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After Sri Lanka, Brief History of “Allahu Akbar” Attacks on Churches

Apr 24, 2019 1:00 pm By Daniel Greenfield

“Allahu Akbar! Islamic State claims responsibility for Sri Lanka attacks,” was how ISIS first announced it was claiming credit for the massacre of Christians.

A video released of the Islamic terrorists also features the familiar Jihad slogan.

A one-minute video released by Isis showed the same men pledging allegiance to the “caliphate” and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, before shouting “Allahu akbar”.

As regular Jihad Watch readers know, “Allahu Akbar” doesn’t mean, “God is Great”, as the media mistranslates it, but is a declaration that Allah is superior to non-Islamic beliefs.

Here are some other Jihad Watch stories linking Allahu Akbar to violence against churches.

Ethiopia: Muslim mobs screaming “Allahu akbar” attack 10 church buildings

Germany: Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” throws firecracker in church during Easter mass, 24 injured in panic

Uganda: Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” destroy church, say “No more prayers in this place, or else you’ll all die”

Egypt: Muslim mob screaming “Allahu akbar” attacks Christians, forces closure of church

Russia: Muslim leaders say Muslim who killed 5 at church while screaming “Allahu akbar” has “nothing to do with Islam”

Ethiopia, Germany, Uganda, Egypt, Russia, and now Sri Lanka.

The theme remains the same.

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  1. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Apr 24, 2019 at 1:02 pm

    • James Lincoln says

      Apr 24, 2019 at 1:21 pm

      Another great clip from Tucker Carlson – Bravo Zulu !

      Fox News is far from perfect, but it is much closer to the truth than the mainstream media.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 24, 2019 at 9:41 pm

        Spot on.

  2. CRUSADER says

    Apr 24, 2019 at 1:11 pm

    Is IS a “State” any longer, however?

    • jarmanray says

      Apr 24, 2019 at 1:29 pm

      It is a “State of Mind” which is derived from a lot of inbreeding and plain stupidity.

      • CRUSADER says

        Apr 24, 2019 at 1:37 pm

        Ah!

        The DNA of the Caliphate.

        Well stated, sir or madam.

        You are a statesman, statesperson.

  3. somehistory says

    Apr 24, 2019 at 1:25 pm

    Thank you, Mr. Greenfield
    I always enjoy your well-written articles and the sharing of your knowledge on the subjects is appreciated.
    More people should read what you have to say.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 24, 2019 at 1:28 pm

    The governmental investigation agency of Sri Lanka discovered the identities of the individual Muslim terrorists who engaged in those murderous jihad terror attacks on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka and found that most of those violent and deadly jihadists were highly educated and came from middle class families. This is yet further proof that it’s not a lack of education or poverty that causes and incites some Muslim to become terrorists. It’s the religion the religion of Islam which contains in its “holy book” ,the Quran, instruction for violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As in, for example 2: 191, 5: 33. 9: 5, 111,112. 47:4.

    • jarmanray says

      Apr 24, 2019 at 1:30 pm

      ++++++++++++++++++++1. Spot on.

    • CRUSADER says

      Apr 24, 2019 at 1:44 pm

      In her book, “What Terrorists Want”, Louise Richardson — an Irish lass and lecturer at Harvard —
      said that terrorism has to have the ingredient of ideology and/or religion to fuel it.

      She also noted, regarding Sri Lanka, what Vellupillai Prabakharan (leader of Tamil Tigers) said:

      “It is the plight of the Tamil people that compelled me to take up arms. I felt outrage at the inhuman atrocities perpetuated against an innocent people….”

      Minorities often feel that Parliaments ignore their views and perspectives, to the point of having to do more than just sit muted.

      What’s the fix for that?

    • Admiral Benbow says

      Apr 24, 2019 at 2:48 pm

      “highly educated” ?
      So many of these International Students in Western Universities arrive with broken English and exit with broken English. Submitted papers can be downloaded from the internet in their native language and churned through Google English. They get waved (and standards waived) on through because they are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for a degree.
      But why do they need Western universities? -what’s wrong with Islamic universities, apart from the term being an oxymoron?
      Why do they want the endlessly inventive bounty of Western science and technology when they could just stay in their home country and study the Koran (the Word of God…even though God tells them that the world is flat).
      No, they are not highly educated; they have highly expensive pieces of paper signed off by me-teach-you-longtime academic whores.

      • CRUSADER says

        Apr 24, 2019 at 7:50 pm

        Everything is “relative” these days, Admiral.

  5. Paul says

    Apr 24, 2019 at 1:34 pm

    If I scream Allahu Akbar in a church service and threaten and frighten others I get attention and help for my anger and related mental problems.
    If I accidentally misplace my pigs head (£1 from the Irish Butchers) by a mosque or Islamic centre I will do time for being a hater.

    Somethings wrong here. This is my country. Its been invaded by people from the 7th century who hate me.

    Paul

    • CRUSADER says

      Apr 24, 2019 at 1:54 pm

      7th century?

      Are you speaking of the Saxons?

      What do you like best about what Ann Marie Waters and Katie Hopkins?

      (apologies to Mortimer if this is too childish or smiley)

      • CRUSADER says

        Apr 24, 2019 at 2:01 pm

        …what Anne Marie Waters and Katie Hopkins have to say….

        Islam = “killing machine” and “evil”.

        And so it is !

      • Paul says

        Apr 24, 2019 at 2:02 pm

        Don’t know any of them. I am not a hater. I just don’t want my culture to be bombed and censored out of existence by 7th century minded haters.

        Paul

        • CRUSADER says

          Apr 24, 2019 at 2:23 pm

          You must not know them at all then.

          These women aren’t haters. But they hate what is to be hated.

  6. mortimer says

    Apr 24, 2019 at 1:48 pm

    Let us all repeat this together: “IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID.”

  7. mortimer says

    Apr 24, 2019 at 1:49 pm

    A perfect summary from Paul: “This is my country. Its been invaded by people from the 7th century who hate me.”

    Al Walaa wal Baraa is the problem… it is normative Islam, rather than an aberration.

    • elee says

      Apr 24, 2019 at 1:56 pm

      +1

    • CRUSADER says

      Apr 24, 2019 at 2:17 pm

      Mortimer, don’t you mean to write AL WALAA WAL BARAA ?

      And yes, to be agreeable with you, it is indeed not an aberration of Islam — but it is an abomination and an abhorration (provoking extreme loathing or disgust) to those of us in the West who are paying enough attention to it’s expressiveness.

      An aberration is a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically one that is unwelcome.

      (Certainly such things of Islam are unwelcome, yet they are not a departure from what is expected from Islam. Unless we are in a typical Western college course, whereby then all the above is to be censored and replaced by loving thoughts about Islam and only kindness shown to devout Muslims and full allowance granted to Islamists.)

      Those textbooks really do need to be corrected!

      https://truthintexastextbooks.com/about-us-2/

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 24, 2019 at 1:51 pm

    Those vicious and murderous Islamic terror attacks against those people of Sri Lanka are as demonic and evil as they are deadly. Many of those jihadists suicide/homicide bombers were so thoroughly deluded by Islamic deception that they, must of , actually thought that ,in the murderous jihad violence , that they were doing a “ good action”

    The Bible puts terrible shame on individuals who are so confused and deluded that they “call evil good and good evil…” Isaiah 5:20.

    As for jihad suicide/homicide bombing attackers of Sri Lanka, and other jihadists likes them are the outcome of the Islamic doctrine from the Qu‘’ran [the Koran] of a sexual paradise with many virgins, houris , in it for the male Muslim /jihadist who dies fighting in the jihad for the cause of Islam is found in the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran, in Sura 44:54. 55: 56. 78:31. Also there is the Koranic instruction of Sura 9:111 which teaches “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Getting back to the origin doctrine of Islam from the Koran of a sex –filled paradise with many houris for the use only by the male jihadist who dies fight for the advancement of Islam. All this started when the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad manufactured Islam he put , had stolen, some of sex doctrine of Zoroastrian mythology and a yet smaller bit of Hindu mythological sex teachings along with as well as mixture pagan Arabian folklore and myth plus a heavy dose of Judaism and Christianity . Also some of it apostate “Christianity” For the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, couldn’t discern the difference between genuine Bible based Christianity and bogus “Christianity.” Those words and teaching Muhammad gathered from many sources, including the virgins /sex place mythology. , and taught as “Divine Truth” were written down on many things then later compiled and then went into the composition of the Koran. So the hoax of the Koran is actually a mixture and fusion Judaism Christianity and mythology of other religions and now the Muslim clerics with the Koranic brainwashing of young Muslims who are thoroughly mind programmed into believing this Islamic/Koranic virgins myth. This deception of false doctrine /myth into the thoughts of some people was predicted in the Bible along with the false teachers who engage in the indoctrination of such a myth /doctrine into the minds and hearts other people . For it is written “For the time will come when they will not stand wholesome teaching, but will follow their own fancy and gather a crown of teachers to tickle their ears. They will stop their ears to the truth and turn to mythology.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [N.E.B.]

    • CRUSADER says

      Apr 24, 2019 at 2:21 pm

      What you said, there.

      So true that it can’t be false.

      Wrong become Right.

  9. elee says

    Apr 24, 2019 at 1:51 pm

    Why was there no CRIPPLING PREEMPTION on these guys, since it turns out that security agencies knew what they were up to?

    • somehistory says

      Apr 24, 2019 at 2:39 pm

      elee

      imo, it’s because the government doesn’t like Christianity any more than moslims do. And, Jesus said the world would hate His disciples as it hated Him.

  10. Terry Gain says

    Apr 24, 2019 at 2:37 pm

    Reducing aid to Muslim countries would help but a better plan is to ban immigration of Muslims until the Persecution and discrimination ends.

  11. FYI says

    Apr 24, 2019 at 3:54 pm

    That picture looks like the islamic version of a coven of satanic witches..

    perhaps they must have some “prayer” formula;we know how much the Abdools love to “pray”{and Prey..}

    For allah’s sake
    these deeds we do:
    our serpent god..:
    is evil”s cue

    • somehistory says

      Apr 24, 2019 at 8:23 pm

      FYI
      “That picture looks like the islamic version of a coven of satanic witches..”

      I thought the same thing. I spoke at length once with a guy who said he was a warlock. We talked about a lot of different things, including the Bible. When I asked him if he had ever read it, he smiled and said, “Yes, but I read it backwards.” I asked what that meant…Revelation first and then on to Genesis last? He said, “No. i read it and do everything it says not to and don’t do what it says to do.”

      I’ve always felt that moslims do the same thing…without reading the Bible…because their unholy book has been written as instructions to do just as the warlock said he did….all of the things God commanded to avoid, they do, and everything He says to do, they refuse. Just as a coven of warlocks would do.

      • FYI says

        Apr 25, 2019 at 12:28 pm

        Of course it could also be the islamic version of Rock Paper Scissors:

        Sand Sand Sand.

  12. gravenimage says

    Apr 24, 2019 at 9:33 pm

    After Sri Lanka, Brief History of “Allahu Akbar” Attacks on Churches
    ………………

    Thanks for this grim list, Mr. Greenfield.

  13. Martel Sobieski says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 7:21 am

    WHY DO MUSLIMS SHOUT “ALLAHU AKBAR” BEFORE KILLING NON-MUSLIMS? THEY ARE FOLLOWING MUHAMMAD’S EXAMPLE. HERE’S THE PROOF.

    https://sunnah.com/bukhari/10/8

    (6) Chapter: To suspend fighting on hearing the Adhan

    Anas bin Malik said, “Whenever the Prophet went out with us to fight (in Allah’s cause) against any nation, he never allowed us to attack till morning and he would wait and see: if he heard Adhan he would postpone the attack and IF HE DID NOT HEAR ADHAN HE WOULD ATTACK THEM.” Anas added, “We reached Khaibar at night and in the morning when he did not hear the Adhan for the prayer, he (the Prophet ) rode and I rode behind Abi Talha and my foot was touching that of the Prophet. The inhabitants of Khaibar came out with their baskets and spades and when they saw the Prophet they shouted ‘Muhammad! By Allah, Muhammad and his army.’ WHEN ALLAH’S MESSENGER SAW THEM, HE SAID, “ALLAHU-AKBAR! ALLAHU-AKBAR! KHAIBAR IS RUINED. WHENEVER WE APPROACH A (HOSTILE) NATION (TO FIGHT), THEN EVIL WILL BE THE MORNING OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN WARNED.”

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