Assassinating key non-Muslim leaders has for centuries been an important element of jihad activity, going all the way back to the Assassins, the mysterious Ismaili Shi’a sect that became renowned and feared for training up hardened cadres of killers by convincing them that they had entered Paradise (they were really high on hashish) and could enter it again if they killed their non-Muslim enemies. Read more about this notorious sect in my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS (click here to preorder).
“Maharashtra ATS nabs Pak-trained man planning to carry out assassinations,” PTI, May 13, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Officials said that the man, who was arrested by the anti-terror agency’s Juhu unit on May 11, had been to Pakistan, via Sharjah and Dubai, for training at a camp operated by a terror outfit.
Police said the accused got training in handling explosives, sophisticated firearms as well as suicide bombings at a Karachi-based camp run by a terror organisation.
“He was called to Pakistan by a person who is wanted in for terrorist activities in Mumbai. The arrested man first went to Sharjah to meet this wanted person where the latter provided him logistics support,” an official said.
“After spending some time in Sharjah, he was sent to Dubai and from there to Karachi. He then attended a training camp there run by a terror outfit,” the official said, adding that it has been learnt that this outfit had the backing of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
The official said the arrested man’s interrogation had revealed that he was part of a terror group that planned to carry out attacks on “public utilities” and crowded places.
“He has also revealed that assassinations of some important personalities of the city were also planned. Investigations are underway to find out more on all these aspects,” he said….
mortimer says
Pakistan is FUNDING, RECRUITING, PREPARING, TRAINING and DIRECTING ISLAMIC TERRORISTS? Huh? Our ally…Pakistan? I’m SHOCKED…SHOCKED.
(sarc/off)
It is well-known that Pakistan military intelligence were the ‘handlers’ of Al Qaeda and they directed their operations against the Soviets. When the Taliban took over Afghanistan and Al Qaeda was welcomed to establish training bases, Pakistan went along with it. Osama bin Laden lived in a highly secure safe house a few hundred yards and within Morse-code view of Pakistan’s military base at Abbottabad. It could not have been built without authorization from Pakistan’s ISIS which works there. The Pak army was supposedly CLEARED of officers who were too friendly with Al Qaeda, but that is far from the case, it would seem.
Jayell says
Having been founded by a criminal, islam is an inherently criminal ideology barely cloaked by a fraudulant religious façade. Ìt should therefore be hardly surprising that it not only motivates its followers into criminal activity but also corrupts entire countries and societies, including scurrilous cesspits like Pakistan. Quite why this country is regarded with any international respect at all defeats me.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “Quite why this country is regarded with any international respect at all defeats me.”
PST! It’s because they have nukes.
😉
Linda says
That must have been some really good hashish. Why is it that Muslims can do hashish and opium, but they aren’t allowed to drink alcohol? Anyway, I digress. Maybe it will take a few important people being assassinated to get government officials interested in jihad attacks. Attacks on the general population don’t seem to faze them.
Jayell says
Don’t drunken muslims justify their alcoholic lapses by claiming that ‘it’s OK because Allah’s asleep and can’t see them’? And in any case they don’t seem to see it as an issue until someone challenges them or they choose to make their self-righteous alcoholic abstinence an excuse to make pseudo-puritanical obstructive social prats of themselves. And that lot plus the apparent failure to recognise any parallel between alcohol and other narcotic drugs definitely puts a huge question mark over the intellectual integrity of islam and its followers.
Linda says
This all tells me it’s no wonder they don’t want Islam put into question or criticized because it falls apart on analysis.
peter says
With friends like BBC, India does not need enemies !
Cicero says
So true. BBC is infested with Muslims and Islamophiles.
Only news detrimental and derogatory is ever broadcast by them
Matthieu Baudin says
“… the Assassins, the mysterious Ismaili Shi’a sect that became renowned and feared for training up hardened cadres of killers by convincing them that they had entered Paradise (they were really high on hashish) and could enter it again if they killed their non-Muslim enemies…”
The hypnotic qualities of severe hashish intoxication allowed assassins to become putty in the hands of their trainers, ready to throw their lives away at a moments notice. The hashish curse still plays a role in fashioning the minds of Jihadi combatants though methamphetamine may be becoming the drug of choice.
Antonin Dlouhy says
Lack of understanding if hashish here, my friend. You have no idea of the patience, attention to detail and perfectionism available to the experienced hashish user. They didn’t need indoctrination, or anything “putty”-like: they were Moslems, doing the work of Allah. “Paradises” were, and are regular features of super-rich Moslem life. The assassins were just a bunch of pampered James Bonds, with all the jet-set status symbols, crumpet and – probably, if Persian poetry’s anything to go by – wine they needed to for R & R between hits.
As I’ve pointed out before, the jihadis preferred drug mix is meth/opium balls, usually slipped into the cheek or up the anus. Back in the day, we used them for getting through difficult mountain passes (4500 m plus). The world’s rosy, you’re chock full of energy and everything you do is so, so right. The O takes the edge off the meth and keeps you creative, the meth takes the dozy out of the O and makes you right.
A variation on that theme killed John Belushi and probably Lowell George too. I miss them more than the whole Moslem gang.
I’ll address the whole Moslem/alcohol thing when I have more time. It’s more subtle than it appears at first sight.
Chand says
These Pakistani Jihadis are Sunnis. They also frequently target Shias. The words about the Ismaili Shias and hash smoking is actually irrelevant here although these Sunnis might also be smoking some Kashmiri Manali hashish. Who knows?
gravenimage says
Both Sunnis and Shia wage violent Jihad, as the mendacious Chand knows.
Twerzig says
Pot is good and so are magic mushrooms. I say flood these places with LSD and MDMA.
gravenimage says
This will not improve Muslims.
UNCLE VLADDI says
The modern leader of the ismaeli Assassin’s sect is the Aga Khan, a descendant of Hasan “the Assassin” al-Sabah, and who is a major patron of Justin Turdeau’s.
Linda says
The Aga Khan lobbies the Canadian government for grants for his Islamic projects. When Trudeau got into hot water over his family spending a Christmas vacation on the Aga Khan’s private island, the ethics commissioner said Trudeau was in a conflict of interest because he was NOT an old family friend of the Aga Khan, (as Trudeau had tried to claim), and therefore, should not have accepted the holiday facilities.
gravenimage says
India: Muslim arrested, trained for jihad in Pakistan, planned to assassinate important figures
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Mainstream Islam.
Glad they were caught.