The Islamic State continues to show its global reach and the resonance of the idea of the caliphate. “Sinai blast kills 6 Egyptian soldiers in stronghold of ISIS-linked terrorists,” Reuters, April 12, 2015:
ISMAILIA, Egypt – Egypt’s military said a bomb detonated by militants killed six soldiers and wounded two others in Egypt’s North Sinai on Sunday, a region beset by Islamist insurgents.
The army said in a statement that “terrorist and extremist elements” were behind the roadside attack on an armored military vehicle in the town of Sheik Zuweid. Two of those killed were officers, it said.
A Twitter feed that describes itself as the official account for Sinai Province, a militant group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, claimed responsibility for the attack.
North Sinai is the epicenter of an insurgency that has killed hundreds of members of the security services since mid-2013, when then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi after mass protests against his rule. Sisi was overwhelmingly elected president last year.
Sinai Province, previously known as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, has claimed other deadly attacks on soldiers in the Sinai.
It renamed itself last year after swearing allegiance to Islamic State, the ultra-radical Sunni militant group that has seized swathes of Iraq and Syria, drawing US-led air strikes.
jihad3tracker says
*********** OFF-TOPIC BUT FORGIVE ME ***********
As I write this at 10 a.m. Eastern time, the disgusting lying seditious Hillary Clinton is “announcing” her run for the Presidency.
I have mentioned my lifelong Democratic affiliation before here on JW, but that loyalty is one which intends to RID THE PARTY OF ETHICALLY CORRUPT PEOPLE.
At age 66, my ancient eyes have seen enough politicians — Repubs too — who are transparently worthless if one looks without prejudice.
To all fellow Dems who read and comment here, I ask you to join me in supporting other candidates actually meriting our support. I won’t mention my own choice, because CAIR obsessively checks every post here and its frat boys would immediately put that person on a “bombard with Islamophobia” vector.
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Larry A. Singleton says
You might already have this info but……
Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld, (CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood), That’s Conspiring to Islamize America by Gaubatz and Sperry.
Is CAIR a Terror Group? by Daniel Pipes (National Review Online)
http://www.danielpipes.org/15220/cair-terror-group#print
•”CAIR is a terrorist supporting front organization that is partially funded by terrorists”;
•”CAIR … is supported by terrorist supporting individuals, groups and countries”;
•”CAIR has proven links to, and was founded by, Islamic terrorists”; and
•”CAIR actively supports terrorists and terrorist supporting groups and nations.”
Getting to Know the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
http://www.danielpipes.org/biblio_cair.php (Assorted articles)
CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha (MEQ article)
meforum-org/916/cair-islamists-fooling-the-establishment#_ftnref60
CAIR’s silence on pastor’s apostasy death sentence is deafening” by Andrew G. Bostom (American Thinker)
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/cairs_silence_on_pastors_apostasy_death_sentence_is_deafening.html
Free Speech v. Political Correctness by Abraham H. Miller (Gatestone Institute)
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4862/berkeley-free-speech
FBI statistics show that hate crimes against Muslims, which are never justified, are actually quite uncommon, with hate crimes against Jews being over four times more common. Details here: http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2014/12/new-fbi-hate-crime-stats-another-blow-to-islamist
Many women and girls around the world have been brutalized and even killed for not wearing a hijab. A list of some of them, with further links to the relevant news stories, is at this link: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/today-is-world-hijab-day
CAIR and the MSA appear to have been involved in this event. Both were named unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land trial, which involved funneling money to the terror group Hamas. Both have demonstrable ties, documented and noted by the FBI, with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. See, for example, these links:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2340/federal-judge-agrees-cair-tied-to-hamas
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2011/March/Muslim-Student-Group-a-Gateway-to-Jihad/
Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future by David Horowitz and Robert Spencer (Booklet)
11 of Canada’s highest-profile jihad terrorists tied to Muslim Students Association
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/02/11-of-canadas-highest-profile-jihad-terrorists-tied-to-muslim-students-association
Slavery, Terrorism and Islam, (and Holocaust in Rwanda), by Peter Hammond (This is an Ass-Kicking little resource of 276 pages.)
Subscribe to Jihad/Campus Watch and the Middle East Forum/Quarterly, Family Security Matters, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Gatestone Institute, FrontPage Magazine, American Thinker, The Clarion Project, Cross Muslims, Palestinian Media Watch, Muhammad unveiled, Religion of Peace and read Raymond Ibrahim, Andrew Harrod, Efraim Karsh, Frank Gaffney, Patrick Poole, Caroline Glick, Bat Ye’or and others.
jihad3tracker says
Thank you, Larry, for these resource paths about CAIR :
Regarding what it does above and below the radar” . . . a constant effort to subjugate or kill Infidels, on the way to the good old days of a restored caliphate.,
As I have written before on Jihad Watch here : only a small percentage of jihadist networking and plots for subversion or violence ever come to public attention.
Such devotion to complete Islam beyond the Five Pillars is manifested by Muslims who see the Qur’an / Hadith / Sura as proceeding from a perverse divinity and its pathological messenger.
Godwin says
Hamas must have played a part in this attack.
Westman says
The Sinai is so sparsely populated and barren that it can’t be defended by a small force. That’s why the Israeli’s gave it back to Egypt.
A small band of ISIS fighters would likely go unnoticed except by air or satellite surveillance.
Jerry says
Ask the Israelis nicely for pics.
They may even unofficially release some to the Egyptians.
Their satellites cover the area and can probably read vehicle registrations.
Their sigint is capable of intercepting cellular ans sat traffic.
What their satellites are probably incapable of doing is penetrating under
niqabs and establishing if the wearer is a ball bearing Jihadi or not,
and they are probably reluctant to share their humint for fear of
exposing their sources.
Barry says
I am so dismayed to read so many Islamaphobic postings. Don’t you all realise that in the Western world,adherents of Islam are so awfully and shabbily treated, that they are forced to become members of myriads of society’s and associations, that goes some way to representing their downtrodden religion! Even Mr. President himself, has been forced many times during his terms of office, to speak-out publicly and globally, ensuring we all know and understand, that Islam is the true religion of peace and that the Jihadis are not, in any way shape or form, representative of this peaceful religion!
Can we all do any less I ask, than to embrace the oft misunderstood worshippers of Islam! As we have been told so many times, from so many sources within the White House, WE, are the one’s responsible for the spread of terror, because we don’t give Moslems the same opportunities as we all enjoy ourselves!
I am so ashamed to be a white, Anglo-Saxon in these troubled times. My mere presence in the country of my birth, shames me as an individual, who doesn’t grasp the opportunity to at least understand why, these dreadful Islamaphobic feelings are perpetuated by my fellow members of the human race!!
Ah well, enough propaganda for the Islamist apologists for one day! I shall now pack away my dripping sarcasm for another, more propitious dawning!!