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Macedonia: Nine suspected Islamic State members arrested, including Muslim cleric

Aug 6, 2015 1:48 pm By Robert Spencer

Macedonian police“Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov said the people arrested included a Muslim cleric believed to be the group’s main organizer.” A Muslim cleric? What? How did someone who has dedicated his life to understanding the Qur’an properly miss all its peaceful teachings — the ones that are so blazingly obvious to non-Muslims like John Kerry and David Cameron?”Macedonian police arrest 9 suspected IS members, seek 27,” Associated Press, August 6, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann):

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonian police on Thursday announced the arrests of nine people suspected of belonging to the Islamic State group and said they are seeking a further 27, following raids in the capital, Skopje, and several towns in the northeast of the country.

Interior ministry spokesman Ivo Kotevski told The Associated Press that all those arrested are Macedonian nationals. They are suspected of being volunteers or recruiters for the group to fight in Syria and Iraq….

Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov said the people arrested included a Muslim cleric believed to be the group’s main organizer. It was unclear whether they are suspected of planning terrorist attacks in Macedonia….

Officers searched 25 houses, an Internet cafe, a mosque and the offices of two Islam-linked NGOs, and seized computers, mobile phones and cash

Cavkov said 130 people from Macedonia are believed to have joined the Islamic State militants and fought in Syria or Iraq. At least 16 Macedonians have been killed in the fighting.

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Filed Under: Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Macedonia, Muslim clerics Tagged With: Ivo Kotevski, Mitko Cavkov


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  1. vox populi says

    Aug 6, 2015 at 2:00 pm

    … I wonder how many hundred millions shall be arrested before Oblablama starts thinking maybe violent Islamism IS mainstream …

  2. Angemon says

    Aug 6, 2015 at 2:13 pm

    Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov said the people arrested included a Muslim cleric believed to be the group’s main organizer.

    Clearly, that cleric who dedicated his life to study islam somehow got the wrong idea. Isn’t that right, Mr. Cameron, Mr. Hussein, Mrs. Merkel? Let me guess: internet, disenfranchisement, poverty, etc.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 6, 2015 at 3:43 pm

      Most of them are ethnic Albanian Muslims or ethnic Turkish Muslims.

  3. ich says

    Aug 6, 2015 at 3:22 pm

    I am digging deep to try and understand how to blame myself for this.

    Its obvious we are all doing something to make them mad.

    Why are these clowns not labeled mass murderers.

    Enough with the Islamic BS.

    Muhammed was the worlds biggest all time idiot. End of story.

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Aug 6, 2015 at 6:22 pm

      Ich, I can save you some time. Quit digging. This is what you, me, and others who reject Islam are doing to incite murderous revenge: We are breathing.

  4. mortimer says

    Aug 6, 2015 at 3:41 pm

    The “peaceful teachings (of Islam) — the ones that are so blazingly obvious to non-Muslims like John Kerry and David Cameron”…do not exist.

    That’s why MULLAHS who spend their whole life studying Islam cannot find them…’peaceful jihad’ is an oxymoron.

    Jihad is war…jihad is deceit…jihad is supremacism…jihad is ethnic cleaning.

    Jihad is Mohammed’s method for imposing ISLAM on people who don’t want it.

    • RonaldB says

      Aug 7, 2015 at 9:37 am

      mortimer,

      Just be aware that violence is not the only danger of Islam.

      The Amadiyya sect of Muslims have their own interpretation of Islam, which is (kind of) non-violent, particularly when giving television interviews. I notice the Amadiyya spokesmen are getting more tv play these days, speaking about how un-Islamic the Islamic state is.

      The Amadiyyas have their own way of interpreting the Koran and Hadith. Basically, there is no abrogation, everything in the Koran can be interpreted as to the specific circumstance as described in the Hadith, and they can pick and choose among the Hadith.

      While the Amaddiyas are not perpetrators, they are definitely enablers. By putting out the fiction that Islam is non-violent, they try to quash discussion of the actual nature of Islam…and they claim to support freedom of speech while they’re doing so. They label any attempt to limit Muslim immigration (not that you’ll find any such proposal in mainstream discourse) as “islamophobic”.

      Islam is infinitely adaptable, like the HIV virus, and if the pressure becomes great enough, will morph into a “nonviolent” interpretation, at least until their numbers become great enough to politically support suppression of criticism, as is happening in England, Austria, France, etc.

  5. dumbledoresarmy says

    Aug 7, 2015 at 3:55 am

    Muslim cleric = Jihad Gang Boss.

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