“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)
If we didn’t have our moral superiors around to assure us otherwise, one might almost get the idea that attacks of this kind had something to do with Islam.
“Maldives Minister Ali Solih stabbed in broad daylight, attacker seen reciting Quran verses,” OpIndia, August 24, 2022:
In a horrific incident, Maldivian Minister Ali Solih was attacked by a sharp weapon while he was riding on a bike in the Hulhumale region of the capital Male. The Maldivian Police immediately arrested the attacker who tried to slit his throat.
According to the reports, the incident is said to have happened on Monday when Minister Solih was riding his two-wheeler in the Hulhumale region of Male. The attacker stopped in front of the Minister’s bike and blocked his way. He then chanted some Quran verses and launched an attack to cut Solih’s neck, as reported by Maldives media.
The attacker used a sharp knife to cut the Minister’s neck but slashed a portion of his left arm instead. Minister Solih jumped off the motorcycle and rushed away from the spot to save his life. He is being treated at the Hulhumale Hospital.
The video of the incident went viral over social media which shows the attacker making several failed attempts to slit the Minister’s neck. Soon after Solih ran away leaving his scooter on the road, the attacker began expressing his aggression. He also talked to local people in the local language….
The victim in the current situation, Minister Ali Solih is the State Minister of Environment, Climate Change, and Technology. He is also the spokesperson for the Jumhooree Party (JP), a coalition partner of President Ibrahim Solih’s Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP).
mortimer says
Islam contains a teaching called the ‘NEAR ENEMY DOCTRINE’, the teaching that Muslims should begin jihad by religiously cleansing their neighborhood of disbelieving kafirs and non-practicing Muslim ‘hypocrites’ in order to create a base for jihad operations on a wider scale. In particular, non-practicing Muslims in government should be pushed out of power or assassinated so that true jihadists may take their place and impose brutal Sharia law.
Koran 9:123 – “O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness.”
K.33:60 “Truly, if the Hypocrites stir up sedition (resist Islam), if the agitators in the City do not desist, We shall urge you to GO AGAINST THEM and set you over them. Then they WILL NOT BE ABLE TO STAY as your neighbors for any length of time. They shall have a curse on them. Whenever they are found, they shall be seized and SLAIN WITHOUT MERCY – a fierce slaughter – murdered, a horrible murdering.”
Egyptian jihad theoretician Muhammad abd al-Salam Faraj wrote in “The Neglected Duty” (Al Faridah al Ghaibah) about the necessity of attacking the ‘near enemy’ first in order to create a strong Islamic base from which to attack the ‘far enemy’. (Al Qaeda means ‘the base’.)
Jihadists have theorized about the issue of first attacking the ‘near enemy’ (adou al-qareeb) versus the far enemy (adou al bayeed) in order to remove jahiliyya (non-Islamic thought) and create an Islamic state based on Islamic ideology from which they may attack the ‘far enemy’.
Al Qaeda began by attacking politicians in Arabia, then changed to attacking Russia and the U.S.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Mortimer.
mortimer says
Most music in Islam is HARAM (impermissible), but the ‘INTENTION’ of the singer may make it ‘HALAL’.
While Islam forbids a man singing a love song to his wife, he may sing a WAR SONG ABOUT SLAUGHTERING INFIDELS and the latter is ‘HALAL’ and praiseworthy.
That is what the jihadist was doing: singing about how Allah hates the disbelievers and wants Muslims to take their lives in jihad.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mortimer. Most music is Haram in Islam, but Jihadists regularly use violent Nasheeds that call for the murder of Infidels.
Infidel says
I’m guessing that tonight, RS will ask David Wood the mystery question of where was this Maldives minister struck 😈
On a different note, this is a country where all citizens are by law required to be muslims, and they still have people insufficiently islamic?
somehistory says
Just shows mozlums can’t get along with anyone, and they lust to murder others…even their own kind. Demonic teachings and commands do violent creatures make.
gravenimage says
True enough, Infidel.
gravenimage says
Maldives: Muslim chants Qur’an verses, then stabs government minister in the neck
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What could be so Islamic as this?