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EU country repatriates ISIS-linked women
Five women will be arrested after being flown back to the Netherlands from Syria
along with their 11 children
On Thursday, the Netherlands’ government said it was conducting a “special operation” to bring five Syria-based Dutch women and their 11 children to the Netherlands. The women are suspected of terrorism offenses.
In a letter to Parliament, the justice and foreign ministers said that when the women arrive they will be “arrested so that they can be prosecuted.” The 11 children will be looked after by a child welfare organization.
“With the transportation to the Netherlands, the Cabinet aims to prevent impunity for these five suspects,” Justice Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius and Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said in their letter to lawmakers.
The decision to bring back the suspected jihadists came after a court in Rotterdam said that the criminal cases against them could be dropped if the women weren’t repatriated within months.
Millions of men, women, and children live in refugee camps across the Middle East. Some 6.7 million people have been displaced by conflict in Syria, many live in refugee camps in neighboring countries, such as Turkey and Jordan.
Among them are scores of European nationals suspected of involvement in terrorism offenses and having links with Islamic State. Many European states have been reluctant to repatriate them.
Hundreds of boys missing from Syrian prison holding
ISIS fighters, watchdog says
By Doug Cunningham
The prison was the scene of an inmate uprising that lasted for several days. Photo by Ahmed Mardnli/EPA-EFE
Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Hundreds of boys are missing from a Syria prison after an inmate uprising last month that brought clashes between U.S.-backed Kurdish forces and Islamic State prisoners, global watchdog Human Rights Watch said Friday.
Inmates attacked the guards at the prison, located in the Ghweran section of al-Hasakah, on Jan. 20. It took the Syrian Democratic Forces a few days to regain control of the facility.
"The Syrian Democratic Forces began evacuating men and boys from the besieged prison days ago, yet the world still has no idea how many are alive or dead," Letta Tayler, Human Rights Watch associate crisis and conflict director, said in a statement.
The Human Rights Watch report said the SDF "should immediately allow international human rights groups to visit the detainees it has evacuated or recaptured" and provide them with essential care.
Burnley man stabbed two women at M&S because it ‘funds Israel’
Feb 4, 2022 | News
A man who stabbed two women in a Marks & Spencer store in Burnley in 2020 said he did so because of his support for the Palestinians and his view that M&S was funding Israel.
Munawar Hussain, 58, wounded the manager of the store by stabbing her in the neck and chasing her through the store in Burnley, Lancashire, on 2 December 2020.
He then stabbed a customer in the arm. His attack was halted when the blade snapped as it got caught in the handbag strap of his second victim. Mr Hussain fled the store but was apprehended by a security guard and members of the public before police arrested him.
On his possession was a note written in Urdu, which read: “O Israel, you are inflicting atrocities on Palestinians and Marks Spencer helping you financially.”
Munawar Hussain has denied charges of attempted murder and pleaded not guilty to two alternative counts of wounding with intent.
He is currently on trial at Manchester Crown Court after initially being thought to have “mental health problems”, but was deemed fit for trial in March 2021.
All radical Muslims are mentally ill - Dr Wafa Sultan (sidebar)
It's funny you don't see Jews running around trying to murder BDS supporters, etc.
Alex Leach QC, prosecuting, said the defendant walked to the store from his home in Murray Street, Burnley, and launched his attack just moments after he entered and asked to speak to a manager.
“He told the police that he had targeted Marks & Spencer deliberately because he believed Marks & Spencer funded Israel in what he described as its persecution of Palestine,” Mr Leach said.
“He said that had his knife not broken he would have gone on to kill others. He said that he expected that the police might kill him and he intended to be a martyr,” he added.
She told police her assailant was wearing a Covid mask and recalled his eyes “looked pure evil”.
“If I had fallen he would have killed me. I just thought he is not taking me away from my kids,” she said.
Jurors were told Mr Hussain does not dispute stabbing Ms Worthington and customer Janet Dell and the issue for them to decide was what his intention was at the time.
Judge Nicholas Dean QC, the Honorary Recorder of Manchester, told them: “The prosecution say that Mr Hussain had a terrorist motive for his actions. Even if you are sure he had such motivation it does not necessarily follow he had an intent to kill.”
When you just miss the jugular vein, I think that qualifies as attempted murder.
The prosecution say it was “overwhelmingly clear” from the evidence that Mr Hussain had such intentions.
The trial is ongoing, but it currently appears this was a violent attack terrorist fuelled by antisemitic hatred of Israel.
Last year, CUFI UK wrote an in-depth story in our Torch Magazine about the Zionism of Marks & Spencer’s founders. A partnership that played a significant role in Britain’s support for the State of Israel. If you would like to read more about this story, please click here.
Regardless of your views on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, there is no justification for attacking workers at an M&S branch. There is also no attempt by CUFI UK to say that the history of M&S demonstrates the current position of the company.
Sadly, the terrorist act carried out by Munawar Hussain, along with his desire to die a martyr, is all too common a theme within extremist Islamist views, including Palestinian terrorists carrying out atrocities against Jews in Israel. This mindset strikes at the heart of the Israel-Palestinian conflict and is one of the reasons there is not yet peace in Israel.
The Messiah is coming soon!
Suspected Jihadist cell targeted by police in EU state, 13 detained
More than 100 Belgian police were involved in multiple raids around Antwerp on Tuesday
Thirteen people were detained on Tuesday on suspicion of having links to a jihadist group, following numerous police raids in and around the Belgian port city of Antwerp.
Anti-terrorism magistrates had given approval for the raids, which involved more than 100 officers, as part of a wider investigation into Jihadist activities in the region, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
“An Antwerp group within the Salafist jihadist milieu has come under scrutiny and the aim of this operation was to further map out the group's activities,” the statement reads.
It adds that the 13 suspects detained will appear in front of the investigating judge who will decide whether to pursue criminal charges against them.
Belgian officials have raised concerns about Antwerp and Brussels being home to a hive of Islamist activity in the country.
Speaking in 2017, then-Interior Minister Jan Jambon said that a high proportion of the people who left Belgium to join Jihadist causes in the Middle East had come from Brussels, notably the district of Molenbeek.
Molenbeek was labeled a “hotbed for Islamism” by some officials, particularly in the aftermath of the Paris attacks of November 13, 2015, which left 130 dead. Several of the jihadists involved hailed from Molenbeek.
Meanwhile, the jihadist organization Sharia4Belgium, founded in 2010 and disbanded two years later, was based in Antwerp. A number of its members traveled to Syria to fight for Islamist groups, including ISIS.
Its former leader, Fouad Belkacem, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2015 for his role in driving recruitment for the group and was subsequently stripped of his Belgian citizenship.
Belgium itself has also been targeted by Islamist groups, with the capital hit by a double suicide bomb attack by ISIS in 2016, killing 32 people and wounding 340.
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