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“In the name of the Guardians of Jihad, we announce that the Hand of the Prophet will help us slay all foreign journalists in Mali”

Aug 31, 2015 4:13 pm By Robert Spencer

The Guardians of Jihad are apparently not happy with the press coverage they’re getting. Why not send them Christiane Amanpour or Niraj Warikoo or Lisa Wangsness or Manya Brachear or any one of a thousand other mainstream media “journalists” who do their utmost to whitewash Islamic jihad terror and to demonize those who oppose it? That should render them happy and “moderate,” no?

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“Journalists Reporting in Mali Receive Death Threats From ‘Guardians of Jihad,’” by Lova Rakotomalala, Global Voices, August 31, 2015:

A few journalists covering West Africa have received death threats following their reporting on the northern region of Mali.

In the message sent on 31 August, a group that names itself “Les Gardiens du Jihad” (Guardians of Jihad) did not specify the reasons for the threats but mentioned that foreign journalists, and French ones in particular, will be slain for “spreading lies about Islam”:

Here is a translation of an excerpt of the message:

In the name of the Guardians of Jihad, we announce that the Hand of the Prophet will help us slay all foreign journalists in Mali and journalists who work for foreign media. We know where you all live and we know where you are heading to. The Hand of the Prophet will guide us in getting rid of you and your lies about the jihad. We demand that you leave Mali [..] Heads will soon fall and it will begin with those of French journalists and journalists who work for France, the main enemy of Islam.

Two journalists, Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, were killed in Bamako, Mali, in November 2013 by Bayes Ag Bakabo, a man suspected to be a member of Al-Qaeda in Maghreb (AQIM).

Recent events in northern Mali have provided cause for concern that peace is on tenuous ground in the region. On August 9, 13 people were killed, including five UN workers, in a hostage siege at a hotel in the central Malian town of Sevare. The UN force in Mali took over responsibility for security in the country from French troops in July 2013. France intervened in the country after Islamist militants threatened to march on Bamako in December 2012 in what was then called Operation Serval.

This is one of the many threats that French journalists in particular have received for their reporting on Islamic militants since the Charlie Hebdo killing on January 7, 2015. In June, French journalist Anna Erelle (a pseudonym) was trying to understand why young women and teenagers would leave their homes and families to join ISIS in Syria. She created a fake online profile and was approached by a man called Abu Bilel who proposed to her and invited her to join the group. When she refused, Bilel sent her death threats….

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  1. ICH says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 4:31 pm

    How dare the infidel call us evil pedophiles !!

    Now kill that old lady and fetch me a 6 year old OR DIE !!!

    YUP Islam is awesome…..uggghhhhhhhhh

    One day we will wake up I hope

  2. pdxnag says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 5:02 pm

    Are they guilty of denying that Mohammad was made victorious through terror? (i.e., for claiming that Islam is peace, or something)

    • Dr. Divinity says

      Sep 2, 2015 at 7:53 pm

      Prophet???????what prophet????TO the best of my knowledge Mohammad actually never exited and the koran was in use before his version

      • bill walker says

        Sep 3, 2015 at 10:49 pm

        The Prophet was more of a LOSS to humanity.

  3. mortimer says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 11:45 pm

    Guardians of Jihad said: “Heads will soon fall and it will begin with those of French journalists and journalists who work for France, the main enemy of Islam.”

    How long will it take for journalists to understand that Islam has no use for a free press?

    Do they still want to play the ‘victim card’ for Muslims? How many journalist beheaded or in jail will change their minds about the religion of peace?

  4. Azacque says

    Sep 1, 2015 at 1:02 am

    Isn’t calling islam a religion of peace blasphemy?

  5. Karen says

    Sep 1, 2015 at 1:12 am

    Now, aren’t these swell guys going to feel positively silly about all this jihad stuff if their holy book turns out to have been cribbed? Yes, there’s going to be some hearty chuckling and sheepish grins if that happens! (Their victims will still be dead though.)

    • Charli Main says

      Sep 1, 2015 at 2:33 am

      @ Karen

      Most of these black African Jihadists are ignorant illiterates. Its unlikely that any of them are capable of reading a Koran in any language let alone Arabic. So, the fact that the Koran is in reality a hodge podge of previously existing texts, cribbed by Mohammed will be lost on these retards.
      The only Koran these goat turds know is what they are verbally taught in Mosques and madrassas by loony imams.

      • bill walker says

        Sep 3, 2015 at 10:55 pm

        The New Testament is rather similar to the Quran in that they’re a hodge-podge of previously existing texts. It would have been better for mankind if neither of them had been written.

  6. Westman says

    Sep 1, 2015 at 1:35 am

    “..The Hand of the Prophet will guide us in getting rid of you and your lies about the jihad. We demand that you leave Mali [..] Heads will soon fall and it will begin with those of French journalists and journalists who work for France, the main enemy of Islam.”

    Translation: “We are unprepared for and frightened of all the changes happening around us. We do not know how to become the citizens of the world that we see on TV, and like Iran, we want to return to the simplicity of Islam. It is all we know. Maybe we can hide from the world and it will all be as it was. Our anger comes from our fear .”

  7. Mark says

    Sep 1, 2015 at 9:47 am

    French journalist Anna Erelle (a pseudonym) : Brave Girl… Wish you the best

  8. Dag says

    Sep 1, 2015 at 12:25 pm

    This is the type of person we are — well, what are we actually doing? We leave comments on the Internet. Our opponents do this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSUiTuYeoY4

    t{s clear what we are up against. What, though, do we do? I write books. Will you look? Is it at least something better than nothing? Pass this book around. It is meant to stir up rage among Muslims and Leftists. It’s not as dramatic as the video above, but it is as violent as one can be within the law.

    http://www.amazon.com/Motoons-D-W-Walker/dp/0987761579/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440526062&sr=8-1&keywords=motoons&pebp=1440526083688&perid=01N6XBMG74TQPMCAJN27

  9. Angemon says

    Sep 1, 2015 at 3:27 pm

    In June, French journalist Anna Erelle (a pseudonym) was trying to understand why young women and teenagers would leave their homes and families to join ISIS in Syria. She created a fake online profile and was approached by a man called Abu Bilel who proposed to her and invited her to join the group. When she refused, Bilel sent her death threats….

    And yet, journalists give “bad” coverage of islam…? sarc./off

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