-Monitor that no one can predict what Sinai’s intensifying security crisis is evolving into. “Sinai is a special case with special and critical issues, political, economic and above all, security issues.”

An official statement by Gen. Osama Askar, commander of the 3rd Infantry Army, declared “the highest emergency state in South Sinai and the Suez Canal cities.” The statement didn’t mention North Sinai, where authorities impose a media blackout on details of the continuing crisis.

North Sinai’s security chief, his deputy, and the head of of the Rafah Terminal’s police force refused commenting on the situation.

Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/07/egyptian-sinai-witnesses-deadly-violence-curfew-imposed.html#ixzz2YLHanyZ3

Angocachi Sunday 7 Jul 2013

Yes, the Japanese insurgency that resulted in the US withdrawing from Japan and leaving a government out of its dominion and in the hands of its enemies.

The Japanese embraced the West, as did the West Germans, in hopes of saving them from Communism. The Muslims are embracing Islamism in hopes of saving them from the West.

This is part of their quest for self-identification especially during transition from puberty to adulthood where they are looking for a group that they can call "theirs". "Muslim" identity in a postmodern Western world is of course as real, as say "homosexual" identity. Its just personal selection: I want to identify with someone, so since I bang guys/have ancestors from a civilization that's muslim/play computer games, so this is what my artificial identity will be. It has nothing in common with zeal experienced by a person actually born into a culture (in fact this kind of identity-searching Muslim zeal is grounded in having little to no contact with the actual Muslim world, so a lot of romanticizing can take place).

Muslim identity will die off in Western countries as well, as as soon as worthwhile alternatives appear catered to people with traditionalist leanings OR as soon as standard institutes serving to provide more generic identities such as nation are galvanized.

You're psycho-analyzing like a Jew trying to explain away White nationalist teens.

When I'm talking about 2nd and 3rd generation being more religious than their immigrant parents, I mean as adults. They find their ancestor's religion offers solutions to the problems presented by life in the irreligious West. And the converts, who have no Islamic ancestry, can be most zealous of all.

Anyway, comment on Egypt.

Theo Sunday 7 Jul 2013

What a bunch of crap. You are a joke. "Saving them from Communism". Reading Captain America comics much?

There's nothing to explain away and no need to psychoanalyze either like a Jew, or as an Aryan. This postmodernist playing is written all over the western "islamists" same as western "nationalists".

The only problem they encounter is boredom. That's what this whole thing is all about. They need a project to keep them busy and their intellectual potential concentrated on something, anything.

That's the main problem of liberalism, it offers a sandbox, not a project. So people start coming back to their caveman singing and dancing to breath a meaning into their existence: they want someone to control their every move, their every breath, they want to score illusionary points on the "Allah approves" imaginary scale to feel that they are doing something worthwhile.

Islamist Wave 2013 - Overview & Updates

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