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South Africa: Sunni Muslims stab Shi’ites at mosque, attack has “hallmarks of Islamic State”

May 13, 2018 7:26 pm By Robert Spencer

From the international attention that is given to “Islamophobia,” one might have thought this attack was perpetrated by “Islamophobes.” But in reality, it is the Sunni/Shi’ite jihad transplanted to South Africa.

“The assailants killed one man by slitting his throat…”

“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)

“Deadly attack on South African mosque has ‘hallmarks of Islamic State,'” Agence France-Presse, May 11, 2018:

South African police searching for three men who stabbed worshippers at a mosque near Durban have said the attackers’ motive was unknown but “elements of extremism” were involved.

One Muslim leader said the mosque was targeted because it was a Shia place of worship that had received previous threats, exposing deep tension between the Shia and Sunni population.

The assailants killed one man by slitting his throat and critically injured two others after midday prayers on Thursday at the mosque in Verulam, a town on the outskirts of Durban.

“There are elements of extremism,” said Simphiwe Mhlongo, a spokesman for the Hawks police unit. “It shows hatred towards the worshippers.”

A local Islamic leader, Aftab Haider, said Shias in South Africa had been subjected to a prolonged hate campaign. He said the attack may be connected to the Sunni extremist group Islamic State.

“There has been a huge organised hate campaign in different mosques, radio stations and on social media against the Shia community. There have been threats at this mosque before, but not in the weeks leading up to this incident,” Haider said.

“It has all the hallmarks of the Isis style of operations in Iraq and Syria.”

The assailants, who also set off a petrol bomb inside the mosque, escaped in a car. Emergency services found the victims lying in the forecourt.

“These people were not robbers. They did not want phones, they did not want laptops or money,” said Ali Nchinyane, who was stabbed in the abdomen. “They came to the gate saying they want to perform prayers. They prayed and afterwards they wanted to kill.

“One of the suspects told me: ‘I will kill you’. If I did not fight, I would have been dead,” Nchinyane added, saying he used a martial arts weapon to defend himself….

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  1. Prodi101 says

    May 13, 2018 at 8:34 pm

    They are everywhere.

  2. melek-ric says

    May 13, 2018 at 9:45 pm

    “If I did not fight, I would have been dead,” Nchinyane added, saying he used a martial arts weapon to defend himself….

    Here in Canada, if I were found in possession of any martial arts weapon I’d be arrested and prosecuted. So, in Mr. Nchinyane’s situation…I’d be dead.

    Thanks, Canadian government.

  3. jayell says

    May 14, 2018 at 3:24 am

    The Religion of Peace (so-called). Let’s admit that some of us of a ‘christian’ persuasion have occasionally got up to this sort of thing in isolated periods in history, but that’s when politics corrupted the scene and it’s clearly against the rule-book. The news media aren’t exactly awash with stories of one lot of Christians routinely murdering another lot, and I believe the same is true of Jews, Buddhists……etc. Not so our muslim friends, who seem to have been at it regularly over the best part of 1,400 years, because i’s very much IN their rule-book. Politics, internal and external, has always reigned supreme in islam, because because that’s why islam was invented in the first place (Dark Age tribal politics, that is, of the Al Capone variety).

    • WPM says

      May 14, 2018 at 5:25 am

      Al Capone murdered for profit these Islamics kill each other for the joy of it. Ever day they wake up who should I hate today.

      • Rarely says

        May 14, 2018 at 11:39 am

        The Mafia and islam have one major similarity: “if you leave…you die.”

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 18, 2018 at 4:56 am

          The Mafia developed in Islamic-occupied Sicily.

  4. Infidel says

    May 14, 2018 at 5:42 am

    Just heard that there has been a second wave of suicide attacks in Indonesia by peaceful people..VOW!! their thirst for blood and gore seems endless.

  5. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    May 14, 2018 at 8:10 am

    mr spencer, Quran 47:4 has relevance to sliting of shia throat by evil zionist IsIs in south Africa. The verse is describing confrontation between muslim forces and that of enemy unbelievers where muslims could strike them even on the neck to subdue them. It states that muslims shall catch enemy unbelievers and slit their throats, what more of sliting the throats of shia who are Muslims ?It shows that mr spencer is not a scholar

    • Rarely says

      May 14, 2018 at 11:40 am

      After all Jews are sunnis??????
      Do you ever make any sense?

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 18, 2018 at 4:59 am

      Slitting the throats of either Infidels or Muslims considered insufficiently Islamic and hence to be treated as Infidels is orthodox Islam.

      Not, this isn’t something that civilized Kufar do.

  6. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    May 14, 2018 at 8:12 am

    i mean has no relevance to sliting of shia throat by evil zionist IsIs

    • Rarely says

      May 14, 2018 at 11:50 am

      Isis is pro-Israel? In your twisted mind it must be so since Isis causes trouble in the muslim world. Mossad MUST be behind it. Just like the Mossad trained the sharks to attack tourists in Egyptian seaside resorts. Just like Israel exported blue jeans to Egypt that were doused with chemicals to make the men impotent.
      Don’t you have a brain of any sort?

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 18, 2018 at 5:00 am

      There is nothing so Islamic as the Islamic State. Ibrahim itace muhammed pretending they are “zionists” is utterly ludicrous.

  7. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    May 14, 2018 at 10:58 am

    Jay Boo, who and who among muslims that prophet muhammad ordered to be kiłled apart from punishment for capital offences under sharia. can you consider a person tried and convicted to be murdered? you must be ignorant liar

    • Rarely says

      May 14, 2018 at 11:43 am

      I guess it must be a capital offence under sharia to be a moslem of the wrong variety. It’s got my vote. Keep up the good work.

      • Malcolm (South Afric) says

        May 14, 2018 at 12:22 pm

        He himself beheaded 800 Jewish men and boys, (Abu Dawud 4390) ordered the murder of women (Ibn Ishaq 819, 995) and killed those who insulted him. – (Bukhari 56:369, 4:241)He encouraged his men to rape enslaved women, (Abu Dawood 2150, Quran 4:24), he put apostates to death, plundered and lived off the wealth of others, captured and enslaved non-Muslim people.

        In the first 240 years, 11 of the first 32 caliphs were murdered by fellow Muslims.We witness daily religious violence against Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Christians. The converts to Christianity are beheaded.

        • Rarely says

          May 14, 2018 at 12:52 pm

          At least they are consistent. They hate EVERYBODY.

        • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

          May 14, 2018 at 12:58 pm

          malcolm, the evil Jews then were tried and convicted for treachery in breach of treaty of togetherness they signed and the tribunal that convicted them was presided over by an impartial non muslim, not prophet muhammad himself. It was the tribunal that ordered thém to be beheaded according to Torah,not prophet muhammad according to Quran. check history.

        • Malcolm (South Afric) says

          May 14, 2018 at 1:13 pm

          Ibrahim check your own history which was just given to you. The above are not my source but Muslim.

          My religion does not care about yours and we have no need to prove your violence. Muslim actions are self evident, all we have to do is quote muslims.

          I worry about you Ibrahim as you seem ready to convert to christianity, be careful your family or fellow muslims will sort you out.

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 18, 2018 at 5:02 am

          Ibrahim itace muhammed is saying that as long as the “filthy Infidels” are tried by pious Jihadists under Shari’ah law that raping, enslaving, and mass murdering them is just fine.

          This is what he wants to do to all of us.

      • Malcolm (South Afric) says

        May 14, 2018 at 1:00 pm

        @Rarely

        Ha “They hate EVERYBODY.” No doubt about that, even themselves.

  8. henrik jensen says

    May 14, 2018 at 1:00 pm

    vertical terror ideology logic.

  9. Politicianophobia says

    May 14, 2018 at 7:09 pm

    Just more manic, Muslims.

  10. Troybeam says

    May 14, 2018 at 9:12 pm

    “the Sunni/Shi’ite jihad” The battle between these ideas about Islam is old as time, they will battle in every nation they travel bringing their warfare with them. This is another reason why Islam should be left in the middle east or wiped out, they fight among themselves and kill others when not engaged with each other.

  11. gravenimage says

    Jul 18, 2018 at 4:55 am

    South Africa: Sunni Muslims stab Shi’ites at mosque, attack has “hallmarks of Islamic State”
    ……………..

    More Muslim on Muslim savagery.

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