Islam in the new August to December

[Shammu]

Tej Pratap Yadav gives ‘Muharram ki Badhai’ to Muslims of India, except it is the Muslim festival of mourning
9 August, 2022

RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav on Tuesday extended greetings to Indian Muslims on the occasion of Muharram, the Muslim festival of mourning.

Speaking to the media, Yadav said, “Desh bhar mein sabhi Musalman bhaiyon ko hum Muharram ki badhai dete hain” (I extend my wishes to all our Muslim brothers on Muharram).

Tej Pratap Yadav was not the only politician to commit the gaffe. Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who remains in controversy over his indiscreet comments, was subjected to online trolling after he wished “Happy Islamic New Year” on the day of Muharram.

Soon after sharing the tweet, social media users slammed Chowdhury for wishing on essentially what is known as the festival of mourning. Many others wondered if Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was ignorant about the festival of Muharram, primarily observed by the Shia sect of Muslims. Subsequently, Chowdhury deleted his tweet after Muslims objected to his greetings on the festival of mourning.

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/08/tej-pratap-yadav-adhir-ranjan-chowdhury-extend-greetings-muharram-festival-of-mourning/

[Shammu]

Summing Up Operation Breaking Dawn
Thu Aug 11, 2022
Ari Lieberman

The three-day Gaza border clash between Israel and Islamic Jihad has come to an end with an Egyptian brokered ceasefire going into effect late Sunday evening. Objectively, Israel’s Breaking Dawn counterinsurgency operation was a resounding success, with Israel achieving all its objectives and Islamic Jihad being left battered and bloodied.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad is an Iranian proxy group with no political echelon. It is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States and most of the free world. Unlike Hamas, which is also an Iranian proxy and a terrorist organization, Islamic Jihad has no community roots and does not partake in any Palestinian political processes. The relationship between Hamas and Islamic Jihad is part symbiotic and part adversarial. Hamas refrained from firing rockets at Israel in this round and Israel reciprocated in kind.

Islamic Jihad’s main military presence is in Gaza, but the group also maintains cells in Judea & Samaria (also referred to as the West Bank). Last week, Israel succeeded in nabbing Islamic Jihad’s West Bank chieftain, Bassem Saadi, and his deputy, Ashraf al-Jada, in a daring joint operation carried out by the Shin Bet, the Israel Defense Forces and the Border Police.

More at
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/08/summing-operation-breaking-dawn-ari-lieberman/

[Shammu]

Expert: Iran works on mobilizing ‘extreme left’ in Latin America to expand influence network
ANDREW JOSE
August 11, 2022

Iran has been targeting local Muslims, potential converts and leftist students as part of its influence operations in Latin America, said an expert during an Aug. 4 webinar.

The event, titled “The IRGC’s Expanding Presence in Latin America,” was organized by the Endowment for Middle East Truth and featured Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior fellow Emanuele Ottolenghi, who studies the Arab-Israeli conflict, Hezbollah’s Latin America-based threat networks and Iran’s sanction-evasion strategies.

The lecture focused on Iran’s influence networks the country has used to infiltrate government advisory boards, local Muslim populations and indigenous movements.

More at
https://www.jns.org/expert-iran-works-on-mobilizing-extreme-left-in-latin-america-to-expand-influence-network/

[Shammu]

Inside the Horror of Islamic Sex Slavery - and the Real War on Women.
Tue Aug 9, 2022

Last week marked the seventh annual commemoration of the Yazidi genocide, though you wouldn’t know it from watching establishment media. Nor would you know that there is an ongoing genocide of Christians taking place in Nigeria, nor that throughout the Islamic world countless women and girls are enduring kidnapping, forced marriages, forced conversions of Christians to Islam, genocidal rape, and/or widespread sex trafficking even in countries that are supposedly our allies in the War on Terror.

To keep abreast of these crises, one needs to seek out the work of such concerned journalists as the Freedom Center’s own Raymond Ibrahim or Dutch journalist Sonja Dahlmans, who work desperately to bring international attention to the plight of the victims of an actual war on women.

I recently interviewed Ms. Dahlmans about these issues. She currently writes (in Dutch only) for the conservative political news site PAL NWS, and is studying Islam at the Melbourne School of Theology, where she will be starting her thesis.

More at
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/08/shining-spotlight-real-war-women-mark-tapson/

[Shammu]

Blood money: The PA has already paid $1,421,940 to the terrorists who blew up the Sbarro pizza shop murdering 15 and injuring 130
Maurice Hirsch, Adv. 
Aug 9, 2022

Today, August 9, 2022, is 21 years since the attack on the Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem. 15 people were murdered, including 5 members of one family, and 130 people were injured.

As a reward for carrying out the attack, the Palestinian Authority pays a total of US$8,937 (27,800 shekels) each month to the 5 imprisoned terrorists and the families of the 3 dead terrorists who were involved in the attack. The current total paid to the terrorists is $1,421,940. The monthly payment to each terrorist will continue to rise the longer the terrorists are in prison.   

Every month, the PA pays terrorist Abdallah Barghouti 7,300 shekels ($2,347).

Every month, the PA pays terroristJamal Abu Al-Hija 8,300 shekels ($2,668). Having now completed 20 years in prison, this month Abu Al-Hija’s will rise to 8,300 shekels from 7,300 shekels.

More at
https://palwatch.org/page/31873

[Shammu]

Violent clashes erupt during Muharram procession in Bareilly, Varanasi, Islamists pelt stones, video viral
10 August, 2022

Violent clashes erupted on Tuesday as Islamists hurled stones in the fracas during Muharram processions in Bareilly and Varanasi districts leading to injuries to several people. The video of the incident went viral over social media where people can be seen using bricks and stones to attack during the Muharram procession.

According to the reports, some people of the Muslim community who had participated in the Muharram procession in Varanasi began to cut the huge Jamun tree in the Murzamurad area for the procession to pass easily. Later people from the nearby shops protested against the Islamists who were cutting the tree and said that there was enough space for the Tazia to pass. Amid the dispute, the shopkeeper Khaderu was beaten up and attacked with sticks. The Islamists also damaged his shop and injured five other people.

As the matter escalated, the Police including the DIG, Additional SP, and SP Rural were informed who immediately reached the spot and tried to pacify the matter, failing which a heavy police force was used to end the violence. Meanwhile, the people of the Hindu organization came to know about the incident and they reached the spot raising the slogans of Jai Shri Ram and Vande Mataram.

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/08/violent-clashes-muharram-procession-in-bareilly-varanasi-islamists-pelt-stones-video-viral/

[Shammu]

Hamas issues, rescinds sweeping regulations on journalists (basically told to lie) in Gaza
August 10, 2022

Hamas issued and then withdrew sweeping restrictions on foreign journalists working in the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of this week’s conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to the Associated Press.

The restrictions included a ban on coverage about PIJ rockets falling short in Gaza and causing injuries and deaths, as well as a general rule requiring that Jerusalem be blamed for the latest escalation, according to the report.


The Foreign Press Association, which represents international media in Israel, announced that the regulations were scrapped following discussions with the terrorist group.

More at
https://www.jns.org/hamas-issues-rescinds-sweeping-regulations-on-journalists-in-gaza/

[Shammu]

FIFA hospitality site removes 'occupied Palestinian territories' from sales agent list
AUGUST 10, 2022 13:09

The sales agent in the “occupied Palestinian territories” was removed on Wednesday from the list of agents on FIFA’s hospitality package sales website for the 2022 World Cup, after users noticed earlier that the site had failed to mention Israel at all on its list of sales agents.

Israelis who wish to purchase a hospitality package for the upcoming World Cup in Qatar, which is taking place in November, will see that the package being sold by Winterhill Hospitality lists the country as “Palestinian Territory, Occupied,” and does not have an option listed as Israel. The realization had sparked outrage in Israeli media, although a number of other countries, such as Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia, are also not mentioned on the site.

Israeli businessmen who entered the site were amazed to see that Israel’s name had disappeared, Ynet reported.

More at
https://m.jpost.com/international/article-714338

[Shammu]

Woman Talked About Bad Divorce On TikTok, Ex-Husband Travelled 1,100 km To Kill Her
 Amit Chaturvedi
Updated: August 09, 2022 3:59 pm

A Pakistani-American woman, who posted videos on TikTok about the trauma of a relationship gone wrong resulting in a divorce, was killed by her estranged husband, according to a report in the BBC. The incident took place in Chicago last month, when Sania Khan was ready to leave Chicago and heading to Tennessee, the outlet further said. The husband, identified as 36-year-old Rahel Ahmad, later killed himself with a gun.
Fox News said that Mr Ahmad travelled from Georgia to Ms Khan's home in Chicago to kill her after she posted about her failed marriage on TikTok.

Quoting local police, Fox News said in its report that cops arrived on the spot on July 18 around 4.30pm and found the bodies of both Ms Khan and Mr Ahmad with gunshot wounds.

After dating Ahmad for about five years, she married him in June 2021 and they moved to Chicago together.

More at
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/sania-khan-woman-talked-about-bad-divorce-on-tiktok-ex-husband-travelled-1-100-km-to-kill-her-3239413

[Shammu]

Fear turns to shock among Albuquerque Muslims as police say the shooter is a Muslim
August 10, 2022

The killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque had already shaken the city's small Muslim community, prompting businesses to close and residents to temporarily move away amid fears of a deadly spate of Islamophobic hate crimes.

Then came Tuesday's news: The suspect, police say, is a 51-year-old man named Muhammad Syed, who is Muslim himself and whose motive may have been related to "interpersonal conflict."

"You would expect that learning that a suspect is found and has been detained, it would feel like a breath of relief," said Leena Aggad, the 23-year-old vice president of the University of New Mexico's Muslim Student Association.

More at
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116798077/albuquerque-muslims-shocked-by-suspect-arrest

[Shammu]

Pakistani murderer remanded in custody – “Nicoletta spoke badly of the Qu’ran and asked me to become Christian”
3 DAYS AGO

The 22-year-old Pakistani, who took the life of 17-year-old Nicoletta on August 1 in the western Athens neighbourhood of Peristeri, was sentenced to pre-trial detention, as expected, after he testified to investigators.

The Pakistani was accompanied by a strong police force in court so that he could answer to the severe indictment he is facing. However, the lawyer who previously represented the defendant resigned and a new lawyer was appointed, in whose presence he testified.

After his confession, with the agreement of the 25th regular investigator of Athens and the public prosecutor, the accused was deemed a temporary prisoner.

More at
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/08/10/pakistani-murderer-mohammed/

[Shammu]

ISIS kills about 190 African Christians over two months
August 9, 202

On August 8, 2022, the pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Moata News Agency released a poster in English and Arabic versions titled “Harvest of African Christians,” summarizing the “outcomes of the operations of two months (June & July) which targeted villages and cities of Christians” in Africa.[1] The poster depicts a burning church, a handgun dripping blood, and a graphic image of a dead man wearing a cross around his neck.

The poster provides the following tally for attacks by the Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP), Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) during June and July: Almost 190 Christians were killed, and 13 churches and hundreds of houses burned. Fifty-five percent of the attacks occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC); 26% in Mozambique; 13% in Nigeria; and 6% in Cameroon.

A major component of ISIS’ strategy in Africa, particularly in the DRC, Mozambique, and Nigeria, has been targeting Christian civilians to provoke them into fleeing the areas where the jihadi organization operates.[2] ISIS has also targeted Christian noncombatants in other countries, such as Libya and the Philippines.[3]

More at
https://anglican.ink/2022/08/09/isis-kills-about-190-african-christians-over-two-months/

[Shammu]

Islamic Republic of Iran destroys six Bahá’í homes and confiscates 20 hectares of Bahá’í land
AUG 10, 2022 3:00 PM

6 Bahá’í homes destroyed and 20 hectares of land confiscated by Iranian government agents,” Bahá’í World News Service, August 3, 2022:

BIC GENEVA — Some 200 Iranian government agents destroyed six homes and confiscated over 20 hectares of land belonging to Bahá’ís in the village of Roushankouh, in Mazandaran province, the News Service has learned.

The government agents used pepper spray to disperse people and gunshots were heard during the operation.

This latest move follows weeks of intensifying persecution of the Baháʼís: over 100 have been either raided or arrested in recent days and dozens others have been targeted since June….

More at
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/08/islamic-republic-of-iran-destroys-six-bahai-homes-and-confiscates-20-hectares-of-bahai-land

[Shammu]

Two Moroccan jihadists arrested after entering Europe alongside economic migrants via the Balkan route
August 08, 2022

Two Moroccan jihadists have been arrested by authorities after infiltrating the Balkan migratory route used by economic migrants to enter Europe, according to counter-terrorism sources reported by the Vozpópuli news outlet.

Both detainees had entered the European Union via the Balkan route before one was captured in Austria, thanks to an international arrest warrant, and the other in Mataró in Barcelona. After being presented to the court on Friday, the latter was imprisoned.

The investigation began earlier this year under the direction of the Central Instruction Court and the Audiencia Nacional court.

More at
https://rmx.news/article/two-moroccan-jihadists-arrested-after-entering-europe-alongside-economic-migrants-via-the-balkan-route/

[Shammu]

French police kill knife-wielding man at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris
10/08/2022 - 10:30

"Officers neutralised a threatening individual in possession of a knife at the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport," the Paris police department said on its Twitter account.

An airport source said the incident occurred at the busy Terminal 2F at around 8:20 am (0620 GMT), when "a homeless man started bothering security agents and border police were called in to remove him".

Initially the man left while yelling curses but he soon returned and brought out a knife, when one of the officers fired his weapon.

More at
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20220810-police-kill-knife-wielding-man-at-paris-s-charles-de-gaulle-airport