Everyone in the Western world knows that the Islamic State (ISIS) has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, except the ISIS jihadis themselves. Nor does anyone seem curious about how this alleged misunderstanding of Islam became so widespread.
“For years, the voice behind ISIS propaganda was a mystery. Now a Canadian faces criminal charges.” By Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, October 2, 2021 (thanks to Darcy):
A Canadian who U.S. prosecutors allege is behind influential English-language propaganda videos for the Islamic State has been brought to Virginia to be prosecuted.
Mohammed Khalifa, 38, was captured by Kurdish forces in Syria in 2019. At that point, according to prosecutors, he had been with the Islamic State for six years. He started as a fighter, according to court documents, before becoming involved in the translation and dissemination of English-language propaganda.
He ultimately led ISIS’s English-language media arm, prosecutors allege, whose output included videos, audio statements and an online magazine. Prosecutors say Khalifa narrated over a dozen ISIS recruitment videos, including two of the group’s most influential efforts at luring Westerners: “Flames of War: Fighting Has Just Begun,” in 2014, and “Flames of War II: Until the Final Hour,” in 2017.
In the videos, according to court records, Khalifa encouraged supporters to try to join the Islamic State abroad or, if they could not, to launch attacks in their home countries. One video included a voice recording of the man who declared his allegiance to ISIS before committing a massacre at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando in 2016….
According to the CBC, Khalifa was an information technology specialist in Toronto when he joined the Islamic State. He said he was himself radicalized by propaganda videos — ones narrated by Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who joined al-Qaeda and was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
“I came here to fight jihad not just to defend Syrians, but because it’s an obligation to fight the tyrants, remove them from power and establish the Shariah, all with the aim of reestablishing the Islamic caliphate,” he wrote in an email to a close relative just after leaving Canada, according to court records….
Emilie Green says
That picture – Muslim getting his fast if painful zebibah.
Topped off with a bandage in the shape of the Cross.
spiro says
Good point may be someone could tell him about the bandaid
gravenimage says
Cross bad! He’ll have to take a machete to it stat! He shouldn’t wait to remove it from his forehead…
Ade Fegan says
a bad case of fungus forehead there I see, from praying to false gods
Michael Copeland says
“it’s an obligation to fight the tyrants, remove them from power and establish the Shariah, all with the aim of reestablishing the Islamic caliphate”, wrote Mohammed Khalifa.
Every statement above is correct Islamic doctrine.
This should be sent as a memo to every MP.
E T says
“This should be sent as a memo to every MP”.
It should but, the problem is much greater – the Muslim brotherhood hoods have infiltrated the major political parties. we still have 9 Liberal, Muslim MPs – name one of the, who does not support Shari’ah law.
Timothy says
Fact: Moslem Brotherhood organizations also run at least one prison Islamic ministry.
Opinion: I’m sure that will turn out fine.
Timothy says
Uh, were are the Canadian charges?
I noticed at the latest published Security committees in Canada, only one expert pointed out that 90+% of terror attacks worldwide were Islamic attacks. And he was a retired CSIS agent. So all the active individuals, from CSIS to the RCMP, discussed just “white supremacist” terrorism.
I hate to confuse issues, but the Mayor of Calgary confused the issue by calling the anti (non-sterilizing) vaccine protestors were “thinly veiled white nationalist supremacist anti-governernment” individuals who “don’t need to eat” or “Deserve that kind of compassion”.
This is the level of attention and care our authorities are demonstrating for a clear and present danger to Canada.
gravenimage says
Just appalling from Muslim Naheed Nenshi. I am actually generally pro-vaccine, but this kind of rhetoric about those concerned about the vaccine is grotesque. The odd thing is that it is often Muslims who murder those trying to vaccinate against polio and other diseases.
E T says
A 14 year old boy dropped dead while playing basketball outside, an 18 year old from the University of Ottawa died of a heart attack, another 20 year old University student, died of heart attack, a 13 year old girl had a massive heart minutes after getting her shot….. I have never seen anything like what is going on here. God help us and don’t forgive the healthcare workers and politicians responsible.
James Lincoln says
E T,
Unless those four individuals had significant underlying medical problems, the risk of the Covid vaccine in those age groups would outweigh any benefits.
mortimer says
What is Canada’s intelligence service doing to dissuade them from a belief in JIHADISM, besides nothing?
The way to stop jihad from happening is the convince the Muslims that the 164 jihad verses in the Koran were composed by humans and that the Koran is of human origin, and that Islam is thus a false religion, so that they may leave Islam with confidence and not return to it.
Jihad is a central, canonical doctrine of Islam (called an ‘usul-ud-deen’) and thus jihadism is NORMATIVE Islam, rather than an aberration.