Barack Obama told us repeatedly while he was in office that al-Qaeda was “decimated” and “on the path to defeat.”
“Al-Qaeda getting more active in Indian subcontinent: US experts,” Kashmir Observer, July 15, 2017:
Washington—Al Qaeda is getting more active in the Indian subcontinent and by 2017, it boasted several hundred members, with its cells mostly in Afghanistan and its operatives flourishing in Bangladesh, counter-terrorism experts have told the US lawmakers.
“By 2017, Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent boasted several hundred members and had cells in Afghanistan’s Helmand, Kandahar, Zabul, Paktika, Ghazni, and Nuristan Provinces. Al Qaeda’s presence in Afghanistan was almost certainly larger and more expansive than five or even ten years ago,” said Seth G Jones, a strategic expert.
He was speaking during his Congressional testimony before US’ House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence yesterday.
This expansion, Mr Jones said, may have been partly due to Taliban advances in Afghanistan and Al Qaeda’s relationship with operatives from the Taliban and other groups, such as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and Lashkar-e Jhangvi. “Al Qaeda operatives in Bangladesh were particularly active, conducting a range of attacks. In addition, Al Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent conducted a steady propaganda campaign from its media arm As-Sahab,” he said.
In September 2014, Al Qaeda terrorist leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had announced the creation of regional affiliate Al Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent, taking advantage of sanctuaries in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. “A new branch of Al Qaeda was established — Qaeda al-Jihad in the Indian subcontinent, seeking to raise the flag of jihad,…and return the Islamic rule across the Indian subcontinent,” al-Zawahiri had said.
The group was led by Asim Umar — a former member of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami — a Pakistan-based terrorist group with branches across the Indian subcontinent. Umar was flanked by Abu Zar, his first deputy….
Irene Brekelmans says
In every picture muslims always hide their faces , women do to but not all of them from free will.
But if you are so sure of your Allah course, why should you have to hide, then be a man and fight openly.
This is never going to be allright, never. Not in the next 1400 years, not ever. We can not ever believe you. And the leftists still think they can avoid and escape beheading, stoning, killing ,flogging, raping, because you were so nice to them? You will see something I can assure you and your governments too.
Be proud of yourselves !!!
Saleem Smith says
Al-Qaeda and ISIS and the many other Salifist groups are eager to establish and enforce Sharia/Islamic rule. These devout Muslims following Islam’s canonical texts (the Quran, hadith and Sira) to the letter are happily killing non-Muslims and “insufficiently Islamic Muslims” across the entire globe today.
They want accommodations for Islamic practice and desire Islamic rule in the West as well. If they can Islamize the world they believe that they will acquire more virgins and other goodies in Islamic Paradise when they die. They are brainwashed fools believing a lie but if you say this to their faces will happily kill you.
We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that Mohammedanism is a terribly dangerous and harmful fraud.
But the Muslim apologists and the media tell us that Jihad and Sharia are warm and fuzzy things that are no cause for concern! They can try to sugarcoat Islam all they want but you simply cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Jihad explained:
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Lesser_vs_Greater_Jihad
Islam is no “religion of peace.” Islam is primarily a religion of “injustice, intolerance, hatred, and violence.” The fact is, if we non-Muslims were to say about Muslims what the Qur’an says about us, we would be arrested for hate speech. The Qur’an largely preaches discrimination, death, and imposition of its dogma on everyone. Certainly some Muslims will be offended by such statements, but frankly, so what? Judaism and Christianity, the world’s two other major monotheistic religions, have had to face the harshest of scrutiny and criticism for several hundred years which continues to this day. Islam must not be granted any special privileges or be exempt from such treatment – the implications are of tremendous importance.
Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:
“One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…
The statement continues,
Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”
TheBuffster says
What an excellent post, Saleem! Well said!
Will Doohan says
I’ve read this oost before. It’s good information and It’s good that you repost it occasionally Saleem. Two things I wiuld change though are the Hitler Saddam Stalin to Hitler, Stalin and Mao Tse Tung; and narcissist to sociopath.
gravenimage says
Al-Qaeda getting more active on the Indian subcontintent
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Because India hasn’t suffered enough at the hands of Muslim barbarians…
More:
Barack Obama told us repeatedly while he was in office that al-Qaeda was “decimated” and “on the path to defeat.”
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Funny how they now appear to be resurgent almost everywhere…
Chand says
What is the point in cursing the Koran and Mohammad now? He was an Arab camel raider during brutal times in the desert, waging a war and this book was written then, fourteen centuries ago. How is it relevant now for anything?
My point is that the Koran must not be taught as doctrine, especially to children as they are being brainwashed into hating the ‘infidels’ all their lives. Adults may read or study it if they wish as a piece of world literature, religious history, Arab studies, etc.
How will it be attained? Only banning the Koran will not work as it will immediately feed into the self fulfilling prophecy that is this book: “We are being attacked as we are the True Believers in the One God, blah, blah.”
All organized religions have to be sacrificed in order to stop this vicious Jihadism from spreading. All religious books have to be banned. All religions are pious myths and useless today, only dividing humans.
But who will do this? It was tried by the brutal, atheistic, Marxist dictators beginning with Lenin, Stalin and Mao. They defrocked priests, stopped all public teaching of religious texts, banned all religious evangelical activities and aggressively promoted the arts and sports as an alternative to the so called ‘benefits’ of religion. Islam was tamed in their lands and the Koran was just another pretty decoration on the shelf.
But the general opposition to Commuism/Socialism and the ensuing Cold War branded them as being ‘godless atheists’ and opposed. Muslim dictators who tried to be secular and tried to suppress Islamism were branded ‘puppets of the USSR’, e.g. Abdul Nasser, Hafez Assad, Saddam Hussein, Gadaffi and were actively opposed and vilified.
Huge material support were provided to the Jihadis in Afghanistan to overthrow the atheist puppet regime that fought against the Islamists there. Neighbouring Paksitan could have been cleansed of radical Islam too had the atheists succeeded in Afghanistan. It was not to be. The ‘enlightened, liberal, democratic West’ found atheistic Marxism, that believed in scientific materialism, to be a greater threat that Islamic fundamentalism.
So now godless Communism is dead but Jihadism has been let loose.
The first step now is to stop the aggressive promotion of Sunni Wahhabi Salafism from Saudi Arabia as the only ‘true’ Islam all over the world. There is no ‘true’ Islam and it has many varieties and local textures. But even this is proving difficult as the Saudis are rich.
gravenimage says
Chand wrote:
All organized religions have to be sacrificed in order to stop this vicious Jihadism from spreading. All religious books have to be banned. All religions are pious myths and useless today, only dividing humans.
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Ah, yes–you see a chance to destroy all religion. If we are concerned are about Islam, that means that–for some reason–all good and decent faiths must be destroyed.
Never mind the good that they have done–including fighting against Islam. In fact, you would not be free to speak here were it not for the brave Christians who fought back against Islam for centuries in Europe.
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But who will do this? It was tried by the brutal, atheistic, Marxist dictators beginning with Lenin, Stalin and Mao….But the general opposition to Commuism/Socialism and the ensuing Cold War branded them as being ‘godless atheists’ and opposed.
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How *dare* anyone have opposed the oppression and murder of Communism? Bad running dog capitalists…
Some of us actually value freedom, and reject Islam, Communism, and Fascism.
Chand says
gravenimage says:
“In fact, you would not be free to speak here were it not for the brave Christians who fought back against Islam for centuries in Europe.”
I am able to speak here not because of a charitable gift by ‘brave Christians’ to the world. This freedom had to be won after a long and sustained struggle by many forces and organizations over time. Christian religious dogma had to be eroded in the public sphere through the humanistic revolutions by the great scientists, thinkers, authors, leaders, allowing reason, rationality, democracy and logic to win. Enlightenment through science is the basis of our current freedoms, not a gift from Christianity.
Now this struggle to defeat religious dogma with the tools of science, education and technology is in progress in the ‘Muslim’ world and it will prevail there eventually too. I hope……………
mortimer says
If 1% of Muslims join terror groups, that would mean there would be over 10 million jihadists in the world.
If one tenth of one percent of Muslims join terror groups, it would mean there would be over one million Islamic terrorists.
One million terrorists is a big problem. There are not enough police to watch them all 24/7 in all countries.
There are currently about 4.5 terror attacks every day of the year.
The only way to stop this terror surge is to deprogram the jihadists right out of Islam.
Message to LEGISLATORS, INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, LAWYERS, JUDGES and POLICE:
“IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID!”
Donald R Laster Jr says
One thing people need to understand is that Al-Qaeda is simply Islamics following the instructions in the Qur’an to impose Shar’iah law and the rule of Islam on the world. All Islamics are doing this. Some use the “peaceful” methods until they have enough people to switch to intimidation and violence. If India’s people do not wake up and fight these invaders they will suffer a repeat of the what was done to this in the 1000 to 1100 time frame. Europe is dealing with a similar issue. Don’t fall for the “some are peaceful, some are not trap”. Islam allows deception of all sorts of types to be used.