This may be true, but people like al-Zawahiri tend to die more than once. Take, for example, the Islamic State’s caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He was reported seriously injured or dead several times before he was actually killed in 2019: Islamic State’s caliph al-Baghdadi said to be severely injured, flees to Syria July 5, 2014 […]
Al-Qaeda calls for Muslims in India to wage jihad against that country
The propaganda barrage against India from Pakistan, Kuwait and across the Muslim world has been relentless. Even the Organization of Islamic Cooperation has been appealed to in complaints against India over “Islamophobia.” Now Al-Qaeda has entered the anti-India campaign, making no secret that it is really all about Kashmir, not the alleged “ill treatment” of […]
Al-Qaeda top dog calls for jihad against “the infidels and the corruption they spread”
“If you want Jihad to be focused solely on military targets, the American military has presence all over the world, from the East to the West. Your countries are littered with American bases, with all the infidels therein and the corruption they spread.” Islamic apologists, both Muslim and non-Muslim, insist that jihad is an interior […]
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri calls the “Battle of the Hijab” part of the West’s war against the Islamic ummah
“Al-Qaeda’s Al-Sahab media wing released a video featuring a speech by Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri titled ‘The Battle of the Hijab’. In the video, Al-Zawahiri addresses Muslim women and warns them of the war raging against the Islamic nation that seeks to force them to abandon their religion and hijab (‘head covering’).” The hijab is […]
Al-Qaeda leader: “America the number one enemy of Muslims,” calls on Muslims to attack US
Marking the 17th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, “called on Muslims to wage war against the United States throughout the world.” He stated that the U.S. was “the number one enemy of Muslims” because of “Washington’s transfer of its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.” This […]
Al-Qaeda top dog calls for jihad against U.S. as embassy opens in Jerusalem
American officials have always counseled appeasement in the face of this intimidation: give the jihadis what they want, and maybe they won’t hurt us. That course of action, however, only encourages more intimidation. President Trump is right to call a halt to such appeasement, and to stand strong. “Al-Qaeda Terrorist Leader Calls for Jihad Against […]
Al-Qaeda top dog: “Jihad” is the “effective way” to defeat US, goal is to restore caliphate
Doubtless Hamas-linked CAIR’s Nihad Awad and Ibrahim Hooper are on their way now to visit Zawahiri and explain to him that jihad just means dropping off the kids at school and getting to the gym regularly. “He goes on to identify the primary goal of al-Qaeda’s jihad as restoring the ‘rightly guided Caliphate’ and all […]
Pakistani government sheltering al-Qaeda top dog Zawahiri
Not a friend, not an ally. The Pakistani government is aiding and abetting the global jihad. The learned analysts in Washington, however, since they don’t acknowledge that there is a jihad, refuse to see the obvious. “Ayman al-Zawahiri: How a CIA Drone Strike Nearly Killed the Head of Al-Qaeda,” by Jeff Stein, Newsweek, April 21, […]
Islamic State and al Qaeda in renewed talks to join forces
Should this significant jihadist merger happen, it will mean double trouble, not just in Iraq and Syria, but also in expanded jihad missions globally. And it wouldn’t be difficult, since the Islamic State emerged from al-Qaeda and diverged from it only on tactics, not on beliefs. On the good news side, the Islamic State and […]
Al-Qaeda top dog: “9/11 will be repeated thousands of times, by the will of Allah”
Maybe it will. Even if it isn’t, the threat itself serves to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60). “On eve of 9/11 anniversary, Al Qaeda threatens more attacks,” by Lisa Daftari, Foreign Desk, September 9, 2016: Days before the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, terror group Al Qaeda has released […]
Al-Qaeda top dog urges kidnapping of Westerners until West frees Muslim prisoners
In recording posted online, Al-Zawahiri called on the global militant network to kidnap Westerners “until they liberate the last Muslim male prisoner and last Muslim female prisoner in the prisons of the Crusaders, apostates, and enemies of Islam.” Not that this has anything to do with, uh… “Al Qaeda chief urges kidnappings of Westerners for […]
Al-Qaeda top dog: execution of “hero Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or any Muslim” will bring “gravest consequences”
Doesn’t Zawahiri realize that neither Tsarnaev nor al-Qaeda have anything to do with Islam? John Kerry should invite him to talks, so as to explain the true, peaceful Islam to him. “Al-Qaida leader: ‘grave consequences’ for US if Boston bomber executed,” by Alan Yuhas, Guardian, July 1, 2016: Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has warned the […]
Warning to the West: Jihad groups acquiring cyber capability to bring major cities to standstill
The Director of the UK Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) has warned that jihad terrorist groups are gaining the capability to bring major Western cities to a standstill with the click of a button, adding that these groups have “no threshold when it comes to loss of life”. In other words, they are killing machines and […]
Al-Qaida top dog Al-Zawahiri calls for lone wolf jihad attacks in U.S. and other Western countries
“The first matter is striking the West and specifically America in its own home, and attacking their interests that are spread everywhere. The supporters of Israel must pay with their blood and their economy.” This will lead Leftists and anti-Semitic paleocons to think that if the U.S. stopped supporting Israel, there would be no more […]
Al-Qaeda top dog urges jihad in “the homes and cities of the crusader West”
And specifically in America. But don’t be concerned: the vast majority of peaceful, moderate Muslims will rise up forthwith and put a stop to any jihad activity in the U.S. Won’t they? “Al Qaeda chief urges lone wolf attacks, militant unity,” Reuters, September 13, 2015: Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on young Muslim men […]
Al-Qaeda top dog pledges to implement Sharia and continue jihad
He pledged this in the process of pledging allegiance to Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the new Taliban top dog. But it raises yet again the ever-recurring question: why is it that those Muslims who are most concerned with Sharia and jihad are those who, according to all Western non-Muslim governing authorities, actually know nothing about Sharia […]
Robert Spencer in PJM: ISIS following al-Qaeda’s game plan for a caliphate
In PJ Media today I explain how Ayman Al-Zawahiri and bin Laden communications reveal that a caliphate has always been the goal. It has been almost a year since June 29, 2014, when the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (ISIS) declared the formation of a new caliphate and dropped the second half of its […]