“And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know, whom Allah knows.” (Qur’an 8:60)
“Nairobi attack: hotel complex hit by gunfire and explosions,” by Jason Burke, Guardian, January 15, 2019 (thanks to Joseph):
Police and anti-terrorist forces were fighting to regain control of a hotel and office complex in the centre of the Kenyan capital after it was seized by gunmen.
Witnesses in Nairobi said four armed men had rushed into the DusitD2 compound, which includes a hotel and several office buildings housing international companies, at about 3pm on Tuesday. Sustained automatic gunfire and explosions were heard shortly afterwards.
One man came out covered in blood as students were evacuated from a nearby university building. Four ambulances and a fire truck arrived at the scene as fleeing office workers told reporters their colleagues were still huddled under their desks.
The attack bore many of the hallmarks of a terrorist operation and was being described as a terrorist incident by police at the scene.
According to media reports, al-Shabaab, the Islamist extremist organisation based in neighbouring Somalia, has already claimed responsibility. Al-Shabaab was responsible for a bloody attack in 2013 when gunmen stormed Nairobi’s Westgate Mall, killing at least 67 people….
Michael Copeland says
“And Prepare”, the Muslim Brotherhood motto, is taken from the Koran verse quoted above. Al Shabaab is part of the Muslim Brotherhood.
observer says
Groan !
These people are INSANE !
A plague of locusts on all mosques throughout the world !
Old Fat Bald Socially Inept Ron says
Where Islam goes, blood flows…get used to it.
mortimer says
WHEN WILL ALL THESE MEMBERS of the ‘RELIGION OF PEACE’ stop MISUNDERSTANDING Islam by not finding its so-called PEACEFUL TEACHINGS in the KORAN, SIRA, HADITHS and SHARIA LAW ???
(sarc/off)
gravenimage says
Kenya: Four Muslims storm hotel and office complex, gunfire and explosions, nearby building evacuated
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Horrifying–but grimly I am not surprised.
Rufolino says
The BBC headlined the story, but didn’t even mention that these people were Moslems or terrorists !
The BBC described them as “militants”. Militants of what ?? A mystery.
The BBC is disinformation, not news, when it comes to issues of significance.
Anne Smith says
The BBC is nothng more now than a propaganda outlet for cultural Marxism.
It broadcast nothing about the “gilets jaune” riots in France until so many other stations had shown pictures that thy were forced to do so.
The BBC loves the EU and dos its bidding all the time. The BBC loves Muslims and many of its staff in front of camera are Muslims, a much higher percentage than Muslims in the population .
dumbledoresarmy says
I am not surprised either. But what *is* worth noting is that this is the first attack on this scale, **within a majority non-Islamic country**, that has occurred for some time. There have been, of course, a continual drizzle of attacks in northern Nigeria, and on Copts in Egypt, and so on. But not an attack on this scale, in a western/ised country that is mostly not Muslim. I have been wondering when something like this would happen again. We had them one after another during Obama’s presidency… I have suspected that the ‘strong horse ‘principle has, to some extent, been in force; that as the USA, the leading free non-Islamic world power, has projected a degree of strength and has shown willing to cut back on ‘tribute’ to the likes of Pakistan and the so-called ‘palestinians’, the Ummah has been pulling in its horns a bit.
Advice to the Government in Kenya: DO NOT be fooled by the smiles/ denials of *other* Muslims within Kenya.
Raid and search *every mosque in Nairobi*..NOW. Find weapons or anything else at all suspec tin any of them… close them and raze them. The Ummah, anywhere, is the nurturing sheltering sea within which the jihadis – like those who carried out this act of war in Nairobi just now – swim and from which they ceaselessly emerge. So: DO NOT appease the ummah, within Kenya, in any way at all; instead, put them on notice, enforce non-Islamic law, ramp back any concessions you have made. Rally your non-Muslim soldiers and police and be prepared to crack down – hard – on any mohammedan ‘unrest’/ riots/ etc.
Be ‘the strong horse’, consistently, resolutely, continuously, and – though in the *short* term they may howl, throw tantrums, act violently – the mohammedan mob will knuckle under.
j_not_a says
I read in the Daily Mail about an American business man, only 40, working in Kenya, who had escaped 9 11, just to be killed by filthy al shabbab regarding this story.
That poor, unfortunate man. His family and friends – what they must be going through right now.
May God keep hIm close until the resurrection. All those souls who lost their lives