The message from this jihadist is full of references to Allah. Yet the conventional wisdom from Islamic leaders in the U.S., as well as the mainstream media and the U.S. government, is that groups like Al Shabab have nothing to do with Islam, and do not represent its teachings in any remotely authentic way. The cognitive dissonance, in other words, is immense.
“Al Shabaab Video Calls for Lone-Wolf Attacks in the West,” by Anthony Kimery, HSToday, May 13, 2014 (thanks to Halal Pork Shop):
The Somalia-based Al Qaeda affiliated jihadi group Al Shabab Al Mujahideen’s media wing, Al Kataib Foundation, in a video released Tuesday called for Muslims living in the West to “take your Istishhadi [suicide] vest” and carry out a lone-wolf attack.
“The video features a masked jihadi delivering a brief message in English. In it, the man speaks to Muslims living in the West, and asks them to choose from three options,” the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) said.
Aside from carrying out a suicide bombing, the man in the video calls for Muslims living in the West to leave everything behind and make hijra to join Al Shabab’s ranks or to stay in the West and be “deceived by the devil,” while living among “them” (non-Muslims).
The following is the message that was delivered by the masked individual in English:
“All praises are due to Allah, the only one. We praise Him and thank Him for all He has done. Peace and blessing be upon the one who was sent before the time, the last man sent as a message to mankind. This is a message to the youth in the West. A caring brother send[s] you a friend request. Allah is full of struggle, complete the test. So choose the following options, which is the best: You put your trust in Allah and take your Istishhadi vest. A lone-wolf mission, you know the rest. Second option: You leave it all. Your whole dunya [world], and your backpack. What you need more? Hijra and jihad is the smart call, just like the brothers in Westgate Mall [men shouting Allah Akbar]. Last option: deceived by the devil, you live amongst them, same job, same school. You befriend them. Judgment Day is near. What you’ve prepared then? Wake up from the dream and revive the deen again.”
“I know you, lion of this ummah, supported by the truth, you make a fine troop,” the message concluded. “So next flight Mogadishu, [and] who’s missing is you! [men shouting Allah Akbar].”
MEMRI Executive Director Steve Stalinsky told Homeland Security Today, “It should be pointed out that Al Shabaab is very active in its propaganda and recruitment efforts on social media; in addition, over the past year it has released multiple videos aimed at Somali youth abroad, particularly in the West, stressing lone-wolf attacks.”
“The latest video specifically addresses Somalis in Minnesota, as can be seen in the image of the ‘airline ticket,’ he said.
Stalinsky pointed out that, “Al Shabaab has been successful in its efforts to recruit Westerners from the US, Canada and the UK to come fight for their cause in Somalia. However, up until now, what they are calling for now, and have been calling for in the past year — that is, attacks in the West — have not been carried out.”
It should also “be noted,” Stalinsky said, “that Al Shabaab is promoting and following the message of Al Qaeda Central, which emphasizes lone-wolf attacks as announced in the June 3, 2011 video by Adam Gadahn titled, ‘Do Not Rely on Others, Take [the Task] Upon Yourself,’ and vigorously promoted by Inspire magazine.”
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Whoa, if these young Moslem dudes do what they’re asking, I could be blown to smithereens right here in Eden Prairie. And if I don’t get blown up, then I’ll have to pay tax money to support the welfare for his children, born both by his 3 mosque wives and his county wife. I prefer that the Jihad be done in Mogadishu, not here. Let’s offer to give them still more taxpayer money in exchange for not blowing us up locally. We had a real bad winter here. We don’t need a bloody summer.
I’m afraid of Moslems, skeert for my life. Does that make me an Islamophobe?
Reality Check says
No, it makes you a sensible person.
Walter Sieruk says
All the militant jihadists who engage in suicide/homoicde bombings and attacks are of such a deluded mindset that the actually think of their murderous actions as “martyrdom operations.” This is the outcome ofthe extreme brainwashing that is done in the mosque and madraas by the imams and mullahs who very much mind program other people into believings in the Islamic doctrine from the Quran of some kind of lust filled paradise with many virgins in it for the Muslim who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam, Sura 44:54. 55:56. 78:31. Of such false teaches as these imams and mullahs who thoroughly brainwash such false doctrines as of a lust filled place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others are explained about in the Bible. For of such false teachers as these Islamic clerics the Bible in Second Peter 2:18. reads “Forthey speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lust of the flesh…” Furthermore, many a times a jihadist in his death recording talks about “the wedding with the virgins” that he will have after he becomes a “martyr.” Such a belief Jesus would denounce as being based on false teaching. For Jesus taught “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as theangles in heaven.” Matthew 22:29,30. In contrast to the Islamic pipedream ofthe jihadist in the Quranic story/doctrine of a place with virgins, Christians have the reality of Second Peter 1:16. Which reads “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…” [KJV]
dumbledoresarmy says
Any Somali-background Muslim or other-background Muslim who , having been resident in any non-Muslim country – be it Kenya, or the UK, or Australia, or the USA, or wherever – and having obtained “asylum”, “residence” or “citizenship” there, then leaves and goes off to *Somalia* to join the jihad there, should NEVER be permitted to return, and should be stripped of their asylum status, residency status, or citizenship. And that should be applied to *converts*, also.
I worry about those who stay here, and plot to wage jihad *here*.
I couldn’t care less about those who *leave* and go off to dar al Islam to wage jihad against deemed-insufficiently-Islamic or deemed-heretical fellow Muslims; just so long as our authorities got a clue, and took steps to make sure that they were **prevented from ever returning**.
And it might be worthwhile quoting this sort of rabble-rousing jihad-inciting statement in every letter we send to our politicians, when we wish to make the point that if our countries had *no* Mohammedans here resident, then there would be nobody to *heed* the summons to wage jihad *here*. Which would save us *enormous* amounts of money presently spent on homeland security.
So we can tell our politicians that the obvious self-protective course of action – as well as taking steps to prevent the return of western-passport-possessing Mohammedans who have gone off for an Excellent Jihad Adventure in Somalia, or Syria, etc – to *also* STOP allowing *other* Mohammedans in through our gates.
dumbledoresarmy says
Here’s how “Hugh” or “Hugh Fitzgerald”, a former regular contributor to this forum, and now to be found at the “New English Review”, used to put the matter:
“The large-scale presence of Muslims in the Lands of the Infidels has brought about a situation, for those indigenous Infidels (and also for other non-indigenous arrivals, non-Muslim immigrants), that is unpleasant, expensive (the costs of monitoring, the costs of security, spiralling ever upward), and physically dangerous.”
Many but newly-come to this forum will not have read that lapidary paragraph.
I encourage the new members – posters and lurkers – to copy it, and to learn it by heart, and keep it in mind when writing to politicians.
weavo2 says
Amazing that we still allow Muslims from hell holes such as Somalia to immigrate to the USA. Amazing that any western country continues to allow this.
As long as folks like Obama and all his minions occupy the reigns of power in this country, the importation of possible jihadists will continue.
If the political climate does not change, if in 2016 we still have idiots like Obama in power, revolt will ensue.
We should deport these imports of jihad to their original dens of hatred and bigotry.
Will Doohan says
He’s a poet
and he don’t even know it!
“take (up) your Istishhadi vest.
A lone-wolf mission,
you know the rest.”
“Wake up from the dream
and revive the deen ”
“supported by the truth,
you make a fine troop,”
“So next flight Mogadishu,
who’s missing is you! ”
(But seriously folks, this scumbags call for Jihad attacks is not really surprising at all is it? …. murdering ‘the other’. It’s what Muslims do.)