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Saudi Arabia: Muslim injures three with bomb at French remembrance service in ‘Non-Muslim Cemetery’

Nov 14, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer 12 Comments

“IS said in a posting on its news agency, Aamaq, that it primarily targeted the French consul attending the ceremony because of his country’s publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.”

Once again, the West is going to be forced to choose between the freedom of expression and submission to Sharia. Which one it will ultimately choose is anybody’s guess at this point.

“ISIS Claims Attack at Saudi WWI Ceremony,” by Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press, November 12, 2020:

BEIRUT — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Thursday for the explosion the previous day at a cemetery in Saudi Arabia, saying it primarily targeted French diplomats attending the ceremony in remembrance of the end of World War I.

Other Europeans and Americans were attending the ceremony at the Non-Muslims Cemetery in the kingdom’s coastal city of Jiddah. The blast wounded three people, leaving them with light to minor injuries.

IS said in a posting on its news agency, Aamaq, that it primarily targeted the French consul attending the ceremony because of his country’s publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

The claim was also carried on one of the militant Telegram channels used by ISIS, which said its fighters were able to plant the explosive device at the ceremony. The militant group offered no proof for its claim.

Aamaq said other European countries at the ceremony were also considered targets because they are part of the international coalition fighting Islamic State militants. The U.S-led coalition against ISIS declared victory against the group in early 2019 after it drove its militants out of territories they controlled in Syria and Iraq….

Wednesday’s explosion in the port city of Jiddah wounded one U.K. national, a Greek policeman and a Saudi security officer. It followed a stabbing attack last month that lightly wounded a security guard at the French Consulate, also in Jiddah. The attacker, a Saudi man said to be in his 40s, was arrested but his motives for the assault remain unclear….

Some 20 people of different nationalities were attending the ceremony in Jiddah. Wednesday marked the 102nd anniversary of the armistice ending World War I, a day that was also commemorated in several European countries.

The Non-Muslim Cemetery sits near Jiddah’s docks, hidden behind trees alongside a major thoroughfare in the city. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission — which maintains places of commemoration for military service members from British Commonwealth nations — shows just one soldier buried at the cemetery, Pvt. John Arthur Hogan, who died in June 1944…..

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Filed Under: blasphemy, Featured, France, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Muhammad cartoons, Saudi Arabia Tagged With: Jeddah


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  1. Wellington says

    Nov 14, 2020 at 5:11 pm

    When the Saudis are coming across as the “moderates,” the reasonable Muslims, even victims, nothing more needs to be said by those who know the truth “worth” of Islam.

    Reply
    • Christopher Logan says

      Nov 14, 2020 at 7:55 pm

      The Saudis are desperate for money. So they put on a smiley face for the world. Unfortunately Trump fell for it.

      Reply
      • mortimer says

        Nov 15, 2020 at 10:17 am

        Most Muslims want freedom of expression to discuss everything except Islam.

        Muslims couldn’t care less that the freedom of expression was sought in Europe mainly for the purpose of discussing and dissenting from the established religions of European kingdoms.

        Without the freedom to discuss and criticize religions, we will revert to theocratic dictatorships.

        Most countries in the West no longer have an operating blasphemy law.

        Reply
  2. Brando says

    Nov 14, 2020 at 5:26 pm

    When the Showdown Between LEFTISTS and EXTREME LEFTISTS versus MUSLIMS will arrive,the Muslims Will Win:

    1.Leftists are willing to KILL for their Beliefs

    2.But Muslims are willing to KILL and DIE for their Beliefs.

    I don’t think any Lefist is capable of dying for socialism,communism, they Always try to Save their Lives escaping with as Much Stolen Money as Possible.

    Reply
    • Shaman says

      Nov 15, 2020 at 1:34 am

      I agree with you, Brando. Socialism is a bloody ideology as Islam is. Nazism (National Socialism) and Communism murdered millions of innocent people. I think those who still promote Nazism and Communism should be tried by the law.

      Reply
      • Brando says

        Nov 15, 2020 at 7:43 am

        Under Communism PRIVATE PROPERTY is ABOLISHED,and according to top scholars who wrote the book:

        1. “The BLACK BOOK of COMMUNISM”(1997), written after examining secret documents made public after the Fall of Communism,

        2. And 100 MILLION people were killed by Communism,

        in PEACE TIME.

        3. Plus,there was a time when 33% of the WORLD was living under Communism.

        Reply
        • mortimer says

          Nov 15, 2020 at 10:27 am

          Reply to Brando: More to the point … one person has been killed by ISLAM every twenty minutes since Mohammed began his raids.

  3. livingengine says

    Nov 14, 2020 at 6:37 pm

    CAIR and Samuel Paty

    Reply
  4. gravenimage says

    Nov 14, 2020 at 10:28 pm

    Saudi Arabia: Muslim injures three with bomb at French remembrance service in ‘Non-Muslim Cemetery’
    ……………..

    Horrifying–but who can be surprised?

    And given the appalling Saudi reaction to the atrocities in France, will they do anything about this Jihad terror attack?

    “Saudi Arabia condemns ‘offensive’ cartoons in wake of murder of French schoolteacher, but not his beheading”

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/10/saudi-arabia-condemns-offensive-cartoons-in-wake-of-french-schoolteacher-beheading-but-not-the-beheading

    Reply
    • mortimer says

      Nov 15, 2020 at 10:30 am

      Muslims have little or no regard for the sacrifices of our fallen military members who willingly gave their lives in the defense of freedom.

      Freedom is not a value desired by Muslims, since Islam is a word that is synonymous with ‘slavery’.

      For Muslims ENSLAVEMENT is the value they are willing to kill and die for.

      Reply
      • gravenimage says

        Nov 15, 2020 at 11:34 pm

        +1

        Reply
  5. OLD GUY says

    Nov 15, 2020 at 12:56 pm

    Under Biden this will be coming to a neighborhood in America near YOU. Open borders to Islam is a big mistake.

    Reply

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