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ISIS Targeting Saudi Arabia
From Defense One:
But today, in Dammam, a city on the Saudi eastern coast, a man dressed as a woman blew himself up outside a Shiite mosque and killed three others. (The attack would have been far more devastating had guards not stopped the bomber from entering the mosque, forcing him back into a parking lot.) ISISnow is bragging that their man reached his target despite heightened security after the group’s first attack in the kingdom just eight days ago. That one, on another Shia mosque in a village called al Qadeeh, killed 21.
What these attacks say is that Riyadh doesn’t have the comforting control over its land that Americans like to believe it does. And if the royal family doesn’t have its territory as buttoned down as Washington assumed, what other weaknesses has it been masking? What other vulnerabilities are now on view?
From Foreign Policy:
The May 22 suicide attack in Qatif, in eastern Saudi Arabia, may indicate the impact of that shift. Late Friday morning, a suicide bomber walked into a Shiite mosque in Qatif, an oil-rich province in the country’s East, as worshippers gathered for prayer. The blast ripped through the Imam Ali mosque, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens. Photos on social media showed casualties streaming frantically from the wreckage.According to the BBC, citing an Islamic State-linked Twitter account, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the assault.
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Tagged isis, islamic state, islamists, saudi arabia, shiite, sunni, terrorism
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Radical Muslims Held Conference Over Memorial Day Weekend
From The Clarion Project:
Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Like ISNA, CAIR was branded an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation. During the trial, the Justice Department said CAIR is an entity of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, a secret body set up to support Hamas. A 1994 Muslim Brotherhood Palestine Committee meeting agenda organized a discussion to “future suggestions to develop the work of†CAIR.
Imam Siraj Wahhaj, whose history of extremist and anti-American incitement is almost too long to review. For example, in 1992, he said, “If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with aCaliphate. If we were united and strong, we’d elect our own emir and give allegiance to him. Take my word, if eight million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.â€
Posted in "The Narrative"
Tagged islamists, muslim brotherhood
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Blogger Hacked To Death In Bangladesh
From CNN:
Some people in Bangladesh murdered another blogger, because he advocated for secular government and rationalism. If you have not taken a side in this growing global fight for free speech, the time has come.
He was a writer for the blog, “Mukto Mona.” The website’s name means “free mind.” It was founded by Avijit Roy, an American-Bangladeshi writer who promoted secular and scientific views, and was similarly hacked to death in February — his wife badly injured in the same attack. They were on a visit to Bangladesh.
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Muslims Slaughter Police in Macedonia
From Shoebat.com:
Interior minister Gordana Jankulovska told reporters late this Saturday that the police were attacked with automatic weapons and bombs.
Jankulovska wept as she esteemed the five martyred police officers as “heroes who gave their lives today for the Republic of Macedonia.â€
She also said that the “terrorist group,†had entered Macedonia from an “unspecified neighboring country,†and wanted to “use the current political situation to perform attacks on state institutions.â€
ISIS Skilled at Propaganda
From ABC News:
ISIS terrorists are expertly using hip hop music, video games and even children to successfully recruit young people to their violent cause. That assessment comes today from the FBI and from top U.S. counterterrorism officials, who say the ISIS social media machine is sophisticated, prolific, and unprecedented.
“They are shooting out into the ether-sphere thousands and thousands of messages a day, over 90,000 a day and it’s to millions of people across the globe,†John Carlin, the head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division told ABC News Correspondent Pierre Thomas. “What they are trying to do is to convince young people to go slaughter civilians in a vicious war.”
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Tagged iraq, isis, islamic state, islamists, middle east, syria
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Geert Wilders Wants Cartoon Event in Netherlands
From The Daily Telegraph:
“I am going to request parliament to exhibit the same cartoons as those that were displayed in Garland,” Mr Wilders told AFP on Wednesday, referring to the Dallas suburb where the shooting took place on Sunday.
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Tagged free speech, islamists, netherlands, texas, threats
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Gunmen in Texas Radicalized in Arizona Mosque
From Investor’s Business Daily:
Shami, an ethnic Palestinian, says they weren’t radicalized at his mosque, where they worshipped for almost a decade.
Yet, like too many mosques in America, ICCP is by all accounts a radical Islamic center. In fact:
• According to local property and tax records, ICCP is owned and controlled by the North American Islamic Trust, or NAIT, which is “the bank for the Muslim Brotherhood in North America,” veteran FBI agent John Guandolo says.
• NAIT was ID’d by the Justice Department as a Muslim Brotherhood entity and financial support organization for Hamas, and designated as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial ever successfully prosecuted in American history — the 2008 Holy Land Foundation case.
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Tagged arizona, free speech, garland, homegrown terrorism, islamists, radicalization, terrorism, texas
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Who Are ISIS and What Do They Want?
From The Atlantic:
Our ignorance of the Islamic State is in some ways understandable: It is a hermit kingdom; few have gone there and returned. Baghdadi has spoken on camera only once. But his address, and the Islamic State’s countless other propaganda videos and encyclicals, are online, and the caliphate’s supporters have toiled mightily to make their project knowable. We can gather that their state rejects peace as a matter of principle; that it hungers for genocide; that its religious views make it constitutionally incapable of certain types of change, even if that change might ensure its survival; and that it considers itself a harbinger of—and headline player in—the imminent end of the world.
We have misunderstood the nature of the Islamic State in at least two ways. First, we tend to see jihadism as monolithic, and to apply the logic of al‑Qaeda to an organization that has decisively eclipsed it. The Islamic State supporters I spoke with still refer to Osama bin Laden as “Sheikh Osama,†a title of honor. But jihadism has evolved since al-Qaeda’s heyday, from about 1998 to 2003, and many jihadists disdain the group’s priorities and current leadership.
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Tagged caliphate, iraq, isis, islamic state, islamists, jihad, middle east, radical islam, syria, turkey
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Jew is Cursed and Spat at While Walking Through Paris
From Fox News:
Days after a gunman in Copenhagen opened fire on a synagogue and a free speech event, killing two, a video uploaded to YouTube shows a Jewish journalist walking around Paris in traditional Jewish garb, secretly recording a barrage of anti-Semitic hatred, threats and epithets — many from Muslims, including a little boy who asks his hijab-clad mother: “Doesn’t he know he will be killed?”