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Jihadis use Ferguson to proselytize: “Blacks in #Ferguson, there’s an alternative to this indignity: pick yourselves up with Islam, like #IS in #Iraq.”

Aug 21, 2014 1:32 pm By Robert Spencer

ISISHereMissouriHamas-linked CAIR is hitting this hard, hosting today a “National American Muslim Call-In on Ferguson, Michael Brown Movement” and honoring the race-baiter Al Sharpton at their next banquet. The idea is to portray Muslims as like black Americans as victims of unjust discrimination and unwarranted police scrutiny, and to intimidate law enforcement officials into ending that scrutiny.

“Even the Islamists of ISIS are obsessing over Ferguson,” by Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post, August 21, 2014:

You can understand if President Obama would rather talk about the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq, where he has scored some victories,

He has?

than talk about the unholy mess in Ferguson, Mo. Surprisingly, though, ISIS militants are following developments in the St. Louis suburb, and some of them would rather focus on that. According to interviews and social media, members of the group and sympathizers with its jihadist ideology are closely tracking the events in the St. Louis suburb, where protesters and police have clashed. In it, they see opportunity.

Partly, the focus is strategic: Officers in Ferguson have used military transports and weapons similar to those used by U.S. troops in Iraq. But militants are also claiming vindication — that their arguments about American oppression were right all along. “Well this clearly shows that all this talk about democracy and equality of people in the west is just hypocrisy,” said Abu Sameer after a private autopsy sought by the family of Michael Brown showed that the 18-year-old had been shot at least six times. Abu Sameer lives in France and identifies himself as a member of the Islamic State, a group that has conducted a campaign of mass killings and other atrocities in northern Iraq.

The Islamic State and other jihadist movements are using the events outside St. Louis as propaganda against the West. One argument they’ve been making for years is that racism and discrimination are rampant in some parts of the West, and they’re hoping the Ferguson riots could help recruit black Americans. “In Islam there is no racism, and we think black people will wake up and follow the example of Malcolm X and others who understood that this way is the only way to justice,” said Abu Mansour, who lives in Germany and is also a follower of the Islamic State.

All of the jihadists interviewed said Brown’s death confirms their beliefs that blacks are seen as second-class citizens by whites and especially by the police. “I think that blacks in the U.S. will look more towards Islam,” said Anjem Choudary from Great Britain, co-founder of the banned “al-­Muhajiroun” group. (Choudary’s teacher, Omar Bakri Muhammad, was barred from Britain and is currently in a Lebanese jail for his alleged support of jihadist movements in Syria and Iraq.) “The only way of life today that does not look at race is in fact Islam. Islam only distinguished people by whether they are Muslim or not. The color of their skin does not play a role,” Choudary said in a phone interview.

Some self-described supporters of fighters of the Islamic State have also taken the discussion to social media platforms using the hashtag “#FergusonUnderIS” and “ISISHERO.” Some English-language examples:

FergusontweetsAccording to Site Intelligence Group, an organization that tracks the online activity of terrorists, the accounts have mainly addressed the black community, arguing that blacks are victims of “democracy while promising less discrimination under Shari’ah law.” A tweet from a user called Abu Ottoman, for instance, said:

Fergusontweets2Site Intelligence Group also pointed out the now-deleted Twitter account of Mujahid Miski, who claims to be a jihadist fighter from the United States and posted under the #FergusonUnderIS hashtag: “I thought u guys back in Ferguson were supposed to be Free & that u had equal rights. I’d really like to know what changed?” He also said, “Justice and Equality is under the Shari’ah law. You’ll never get it under Democracy.”

Abu Mansour in Germany and Abu Sameer in France asked not to be identified by their real names because they fear arrest for their affiliation with the Islamic State. But both also stated that Ferguson would also teach Muslims in Europe a big lesson about the rise of right-wing and racist movements there, too. “What has happened in Ferguson today, can also happen anytime in France, Germany or Britain,” said Abu Sameer. “The anti-Muslim sentiments are there and became normality and we tell the youth, communism has failed, the Islamic State is your only solution.”

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  1. Beagle says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    Said the group running slave markets.

  2. Gail Griffin says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 1:55 pm

    I just saw a video on Facebook this morning of the slaughtered of 4women dresses in colorful western attire by a large group of men dresses in dingy boring same same uniforms. Real show of individuality. The women were of all ages but they really had it out for one motherly silver headed woman. Took an Axe to her right off. Such brave boys. Some families cherished sons. The shooting of that thug in Ferguson can’t compare to the evil that awaits those who join IS.

  3. Angemon says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 1:59 pm

    Indeed, Malcom X knew that the only cure for racism is Islam.

    Wasn’t Malcom X killed by a black muslim?

    • john spielman says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 2:13 pm

      Malcom X had renounced the Nation of Islam (NOI) in favor of classic Wahabi Islam which considers the NOI apostate and worthy of death. But NOI like islam in general kill anyone aho leaves their individual organization, so Malcolm was off’d by NOI by orders of Louis Farrakhan

      • Bezelel says

        Aug 21, 2014 at 3:25 pm

        I remember reading about mooshell obamud socializing with fairycon. I suspect there’s more to it. I suspect the nbpp,ya know, holder’s people, are fairycon affiliated. It’s not a huge leap to IS

    • paddy says

      Aug 22, 2014 at 6:16 am

      Yes

  4. John spielman says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 2:16 pm

    islam meshes very well with the lawlessness and brutality present in the local Black( and white) ‘hoods so for local gang bangers,it requires no change in behavior to become a muslim gangbanger

    • Beagle says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 2:21 pm

      They’d have to limit their robbery to non-Muslims or bad Muslims to have ‘divine’ sanction from Allah. No drugs or drinking either. For a gang member that’s no small thing.

      • john spielman says

        Aug 21, 2014 at 2:55 pm

        true BUT as you remember with the 9-11 mass murderers who went to local bars the night before to get drunk, in islam because it is a work’s righteous theology, they simply had to kill enough unbelievers (good works) the next day to cancel out their sin (bad works)

      • John C. Barile says

        Aug 21, 2014 at 2:57 pm

        Lo! Allah is most Merciful, forgiving. All they have to do is spill blood in Allah’s cause.

  5. Islam_Macht_Frei says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 2:22 pm

    I recall that they set up a dawa hut in Haiti after the earthquake there a few years ago – no doubt fertile recruiting ground and I imagine that they are still there….

  6. exsgtbrown says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 2:28 pm

    Islam always appeals to those with marginal intelligence..

    • john spielman says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 2:56 pm

      and CRIMMINALS

      • paddy says

        Aug 22, 2014 at 6:18 am

        And just about anybody devoid of human dignity…

  7. tpellow says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    Is there now an extension of the Islam + ‘Left’ political alliance from the Islamic State in the Middle East to Ferguson in the USA?

    • John C. Barile says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 2:55 pm

      Yes. The rabid Left is deranged enough to make common cause with the Devil.

  8. Saroedwan says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 2:50 pm

    Dear Mr Robert
    I visit your blog for news since i don’t believe news media (not all) whether it is on tv or internet but redirect before entering your site is annoying .I always turn off javascript when surfing internet. so maybe this is the last time i visit your site.

    • marc says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 3:26 pm

      Sorry about that, this redirect thing if you do not have Java Script enabled is due to the DDoS protection we have in place. for every valid visitor we have, there are another 100 fake visits trying to make the site inaccessible, this is the only way to resolve that.
      Using a Firefox plugin such as NoScript allows you to choose which site to allow JS to run on.

      • Champ says

        Aug 21, 2014 at 3:43 pm

        You’re the best, Marc! …do whatever’s necessary to protect Jihad Watch from internet predators. Bravo!

  9. R Cole says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 3:17 pm

    Isn’t it incredible that you can now say “Islamic State”!!

    Before — if you said, ‘an Islamic State is what they want’ – you would be called ‘racist’, ‘controversial’ and the fave ‘ignorant’ or ‘hateful’ even.

    Now Islamic State is on everyone’s lips – you can’t help but say Islamic State!!!

    And everything that goes with it – the convert or die, the enforcement of the jizya tax, the violence /jihad to establish a conquered realm of Islam or Dar al-Islam.

    Now its – just who gave those ISIS boys that idea!!

    • paddy says

      Aug 22, 2014 at 6:48 am

      islam and muslims have for generations been the dominant force and maintained a relatively peaceful world view in that part of our Earth (save Saddam and his declaration of war with the outside world)…
      These fanatics are trying to reassert an identity which is cleansed of all non-muslim traits (good luck with that) but in the meantime use every non-muslim invention ..guns, technology etc, to achieve that aim.
      Those of us who live in the free world know that such a totalitarian mind-set is doomed to fail (genocidal nazism, communism). The tragedy is the ordinary, everyday people that have been and are being killed by these monsters.

  10. marc says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 3:23 pm

    The synergy is strong between the “anti-Zionist” and these “peaceful protesters”

    http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/stop-u-s-repression-of-african-americans-in-ferguson-12487

  11. Davegreybeard says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 3:35 pm

    I am not at all surprised at this. In fact I am surprised that IS is not pushing this with more imagination and energy.

    The widespread sense of grievance in our Black community is an obvious weak point in our American society. It is therefore also an obvious aspect for an enemy to attack and exploit.

    Consider the possibility that in future riots of this kind, a small group of organized Jihadis direct rifle fire at the police from several hidden locations, then immediately fade back into the urban landscape. The police are left with several men down, and still facing an enraged mob. What happens next is how civil wars start. Add an IED or two to take out a police armored vehicle and you really have got the party started.

    A race riot is a violent, volatile situation that simply begs for our Jihadi enemy to exploit. The people that provoke enflame and encourage such situations (the “news” media and the Al Sharptons, Jessie Jacksons, etc.) are a direct threat our Country and our free American society.

    It is time we start to think like our enemy.

    If YOU were a Jihadi, what would you do to exploit a race riot?

    The only counter to this is a vigorous and relentless pursuit of the truth and to declare eternal war on all those who seek to obfuscate it – we can start with our traitorous “news” media.

    • Bezelel says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 4:46 pm

      Sharpton needs some accountability for that mouth.

  12. medina says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 5:24 pm

    NOI and the New Black Panther Party both convened on Ferguson, MO from the start of this. Malik Shabazz was directing traffic (he’s so helpful) at 3:45 a.m. and the next day he blew up the governor’s presser. Lazy Clay (D-MO) told Shabazz in a public forum that he’d speak with the MO Highway Patrol about allowing the NBBP to assist police in Ferguson. *rolling eyes*

    Most recently, Shabazz took to the streets to chant: “Who do we want? (Officer) Darren Wilson!” “How do we want him? Dead.” Now the ISIS flag is spotted in Ferguson, and no wonder. Islamists have many opportunities there to channel anger into terror.

  13. PGuud says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 5:58 pm

    MUSLIM PROSELYTIZER: Hey, Brother. Come join us. We’ll show whitey what’s what.

    GULLIBLE/ANGRY BLACK AMERICAN (GABA): Yeah? A’ight. I’m down. Let’s get these fools.

    SMASH CUT:

    GABA and a HORDE OF DUPES eradicate the white man.

    CUT TO:

    GABA goes to see the imam.

    GABA: Hey, yo–Imam! What’s next?

    The imam points to a crowd of black people.

    IMAM: See those people? Invite them to our way of life.

    GABA: You mean try to convert them to Islam?

    IMAM: “Invite,” “convert”–yes, whatever!

    GABA: What if they don’t wanna convert?

    IMAM: Then, they must pay the jizya.

    GABA: What if they don’t wanna pay?

    SMASH CUT:

    GABA AND A HORDE OF DUPES: ALLAHU AKBAR!! ALLAHU AKBAR!!

    The crowd of black people are put to the sword.

    CUT TO:

    GABA goes to see the imam.

    GABA: Who’s next?

    Islam: where freedom ends and slavery begins.

    • PGuud says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 6:01 pm

      That should be “is put to the sword.”

      Islam: where freedom ends and slavery begins.

  14. Myxlplik says

    Aug 22, 2014 at 12:55 am

    If left to their own devices ie cutting off welfare checks, Ferguson and places like it would look like Liberia in under a generation.

  15. paddy says

    Aug 22, 2014 at 7:35 am

    Wooh! Steady on…that is a tad heavy Sakovkt…putting jew and nazi together. I get the gist of your comment.
    Wouldnt it be great to have a world unshackled from foolish notions of existence beyond this life and live in a place where human dignity and the golden rule are paramount? It’s not going to happen any time soon but in the meantime (most non-religious people know this) keep on keeping on while these religious morons make excuses for any number of atrocities they commit.
    Is there any reason for a just war?
    Yes.
    To let people go about there everyday lives without the hindrance of some murderous thug with a kalashnikov pointing at them…
    Yes…there is a just cause.

  16. gravenimage says

    Aug 22, 2014 at 7:39 pm

    Jihadis use Ferguson to proselytize: “Blacks in #Ferguson, there’s an alternative to this indignity: pick yourselves up with Islam, like #IS in #Iraq.”
    …………………………

    Grimly hilarious, considering supremacist Muslims regard blacks as “abds”—slaves.

  17. Mamo says

    Aug 23, 2014 at 7:23 pm

    Young black man here. First some of the comments here make me smile. Its like so many folks here don’t think we read the papers and watch the news. We know what has been going on both in Ferguson and in Iraq. Only the mentally unstable among us would run out and join up with IS. (Laughing as I type this btw).

    I wanted to suggest to Robert and others on the JW staff: Your mission of spreading awareness is vitally important, and I would suggest that you also present to black American organizations if given the opportunity to address such audiences. Americans of African ancestory need solid facts on islam, how it views people of color, and the horrors of life under sharia law. I would urge you to speak to as many different groups as possible, because allies in the fight against tyranny and for liberty will come from every segment of society. It doesn’t matter if you are black, white or asian, religious or not, straight or gay, or whatever superficial difference that lies on the surface. The zealous, uncompromising love of liberty and freedom is what our banner should be, and is worth living, fighting, and dying for. Some of my ancestors were slaves for generations, and now that I am free, the prophet Patrick Henry once said, ‘Give me liberty, or give me death!’ And these words must be our manifesto if we are to remain a free people.

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