Part 1 is here. “The Quran is full of references to jihad,” wrote Lawrence Wright in his 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Now that September 11, 2001, the terrorist day of infamy forever known as 9/11, has reached its twenty-fifth anniversary, it is instructive to review jihadist […]
Mali: Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims kills more 100 soldiers in jihad attack this month
It looks as if here yet again, as we have seen in Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Somalia and elsewhere, that the jihad forces are better equipped, better trained, and better funded than the national military forces. If an Islamic state is established in Mali, it could […]
Thousands back petition urging Archbishop of Canterbury to resign over 9/11 outrage
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, withdrew the award she gave to a Muslim cleric who praised Osama bin Laden on the anniversary of 9/11. But that wasn’t enough. The truth is that the revocation of Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi’s award did nothing to change the core beliefs of Lambeth Place, which had stated: […]
Looking Back on 9/11 with Lawrence Wright: Back to the Future with Islam (Part 1)
September 11, 2001, a fateful day that infamously entered history as 9/11, has just marked its twenty-fifth anniversary, an appropriate time to look again at Lawrence Wright’s seminal work, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Among other things, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book written in 2006 offers critical insight into the minds of […]
India: 19-year-old Muslim used WhatsApp to recruit people for jihad, discuss bomb-making
Here we have an activity to which Western law enforcement officials frequently refer, but which seldom, if ever, gets examined in detail: “radicalization on the internet.” We are routinely told that various jihad terrorists were radicalized on the Internet — so often, in fact, that it raises suspicions that officials throw out this phrase so […]
Afghanistan: Al-Qaeda has set up at least eight jihad training camps over the last three years
It was to destroy these camps that U.S. troops went into Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The jihadis are extremely patient. They don’t have to worry about election cycles. They know that the global jihad has lasted for 1,400 years. If they don’t win now, maybe their grandchildren will. They will keep […]
Iran’s Al Qaeda Alliance Creeps Out Into the Open
“This isn’t just a regional problem. It has global implications.” Al Qaeda and Iran had a longtime relationship with Hezbollah providing some of the training and 9/11 hijackers passing through Iran. The head of Al Qaeda is living in Iran (and it would have made sense to take him out while we were bombing Iran anyway.) When […]
Abdul El-Sayed’s Mother Worked for Group That Funded Al-Qaeda
Transferred money to Specially Designated Global Terrorist. When Abdul El-Sayed talks about his mother, there’s something he leaves out. That she was Government Exhibit 349 (and a whole lot of others) in a case involving money being transferred to Al Qaeda, Hamas and other terrorist groups. Here’s a blast from the past from 2004. The FBI tonight […]
UAE paid $50 million hostage ransom to al-Qaeda, money financed jihad in West Africa
Here at last is one answer to a question I have often asked: why are jihad groups so often better trained and better equipped than national armies in Africa? The UAE insists that it is unwavering in countering terrorism, but it must have known that this money would go for jihad. One of the reasons […]
Al-Qaeda jihadi, jihadi’s son, wants to return to UK: ‘Taking away my citizenship has affected my family and me’
Poor Sufean Kamal. He says: “Taking away my citizenship has affected my family and me. I am not a terrorist.” And why should we not believe him? Sure, he is the son of jihad terrorist Abu Hamza. And yeah, “British intelligence services have accused him of being involved with terrorist organisations such as Al Qaeda.” […]