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Terrorism, Italian foreign fighter arrested in Brescia:
radical ideological adherence to Islamic jihad
Translated from “Terrorismo, foreign fighter italiano arrestato a Brescia: radicale adesione ideologica alla Jihad islamica,”
Leggo,
November 12, 2022
A 28-year-old Italian foreign fighter, but of Moroccan origin, was arrested in Brescia on charges of “kidnapping and personal injury, aggravated by having used torture and acted with cruelty as well as by the purpose of terrorism and racial hatred.”
The Brescia Police carried out the precautionary custody order in prison for Samir Bougana (28 years old born in Gavardo, but originally from Morocco), issued by the Brescia investigating judge at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office.
In 2019, he was taken in Kobane (Syria), where he was in a state of capture by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, by officials of the Digos of Brescia and of the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police, following an operation conducted in close connection with Aise, FBI and Syrian authorities and arrested for participation in association with terrorist purposes, as, after a radical ideological adhesion to Islamic Jihad which began in Italy and completed in Germany, he left for Syria where he had become an operative of the self-styled Islamic State.
The sentence
In July 2020, the Brescia Court sentenced him to 4 years of imprisonment, which was then confirmed on appeal.
The subsequent investigations, also conducted internationally, found a turning point in the exchange of information between the Italian and German authorities which revealed how the foreign fighter himself could also have been responsible for torture and abuse against at least two people, including a teenager, who refused to fight for ISIS and are currently taking refuge in Germany.
Decisive testimony
Decisive in this sense was the testimony, collected in Dusseldorf by the prosecutor of the investigations and by officials of the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police and of the Digos of Brescia, of one of the victims of torture, which was inflicted by the Italian-Moroccan foreign fighter: in showing the scars of the torture suffered, the witness also told of torture perpetrated with electric shocks against Kurdish detainees belonging to the Yazidi minority in order to force them to convert to Islam.
Maldives Arrests 14 For Alleged Islamic State-tied Bomb Plot
Police in Maldives have arrested 14 people allegedly working with foreign Islamic extremists
to carry out a bombing in the tiny archipelago state, police said.
Written By
Associated Press Television News
15th November, 2022 13:31 IST
Police in Maldives have arrested 14 people allegedly working with foreign Islamic extremists to carry out a bombing in the tiny archipelago state, police said.
The suspects had been working with the Islamic State group and apparently planning an attack with the intent of killing many people, Uswath Ahmed, the nation's counterterrorism head, told reporters Monday night. He did not elaborate.
He said the suspects were arrested last Friday in three locations in the country and 13 homes were raided.
Maldives is known for its pristine beaches and expensive island resorts, but there has been a rise in religious extremism in recent years. The Sunni Muslim nation of 500,000 people had the highest number of people per capita fighting in foreign wars.
The country's former president and current Parliament speaker Mohamed Nasheed was critically injured in a bike bomb attack near his home last year. Nasheed is known to be a liberal, pro-West politician.
It was just a matter of time.
Afghanistan: Supreme leader orders full implementation
of Sharia, including public executions, stonings, amputations
NOV 16, 2022 9:00 AM
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
Sharia is divine law in normative Islam. The brutality and extreme human rights abuses that are being perpetrated in Afghanistan (and in other Sharia jurisdictions) is in full accordance with Sharia, despite the routine branding of critics of Islam.
Under the Sharia:
Hudud crimes (apostasy, revolt against the ruler, theft, highway robbery, adultery, slander, and drinking alcohol) carry penalties that include the amputation of hands and feet, flogging, and death.
In addition, Sharia is well known to be abusive to women. The Taliban, which is infamous for its treatment of women, is fully justified by Islamic law.
Some examples from the Quran:
Quran (4:34) “Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them.”
Quran (33:33) “And abide quietly in your homes…” Women are confined to their homes except when they have permission to go out.
(Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.
(Quran 33:59) O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also declared that “Turkey has nothing that contradicts Taliban beliefs.”
Afghan supreme leader orders full implementation of sharia law
Agence France-Presse,
November 14, 2022:
Afghanistan’s supreme leader has ordered judges to fully enforce aspects of Islamic law that include public executions, stonings, floggings and the amputation of limbs for thieves, the Taliban’s chief spokesperson said.
Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted on Sunday that the “obligatory” command by Haibatullah Akhundzada came after the secretive leader met with a group of judges.
Akhundzada, who has not been filmed or photographed in public since the Taliban returned to power in August last year, rules by decree from Kandahar, the movement’s birthplace and spiritual heartland.
The Taliban promised a softer version of the harsh rule that characterised their first stint in power, from 1996-2001, but have gradually clamped down on rights and freedoms.
“Carefully examine the files of thieves, kidnappers and seditionists,” Mujahid quoted Akhundzada as saying. Those files in which all the sharia [Islamic law] conditions of hudud and qisas have been fulfilled, you are obliged to implement. This is the ruling of sharia, and my command, which is obligatory.”
Mujahid was not available on Monday to expand on his tweet.
Hudud refers to offences for which, under Islamic law, certain types of punishment are mandated, while qisas translates as “retaliation in kind” – effectively an eye for an eye.
Hudud crimes include adultery – and falsely accusing someone of it – drinking alcohol, theft, kidnapping and highway robbery, apostasy and rebellion.
Qisas covers murder and deliberate injury, among other things, but also allows for the families of victims to accept compensation in lieu of punishment. (ie Blood Money).
Islamic scholars say crimes leading to hudud punishment require a very high degree of proof, including – in the case of adultery – confession, or being w
itnessed by four adult male Muslims.
itnessed by four adult male Muslims.
Since last year’s takeover, videos and pictures of Taliban fighters meting out summary floggings to people accused of various offences have appeared frequently on social media.
On several occasions the Taliban have also displayed in public the bodies of kidnappers who they said were killed in shootouts.
There have also been reports of adulterers being flogged in rural areas after Friday prayers, but independent verification has been difficult to obtain.
21 Palestinians killed in house fire in Gaza, Israel offers assistance
21 Palestinians killed in house fire in Gaza, Israel offers assistanceDeadly house fire in Gaza, Nov. 17, 2022.
(Twitter/Joe Truzman/Screenshot)
“Israel will be do the right thing to help the residents of Gaza who were harmed,
in order to save lives,” Defense Minister Gantz tweeted.
By Associated Press
November 17, 2022
A fire that broke out on Thursday evening in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 21 people, the territory’s Hamas rulers said, in one of the deadliest incidents in recent years outside the violence stemming from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The blaze erupted on the third floor of a three-story building in the crowded Jabaliya refugee camp, according to the terrorist group.
The Civil Defense in Gaza, which is run by Hamas, attributed the cause of the fire to gasoline that was being stored in the building. It was not immediately clear how the gasoline ignited. Officials said an investigation was underway.
Flames were seen spewing out of the windows of the burning floor as hundreds of people gathered outside on the street, waiting for fire trucks and ambulances.
Gaza, ruled by Hamas and under a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade, faces a severe energy crisis. People often store cooking gas, diesel and gasoline in homes in preparation for winter. House fires have previously been caused by candles and gas leaks.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas offered condolences to the families of the dead and declared Friday a day of mourning.
Hussein Al-Sheikh, a senior Palestinian Authority official, called on Israel to open its border crossing with Gaza to allow for the evacuation of those injured who need advanced medical care to Palestinian hospitals in Israel.
“The State of Israel and the security establishment express sorrow for the heavy disaster in Gaza,” Defense Minister Benny Gantz tweeted, adding that the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) has offered humanitarian assistance in the evacuation of hurt civilians.
“Israel will be do the right thing to help the residents of Gaza who were harmed, in order to save lives,” he stated.
It is not unusual for Israel to open its hospitals to Palestinians, even Palestinian terrorists. But you will never see that reciprocated.
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