Islamic Terrorism in the West ( Mega thread)

[The Bread Guy]

My understanding was that the shooter was given an Islamic burial.

Until the leadership stops that practice, I don't think anything will change.

Part of it, indeed - it's taking a while for the Catholic church a while to deal with the Mafia, so we're going to have to be patient ...

 

[George Wallace]

While the US is tied up in the Election race, trashing Donald Trump, and then the Orlando murders and the renewed Anti-gun campaign, Obama quietly did this:


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Obama Transfers Accused bin Laden Bodyguard from Gitmo to Montenegro
by WARNER TODD HUSTON, 26 Jun 2016

As President Obama’s last year in office winds down and he comes to the realization that he won’t be able to close the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facility like he promised in 2008, he’s been busy transferring inmates to other countries as a fallback plan. This month, Obama has sent Osama bin Laden’s alleged bodyguard to the country of Montenegro.
Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab al-Rahabi has been held at Gitmo for 14 years but will now get a change of scenery, with the administration deciding that the bin Laden associate is no longer a threat to the U.S. and recommending his transfer. And according to NBC News, the Department of Defense insists that the transfer is “consistent with appropriate security and humane treatment measures.

Announcing the move, the administration thanked the small Eastern European nation for taking the accused terrorist off America’s hands

Montenegro, a small country situated between Bosnia, and Herzegovina, and Albania, and across from Italy on the Adriatic Sea, said it would release al-Rahabi once it takes custody of him, allowing him to “return to his family.”

Al-Rahabi was detained in 2001 by Pakistani forces then transferred to Gitmo a month after his arrest.

Pentagon documents say the prisoner is related to bin Laden by marriage and was trained to hijack airliners and fly a suicide mission in conjunction with the 9/11 attacks. For whatever reason, the detainee never committed to the suicide mission.

Claiming to close the Guantanamo facility was one of the first actions Obama took when he first entered office in 2008 when he signed an Executive Order promising he would shut the facility down in the first year of his presidency.

Closing the detention center was one of Obama’s main campaign promises, but in spite of his promises and the Executive Order he immediately issued upon entering the White House, Obama never did shutter the facility. Instead, he began a campaign of transferring prisoners from the facility to nations that volunteered to take them.

But since he began his program of freeing prisoners by transferring them, well over 100 have simply returned to the battlefields to kill westerners in general and Americans in particular.

Follow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston, or email the author at igcolonel@hotmail.com.

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[jollyjacktar]

I won't be surprised when this terrorist catch and release program comes back to bite the west one day.  I know there's already been other released goat humpers that dove right back in afterwards.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

I hope that, while they were sleeping [ ] and unbeknownst to them, they were micro-chipped like the dogs (they are). Makes tracking ... and targeting ... easier  :nod:

 

[Colin Parkinson]

I will be impressed with the moderate Muslims here, when I see non-segregated mosques and women not being harassed for not wearing a headcover when they pray.

 

[ueo]

Didn't/doesn't the Catholic church and others require women to have their heads covered befor entry? Just sayin'

 

[George Wallace]

Didn't/doesn't the Catholic church and others require women to have their heads covered befor entry? Just sayin'

Ummmm? Not since the late '60's.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

They used to, but not anymore. However, how many Catholic women priests do you know?  ;D

Ah well! It's a slow process ...

 

[dapaterson]

I will be impressed with the moderate Muslims here, when I see non-segregated mosques and women not being harassed for not wearing a headcover when they pray.

How about women praying uncovered at the Western Wall?

 

[ueo]

Uncovered well maybe. Unsegregated-  that's another issue.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

How about women praying uncovered at the Western Wall?

I talking about Canada, where unlike most places in the Islamic world a women has equal rights and actually their segregation and covering requirement may actually be an infringement of their Charter Rights. Seems Churches here can't exclude Gays based on religious beliefs, not sure why women aren't pursuing this more strongly. (Note there is one group setting up mosques where men and women pray together and led at times by female Imans. 

 

[cupper]

Obama Transfers Accused bin Laden Bodyguard from Gitmo to Montenegro

I won't be surprised when this terrorist catch and release program comes back to bite the west one day.  I know there's already been other released goat humpers that dove right back in afterwards.

Hey, it's not like he can go back to doing what he was doing. He'll have to file for unemployment.  [

 

[dapaterson]

My point was that it's religious extremists that are the problem; not Islam in and of itself.  There are numerous reports of Orthodox Jews refusing to sit beside women on aircraft; some even wrap themselves in plastic bags because their aircraft will be flying over a graveyard - hardly the signs of a modern, rational mind, yet we give them a pass, but condemn anyone with a beard who goes to a mosque.

 

[mariomike]

; some even wrap themselves in plastic bags because their aircraft will be flying over a graveyard -

 

[cupper]

; some even wrap themselves in plastic bags because their aircraft will be flying over a graveyard -

Don't they read the warnings on the side of the bag?

 

[jollyjacktar]

I suppose if they kick the bucket on the flight or get airsick it'll keep the cabin cleaner.  How thoughtful of them, awwww. 

 

[cavalryman]

Don't they read the warnings on the side of the bag?

It says keep away from babies or children.  No mention of grown men.  >

 

[The Bread Guy]

No official claim of responsibility yet, but a big attack in Turkey:

A gun and bomb attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport has killed 41 people, at least 13 of them foreigners, and injured more than 230, officials say.

Three attackers arrived in a taxi and began firing at the terminal entrance late on Tuesday. They blew themselves up after police fired back.

PM Binali Yildirim said early signs pointed to so-called Islamic State but no-one has so far admitted the attack.

Recent bombings have been linked to either IS or Kurdish separatists ...

As for the Kurds, here's a statement from their Regional Government:

Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has strongly condemned the terrorist attacks which killed 36 people and injured nearly 150 others at the Ataturk Airport of Istanbul, Turkey.

KRG Spokesperson Safin Dizayi delivered condolences to the people of Turkey, the families of the victims, and wished “rapid recovery” to the injured.

Two explosions overnight on Tuesday rocked Istanbul’s busiest airport, with three suicide bombers involved in the attack.

Since Kurdistan Region is at the forefront of the war on terrorism, it fully understands the sorrow brought to Turkey, Dizayi told KRG’s official website.

The Kurdish official reiterated that such a tragedy proves that terrorism is a global threat and it targets wherever it can reach. He stressed out that a greater international engagement in the anti-terrorism efforts is required to prevent such tragedies.

More on the blasts @ Google News here.

 

[George Wallace]

This has to be a new low; the lowest of lows really:


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Palestinian, 19, Stabs 13-Year-Old to Death in West Bank Settlement
The New York Times
By DIAA HADID and MYRA NOVECKJUNE 30, 2016

JERUSALEM — A Palestinian teenager scrambled over a fence surrounding a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, ran into a house and stabbed an Israeli girl to death as she slept in her bed on Thursday morning.

The perpetrator, Mohammad Tarayreh, 19, was fatally shot after the attack. The victim, Hallel Yaffa Ariel, 13, had been sleeping in after staying up late for a dance performance the night before. Her father found her in her room, according to the Israeli news media and the head of the settlement’s volunteer security team.

The killing, in the Kiryat Arba settlement, was the latest in a series of attacks that surged in October and have left more than 30 Israelis dead. More than 210 Palestinians have also been killed, most while carrying out attacks or when thought to be about to do so.

Thursday’s attack was particularly gruesome.

Mr. Tarayreh, from Bani Naim, a sprawling town separated from Kiryat Arba by hills, a highway and a barrier surrounding the Jewish settlement, managed to cross over the fence early Thursday, Eyal Gelman, the head of the Kiryat Arba security team, told Israeli radio. He entered the Ariels’ house — it was unclear how — and locked himself in. The team of armed residents, including Hallel’s father, saw that the fence had been breached and began searching for the assailant.

“Everything happened very quickly,” Mr. Gelman said. Three of the volunteers managed to get into the locked house. Mr. Tarayreh attacked one of them with his knife, injuring him, Mr. Gelman said. Another volunteer shot and killed Mr. Tarayreh.

The volunteers, including Hallel’s father, rushed to the bedroom the girl appeared to have shared with her two younger sisters, who had already left for the day. Only Hallel was still lying in her bed. “I counted 18 stab wounds,” Mr. Gelman said.

A photograph released by the Israeli army showed the children’s bedroom — crammed with a bunk bed, another bed, a carpet and cushions — soaked in blood. Hallel died after she was rushed to a hospital in Jerusalem.

“My daughter was sleeping, calm, she was happy,” said her mother, Rina Ariel, weeping as she spoke to Israeli reporters from the hospital. “A terrorist comes and murders her in her bed.”

Ms. Ariel urged Israelis to come and console the family by visiting the contentious Jewish settlement. “Come, tell us that our Kiryat Arba is still a place possible to live in, not to die in, and continue our love of this place and the country,” she said. “Hallel, your memory will be blessed.”

Mr. Tarayreh may have been trying to emulate a young woman from his hometown, or perhaps to avenge her death. The woman, Majd al-Khudour, 18, rammed her car into a bus stop at the entrance of Kiryat Arba on Friday and was killed.

A Facebook group for news from Bani Naim posted screenshots that it claimed were from Mr. Tarayreh’s own Facebook page, in which he appeared to have posted a poem praising Ms. Khudour’s bravery the day after she was killed.

“Today the house wept, Majd, for you / for your absence, your family rings the bell of pain,” he wrote.

In another poem, posted on the same day, Mr. Tarayreh asked when he would die. “Grave, where are you? Why don’t you ask of me?” he wrote.

After the attack on Thursday, Israeli forces shuttered entrances to Bani Naim and raided the home of Mr. Tarayreh’s family. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced after a security meeting that the house would be destroyed and permits allowing the family to work in Israel withdrawn, and that the town would be cordoned off until further notice.

“The horrifying murder of a young girl in her bed underscores the bloodlust and inhumanity of the incitement-driven terrorists that we are facing,” Mr. Netanyahu said in a statement. He appeared to blame Palestinian leaders, accusing them of incitement “that leads to the murder of children in their beds.”

Spokesmen for Palestinian officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. There were no claims of responsibility for the attack by Palestinian armed groups.

Hallel, the victim, was related to Uri Ariel, Israel’s right-wing housing minister, who is a cousin of Hallel’s father, Israeli news media reported. Mr. Ariel immediately pointed to her death as a call for more settlements in the West Bank, where Israel has maintained a nearly five-decade military occupation.

“It has to be clear that in the absence of a partner, that there will be Israeli sovereignty from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea,” he said after the killing. “We have to employ very tough deterrence measures, such as expulsion of families, ending monetary aid, seizing money.”

“By doing this, and by carrying out a fitting Zionist response by construction and planting, we will bring about more quiet in the region,” he said.

Sari Bashi, the country director for Human Rights Watch in Israel and the Palestinian territories, described the killing as “horrific.”

“There can be no justification, moral or legal, for killing an Israeli child as she sleeps in her bed,” Ms. Bashi said. “As despicable as the killing is, the Israeli government has no authority to punish the attacker’s family members, who committed no crime.”

Follow Diaa Hadid on Twitter @diaahadid.

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[AbdullahD]

Somali Muslim men shot after playing basketball by Caucasian man.

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/06/30/bias-motivated-shooting/

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minneapolis police on Thursday confirmed they’re investigating the recent shooting of two Muslim men as a possible hate crime.

And on Thursday, the Council on American Islamic Relations is demanding swift action to find those responsible. Police went to 14th Avenue Southeast and 6th Street South early Wednesday morning because someone heard shots.

There were no victims, but police did recover some evidence. A short time later, two people with gunshot wounds showed up at the University of Minnesota hospital.