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Ramadan in Mecca: Jihad bomber blows himself up near Grand Mosque

Jun 24, 2017 4:21 pm By Robert Spencer

Why a bombing in Mecca? Because the bomber didn’t think the Saudi regime sufficiently Islamic, or Islamic in the correct way, and thus subject to Islam’s death penalty for such infractions.

“Suicide bomber blows himself up as Saudis foil Mecca plot,” by Abdullah al-Shihri and Jon Gambrell, Associated Press, June 24, 2017:

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) – A suicide bomber blew himself up near the Grand Mosque in Mecca as police disrupted a plot to target the holiest site in Islam just as the fasting month of Ramadan ends, Saudi security forces said Saturday.

The Interior Ministry said it launched a raid around Jiddah, as well as two areas in Mecca itself, including the Ajyad Al-Masafi neighborhood, located near the Grand Mosque.

There, police said they engaged in a shootout at a three-story house with a suicide bomber, who blew himself up and caused the building to collapse. He was killed, while the blast wounded six foreigners and five members of security forces, according to the Interior Ministry’s statement. Five others were arrested, including a woman, it said.

Saudi state television aired footage after the raid Friday near the Grand Mosque, showing police and rescue personnel running through the neighborhood’s narrow streets. The blast demolished the building, its walls crushing a parked car. Nearby structures appeared to be peppered with shrapnel and bullet holes.

The Interior Ministry said the thwarted “terrorist plan” would have violated “all sanctities by targeting the security of the Grand Mosque, the holiest place on Earth.”

“They obeyed their evil and corrupt self-serving schemes managed from abroad whose aim is to destabilize the security and stability of this blessed country,” it said.

The ministry did not name the group involved in the attack. The ultraconservative Sunni kingdom battled an al-Qaida insurgency for years and more recently has faced attacks from a local branch of the Islamic State group. Neither group immediately claimed involvement, though IS sympathizers online have urged more attacks as an offensive in Iraq slowly squeezes the extremists out of Mosul and their de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria comes under daily bombing from a U.S.-led coalition.

The disrupted attack comes at a sensitive time in Saudi Arabia. King Salman earlier this week short-circuited the kingdom’s succession by making his son, Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman, first in line to the throne.

The newly appointed 31-year-old crown prince is the architect of Saudi Arabia’s stalemated war in Yemen against Shiite rebels. He has also offered aggressive comments about the kingdom confronting Shiite power Iran.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned the Mecca plot and said it remains willing to work with other countries in confronting terrorism….

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  1. Terry says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 4:41 pm

    Regardless of Iran’s statement-last two lines–I THINK IT WAS IRANIAN PEOPLE OR PUPPET(S).

    The Saudis (and some other Sunni states ) are making more and more contacts and (unofficial) deals with Israel. This has got to be pissing off the Iranians. (It was either Honest Reporting in one of their subgroups-__what I am reading, or Jewish World Review, this week,. An excellent analysis of the Middle East, by a writer who has lived there.).

    And, if Iran is against terrorism, why are they arming Hezbollah and making nice with Hamas? They are terrorist groups- even if Obama doesn’t and didn’t think so,

  2. SAM says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 4:43 pm

    Saudis and Iran are facing “terrorism”. I hope they have more and more of these evil acts they have been financing for decades against us.

    • john spielman says

      Jun 24, 2017 at 7:17 pm

      yes I hope they destroy the lair of the islamofascist beast

  3. DFD says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 4:48 pm

    Hah, ha, ha! Harharhar!!! Har-de-harhar!!!
    ================================

    “…said it remains willing to work with other countries in confronting terrorism….”

    Whose, and which one, and were?

  4. ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 5:04 pm

    Mr Spencer, you are very wrong.isis as jewish death squad is now openly attacking islam ,not saudi royal family who are jews themselves.

    • Oliver says

      Jun 24, 2017 at 5:35 pm

      ISIS is not mentioned-except to say that they did not claim credit.

      NEXT- YOU ARE OFF THE WALL OR DELUSIONAL.. OR BOTH

    • john spielman says

      Jun 24, 2017 at 7:19 pm

      so the Jew are ISIS are they ? – looks like so one has had too much TAQIYYA! to drink

    • Godwin says

      Jun 24, 2017 at 9:12 pm

      When your ideology teaches your people to kill n kill n kill, they are coming back to kill you too.

    • don vito says

      Jun 24, 2017 at 10:50 pm

      You should stop studying islam texts, the texts are “madding”, which shows in what you post. Beware the texts, just a warning from a kufr.

    • TheBuffster says

      Jun 24, 2017 at 11:17 pm

      Ibrahim, in order to do the outrageously atrocious things that the Islamic State does, the people who do them have to be fanatically dedicated to an ideology or religion that has convinced them that such actions are righteous.

      Israel is a modern secular state. It is not full of religious fanatics who would be inspired to do gross atrocities or to blow themselves up for the glory of God or for Israel or for anything else. They have far more sophisticated and measured means to defend themselves against their Arab enemies.

      On the other hand, the Qur’an tells Muslims that the Jews are lowlife scum and the enemies of Muslims and that the Last Day won’t come until the Muslims kill the Jews.

      Jews don’t have holy texts that tell them that Arabs or Muslims are lowlife scum and that the Last Day won’t come until they kill the Muslims.

      It is ridiculous to think that Israel would stoop to such an insane and un-Jewish plot as to create a fake Islamic State that horrifically murders Christians,Yazidis, and any Muslims that resist them. We’re talking about a people who, when fighting back against the missiles Hamas was lobbing at them, sent warnings to the people in Gaza to get out of the way when they were going to send in retaliatory missiles. We’re talking about a people who treat injured Palestinians from Gaza in their hospitals.

      I’ve read the Qur’an and I know the official story of Muhammad’s life. ISIS has formed a caliphate and is waging war against those Muslims it considers to be hypocrites, as well as the unbelievers that it believes are ripe for conquest. This is not in contradiction to the Qur’an or the example of Muhammad, but in accord with it. The Islamic State is doing what its members believe Allah commands them to do.

      The Qur’an tells Muslims that when there is an opportunity to conquer the unbelievers, it is their Islamic duty to take advantage of that opportunity. They must not let it pass by. It tells them that they may not *want* to fight jihad, but that Allah knows best – jihad is good for them. It also says that Muslims who only accept the parts of the Qur’an that they like and who reject the parts they don’t like are “hypocrites”, and hypocrites deserve to be killed and will spend eternity in the worst part of hell.

      There is plenty of justification in the basic Islamic texts for fanatical Muslims to believe it is their duty to do what IS is doing.

      The idea that Israel is behind it is nuts.

      • Donald R Laster Jr says

        Jun 24, 2017 at 11:26 pm

        Or that the “saudi royal family who are jews themselves.”. Mohammad murdered the last Jews that were in Arabia in 632 or so. And Arabia has never really been prosperous since.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Jun 25, 2017 at 9:59 am

      Ibrahim the Idiot of Islam is back! Nice to hear from you again, O Blessed One… *PBUY
      Seriously, we all need a laugh in these serious times & you do a good job of it; those
      laughing loudest at you? THE JEWS!!

      [*Pig’s Blood Up Yours]

  5. utis says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 6:28 pm

    From Kabul to Istanbul, muslims killing muslims who aren’t “muslim” enough. Even if islam takes over the whole planet, there will never be peace. Because there is no peace in islam, only ostentatious virtue-signaling.

  6. Islam the religion of killers says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 6:28 pm

    This behaviour should be encouraged,,

    Suicide bombing in Mecca,,, I think you get 1000 paradise’s if you become a martyr in Mecca …

    this is very forward thinking

  7. Donald R Laster Jr says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 7:20 pm

    Normal behaviors for Islamics. They are following the teachings of Mohammad. He regularly killed those whom he did not believe were Islamics enough. Islamics has produced nothing but death and destruction since it was created by Mohammad and his lies about his god Hubal was rejected by most people who lived in Arabia.

  8. Paul N Silas says

    Jun 25, 2017 at 5:36 am

    Did this happen in Mecca, London, Paris, or Minneapolis? It’s hard keeping track of these actions by , the “Religion of Peace” (pieces)

    Read a horrible article on how ISIS gives young Jihadists (around 10 years old) cats and small dogs to torture and kill to “toughen them up”.

  9. FYI says

    Jun 25, 2017 at 8:40 am

    allah; I said slay the UN-believers,not the believers.What the hell is wrong with you?

    I thought I told my angel jibreel to emphasise that.
    where is he by the way?Promoting polygamy …AGAIN?

    jihadist:Oh….yeah…uhm…I realize that now..

  10. Musalmaanmasala says

    Jun 25, 2017 at 12:00 pm

    What goes around comes around.

  11. Joe says

    Jun 25, 2017 at 6:53 pm

    Where are the cries against Islamphobia? Why are May, Macron, and Merkel sitting this one out? They need to make sure that there is not a backlash against the terrorists.

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