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Raymond Ibrahim: An Islamic Apocalypse in Brussels

Mar 23, 2016 8:13 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Brussels memorial

Islamic jihad struck Brussels yesterday morning—first at Brussels Airport and then at a metro station 400 meters from EU headquarters—leaving at least 34 people dead and 230 injured.

It was an apocalyptic scene according to survivors, “with blood and dismembered bodies everywhere,” even “thrown in to the air.”  One man recalled the “horror. I saw at least seven people dead. There was blood. People had lost legs. You could see their bodies but no legs.”

Witnesses heard the attackers yelling in Arabic moments before the bombs—one of which contained nails—detonated.  Other jihadi trademarks—including an unexploded suicide vest and a Kalashnikov rifle beside the body of a slain terrorist—were found.  Islam’s ancient war tactic of blending in with non-Muslims was also implemented.

Horrific as the attack is, its inspiration and Western responses to it are all too typical—meaning, as I opined last year after the Paris massacre, “many more such attacks and worse will continue.  Count on it.”

First, as happened on 9/11, Muslims around the world—those unnamed millions the media refer to as “ISIS supporters”—celebrated, including by once again handing out candy and shouting Islam’s victory war cry, “Allahu Akbar.” Yes, that ancient Islamic hate was back in the air and rampant on social media.  “We are not just clapping, but we are happy again. We are smiling, we are laughing and we are joyful like it’s a day of celebration,” tweeted one ISIS sympathizer.  Another wrote: “#Brussels, if you continue your war against the religion of Allah then this is our response.”  Another wrote: “What a beautiful day today.  F*** Belgium.” Yet another wrote, “A lot of duas [Muslim prayers] were answered today.”

Still, most Muslim sympathizers were quick to portray their bloodlust as a product of grievances against the West: “the most common remark under the hashtag was ‘You declared war against us and bombed us, and we attack you inside your homeland.’ Another popular reaction from ISIS supports on Twitter was that the Brussels attacks were intended to avenge the Muslims’ blood that was spilled in Mosul in a series of airstrikes by the Western coalition over the weekend.”

Meanwhile, and as usual, in its communiques to fellow Muslims, ISIS articulated the attack through a distinctly Islamic paradigm.  It even signaled the attack with the words, “We have come to you with slaughter”—an assertion based on the Muslim prophet Muhammad’s words to a non-Muslim tribe that refused to submit to Islam: “I have come to you with slaughter.”

If this assertion is not clear enough concerning the intent and mission of Muhammad—and those who seek to follow him—another canonical assertion attributed to him and regularly quoted by jihadis, including over a decade ago in the opening paragraph of al-Qaeda’s “Declaration of War against Americans,” has the prophet saying:

I have been sent with the sword between my hands to ensure that no one but Allah is worshipped—Allah who put my livelihood under the shadow of my spear and who inflicts humiliation and scorn on those who disobey my commandments (The Al Qaeda Reader, p.12).

Unfortunately, this one aspect—that Islamic scripture clearly, plainly, and unequivocally promotes violence against all who refuse to submit to Allah—is the very same aspect most vehemently denied by Western elites.   Already, as always happens after an Islamic terror attack in the West, the talking heads are warning against “rampant Islamophobia” and a backlash against Muslims.  Media are hosting professional liars, like Ramadan Foundation’s Muhammad Shafiq, who insists that “terrorism is forbidden in Islam” (even though the Koran calls on Muslims to terrorize those who resist Islam, e.g., 3:151 and 8:12)… Keep reading

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  1. Angemon says

    Mar 23, 2016 at 8:32 am

    Another popular reaction from ISIS supports on Twitter was that the Brussels attacks were intended to avenge the Muslims’ blood that was spilled in Mosul in a series of airstrikes by the Western coalition over the weekend.”

    Belgium left said coalition 8 months ago so they can take that excuse and shove it. And any country who left the coalition, is thinking about leaving the coalition, or has not joined the coalition should assume they’re halal targets all the same.

    • Shane says

      Mar 23, 2016 at 3:59 pm

      Of course, Obama responds by telling us how many Muslims are being killed by ISIS. What a db? What does that have to do with Islamic terrorism? Obama is clueless, and ISIS will continue to grow stronger unless we elect Cruz or Trump!

      • boakai ngombu says

        Mar 23, 2016 at 5:47 pm

        POTUS is deflecting attention away from nonmuslim casualties so that ISIS will continue to grow stronger.

  2. Plamen says

    Mar 23, 2016 at 8:57 am

    Ahmad Shah Massoud, 2001 (soon to be killed by O.b.Laden) ‘execut/ive/ors’), to Europe and US:
    “This is a first stage of a long-term, beyond-region ambition”.

  3. fernando says

    Mar 23, 2016 at 9:48 am

    Again and again the veil of political correctness prevent europeans to see the obvious truth.More islam=more terrorism.The core teachings of Koran and Hadith are not examined or cuestioned because they were taught to belive all cultures are equal and all religion share the same values.I watch the news and the debates and even the so called “experts” stumble in the same mistakes and perceptions.It seems as if Europe was doomed.I hope America learn from our fall.

  4. Nuri bin Daud says

    Mar 23, 2016 at 11:54 am

    Islamophobia is the irrational fear by non-Muslims that Muslims will continue their terror attacks against them which Muslims have carried out, unceasingly against them for the last fourteen hundred years in pursuit of the Islamic genocidal agenda against all non-Muslims.

  5. Custos Custodum says

    Mar 23, 2016 at 4:29 pm

    Witnesses heard the attackers yelling in Arabic moments before the bombs …

    Another lie by omission – how did the witnesses know that the language was Arabic?

    Most likely, the witnesses understood and remembered the actual words screamed – “Allahu Akbar” – “Allah is greater/greatest”, but the media declined to include this unimportant detail.

  6. jewdog says

    Mar 23, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    Christians have been soundly defeated and routed by Muslims in many countries over the centuries. Now, they are advancing into Europe. I’m pessimistic about the future.

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