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Pakistan: Muslims told “the time for jihad has come,” they go to India and murder 164 people

Nov 23, 2018 12:16 pm By Robert Spencer

On November 26, 2008, Ajmal Kasab and his fellow jihadis murdered 164 people and wounded 308 in Mumbai, India. Somehow they didn’t understand the phrase “the time for jihad has come” as meaning that it was time to go to the gym or drop the kids off at school. Ibrahim Hooper, call your office!

“The time for jihad has come’: What 26/11 attacker Ajmal Kasab said in his testimony,” Hindustan Times, November 23, 2018:

“I studied up to fourth standard at a Government Primary School. After leaving school in 2000, I went to Lahore and stayed with my brother Afzal. I did menial jobs at different places till 2005. During that period, I used to visit my native place. In 2005, I had a quarrel with my father and left home.

I went to a home in Lahore where run-away boys like me are housed. From there, the boys are sent to different places for employment. One day, a person named Shafiq came there and took me with him. He was in the catering business and I started working with him for ₹120 per day. While I was working with Shafiq, I came in contact with Muzaffar Lal Khan. We decided to carry out dacoities to earn more money and so moved to Rawalpindi.

My journey into jihad started soon after.

While we were in search of firearms, we saw some Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) stalls at Rawalpindi’s Raja Bazaar on Eid al-Adha. We thought, why not join them and learn how to operate guns….

I first met the Lashkar’s Amir, Hafiz Saeed, at Muridke while I was undergoing the 21-day Daura-e-Sufa (preliminary training) between December 2007 and January 2008. A batch of 30 recruits was explained the meaning of jihad. The batch was introduced to Hafiz Saeed and the operation commander, Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi. Saeed addressed the batch, saying, “You mujahedeen have to fight to liberate Kashmir,’’ and Lakhvi said, “Ab jihad ka waqt aa gaya hai (the time for jihad has come). We now have to wage a war to get Kashmir. Are all of you ready for this battle? We are planning to target big cities to weaken India.”…

Hafiz Saeed chose the final 10 who were sent via sea to Mumbai. He also gave us new names. I was named Abu Mujahid. We then came back to Muridke for Daura-e-Ribat (intelligence training) in August 2008. The Major General visited the group again to motivate us and asked me if I knew how to swim….

The group was then introduced to Zarar Shah, the computer and media expert. Soon after, Saeed broke the group of 10 up into five pairs and said, “We now have to hijack an Indian boat to go from Karachi to Mumbai. A lot of foreign tourists come there and they have to be targeted and killed to embarrass Hindustan.”…

Finally, we were asked to shave our beards. Mobile phones with Indian SIM cards and watches set to Indian time were given to us and we were also asked to tie a red thread around our wrists, so as to pass off as Hindus. The group was ready to set sail for Mumbai.

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  1. cyrus says

    Nov 23, 2018 at 12:23 pm

    the 1000 child’s of beslan school. do you
    remember?

    • Guy Forester says

      Nov 23, 2018 at 1:30 pm

      I live too close to too many schools to forget. Unfortunately, the gun free zone idiocy, failure to provide armed security, and the open borders leave us vulnerable.

      Phil Haney: If you are following these posts, can you give us your opinion and recommendations based upon your experiences and studies?

      • PissedOffVeteran says

        Nov 24, 2018 at 1:35 am

        Gun free zones are a thing set up by Democrats. I call them “FREE KILL ZONES!’
        This bill was introduced by Joe Biden, it’s purpose is to attract idiots to create the hell
        that they have done so well at.
        Democrats are in agreement with Vladimir Lennon that you should never let a crisis go to
        waste.
        Democrats have upped that by setting up Free Kill Zones to create a crisis to use toward
        their agenda to disarm the citizens.
        If they succeed in disarming citizens then its over. They will murder their way to absolute power just like Russia, China, Cuba, Cambodia and others have done.
        We will become a hell to live in.
        The Democrats are the number one Domestic Enemy of the state. We must treat them as such.

  2. Angemon says

    Nov 23, 2018 at 12:25 pm

    “Has come”? No, it came 14 centuries ago – more like “resumed”…

  3. mortimer says

    Nov 23, 2018 at 1:34 pm

    The true meaning of “JIHAD” seems to be ‘floral arranging’ … however, the Islamic version of ‘floral arranging’ includes airplanes flown into buildings, box cutters, knives, handguns, car and truck rammings, rifles, bombs and rape of kafir women. Muslims are motivated by the ESSENTIAL TEACHING called AL WALAA WAL BARAA.

    Anyone who has not STUDIED Al Walaa wal Baraa cannot understand the MOTIVATION of all Muslims … namely the hatred they are required to direct against DIRTY KAFIRS ‘for the sake of Allah’.

  4. SB says

    Nov 23, 2018 at 1:34 pm

    If I were president of the USA, I would annihilate mecca.

    • PissedOffVeteran says

      Nov 24, 2018 at 1:38 am

      Let’s see now. They attacked us on 911 so was that like in emergency or a date.
      If a date then lets do what you are talking about on a certian date. You have any idea what date?
      I sure do.
      But I also think that might be a little drastic.

  5. SB says

    Nov 23, 2018 at 1:50 pm

    If I were president of the USA, I would annihilate mecca.
    Disclaimer: This thought is of my own accord. In no way did jihad watch influence me.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 23, 2018 at 11:02 pm

      Many people assume that Islam would end if Mecca were nuked–but I don’t think there is any reason to believe this would be the case.

      • PissedOffVeteran says

        Nov 24, 2018 at 1:40 am

        It would just drive them more to do their evil.
        Did 911 make the USA go away. MMMMM nope.

  6. D J says

    Nov 23, 2018 at 2:05 pm

    Andreas Liveras, a friend of mine, was murdered that day.
    I was on a Tube in London on 7.7.05 but was lucky to be away from the bombs.
    The waiter who served me at Borough Market in 2017 was stabbed to death by a Muslim terrorist 3 days later.
    A colleague taught me how to remove metal fragments from an eye after his experience of the Manchester Arena bombs.
    For my responses to all of this I am considered ‘Far Right’.
    As the poem says: Beware the wrath of the Awakened Saxon.
    I, an many like me are awake.
    Thank you Robert for all that you do.

    • Guy Forester says

      Nov 23, 2018 at 8:28 pm

      The San Bernardino massacre occurred about 2 miles from where I used to work, and the police annihilated them about a quarter mile from where I used to live. Fortunately no one that I knew or worked with was a victim of that terrible event. I am sorry for your losses. It is one thing when people we know or are related to die unexpectedly from a traffic collision. It is an entirely different thing when they are deliberately murdered for merely being someplace where some terrorist decided to do his or her evil deeds.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 23, 2018 at 11:05 pm

      Terrible, D J. I am shocked that I have lost three people I knew to Jihad–and I don’t even live in a place with a particularly large Muslim population.

    • somehistory says

      Nov 23, 2018 at 11:41 pm

      I’m sorry.
      This is all the stuff of nightmares and no one knows who will be next to lose someone.
      It is said that what doesn’t kill, makes one stronger. But it can be quite difficult to see that when it is happening to you.

      As far as I know, I have not lost a loved one, a friend or even an acquaintance in this manner. (A friend was murdered during a robbery, but it wasn’t jihad.) However, I become angrier with each attack on others, strangers though these may be and I’m sorry for the victims and their families and friends.
      I pray daily for our God to bring an end to it, as soon as He wills.

  7. somehistory says

    Nov 23, 2018 at 4:20 pm

    Contrast this with the account of a young missionary, John Chau, who decided to go to an island off the coast of India, to preach to the natives, and was shot with an arrow. He had tried on a previous occasion, and had heard enough of the native language to describe it, but a teenager shot at him and the arrow landed in his Bible. On his last trip recently, he was shot and killed and buried in the sand.
    He had hired two fisherman to take him to the island under cover of darkness so they would not get in trouble with the authorities. They saw the natives bury him in the sand. These two fishermen have been arrested.

    He knew it is illegal under Indian law to travel to the island, but he wanted very much to share the Good News about Jesus Christ with the people. He had no wish to die, and was scared that he would be killed, but he felt that he was doing God’s will and wanted God to have whatever “glory” that might result from his mission.
    He wrote his feelings of wanting to live, and wanting to do God’s will in his diary. He also wrote that he wanted any people who tried to kill him to be forgiven, esp if they succeeded.

    This young man felt that it was “time to go” there and preach. Contrast that with moslims who went to India to kill and murder because it was “time” for killing in the name of islam.

    • Janwaar Bibi says

      Nov 23, 2018 at 6:42 pm

      He had no wish to die, and was scared that he would be killed, but he felt that he was doing God’s will and wanted God to have whatever “glory” that might result from his mission.

      There was no “glory” – Chau Mein was shot with arrows and probably eaten. Being consumed by that tribe was probably the most glorious thing Chau Mein did in his entire life. I hope they return his bones to the US as a warning to other pests.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 23, 2018 at 11:07 pm

        Wait–you are fine with peaceful people being murdered? Just horrifying.

        • infidel says

          Nov 24, 2018 at 8:50 am

          That said tribe on that island do not even welcome us Indians and try to kill us if we get within range of their arrows. WE JUST LIVE THEM ALONE and WARN OTHERS FROM DOING SO…. Would U go to the Snake Island in Brazil even if the Brazilian Govt prohibits it… Ps respect our laws.. thanks

      • PissedOffVeteran says

        Nov 24, 2018 at 1:46 am

        They live on an isolated island, bothering no one. So why do you think interferring with their lives that has worked for them for centuries is OK.
        Religion is ok for those who want it but leave everyone else alone. Not everyone want your make belief life.
        It’s been known for many years that these people want nothing to do with the outside world.
        Attempting to force any religion on anyone should be a crime period.
        You go there and you take your chances. IDIOTS!

        Why won’t you idiots just leave people alone?

    • infidel says

      Nov 24, 2018 at 8:47 am

      Please DO NOT MAKE THIS JOHN CHAU as a hero,… He violated our laws and has actually risked the lives of this entire tribe by getting into contact with them. This isolated tribe could have zero resistance to many human diseases. Why the hell can’t U not respect native cultures. Ps respect native cultures esp those that mean NO HARM TO U and are not converting U either… How would U feel if Indian Hindus go around the Native American reservations and preach Hinduism much against their will??

      • somehistory says

        Nov 24, 2018 at 12:24 pm

        I was not “making him a hero”….I was just contrasting him with the moslims who went to India for the express purpose of murdering your people. This young man was taught that everyone should get to hear about Jesus. Jesus preached to people who wanted…and tried…and eventually succeeded in making…Him dead.

        John Chau was trying to do a good thing. He was not trying to hurt or harm…esp not *murder* anyone. He died for what he believed, but he did not do any harm to the people of the island. The two fisherman didn’t have to help him, for which they were arrested. It was their choice to do that.

        Going to the island in violation of the law…of a nation of men…is something that many Christians have seen as “obeying God as ruler rather than men,” as Peter and John said they were doing and “must” do.

        moslims, on the other hand, bought weapons of war and went to India to murder innocent people. This is a gigantic difference from what John Chau did. Even if you disagree with what he was trying to do, surely….you can see the difference, can you not?

        And if hindus went to reservations in the U.S. and were killed by the residents, the residents would be hunted and tried for murder…even though the hindus were violating reservation law.
        Your islanders are not likely to face such charges for killing Mr. Chau.

        • infidel says

          Nov 25, 2018 at 6:20 am

          At least accept the tolerance and acceptance of Hindu culture. It would have taken the Indian Govt just one forceful landing on their shores with our armed forces,,, or forget the armed forces.. even with our paramilitary ,, or forget about them… even our armed police to take over the Sentinel Islands and ram home people from the mainland. BUT WE HAVE NOT CHOSEN TO DO SO WITH ANY OF THE TRIBES ON THE ANDAMANS… But U never hear about these things because it is India.. a third world country supposedly.. But what U are not seeing is FIRST WORLD TOLERANCE and ACCEPTANCE. Just imagine if we are a Christian or Muslim majority. Would these tribes be surviving today??

        • somehistory says

          Nov 25, 2018 at 12:57 pm

          You are missing the point, but I can’t figure out if it is on purpose or you just don’t understand that there is a difference…a huge one…between Christianity and islam, between Christians and moslims, and the idea of “Obeying” God in one’s life.

          And, I don’t like to be shouted at…with all caps…as you have been doing. But, since I don’t like it being done to me, I do not do it to you. Following Jesus’ command to “Do to others as you would have done to you.”

          If hindus are so sure of their faith being correct, then why are they not concerned for those who have not heard what hindus say is the right way to live?
          Christians care about others enough to risk their lives to “preach the good news of salvation.”
          Your last sentence shows that you do not yet appreciate the difference between Christians and moslims.
          Furthermore, too much attention and acceptance has been given to tolerance. No one should tolerate evil, but that is exactly what moslims expect the rest of us to do, while they won’t allow “good” to exist, but are trying to eliminate all the good that anyone, esp Christians, do.

  8. Indiana Tom says

    Nov 23, 2018 at 8:54 pm

    “the time for jihad has come,
    Nonsense.
    The time for jihad is all the time.

  9. gravenimage says

    Nov 23, 2018 at 11:08 pm

    Pakistan: Muslims told “the time for jihad has come,” they go to India and murder 164 people
    ……………………

    This was horrifying–and was aided and abetted by Pakistan’s Intelligence Service ISI.

  10. infidel says

    Nov 24, 2018 at 8:33 am

    The Mumbai attacks of 2008 was some of the most brutal and gory in the history of jehaad in the sheer audacity of its slaughter and the total lack of mercy that Muslims had even for toddlers…If even after this, Hindus consider Muslims as their friends, then it is Hindus who are to be blamed…

  11. infidel says

    Nov 24, 2018 at 8:42 am

    Often in the seedy smelly jails of Pakistan, those accused of heinous crimes like rape, murder are given 2 options,, either serve Ur life sentence/face the gallows OR infiltrate into India and do Jehaad against Hindus and redeem for Ur crimes. Most of these sickos take up the second option because there is a chance that they could somehow infiltrate into India and melt away into its huge Muslim ghettos. Of course, this infiltration is extremely risky, given that these worms can be gunned down by the Indian Armed forces guarding the borders. But still these vile creatures attempt to come thru and melt away in the Indian Muslim ghettos where life is much better than in that hellhole called Pakistan. They even get fake citizenship cards thru greasy Indian Muslim politicians and also some of the Indian left leaders…

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