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India: Muslim attempted jihad mass murder attack on mosque because tourists were entering it in skimpy clothes

Feb 8, 2014 12:13 pm By Robert Spencer

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If the timer on his bomb had not failed, hundreds would have been murdered. But honor would have been restored.

“‘Skimpy-clothed’ tourists triggered Jama Masjid attack,” by Vijay V Singh for TNN, February 7 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

MUMBAI: Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist Yasin Bhatkal organized the attack on Delhi’s Jama Masjid in 2010 as he was upset with tourists entering the mosque in skimpy clothes. This is what Yasin told the National Investigation Agency (NIA) following his arrest from the India-Nepal border last year.

Yasin had not discussed the plan with IM chief Riyaz Bhatkal before the attack, the NIA interrogation report to the Centre said.

Two terrorists on a bike opened shot at tourists at Jama Masjid on September 19, 2010, and Yasin parked an explosive-laden car near the mosque to ensure maximum damage. But the timer on the bomb failed, saving hundreds of lives. Two Taiwanese tourists were injured in the firing.

IM founder Riyaz Bhatkal had apparently instructed Yasin to target prominent places in Delhi on the anniversary of Batla House encounter and also sent terror operatives including Waqqas and Asadullah Akhtar alias Tabrez to help Yasin.

Yasin arranged a rented accommodation for the two at Shastri Park in Delhi and himself lived at Shaheen Bagh. He told NIA that he along with an accomplice Qaiser alias Chhotoo visited Jama Masjid on July 15, 2009 and was incensed to find some Russian woman tourists dancing in “objectionable clothes” in the rain inside the mosque. They were “reduced to tears” by the scene, Yasin claimed, adding he hatched the Jama Masjid attack “to teach the tourists a lesson”.

Yasin procured weapons from Delhi and bought 20 kg potassium nitrate and other chemicals from Anand Parbat area; with the chemicals, he made the bombs at his hideout, he told investigators. Yasin stole a bike from Gandhi Nagar to be used by Waqqas and Tabrez and also picked up a Maruti car from the same area. He tried to steal another car but dropped the plan after its alarm went off, he told NIA.

Yasin and his associates decided to target Gate 3 of Jama Masjid as most tourists entered from there. Accordingly, he parked the bomb-laden car near the gate and walked away towards Lal Qila bus stand where his accomplice Irshad waited for him in a car, NIA officers said, adding they drove back to Shaheen Bagh. The two shooters also returned to their hideout after the firing. The two hung a white handkerchief outside their home to indicate to Yasin who visited the spot the next day that the operation was successful.

It was only three days later that Yasin informed Riyaz about the attack and the IM founder apparently got angry with him for targeting a Muslim-dominated area after keeping him in dark.

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  1. Charli Main says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 12:38 pm

    ” Indian Muslims ” are a boil on India´s backside. These Muslim vermin living in India, will one day take a step to far and the Hindus will resort to radical religious cleansing.

  2. Jay Boo says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 1:12 pm

    These Muslims are just ‘trying to keep their Islamic supremacist hope alive.’
    The slightest thing could shatter all their convoluted illusions.
    It isn’t easy being a Muslim.

  3. Salah says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 2:09 pm

    “..he was upset with tourists entering the mosque in skimpy clothes.”

    Did he ever take the time to read his “holy” books?

    Muhammad and Nudity:

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/03/muhammad-and-nudity-mahomet-et-la.html

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 2:23 pm

    violence is the answer if muslims don t like somehing. killing is their default answer

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 1:50 am

      As far as a debating technique goes, killing the opposition goes a long way towards winning the debate.

  5. Champ says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 3:09 pm

    “…he was upset with tourists entering the mosque in skimpy clothes.”

    Skimpy clothes? …oh they weren’t wearing burkas so he saw too much ankle, and murdering them in cold blood seemed like a just and reasonable response, right? Right! Only makes sense if you’re a demon-possessed SOA high on evilslam.

  6. Secondtonone says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 3:26 pm

    Any non-muslim who would waste their time and life for the purpose of sightseeing a mosque and not have intentions of destroying it……….should themselves be blown up!

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 10, 2014 at 9:17 pm

      “Secondtonone” wrote:

      Any non-muslim who would waste their time and life for the purpose of sightseeing a mosque and not have intentions of destroying it……….should themselves be blown up!
      …………………………………….

      Note that “Secondtonone” does not just consider such Infidels foolish, but actually *believes they are deserving of death*.

      On other threads “Secondtonone” has agreed with Muslims murdering gays and has said that Shari’ah is a good thing if it targets “adulterous” women.

      So far, “Secondtonone” seems to have a lot more in common with homicidal Muslims than with civilized Anti-Jihadists.

  7. EYESOPEN says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 7:25 pm

    It’s just a shame that this device did not “backfire” like the one described in a JW article not too long ago. Ah, well. Better luck next time.

  8. exsgtbrown says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 8:05 pm

    They were “reduced to tears” by the scene, Yasin claimed, adding he hatched the Jama Masjid attack “to teach the tourists a lesson”.

    Muslims never teach lessons of peace and harmony….

    • Marbran says

      Feb 10, 2014 at 2:12 pm

      Notice that Yasmin’s first reaction was to teach them a lesson, and he spent the next year plotting his attacks? Instead, he could have simply walked up to the two Russian women and politely said, “Excuse me, but this is our holy mosque. Please show some respect and not act out.” But, nooooooo……Muslim men are incapable of such thought.

      I had the good fortune to tour Yorkminster Abbey once. A colleague who was with me used so much profanity in the first 5 minutes inside that I thought he’d been possessed! I turned to him and said, “Martin! Enough with all the cussing already! You are in a church for God’s sake!” And he stopped. He simply didn’t realize he was doing it.

  9. Dharma says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 8:52 pm

    The growing number of militant terror prone Indian Muslims now present an urgent national security risk. Such monsters should be subjected to the same strict justice that their beloved Saudi Arabia dispenses routinely – a quick trial in a special terror court followed by a mandatory sentence of an immediate beheading. Special discriminatory civil rights to Indian Muslims should be immediately ended and uniform civil code of justice implemented. With their high fertility rates, multiple wives and muthas these neanderthals breed like pigs, draining scarce national resources. This demographic time bomb threatens the very existence of India within a few short decades. Read & watch:
    http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/muslim-demographics-explained/

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 1:14 pm

      Bzzzzzzzzzzt. Wrong. Soddy Barbaria, sometime around 2005, released a large number of convicted terrorists w/the proviso they not practice takfir in the Soddy Barbarian peninsula.

  10. Kepha says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 11:56 pm

    I’m not for killing people or trying to blow things up. Not at all. Yatkin Bhatkal is a criminal and needs to be treated as such. BUT….

    If my church were to become famous and a landmark (and were it able to afford the architecture that might make it happen), I’d like tourists to treat it with respect. I can’t help but notice as well that in Thailand, a lot of working Theravada Buddhist temples in tourist areas sometimes add a sign requesting modest garb in the precinct (Yul Brynner’s portrayal of King Mongkut notwithstanding, the Thai tend to button up for serious matters). I also understand that the Sikhs, while willing to feed non-Sikh guests at their temples, will still require men to wrap a turban around their heads.

    I hate idolatry, I think 99.999% of the religions practiced on this planet are false, and make no bones about being a Christian fundamentalist. But out of respect for other people, I will not wear swimming trunks into their places of worship. It’s just plain rude.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 12:29 am

      Do you *know* that these particular women were wearing “swimming trunks”? For all you know, they may have been wearing jeans and t-shirts.

      What a *Muslim* means by “skimpy clothes” or “objectionable clothing”, may not necessarily mean what *you and I* think of when we hear those terms (or whatever terms he used in the language he spoke when he declared his excuse, or grievance du jour, his claimed pretext for attempting ritual human sacrifice of infidels – he may not have been using English).

      *I* am “naked” – I am a *whore*, immodestly dressed, I am “uncovered meat” – in the eyes of a pious Muslim, when I, a respectable matron of fifty years, walk down the street without my husband’s prior verbal consent to do so, wearing a pair of comfortable loose-fitting trousers and a long-sleeved shirt with the sleeves rolled up above the elbows to show my forearms and wrists, and with my hair visible in a pony-tail and my neck and ears visible.

      *Any* non-Muslim woman – even if wearing quite modest clothing by western or eastern non-Muslim standards – is “naked” and immodest, if not dressed Islamically; in some Islamic countries a woman is deemed “naked” and obscene if her *face* is visible, for her very *face* is deemed no different from her exposed pudendum.

  11. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 11:59 pm

    Today, the “excuse du jour” for a mass-murderous jihad attack attempted in a city in India, is “infidel tourists in skimpy clothes”.

    But if it hadn’t been that, the jihad-minded mohammedan would have had another excuse. Muslim grievances are neverending. There’s *always* a grievance, always an offence, always something to ‘avenge’ or to ‘punish’.

    That’s why I have a very, very fat e-clippings file entitled “The religion of perpetual outrage”.

    I think I will re-post a few classic articles on the subject of Muslim grievance, beginning with the best of the lot: the danger of legitimising Muslim grievances.

    I would encourage Indians here present, posting or lurking, to get it translated into Hindi, Gujarati, and all major official languages of India, and circulate it far and wide; maybe even read it aloud, so it can be shared with the illiterate.

    http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/11/dangers-of-legitimizing-islamic.html
    Sunday, November 13, 2011

    “The Dangers of Legitimizing Muslim Grievances

    “There is no surer path to Muslim violence than through the legitimization of Muslim grievance.

    “Grievance is the stories that Muslims tell themselves to justify their violence.
    “To explain why they kill children and why they murder the innocent.
    “The list of grievances is an endless as the violence.

    “Every act of violence carries its own narrative.

    “The endless Muslim conflicts throughout the world all carry their burden of history.

    “But it isn’t a history that can be resolved with a tolerance session.

    “Muslim grievances are the frustration of conquerors, the broken teeth of predators who weren’t allowed to feed on the world until their stomachs burst.

    “All the lands they couldn’t conquer, the peoples who rebelled against their rule, the inferior civilizations that pushed them back and drove them off…”.

    “The fundamental Muslim grievance is that they are not in power, not just in Israel where the world has accepted their demand to be in power as a wholly moral and legitimate demand, or throughout the Muslim world where Western governments have helped bring the Islamists to power with bombs and political pressure.

    “The fundamental grievance is that they are not in power… everywhere.”…

    “The common denominator of the cartoon controversies, Muslim wars around the world and just about every other grievance, from their claim to Spain [or, for that matter, their claim to all of India – dda] to their demand for more mosques, is an insistence on power at the expense of others. Everyone has to keep paying a price for Muslim grievance– either in rights and freedoms, or in blood.”…
    ”

    “People are not innocent, and the conquerors and oppressors of much of the world are certainly a long way from innocent.

    “Historical Islam was a brutal conquering ideology that fed off blood and human misery. [And one of the places that suffered most terribly from Muslim mass murder and mass pillage and mass enslavement, was India – dda}.
    “No amount of revisionist history will make that go away and the revisionist history is a disgusting insult to the millions killed and the cultures wiped out for the greater glory of Islam.
    “A religion that has never stopped practicing genocide, slavery and repression as religious mandates is the worst positioned to act out the charade of innocence, to pretend that everything was fine until the Ottoman Empire fell and the British and French colonialists replaced the Muslim colonialists and gave the local minorities civil rights instead of a spiked boot in the face.”…

    Read it all. Spread it about. Translate it into every possible language.

    Because it sums the whole thing up, unforgettably.

  12. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 12:10 am

    Three other classic articles on Muslim grievance-monging and pantomime of victimhood.

    First, Christopher Hitchens, writing the day after the mass-murderous jihad attacks in London in 2005.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2005/07/08/we-cannot-surrender-115875-15713152/

    WE CANNOT SURRENDER

    Excerpt:

    “We know very well what the “grievances” of the jihadists are.

    “The grievance of seeing unveiled women. The grievance of the existence, not of the State of Israel, but of the Jewish people. The grievance of the heresy of democracy, which impedes the imposition of sharia law. The grievance of a work of fiction written by an Indian living in London. The grievance of the existence of black African Muslim farmers, who won’t abandon lands in Darfur. The grievance of the existence of homosexuals. The grievance of music, and of most representational art. The grievance of the existence of Hinduism. The grievance of East Timor’s liberation from Indonesian rule. All of these have been proclaimed as a licence to kill infidels or apostates, or anyone who just gets in the way.”…
    “It is a big mistake to believe this is an assault on “our” values or “our” way of life. It is, rather, an assault on all civilisation.”…
    “The grievances I listed above are unappeasable, one of many reasons why the jihadists will lose.
    They demand the impossible – the cessation of all life in favour of prostration before a totalitarian vision.”…

    And then there is this, from Hugh Fitzgerald, who used to post here often, some years ago (he may still be encountered at “New English Review”)

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/10/fitzgerald-95-things-that-fuel-muslim-extremism.html

    “Ninety-Five Other Things That Also Fuel Muslim Extremism”.

    I encourage anyone reading here who has not yet read this Hugh Fitzgerald classic, to immediately click on the link, and read. It’s brilliant.

    Here are the final items on the list of things that “fuel Muslim extremism”, i.e., that inspire Muslims to engage in mass-murderous jihad attacks, such as this one most recently attempted (but, fortunately, failed) in India:

    “…86. The continued existence of Jews.

    87. The continued existence of Christians.

    88. The continued existence of Hindus.
    
89. The continued existence of Sikhs.

    90. The continued existence of Buddhists.

    91. The continued existence of followers of Confucius

    92. The continued existence of agnostics.
    
93. The continued existence of atheists.

    94. Everything.

    95. Nothing.”

    And last of all, a wonderful piece by a feisty Bengali ex-Muslim, one Abul Kasem, who ditched Islam and regained his humanity and his wits, and is explaining to non-Muslims *exactly* what it is that Muslims often really mean when they wail that they are “oppressed”.

    http://www.islam-watch.org/AbulKasem/IslamOppressed.htm

    When is Islam Oppressed?
    by Abul Kasem
    20 Nov, 2005

    Postscriptum: the ever-lengthening list of “things that offend Muslims”.

    http://amboytimes.typepad.com/the_amboy_times/2007/02/the_list_of_thi.html

    • Charli Main says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 2:23 am

      Brilliant DDA.
      I believe that it will be the Indians/Sikhs that will one day totally crush Islam and the Muslims.
      These folk have a thousand years of mass murder, rape and defilement and desecration of their Holy Places to avenge.
      EVERY MOSQUE IN INDIA IS A SYMBOL OF THAT COUNTRY´S SHAME AND HUMILATION AT THE HANDS OF THEIR MUSLIM INVADERS.

      • Defcon 4 says

        Feb 9, 2014 at 1:22 pm

        Or are the Hindus and Sikhs of India simply emigrating? Thus handing over India to the islam0nazis by facilitating demographic conquest?

  13. Tommy Peters says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 8:27 am

    The female contour is again placed between sexuality, religion and violence. Jihadist tutorial. Brothers, her armpits are Glocks, her mammarys are Scuds and her crotch is a Gattling, not to mention that her legs are deadly RPGs. As much as you admire her, fear her. As much as you yearn to embrace her, control and neutralize her, in the public domain.

  14. gravenimage says

    Feb 10, 2014 at 8:48 pm

    India: Muslim attempted jihad mass murder attack on mosque because tourists were entering it in skimpy clothes
    …………………………………

    Let *that* sink in—this pious Mohammedan was willing to blow up the Mosque itself—along with a lot of filthy Infidels, of course—in order to ensure that it was “respected”.

    More:

    Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist Yasin Bhatkal organized the attack on Delhi’s Jama Masjid in 2010 as he was upset with tourists entering the mosque in skimpy clothes.
    …………………………………

    Maybe the two Russian women were wearing skimpy clothes—or as Dumbledore’s Army notes, they might have been wearing anything short of a Burqa.

    Betty Mahmoody in was denounced as a “prostitute” for wearing a floor-length loose-fitting coat and a headscarf in Iran, because she wasn’t wearing a Chador.

    Keep this in mind next time you hear Muslims talking about women “dressing like whores”…

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