#MyJihad in Algeria: Al-Qaeda group takes 41 hostages, including seven Americans, takes control of gas field

Good thing Obama has assured us that al-Qaeda is on the ropes. Imagine what they'd be doing if they were strong. "Al Qaeda-linked group reportedly holding 7 Americans among 41 hostages after taking control of Algerian gas field," from FoxNews.com, January 16 (thanks to all who sent this in):

An Al Qaeda-linked group from Mali have attacked and taken control of a natural gas field partly owned by BP in southern Algeria, killing two and reportedly taking 41 people hostage, including seven Americans.

A group called the Katibat Moulathamine, or the Masked Brigade, called a Mauritanian news outlet to say one of its subsidiaries had carried out the operation on the Ain Amenas gas field, taking 41 hostages from nine or 10 different nationalities.

The U.S. embassy in Algiers said in a statement it wasn't "aware of any U.S. citizen casualties," but sources tell Fox News at least three Americans may be among the hostages.

The group's claim could not be independently substantiated and typically there would be fewer than 20 foreign staff members on site on a typical day, along with hundreds of Algerian employees.

The group said the attack was in revenge for Algeria's support of France's operation against Al Qaeda-linked Malian rebels groups far to the southeast.

The caller to the Nouakchott Information Agency, which often carries announcements from extremist groups, did not give any further details, except to say that the kidnapping was carried out by "Those Who Signed in Blood," a group created to attack the countries participating in the ongoing offensive in Mali....

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Don't worry about the algerian people, they know how to deal with islamist vermins.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/09/awakening-in-algerialalgerie-se.html

Human Rights and Islam

Here are bar charts from the international human rights organization Freedom House. The bar chart for the Middle East/North Africa -- the core Islamic region -- shows it to be the most unfree area in the world. Islam also has a remarkable record on honor killings.

-- Quoting Islam

As in the Sahel, things seem to be heating up in the Maghreb.

Not to worry, France will have it all mopped up in a few weeks.

"We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them."

-- Abu Ad-Darda, pupil and companion of Muhammad, as cited and explained by Ibn Kathir, the Muslim world's most respected Quran expositor of all time.
The Qur'an says Muslims must not be friends/allies with non-Muslims, except as a pretense, to guard against the unbelievers.

For example, Qur'an 3:28

Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah: except by way of precaution, that ye may Guard yourselves from them. But Allah cautions you (To remember) Himself; for the final goal is to Allah.
In what follows, the Muslim world's most respected Quran expositor, Ibn Kathir, alternates between quoting Qur'an verses about friendship with non-Muslims, and explaining those verses:
The Prohibition of Supporting the Disbelievers

Allah prohibited His believing servants from becoming supporters of the disbelievers, or to take them as comrades with whom they develop friendships, rather than the believers. Allah warned against such behavior when He said,
And whoever does that, will never be helped by Allah in any way [part of Qur'an 3:28]
meaning, whoever commits this act that Allah has prohibited, then Allah will discard him. Similarly, Allah said,
O you who believe! Take not My enemies and your enemies as friends, showing affection towards them,
until,
And whosoever of you does that, then indeed he has gone astray from the straight path. [Qur'an 60:1].
Allah said,
O you who believe! Take not for friends disbelievers instead of believers. Do you wish to offer Allah a manifest proof against yourselves [Qur'an 4:144],
and,
O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as friends, they are but friends of each other. And whoever befriends them, then surely, he is one of them. [Qur'an 5:51].
Allah said, after mentioning the fact that the faithful believers gave their support to the faithful believers among the Muhajirin [those who emigrated with Muhammad from Mecca to Medina], Ansar [citizens from Medina who helped Muhammad] and Bedouins,
And those who disbelieve are allies of one another, (and) if you do not behave the same, there will be Fitnah and oppression on the earth, and a great mischief and corruption. [Qur'an 8:73].
Allah said next [in Qur'an 3:28, which many Islamic scholars say was produced after the above verse, 8:73]
unless you indeed fear a danger from them
Ibn Kathir goes on to explain that 3:28 refers to
...those believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers.
In practice, this can mean whenever a Muslim feels there is any kind of threat to Islam, including threats to reputation. But back to Kathir:
In this case, such believers are allowed to show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari [compiler of the most canonical hadith collection] recorded that Abu Ad-Darda [a companion and pupil of Muhammad] said, "We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them." Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, "The Tuqyah [or taqqiyah, deception on behalf of Islam] is allowed until the Day of Resurrection."
"We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them." A deception "allowed until the Day of Resurrection." Thus you have Ibn Kathir, the greatest mainstream Islamic authority, explaining a mainstream pious Islamic idea of "friendship" with non-believers. Obviously this doesn't mean that Muslims never enter into real friendship with non-Muslims. But to the extent they follow the Qur'an, they befriend non-Muslims only deceptively.

-- Quoting Islam

Don't worry, Rasool Obama is on his way there right now for a rescue operation...

Rasool and the French army - what could go wrong?

Rasool and the French army - what could go wrong?

"Algeria: BP Raid Seems Like Revenge For Mali.
Sky's Tim Marshall says the hostage raid is being linked to al Qaeda, who warned of revenge for Western intervention in Mali."


http://news.sky.com/story/1038876/algeria-bp-raid-seems-like-revenge-for-mali

Wait a minute, Rasool destroyed Al Qaeda.

This must be some new group causing trouble.

Republican “Bitter clingers” maybe or the NRA in the Maghreb.

"Algeria siege:

Hostages 'escape Islamist captors'"


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21060323

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