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Islamic Jihad commander’s son captured, 1 killed in IDF anti-terror raid
December 5, 2022
Islamic Jihad commander’s son captured, 1 killed in IDF anti-terror raid Israeli forces
during a counterterrorism operation in Jenin. (IDF)
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
The son of a top Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) commander was arrested overnight Monday in an anti-terror raid in Jenin, several months after the arrest of his father triggered rocket launches from the Gaza Strip.
Hebrew-language media reported that Bassam Saadi’s son Yahya was taken into custody by Israeli security forces in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
In August, after the elder Saadi was arrested, operatives of the terror group in the Gaza Strip targeted Israeli communities with rocketfire for two days.
Channel 12 News reported that video footage which captured the arrest of the younger Saadi is widely circulating on Palestinian social media, sparking concerns that PIJ terrorists in the Strip will once again lash out against Israel in retaliation.
Also early Tuesday morning, a 22-year-old Palestinian man was killed during an IDF operation near Bethelem.
“During the operation, suspects threw stones, Molotov cocktails and explosives at the troops, who responded by shooting,” the IDF said in a statement.
“Hits” on people throwing projectiles at soldiers “were identified,” the army added.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said that four people had been wounded in clashes with IDF soldiers.
Anti-aircraft missiles mean an escalation in Gaza terrorism.
On Saturday evening, Gaza-based terrorists – widely believed to been affiliated with PIJ – fired rockets at Israel as a response to the arrest of several PIJ terrorists last week in Jenin.
The IDF responded by bombing a Hamas weapons and rockets manufacturing site near Rafah in the southern Strip, and the terror group shot anti-aircraft and surface-to-air missiles at IAF jets.
Although attempts to down the IAF aircraft were unsuccessful, they represent an escalation between Gaza-based terror groups and Israel.
The Gulf Kingdom of Qatar, which is a major funder of both Hamas and provider of financial aid to Palestinian civilians in the Strip, reportedly pressured the terror groups not to launch rockets at Israel for the duration of the World Cup.
The World Cup is currently being held in Qatar, and the country is contending with major public relations crises on the world stage around its human rights record and logistical errors in planning the tournament.
Macron tackles French immigration 'anxieties' with new law
Shahzad ABDUL and Adam PLOWRIGHT
Tue, 6 December 2022 at 5:02 am·
French President Emmanuel Macron is set to make a second attempt at increasing expulsions of illegal immigrants after a series of scandals and under fierce pressure from his far-right opponents.
Macron's centrist government is set to unveil the outlines of a new draft immigration law on Tuesday that will be debated formally in parliament in early 2023.
It comes just four years after a 2018 law with similar objectives, passed during Macron's first term in office, which was also aimed at taking the heat out of an explosive political issue.
"It's about integrating better and expelling better," Macron's hardline interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, told France Inter radio on Tuesday of the new proposals.
"We want those people who work, not those who rob."
Darmanin and Macron have clearly linked immigration to crime in recent weeks, with both saying that around half of petty crimes committed in Paris are by foreigners.
Speaking to the Parisien newspaper at the weekend, Macron pitched the new law as a means of addressing the historic rise of the far-right National Rally, which since June is the biggest opposition party in parliament.
"We need a policy that is firm and humane in line with our values," the 44-year-old said. "It's the best antidote to the extremes which feed off anxieties."
Figures from the interior ministry show that France currently expels around 10 percent of migrants who have been ordered to leave the country and the rate has never been higher than 20 percent.
- 'Nothing will change' -
Around 13,000 were expelled in 2021, a year when around 120,000 asylum claims were lodged.
The country's lengthy legal appeals process, bureaucracy and a lack of state resources are seen as reasons for the low expulsion rate, which Darmanin has pledged to increase.
Like many European countries, France also struggles to persuade countries in North and West Africa to re-admit their citizens once they are subject to an expulsion order.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who scored 41 percent in the second round of April's presidential election, regularly accuses the government of laxity and "submerging" France with foreigners.
In her third bid for the presidency this year, she proposed changing the constitution via a referendum to speed up expulsions, set immigration targets and ensure French people got priority over foreigners for all state services.
"I don't expect anything (from the new law)," she said on Tuesday. "They will talk to us again about balancing firmness and humanity. We've heard that for decades.
"Nothing will change... immigration in our country is completely out of control."
A gruesome murder of a 12-year-old schoolgirl in Paris in October caused a major political scandal after it emerged that her killer was an Algerian woman who had been ordered to leave the country.
The chaotic management of 234 migrants and asylum seekers who landed in France in November aboard the charity rescue ship Ocean Viking has also embarrassed the government.
- Legal migration route -
Although the interior ministry initially said most of the adults had been refused entry to France, only a handful were detained after they lodged asylum claims and court appeals.
The new draft legislation, which Darmanin has co-written, would reduce the number of appeals possible for failed asylum seekers from 12 to three and in theory speed up expulsion procedures.
It would also remove safeguards for foreigners who arrived in France as children, making it easier to expel them if they are convicted of crimes -- a measure designed to tackle teenage delinquents.
And there will be measures to offer speedier work permits to foreign workers with skills required in particular sectors of the economy, a system already in place in countries such as Australia and Canada.
Macron's MPs are a minority in parliament, meaning the bill will need support from opposition parties such as the conservative Republicans, which have criticised the proposals as too weak.
France has passed 29 different laws on immigration since 1980.
Nearly eight in 10 French people think the government has failed to control new arrivals, according to a poll by the CSA survey group published by the CNews channel last month.
Around seven in 10 think there are too many foreigners in France, multiple polls this year have shown.
Islamists Manhandle Journalist for Questioning San Diego Imam
About ‘Hate Crime’
San Diego imam Uthman Ibn Farooq led attendees of the Authentic Ilm Mission conference in Aurora, Colo., in a chant of “Allahu Akbar!” on Sunday, November 27, 2022 after refusing to reveal the identity of the person allegedly serving time in jail for stabbing him in March. (YouTube screenshot.)
By Dexter Van Zile
December 2, 2022
Freelance journalist Ahnaf Kalam, a frequent contributor to Focus on Western Islamism (FWI), was roughly escorted out of a mosque in Aurora, Colo., on Sunday. He was removed from the mosque after asking California imam Uthman Ibn Farooq to provide the name of the person he said was serving time in jail for attacking him in San Diego in March.
Instead of responding directly to questions about the attack — which have dogged the imam for months — Ibn Farooq called Kalam a liar and led the audience in a chant of “Allahu Akbar!” before Kalam was led out of the building by Karim Abu Zaid, imam of the Colorado Muslims Community Center (CMCC) in Aurora where the confrontation took place.
Imam Karim Abu Zaid manhandles freelance journalist Ahnaf Kalam out of the Colorado Muslims Community Center in Aurora after Uthman Ibn Farooq refused to reveal the identity of the person allegedly incarcerated for stabbing him in March
“You see these Islamophobes? They come lying themselves and they accuse us,” Ibn Farooq shouted in response to Kalam’s queries. The confrontation took place at the end of a sparsely attended annual Authentic Ilm Mission conference featuring Daniel Haqiqatjou.
In his queries to Ibn Farooq, Kalam was following up on two articles he wrote for FWI about an alleged stabbing against the imam that reportedly took place in San Diego in March. The stabbing, which Ibn Farooq portrayed as an “Islamophobic” hate crime was publicized in Muslim news outlets throughout the world and prompted an alarmist press release from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
In his reporting, Kalam discovered that neither the San Diego Police Department nor the local district attorney’s office had any information about the attack months after it allegedly took place. A recent query to the California Attorney General has yielded similar results, indicating that if the attack did in fact take place, Ibn Farooq never reported it to the police.
FWI’s coverage of the event prompted Ibn Farooq to declare that not only was he attacked, but that his alleged attacker had pleaded guilty and was currently serving time in jail for his crimes. The imam refused to provide any details about the attacker or the court proceedings that allegedly resulted in the unknown attacker’s incarceration.
After Kalam’s departure, a clearly-rattled Ibn Farooq went on an extended rant during which he declared that the details surrounding the attack, which he publicized in a YouTube video, were “his personal business.”
Truth is never an obstacle for Islamic leaders.
“I have my court documents,” he said. “I don’t need to show them to anybody. We’re going to show the documents when I want. I’m not obliged to help anybody here — for them to promote their Islamophobic ideas. These are the same people on the same websites that claim that school shootings have actors in them.”
“I don’t think I’ve ever written the words ‘school shootings,’ in a story in my life,” Kalam said afterwards.
Since the Nigerian government is doing little or nothing to eliminate these jihadists, gang rivalries might help reduce the numbers. But unfortunately, women and girls end up paying the price for this Islamic madness.
Boko Haram Fighters Slaughter 33 Wives Of ISWAP TerroristsIn Deadly Clashes In Borno State
December 6, 2022
Sahara Reporters
The rival groups have been attacking communities in the Northeast region since both camps fell apart over leadership issues.
In what appeared to be a continuation of their sustained inter-rivalry clash, irate Boko Haram fighters have killed at least 33 wives of Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists in Borno State.
A counter-insurgency expert, Zagazo Makama, disclosed this in a series of tweets on Tuesday.
The rival groups have been attacking communities in the Northeast region since both camps fell apart over leadership issues.
The groups have also since been having clashes, and Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram, was reportedly killed during one of such clashes in 2021.
According to Makama, the recent inter-rivalry clash occurred in Sambisa Forest.
He said the action was to avenge the killing of Boko Haram commander, Malam Aboubakar (Munzir) and 15 other fighters who were neutrialised in a deadly infighting.
“In the aftermath of the encounters, Boko Haram members seized four Hilux trucks mounted with weapons belonging to their rivals and burnt another,” he tweeted.
“A source said that shortly after the victory, the Boko Haram fighters mobilized more fighters from Abu Ikilima's camp at Gaizuwa, Gabchari, Mantari and Mallum Masari to attack more ISWAP positions in Ukuba, Arra and Sabil Huda and Farisu, killing about 23 more fighters.
“Few hours later, a top ISWAP leader, Ba'ana Chingori, called for a declaration of war and led a column of fighters to carry out reprisal attacks on the Boko Haram in Farisu.
“The attack paid off as the ISWAP neutrialized 15 Boko Haram terrorists including a unit Commander, Malam Aboubakar (Munzir) and seized 7 motorcycles from them.
“The ISWAP group later retreated and took position at the camp of Izzah. Thereafter, they moved to Garin Abbah, located about 2 kilometers where they pinned down to wait for the Boko Haram.
“But instead of going to meet the ISWAP rivals to continue the fight, the Boko-Haram elements did a detour and headed to where ISWAP wives are located and killed 33 of them.
“It will be seen in the coming days how ISWAP fighters will react to the brutal killing of their wives by the Boko Haram elements.”
Most of those wives were probably innocent girls kidnapped from their homes or schools throughout the region. Jihadists have no moral compass whatsoever.
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