“If the attacks were indeed an answer to ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani’s recent call for savagery,” the unnamed Fox News writer assures us, “it would represent a hideous perversion of Islam’s most holy period, which began June 17 and ends July 17.” Why is Fox editorializing in this manner in the middle of what is supposed to be a news story? Why does the entire mainstream media think it central to its journalistic responsibility to exonerate Islam of all responsibility for the crimes done in its name? Why is there no thoughtful consideration in this article of the fact that al-Adnani clearly thinks that murdering Infidels, Shi’ites and apostate Muslims during Ramadan is pleasing to Allah, and not a perversion of “Islam’s most holy period” at all? Why is no one quoted who could explain how al-Adnani got this idea? Why is there no consideration of whether any Muslims in the West think he is right, and if so, how many?
“Day of terror: Islamist attacks around world follow ISIS’ Ramadan message,” Fox News, June 26, 2015 (thanks to Paul):
Terrorists gunned down dozens of tourists on a Tunisian beach, left a severed head atop a fence outside a French factory and blew up a Kuwaiti mosque Friday in a bloody wave of attacks that followed an ISIS leader’s call to make the month of Ramadan a time of “calamity for the infidels.”
There was no confirmation that the attacks were a coordinated effort ordered by ISIS, but the suspects who attacked a U.S.-owned gas factory in southeastern France left the terrorist army’s flags next to the severed head of their victim, and an ISIS affiliate claimed responsibility for the deadly Kuwait blast.
If the attacks were indeed an answer to ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani’s recent call for savagery, it would represent a hideous perversion of Islam’s most holy period, which began June 17 and ends July 17.
“While we’re still working to determine whether the attacks were coordinated or directed by ISIL (Islamic State), they bear the hallmarks that have defined ISIL’s violent ideology or those inspired by such hatred. There is no doubt that ISIL poses a continuing threat, and we remain concerned about its ability to direct or inspire attacks beyond Iraq and Syria,” A U.S. official told Fox News Friday.
Jihadists should make Ramadan a time of “calamity for the infidels … Shi’ites and apostate Muslims,” Al-Adnani said in a recent audio message. “Muslims everywhere, we congratulate you over the arrival of the holy month. Be keen to conquer in this holy month and to become exposed to martyrdom.”
The attack in France occurred first, Friday morning in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, northwest of the Alpine city of Grenoble. Two suspects dressed as deliverymen crashed a car into an industrial gas plant operated by Allentown, Pa.,-based Air Products & Chemicals, stormed inside and killed at least one person. The head of the victim was left on a fence, with Arabic phrases scrawled on it and ISIS flags nearby, Sky News reported, citing French legal sources.
The unnamed victim was a businessman at a local transportation company and the boss of a man arrested in connection with the attack.
Nearly simultaneously, a gunman opened fire with an automatic rifle on a beach in Sousse– a Tunisian coastal town popular with tourists– killing at least 37 and wounding 36. The Health Ministry said the dead include Tunisians, Brits, Germans and Belgians.
A third attack killed at least 25 and wounded more than 200 in a Shia mosque in Kuwait City, the Ministry of Interior said. A suicide bomber purportedly from ISIS affiliate Najd Province targeted Shiite worshippers after midday prayers at the Imam Sadiq Mosque in the residential neighborhood of al-Sawabir in Kuwait’s capital, Kuwait City. It was the first terrorist attack in Kuwait in more than two decades.
ISIS is comprised of Sunni Muslims, and its members have a long and bloody history with Shia Muslims, as evidenced by Al-Adnani’s call. The attack came immediately following Friday prayers. There was no claim of responsibility, but ISIS has claimed responsibility for bombings at two different Shiite mosques in Saudi Arabia in recent weeks.
French officials wasted no time labeling Friday’s attack an act of terrorism.
“The attack was of a terrorist nature since a body was discovered, decapitated and with inscriptions,” French President Francois Hollande told a news conference in Brussels, where he cut short his attendance at an EU summit to return to France….
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said at least one man–a 30-year-old extremist known to authorities named Yassin Sahli– was under arrest following the France attack. The suspect from Lyon was seized by an alert firefighter.
Other people, including the man’s wife, were also taken into custody after the attack, A second suspect arrested at his home in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier was reportedly seen driving back and forth past the factory before the attack, the Dauphine Libere newspaper reported. A manhunt is underway for any other suspects involved.
Minister Cazeneuve, speaking from the scene, described the attack as “barbarous” and a “terrible terrorist crime.” He said the suspect had been known to foreign intelligence services since 2006, but that police monitoring of him had ceased in 2008. The man did not have a criminal record, the minister added….
Clay says
This is not a perversion of Islam. It is following Islam. Haven’t we noticed that one of the common threads concerning the terrorist is that before they commit the terrorist act they become very devote.
We are not going to be able to defeat the Jihadist till we understand that they really believe what the Koran and Hadith teaches. We have to discredit that belief just like we discredited Nazism. We have to stop this Jihad is a perversion of Islam. It is its foundation.
underbed cat says
Clay yes I agree this is devout Islam..the biggest reason leaders step forward to announce that a particular event that we know as Islamic terror (during Ramadam) is a perversion is due to as we know, is the allowance to deceive the unbeliever to spread Islam. The influence of the devout islamic leaders, clerics, mullahs, the leaders of the muslim brotherhood and government leaders who have ties to Saudi Arabia who also deceived them…… The leaders and people who deny the accuracy of information about the true nature of Islam, have not turned to people who know the doctrine but listen to the deceivers add to that dependence of oil, money and the true nature that could “disrupt”, “provoke” and rise to power. So I read the words of the expert truth tellers, learn what I can, and comment to others who know as we all hope the leaders in the Europe will wake up…along with the U.S. congressmen and senators…”Look at the mess you got us in Ollie”!
Caroline says
The perpetrators obviously thought they were committing acts of piety and devotion to their RoP.
Concerned Canadian says
Instead of preaching to all of us how peaceful the religion is,
why arent the Muslims preaching to each other?
This is THEIR problem not ours.
don345 says
When the muslims begin to kill in our countries, it is OUR problem
mortimer says
CC wrote: “why aren’t the Muslims preaching to each other?”
There are a number of reasons: 1) most Muslims don’t think jihad is a problem, but a solution 2) few can think of a counter-argument to jihad 3) Islam has no version of the Golden Rule 4) Muslims are TERRIFIED that the jihadists will attack them if they speak out…so they remain silent.
PM David Cameron was right that many Muslims quietly condone jihad.
tilda says
“…a hideous perversion of Islam’s most holy period.”
Mohammed engaged in slaughter during Ramadan: the Battle of Badr and Conquest of Mecca spring to mind.
I guess that means that Mohammed was the first to hideously pervert Islam’s most holy period.
Ron Barak says
http://falkland-islands.tumblr.com/post/122708447060/unnamed-fox-news-writer-if-the-attacks-were
pdxnag says
So, slaughter in the name of Allah during Ramadan is cause for celebration. Do they rejoice with the same joy as a non-Muslim giving and receiving gifts at Christmas time? What a stark contrast in worldview.
Leroy Brown says
I think the Western world is over thinking all this. For each attack we should drop a daisy cutter on one of the key ISIS strongholds, Raqqa, Mosul, etc. Would civilians be killed? Almost certainly. Would this motivate civilians in other ISIS controlled areas to resist a little harder if they knew hellfire was going to rain down at any time? Almost certainly, This is a war. Why are we not treating like one?
Angemon says
If the French authorities knew that islamic terrorists act upon orthodox islamic teachings, would they have left him off the hook that easily?
Jack Diamond says
The author could have looked up the consistent and predictable spike in jihad violence every Ramadan; or the doctrinal fact that Jihad, in its highest form is killing and being killed fighting for the cause of allah, is an act of worship in Islam; or that Ramadan ends with the Eid celebration which celebrates the Battle of Badr and the first Islamic military victory of Muslim forces over non-Muslim forces.
But perhaps the unnamed Fox writer was Prince Al-waleed bin Talal. As Diana West wrote about Talal (who owns 7% of News Corp) “in 2005, with Muslims rioting in Paris in the worst street violence since 1968, Alwaleed telephoned Rupert Murdoch, as Alwaleed himself told an audience in Dubai, and said “these are not Muslim riots, they are riots.” Presto, the Fox News crawl about “Muslim riots in Paris” across the bottom of the screen changed to “civil riots.”
West also pointed out that Murdoch now owns 18.97% of Alwaleed’s Arab Media group Rotana, including a religious station Al Rasala run by a Holy Land Foundation co-conspirator, and on its advisory board sits Abdullah Omar Naseef, that chief of the Muslim World League and founder of Rabita Trust, financier of al Qaeda (directed by al Qaeda’s own Wael Hamza Julaidan).
mortimer says
If the Caliph orders a Muslim to fight, then he must fight. Bukhari and Muslim report that the Muhammad said:
“So if you are summoned to fight, go forth.”
Rob says
The West must now invoke a universal policy of demigration of Muslims.
No matter what politicians say about Religion of Peace etc the fact remains that as a social phenomenon, Muslim migration to our shores has FAILED.
A recent release by UNHCR castigated Australia and gave a vague reprimand to other countries in the region about their inaction. He was referring to Indonesia and Malaysia but to the average reader that would have been far from clear. He didn’t have the guts to commend the Philippines which despite having a lower GDP (per capita) that either Indonesia or Malaysia is a signatory to the UN Refugee Charter.
Wouldn’t it have been a big step forward if the UNHCR had ended their homily by saying:
‘I now want to address those former refugees and illegals who have found homes in the West. It is your responsibility to treat your new homes and host communities with respect. To take advantage, not of the free this and that, but of the opportunity to restart your lives aspirationally and with gratitude’.
Rob says
‘The riots occurred after Friday prayers’ is a continually recurring media phrase and the uptick in violence associated with Ramadan is also a constant.
Imagine if there was a headline: ‘At 11am each Sunday, hordes of enraged Episcopalians surged from their churches and wrecked, raped and murdered any Muslims they could catch’
or
‘Easter is notable for its recurring violence against non-Christians, with Good Friday a particularly dangerous time’.
Infidave says
He had more than ten years to plan this. No doubt there are plenty more of his kind.
Hurry up and lets go to war and eradicate muslims.
I am not getting any younger.
Mannie says
Ah, yes, ramalamadingdong. I celebrated it with a choritzo breakfast. I’ll have a bacon cheese burger and a beer for lunch.
Truth Seeker says
Butchery is one of the Pillars on which Islam Stands. Religious Duty in Ramadan Month will get higher benefits.
wifi says
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