Yet another Islamic charity ends up financing jihad terror. Once authorities realize that this is one way for Muslims who are not prepared to join in hot warfare to aid the jihad, they will no longer consider this kind of thing anomalous. More on this story. “Feds seek terrorism boost on tax fraud sentence,” from […]
Islamic jihadists shouting “Allahu akbar” storm Chechen Parliament, murdering at least three
Will the Islamophobia never end? “Chechnya parliament attacked: Islamic suicide bombers, gunman assault government building,” by Michael Sheridan for the New York Daily News, October 19 (thanks to all who sent this in): Islamic rebels crying out “Allahu Akbar” stormed the parliament building in war-torn Chechnya on Tuesday, killing at least three people. The militants, […]
Chechnya forcing women to wear Islamic dress
It’s bitterly ironic how often we’re told that Muslim women in the West wear Islamic dress freely and proudly. Yet Islamic spokesmen in the West never seem to get around to addressing this kind of coercion. An update on this story. “Chechnya Coerces Women on Dress, Activists Say,” by Sophia Kishkovsky in the New York […]
Founder of Islamic charity convicted of funneling money to Chechen jihadists
Islamic “charities” supporting jihadists: funny how that keeps happening. And it does because there is not the traditional separation between combatant and charitable activities in zakat as there is in the Western tradition, where charitable groups are strictly non-combatant. Rather, Qur’an 9:60 makes no such distinction when discussing groups to whom zakat may be allotted, […]
Chechnya: Women harassed, attacked for not wearing headscarves during Ramadan
There is “no compulsion in religion” according to Qur’an 2:256. However, Islamic law abounds in subtle and not-so-subtle means of coercion (cf. Qur’an 9:29) to impose itself on non-Muslim or not-Muslim-enough societies. Hence, in practice, there is no compulsion in religion until the jihadist thugs are strong enough to make you an offer you can’t […]
Caucasus: Jihad against hydroelectric power
Symbolically, trying to plunge the area into darkness is rather appropriate for the jihadists. “Two killed in hydro plant terrorist attack,” from ABC.au and Reuters, July 21 (thanks to Dumbledoresarmy): Russia says Muslim militants are behind a deadly attack on a hydro electric power plant in the volatile North Caucasus region. Militant fighters attacked the […]
Caucasus: Police shoot paintballs at unveiled women, dowries tripled as Sharia becomes ever more entrenched
Feel the love. “Russia’s Muslim south triples sharia bride price,” by Amie Ferris-Rotman for Reuters, July 7 (thanks to Twostellas): The price tag on a bride in Russia’s Ingushetia province has been tripled by the regional government, in a sign the Muslim North Caucasus region is slipping out of Kremlin control as sharia law eclipses […]
Caucasus: More random acts of jihad by “youths”
The article does mention the “ideology of global jihad” — we’ll give them that — but softens the assertion by saying the “youths” under its sway are “driven by poverty.” The problem there is, of course, that the jihadist ideology does not depend on poverty, which is why we see so many well-off or even […]
Russia: Bomb in trash can kills 1, injures 5 at Caucasus train station
The intrepid mujahedin, targeting commuters getting on trains. “Train station bomb kills one in Russia: officials,” from Reuters, May 7: (Reuters) – One woman was killed and five others injured when a bomb exploded on a train station platform in the southern Russian region of Dagestan Friday, local officials said. A spokesman for the local […]
State Department leaves Chechen jihadist group that killed dozens on Moscow subway off official list of terrorist groups
The State Department seems to think that, among the other attacks carried out by Doku Umarov’s group, a massacre on the Moscow subway isn’t jihadi enough for the jihadi club. This decision seems far more political than practical, though it is not clear what Foggy Bottom hopes to gain by looking the other way. “State […]