Islam in Canada > Muslim in Surrey, B.C., in compliance with the Quran, slashes the necks of two men

 

‘On behalf of the Islamic State’: Security video shows terror attack on Surrey bus

Global News has obtained video surveillance entered as evidence at a recent B.C. Supreme Court trial that ended with federal prosecutors securing a terrorism conviction in a horrifying attack on a Surrey transit bus two years ago.

Abdul Aziz Kawam, 30, assaulted a man with a knife at a bus stop near Fraser Highway and 156th Street before boarding a bus and slashing another passenger in the throat on April 1, 2023. Both men survived.

Security video shows Kawam walking onto the bus, followed a few seconds later by his victim, whose identity is protected by a publication ban.

Both stood near the rear exit doors of the bus and rode together in silence for approximately three minutes, not speaking or interacting.

Kawam then suddenly pulled out a large knife and slashed at the victim’s neck three times, intending to kill him, according to the Admissions submitted at trial.

As bus passengers are heard screaming in the video, the victim used his body to push Kawam out of the bus.

“He was bleeding out of his neck and he still managed to throw his attacker off the bus,” said Oren Bick, general counsel with the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.

The knife nicked the victim’s vocal cords and missed his main artery by a millimetre, his brother-in-law, whom we are not identifying as per the publication ban, told Global News days after the attack.

“It scared him to his core, he thought he was going to die,” he said in April 2023.

Some fifteen minutes earlier on April 1, Kawam had used the same knife to attack his first victim across the street.

“Mr. Kawam initially approached him and asked are you Muslim?,” Bick told Global News in an interview.

When the man replied “No”, Kawam went back to the bus stop, prayed for approximately two minutes, and then returned, taking the large knife out of his jacket and attacking the victim, aiming a slashing motion at his neck without making contact.

The victim, who pushed Kawam away and ran, described the blade as being approximately 10 inches, according to the Admissions.

“Kawam chased him for some distance, knife still in hand, but (the victim) was ultimately able to escape,” stated the Admissions, and was able to call 911 from a gas station nearby.

“This wasn’t a who done it, this was a why did he do it,” said Bick. “There was really no disputing what happened.”

Justice J. Miriam Gropper was tasked with determining whether the facts amounted to a terrorist purpose and Bick said the B.C. Supreme Court justice found the Crown proved its case on all three routes.

On June 30, Kawam was convicted of attempted murder and assault with a weapon for the benefit of, at the direction of, and in association with a terrorist group: the Islamic State.

“From day one of this case, within a minute of committing the attack, he took credit for it and he said it’s on behalf of the Islamic State,” Bick told Global News.

The 911 Call

After he was pushed out of the bus, Kawam walked down the street and called 911 from his mobile phone, pledging allegiance to the then leader of the Islamic State.

“I pledge my allegiance to Abu Al-Hussain Al-Hussaini Al-Qurashi, Hafezahoullah,” he told the 911 operator, who asked, ‘Sir, what’s going on?’.

“On behalf of Islamic State, I just did an attack in the bus,” Kawam replied.

When the operator asked what happened, Kawam answered: “You want the war to end, become Muslim, or pay the Jizya to the Islamic State. Don’t be fool and hide this message from your people because this will hurt civilians.”

Moments later, the RCMP officer dispatched to the scene following the first victim’s 911 call, arrived and saw Kawam on the sidewalk, still holding the knife.

According to the Admissions, the officer drew her firearm and directed Kawam to drop the knife three times before he complied and was arrested.

An Apple iPhone 11 in Kawam’s possession was seized and later searched pursuant to a warrant.

“They found a steady stream of Islamic State propaganda that had been accessed over that phone over the past couple years leading up to the attack,” Bick said.

The Pledge of Allegiance Video

Akey piece of evidence, according to Bick, was an almost three-minute-long video Kawam recorded of himself 10 days before the attack, in which he spoke about an “operation”.

March 22, 2023 was the first day of the month of Ramadan.

Kawam spoke in Arabic and pledged allegiance to Abu Al-Hussein Al-Husseini Al-Qurashi, told westerners to convert to Islam or pay a jizya [tribute], praised Islamic State, urged monotheists to jihad, promised slaughter at Dabiq [a Muslim analogue to Armageddon], and discussed an operation during Ramadan.

Translated into English, some of his last words in the video were: “Be steadfast and continue in your jihad. May God make us and you remain steadfast, lead us the right path and grant us success, God willing. This Operation, by God’s permission, in Ramadan, the month of attacks and conquests.”

“He affiliated himself with the Islamic State, used language that was based off of videos from other Islamic State cells that had been accessed on his phone and really connected what he was planning to do with the ideology of the Islamic State,” Bick told Global News.

The method of attack, a knife slashed across the neck, also suggested Islamic State involvement, said the prosecutor.

“In committing the attack that way, there were echoes of Islamic State propaganda videos many of which featured beheadings,” said Bick. “There was no beheading in this case but the mode of attack did to some degree suggest that that may have been contemplated.”

It is, in fact, in the Quran where Mohammed said to "strike the necks of the unbelievers". This is not an ISIS problem, but a Muslim problem.

Kawam remains in custody ahead of a sentencing hearing in December.

The Islamization of Europe > Muslims with machine gun arrested ahead of Christian festival in Italy; 900 Pro-Palestinians arrested at protest in London

 

2 Muslims With Machine Guns Arrested at Christian Festival of 40,000 in Italy

Sep 5, 2025 3:00 pm By Daniel Greenfield19 Comments

Nothing to worry about.

Another day and another one of those things we’re not supposed to talk about. In the past few weeks, two Muslims were arrested for plotting to bomb the Eiffel Tower and another was shot down in France after stabbing 5 people. (Authorities are still searching for the motive of the stabber who was shouting “Allahu Akbar”. It’ll turn out to be ‘mental illness’.

Now over to Italy.

An attack foiled at the Santa Rosa festival in Viterbo. The newspaper Il Messaggero reports that two Turkish citizens were arrested by the Italian Special Operations Division (DIGOS) with machine guns and other weapons. According to the Roman newspaper, the two men had a detailed plan and were ready to shoot.

According to Adnkronos, a citizen who reported the two Turkish nationals’ suspicious movements was the one who led them onto the trail. When police arrived at the scene around 2:30 PM yesterday, the two men—one aged 22, the other 40—were in their room with the submachine gun

Assorted Italian officials from the Meloni government and the Israeli ambassador were supposed to be present.

The media is trying to claim that this is organized crime, but the Santa Rosa festival is a Christian religious event so why would gangsters care about it?

Thousands of people attend Viterbo’s Macchina di Santa Rosa festival, a religious procession and celebration held every year on Sept. 3 to honor the city’s patron saint, Santa Rosa. The main event involves 100 “Facchini di Santa Rosa,” porters carrying a towering, illuminated structure called the “Macchina,” which weighs nearly 5 tons, through the city’s narrow medieval streets.

Either way you can imagine the carnage with 40,000 people gathered there.

Almost 900 arrested in London for supporting banned group Palestine Action

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Nearly 900 people were detained by police in London on Saturday for protesting against the ban on Palestine Action, a group the UK government has branded a terrorist organisation. Protesters say the ban is an unwarranted curb on free speech and the right to protest.

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British police said Sunday that they arrested almost 900 people demonstrating in London against a ban on the group Palestine Action, which has been deemed a terrorist organisation by the government.

Almost 1,600 people have now been detained, many for silently holding signs supporting the group, since it was outlawed two months ago. Protesters say the ban on Palestine Action is an unwarranted curb on free speech and the right to protest.

The Metropolitan Police force said 890 people were arrested at Saturday’s demonstration, the vast majority, 857, under the Terrorism Act for supporting a proscribed organisation. Some 33 were detained for other offenses, including 17 for assaulting police officers.

Defend Our Juries, the campaign group organising the protest, said 1,500 people took part in the demonstration outside Parliament, sitting down and holding signs reading “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.”

Within minutes, police began arresting the demonstrators, as bystanders chanted “Shame on you,” and “Met Police, pick a side, justice or genocide.” There were some scuffles and angry exchanges as officers dragged away demonstrators who went limp as they were removed from the crowd.

“In carrying out their duties today, our officers have been punched, kicked, spat on and had objects thrown at them by protesters,” said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Claire Smart, who called the abuse directed at police “intolerable.”

Defend Our Juries said aggression had come from police officers and dismissed claims that protesters had been violent as “frankly laughable".

More than 700 people were arrested at earlier protests, and 138 have been charged under the Terrorism Act.

Mike Higgins, 62, who is blind and uses a wheelchair, was arrested last month but returned to demonstrate on Saturday.

“And I’m a terrorist? That’s the joke of it,” he said. “I’ve already been arrested under the Terrorism Act and I suspect I will be today.

“Of course I’ll keep coming back. What choice do I have?”

The government proscribed Palestine Action in July, after activists broke into a Royal Air Force base and vandalised planes to protest against what they called Britain’s support for Israel’s offensive against Hamas in Gaza. The activists sprayed red paint into the engines of two tanker planes and caused further damage with crowbars.

Proscription made it a crime to publicly support the organisation. Membership of, or support for, the group is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

Palestine Action has carried out direct action protests in the UK since it formed in 2020, including breaking into facilities owned by Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems UK, and has targeted other sites in Britain that participants believe have links with the Israeli military.

The group has targeted defence companies and national infrastructure, and officials say their actions have caused millions of pounds in damage that affect national security.

Banning the group, then-Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said, “The assessments are very clear, this is not a nonviolent organisation.”

Palestine Action has won approval from the High Court to challenge the ban, a ruling the government is seeking to overturn. The case is ongoing, with a hearing scheduled for Sept. 25.

The UN human rights chief has criticised the British government’s stance, saying the new law “misuses the gravity and impact of terrorism".

The decision to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist group “raises serious concerns that counterterrorism laws are being applied to conduct that is not terrorist in nature, and risks hindering the legitimate exercise of fundamental freedoms across the UK", Volker Türk warned.

He added that according to international standards, terrorist acts should be confined to crimes such as those intended to cause death or serious injury or the taking of hostages.

Huda Ammori, Palestine Action’s co-founder, has condemned the government’s decision to ban it as “catastrophic” for civil liberties, leading to a “much wider chilling effect on freedom of speech".

The group has been supported by prominent cultural figures including bestselling Irish author Sally Rooney, who said she planned to use the proceeds of her work “to keep backing Palestine Action and direct action against genocide".

Israel – founded in part as a refuge in the wake of the Holocaust, when some 6 million European Jews were murdered – vehemently denies it is committing genocide.

Britain’s government stressed that proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group does not affect other lawful groups – including pro-Palestinian or pro-Israel voices – campaigning or peacefully protesting.

About 20,000 people, by a police estimate, attended a separate pro-Palestinian march in London on Saturday.

(FRANCE 24 with AP)

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Sharia Justice > Woman burnt to death after something she said about Mohammed; The Islamization of Nepal

 

Nigeria: Muslim mob burns woman to death after accusing her of criticizing Muhammad

Sep 3, 2025 8:00 am By Robert Spencer6 Comments

A glimpse into the future of Europe.

Mob Burns Nigerian Woman To Death Over Alleged Blasphemy Claim: Police

Agence France-Presse, September 2, 2025:

A mob burnt a woman to death in central Nigeria over the weekend after accusing her of blasphemy against Islam, police said Monday.

The woman “was set ablaze” on Saturday in a “mob attack” after she made comments about the Prophet Mohammed, police spokesman Wasiu Abiodun in Niger state said in a statement.

He said the woman was a food vendor named Amaye from northwest Nigerian Katsina state.

Abiodun added that the police condemned any act of “jungle justice” and urged members of the public to remain calm during the search for the attackers.

Sharia law operates alongside common law in 12 predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria — including Niger — and blasphemy is punishable by death….

 

Nepal: Muslims Throw Stones at Hindus During

Ganesh Immersion Procession

Sep 3, 2025 1:00 pm By Ashlyn Davis6 Comments

In one of our earlier reports, we highlighted how Nepal, a small Himalayan nation in South Asia, has witnessed a sharp rise in its Muslim population in recent years. This demographic shift has coincided with increasing Islamization, marked by the rapid establishment of mosques and unregulated madrasas. The growing influence has also made the country a haven for jihad groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS) and Jaish-e-Mohammed, turning it into fertile ground for jihad activity. More concerning, however, is the pattern of regular attacks on Hindus and attempts to restrict them from celebrating their festivals in their own land, once again reflecting how local populations are targeted when Muslims begin to gain demographic dominance.

On August 30, 2025, a Ganesh idol immersion procession in Janakpurdham, the capital of Nepal’s Madhesh Province, erupted into communal violence near Jhanda Chowk in Sub-Metropolitan City Ward 20. The procession, on its way to the Kashibhui pond, passed through a predominantly Muslim neighborhood when tensions suddenly escalated. Members of the Muslim community reportedly attempted to stop the procession and block the road, precipitating an argument between participants.

Matters quickly intensified as they took to throwing stones at the idol of the Hindu deity. This act triggered a fierce clash between the two communities. Law enforcement moved swiftly to contain the unrest. Police forces responded by deploying tear gas shells to disperse the agitated crowd.

According to Dhanusha Police Deputy Superintendent Bahadur Singh, two individuals were injured in the melee. A substantial police and armed police presence, with around 200 personnel, was mobilized, with deployments along major routes leading to and from Janakpurdham, including roads to Devpura-Rupaitha and Jatahi, to prevent escalation and maintain public order.

Residents and observers expressed concern that such attacks from Muslim groups during religious processions had become a recurring issue. Many pointed out that similar violence had also occurred during Durga immersion in prior years, and now, these were also becoming rampant in other Hindu festivals such as Ganesh Chaturthi. It’s evident that without long-term conflict resolution, such confrontations might become a yearly ritual rather than an anomaly.

This incident stands out for several reasons. First, it occurred in Janakpurdham, a historic and culturally significant city central to Nepal’s Madhesh region, and the administrative heart of the province. Second, the attack on Ganesh immersion is particularly notable, because this festival is typically regarded as a peaceful and unifying public event. Further, the severity of the attack, marked by stone-throwing, injuries, and significant law enforcement intervention, underscores the volatility of communal dynamics due to an increase in the Muslim population, even in spaces traditionally considered safe for Hindu religious observance.

In recent years, several parts of Nepal have witnessed violent disruptions during Hindu religious processions, raising concerns about recurring communal tensions. These incidents, often marked by stone-throwing and clashes along immersion routes, have prompted repeated curfews and heavy security deployments by local administrations.

One of the most serious flare-ups occurred in Birgunj, Parsa district, in April 2025 during a Hanuman Jayanti procession. On Saturday, April 12, a Muslim mob attacked a Hanuman Jayanti procession in Nepal’s Birgunj, prompting authorities to impose a curfew in several parts of the city. According to reports, Hindu organizations had organized a religious march to mark the festival when the procession was targeted with stone-throwing near Shreeram Hall Chowk in Chapkaiya-3. The violence quickly escalated, leaving several people, including police personnel, injured. Muslims also set multiple vehicles ablaze, further aggravating the situation. The situation deteriorated so quickly that the District Administration Office imposed a curfew in central Birgunj to restore order. Authorities later extended the restrictions and convened peace talks with local leaders, which ultimately resulted in a five-point agreement aimed at preventing further escalation.

In September 2020, Malangawa in Sarlahi district experienced unrest during a Bishwakarma idol immersion. A dispute between the Hindu and Muslim groups erupted during a ritual procession of immersing the idol of Bishwakarma at Malanga Municipality. Police said people from the Muslim community had interfered with the idol immersion program. According to officials, Hindus wish to transport the idol to the pond by walking along the route used on Fridays, while local Muslims are opposed to allowing them to organize the religious procession along that route. Gradually, the minor dispute was followed by a clash in which more than a dozen people sustained serious injuries. Police immediately took control of the site following the incident.

A similar pattern was seen earlier in Krishnanagar, Kapilvastu, in October 2018, when Muslims attacked a Durga idol immersion procession and threw stones at them from the rooftops of houses near a mosque. The clashes disrupted the festival atmosphere and compelled authorities to reimpose curfew orders in the town. The incident highlighted how immersion routes passing through sensitive localities can often become flashpoints for conflict.

Taken together, these incidents highlight a worrying trend. Hindu processions in Nepal, whether it be Hanuman Jayanti, Durga Puja, or Bishwakarma Puja, have increasingly been marred by attacks by Muslims, resulting in deadly clashes in recent years. While authorities have responded with curfews and security deployments, the repeated outbreaks point to unresolved underlying tensions that risk resurfacing during major festivals.

In the aftermath, authorities and civic leaders stressed the need for preventive measures, maintaining vigilance during religious gatherings, and fostering community-level understanding to avert further disruptions. Although the immediate situation was brought under control, the incident shed light on underlying tensions that, unless addressed substantively, risk escalating during future cultural and religious events.