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Tanzania: Moderate Sufis recruiting youths to join jihad terror cells in Mozambique

Dec 2, 2020 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer 11 Comments

Contrary to popular belief, the Sufis do not reject violent jihad. Their towering figure, al-Ghazali, taught it, and Sufis have been at the vanguard of the Chechen jihad. Hasan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, which in turn gave birth to Hamas and Al-Qaeda, was strongly influenced by Sufism. In 2009, Iraqi Sufis meant with […]

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Filed Under: Moderate Muslims, Mozambique, Somalia, Sufis, Tanzania Tagged With: Ahlu Sunna wa Jama, Simon Sirro

India: Illegally constructed Sufi shrine part of “Land Jihad” to change country’s demography

May 24, 2020 12:00 pm By Mahaveer Sharma

Land Jihad (Zameen Jihad) is a tool that is being used by Muslims to change the demography of India. The recent illegally constructed Sufi Islamic shrine (dargah) in the city of Hyderabad is a stark reminder that these kinds of activities are not new in India. But gratitude is owed to the strong and bold […]

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Filed Under: India, Islamic supremacism, Sufis Tagged With: dargah, Hyderabad, Raja Singh

Albania: Police foil Tehran-backed jihad terror plot at Sufi ceremony

Oct 28, 2019 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Albanian police have announced that they “thwarted an attack allegedly planned by a Tehran-backed ‘terrorist cell’ against opponents of the Iranian regime in the Balkan country last year. The cell belonged to the Quds Force, an elite unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) responsible for foreign operations.” The target was a Sufi ceremony […]

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Filed Under: Albania, Featured, Iran, Sufis Tagged With: Bektashi, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, MEK, People's Mujahedin of Iran, Quds Force, Tirana

Somalia: Muslims murder Islamic leader and at least 17 of his followers for playing music

Nov 26, 2018 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Whenever I note that Islamic law forbids music (aside from nasheeds, a cappella songs encouraging jihad), I am excoriated as a greasy Islamophobe, but it’s nonetheless true: Hadith Qudsi 19:5: “The Prophet said that Allah commanded him to destroy all the musical instruments, idols, crosses and all the trappings of ignorance.” (The Hadith Qudsi, or […]

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Filed Under: Al-Shabaab, Featured, Sharia, Somalia, Sufis, suicide bombing Tagged With: Galkayo, Mogadishu

The Tyranny of the Wadaad and the Fight Against the Jihadist Ideology in Somalia

May 24, 2017 2:00 pm By Guuleyste Ali

The fight against Islamic jihad groups in Somalia that launch deadly attacks on government officials and intellectuals, as well as against local forces and African Union (AU) peacekeepers, is widely reported in local and international media, but little is covered about the lesser known but fiercely raging ideological war between Somali Muslim reformers and the radical Wahabi wadaad, or clergy. […]

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Filed Under: Al-Shabaab, Somalia, Sufis Tagged With: Sheikh Mohamoud Mohamed Shibli

Pakistan: Islamic State jihad suicide bomber murders 100 at Sufi mosque

Feb 16, 2017 5:30 pm By Robert Spencer

Paradise is guaranteed for those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (Qur’an 9:111), and that includes the wrong kind of Muslim. “Blast rips through shrine in Pakistan, 100 dead,” PTI, February 16, 2017: KARACHI: Nearly 100 people were killed and several injured tonight when an Islamic State suicide bomber blew himself up inside the […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Pakistan, Sufis, suicide bombing Tagged With: Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Sehwan

Islamic State in Egypt executes 100-year-old Sufi cleric for “witchcraft”

Nov 20, 2016 1:51 pm By Robert Spencer

The fact that the Islamic State kills other Muslims is often proffered by Barack Obama and others as a sign that it is itself not Muslim. In reality, the fact that the Islamic State kills other Muslims is a sign that it considers itself the arbiter of what is true Islam and what isn’t, and […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Sufis Tagged With: Sulaiman Abu Haraz

Bangladesh: Jihadis with machetes critically injure 3 elderly Sufi Muslims

Jul 17, 2016 2:26 pm By Robert Spencer

Islamic hardliners don’t consider Sufis to be true Muslims — and apparently have free rein in Bangladesh. “Three Sufi Muslims Critically Injured in Bangladesh Machete Attack,” Press Trust Of India, July 17, 2016: Dhaka: Three elderly Sufi Muslims, including two women, were on Sunday attacked in their sleep by machete- wielding men in western Bangladesh’s […]

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Filed Under: Bangladesh, Sufis Tagged With: Bauls

Indian PM: Sufi Islam “voice of peace, co-existence, compassion and equality”

Mar 17, 2016 8:13 pm By Robert Spencer

Contrary to popular belief, the Sufis do not reject violent jihad. Their towering figure, al-Ghazali, taught it, and Sufis have been at the vanguard of the Chechen jihad. Hasan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, which in turn gave birth to Hamas and Al-Qaeda, was strongly influenced by Sufism. In 2009, Iraqi Sufis meant with […]

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Filed Under: Featured, India, Sufis, Useful idiots, willful ignorance Tagged With: Narendra Modi

Duke Prof Bruce Lawrence: Pamela Geller a “free speech jihadi”

May 12, 2015 5:20 pm By Robert Spencer

Let’s be clear on who we’re dealing with here. Bruce Lawrence is emeritus professor of Islamic studies at Duke University. In 2013 he was reported as saying that Islam “has no connection with terrorism and the propaganda of the forces which are trying to link Islam with terrorism is baseless.” In 2005, he said that […]

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Filed Under: academia, Featured, free speech, Sufis Tagged With: Bruce Lawrence, Pamela Geller

Pakistan: Islamic jihadists throw grenades and open fire at Sufi gathering, murdering eight people

Feb 9, 2014 5:08 pm By Robert Spencer

This latest attack on Sufis in Pakistan highlights some of the prevailing myopia about the jihad problem. The Sufis are often cited as proof that Islam can reform and be non-violent, which is not precisely accurate since Sufis have never rejected violent jihad in principle, and the Chechen jihad was led by Sufis for quite […]

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Filed Under: Pakistan, Sufis Tagged With: featured

Libya: Islamic supremacists bulldoze Sufi shrine

Aug 26, 2012 12:56 pm By Robert Spencer

Actually, oddly enough, it was Sunni Muslim “hardliners” who did the deed, as they consider Sufis heretical. And Jihad Watch reader Maxwell commented: “Why wasn’t there a Rachel Corrie to stop the bulldozer?” “Sufi shrines attacked ‘by Islamist hardliners’ in Libya,” from Malta Today, August 26 (thanks to all who sent this in): A Sufi […]

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Filed Under: Libya, Sufis

Sunni Muslims bomb Sufi shrine at Friday prayers, murdering ten

Mar 6, 2011 4:44 am By Robert Spencer

The Taliban consider worship at Sufi shrines to be illegitimate. This is how they make their point. “Terror strikes mosque at Friday prayers; 10 worshippers killed,” from the Economic Times, March 4 (thanks to Mijanur): PESHAWAR: Ten worshippers, including a child, were killed and 30 others injured when a powerful bomb blast ripped through a […]

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Filed Under: Pakistan, Sufis, Taliban

Islamophobes murder five people with bomb at Sufi shrine in Pakistan — no, wait…

Oct 25, 2010 8:01 am By Robert Spencer

It wasn’t Islamophobes, it was Islamic jihadists. But given the amount of attention the former group receives from the mainstream media and putatively moderate Islamic advocacy groups, as opposed to the attention the latter group receives from the media and the “moderates,” one may be forgiven for assuming. “Bomb kills 5 people at Sufi shrine […]

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Filed Under: Pakistan, Sufis, suicide bombing

NY Times: Rauf is a Sufi, so Ground Zero mega-mosque is A-OK

Aug 18, 2010 7:18 am By Robert Spencer

Contrary to his claims of moderation, the Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, leader of the mega-mosque initiative, is an open advocate for Sharia, and calls for restrictions on the freedom of speech in his book What’s Right with Islam. He has (like CAIR) refused to denounce Hamas. He has lied about his commitment to religious dialogue. […]

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Filed Under: mosques, Sufis

Jihad/martyrdom bombers murder 35 in attack on Sufi shrine in Pakistan

Jul 1, 2010 1:25 pm By Robert Spencer

“Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain…” — Qur’an 9:111 “Deadly blasts hit Sufi shrine in Lahore,” from the BBC, July 1 (thanks to Satya): Suicide bombers have launched a triple attack […]

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Filed Under: Pakistan, Sufis, suicide bombing

Iraq: Suicide Bomber kills 10 at Sufi Muslim gathering

Jun 4, 2005 10:37 am By Rebecca Bynum

Apostasy alert from Reuters: BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber blew himself up at a gathering of Sufi Muslims north of Baghdad, killing 10 people in the latest attack by Iraqi insurgents on religious sects they disapprove of, officials said on Friday. The bomber detonated his explosives on Thursday evening in a house near the town […]

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Filed Under: Iraq, Sufis, suicide bombing

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