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An unprovoked Islamic State-style knife attack in the Mira Road area near Mumbai, Maharashtra, has triggered widespread alarm and high-level investigation, with authorities probing suspected jihadist reasons behind the assault. The incident occurred unexpectedly at around 4:00 AM on Monday, April 27, 2026, in the Naya Nagar locality, an area with a significant Muslim population, where a Muslim man attacked two Hindu security guards at an under-construction site after questioning their religion and asking them to recite the Islamic Kalma, that is, the profession of faith.
According to police officials, the accused, identified as Zaib Zuber Ansari, initially approached one of the guards under the pretext of seeking directions. He reportedly returned shortly afterward and began questioning the guards about their religious identity. Investigators say he demanded that they recite the Islamic verse, and when they failed to do so, he attacked them with a sharp weapon, leaving both men seriously injured.
Zaib Zuber Ansari, Screenshot, X
The victims, identified as Rajkumar Mishra and Subroto Ramesh Sen, sustained multiple stab wounds. One of the injured guards reached a nearby hospital on his own, while a passerby assisted the other. Both are currently undergoing treatment.
Police launched an immediate search operation using CCTV footage from the area, and were able to track down and arrest the accused within approximately 90 minutes of the attack. A case has been registered against him under charges including attempted murder and promoting enmity between different groups. Given the nature of the incident, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has taken over key aspects of the investigation.
Apologists for Islam have repeatedly cited lack of education and poverty as an excuse for Islamic terrorism, but this case has once again refuted their argument, as Ansari was neither uneducated nor economically disadvantaged. Ansari is a science graduate who spent several years in the United States before returning to India around 2019. He was reportedly working as an online tutor and living alone in Mira Road.
Media houses are now trying to humanize the attacker by running a narrative that as his Afghan wife left him and he was suffering from isolation, he went out and attacked two innocent workers just doing their job. However, people are no longer buying into attempts to sympathize with jihadis after they attack innocent people.
According to the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), a search of accused Zaib Zuber Ansari’s residence led investigators to handwritten notes in which he expressed an intention to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Sources further indicated that terms such as “jihad” and “Gaza” were also written in these notes. Authorities are currently conducting a detailed forensic analysis of his electronic devices, including mobile phones and computers, to trace his digital footprint and identify any possible links to online jihad networks.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has indicated that the attack appears to be ideologically motivated and may have been intended to target individuals based on religion, raising concerns about attempts to incite communal tension.
As of the latest updates, the accused remains in custody, and the ATS continues to interrogate him, while expanding the investigation to include his contacts, travel history, and online activities. Authorities are also working to determine whether he had attempted to reach out to jihad groups, or was influenced solely through digital propaganda. Officials are particularly concerned about the role of online platforms in facilitating jihad recruitment without physical contact with jihad organizations.
The attack appears to be an isolated incident, but its nature has raised serious concerns about emerging patterns of jihad recruitment and the potential for similar jihad attacks in urban areas. While investigators have not found any direct links between the individual and the Islamic State (ISIS), and the incident is being classified as a lone-wolf attack, it is even more concerning. Intelligence agencies and law enforcement can monitor and track organized terror plots to some extent, but predicting or preventing the actions of random Muslims who appear to live ordinary lives is far more difficult. There is no possible way to predict when a jihad-inclined Muslim might suddenly choose to go out to confront people on the streets, demand that they recite the Kalma, and stab them if they are unable to do so.
Mumbai is neither a border region nor an area typically associated with active terrorism; it is one of India’s largest and busiest cities, where millions go about their daily routines. If ISIS-inspired jihadis begin to target ordinary citizens in a city such as Mumbai, it could significantly disrupt the sense of safety and normalcy that urban life depends on.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has firm views on Israel: he doesn’t like the Jewish state, and wishes it would disappear. He is convinced it practices “apartheid” at home and “genocide” abroad. He has fantasized about creating, and heading, a pan-Islamic army that would be able to defeat the IDF, so that “from the river and the sea/Palestine will be free” — which is the thinly-disguised call for Israel to disappear entirely, to be replaced by a state of “Palestine.”
Erdogan has watched with alarm Israel’s swift battering of Iran, a display of advanced weaponry, spectacular intelligence, and a brilliant and brave soldiery, made up of both battle-hardened professionals and reservists. But he is not entirely displeased at the weakening of the Islamic Republic. He wants Iran weakened, but not enough to lead to the regime’s collapse, that could mean Iranian Kurds would gain full autonomy. More on this can be found here:
As Israel becomes a dominant force in the Middle East, where does Turkey stand? – analysis
As the smoke cleared over Tehran after the beginning of the Israeli-US strikes, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quick to point the finger. “This all began following Netanyahu’s provocations,” the Turkish leader stated, “we feel deep sorrow and great concern.” He went further, issuing a chilling warning: “God willing, I have no doubt that Israel will pay the price for this.”
The casual observer might imagine that Turkey, fighting as it is with Iran for dominance of the region, would welcome the strike against the Islamic Republic.
However, Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, a leading expert on Turkish affairs at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, explains that Turkey has a vested interest in the survival of the current Iranian regime.
“Ankara does not want to see a new ‘surprise’ in the form of regime change,” Yanarocak notes. “They are interested in the continuation of the regime because if a revolution occurs, Turkey’s monopoly as the primary bridge between the West and the Middle East simply disappears.”
Policy expert Jonathan Adiri agrees, suggesting that Turkey prefers a crippled neighbor over a liberated one.
“Turkey wants a non-nuclear, weak Iran,” Adiri says. “They want a sort of ‘weakened virus’ in the region. An Iran that is pro-Western and working with the Americans would become a magnet for foreign investment, which would directly hurt the Turkish economy.”
Right now, Turkey sees itself as the chief Muslim interlocutor with America. It has been a member of NATO since 1952, and in the past, the Americans used the Incirlik air base to spy on the Soviets and to pre-position war planes in case of need in the region. However, in recent years, Turkey has sometimes refused to allow the Americans to use that base to attack ISIS fighters in Iraq. Right now, Turkey continues, despite Erdogan’s hysterical anti-Israel animus, to be the main bridge between the Muslim world and the West, while Iran is a confirmed enemy of the West, especially of the United States, the Islamic Republic’s “Great Satan.”
Perhaps the most potent driver of Erdogan’s anxiety is the Kurdish question. For decades, the Iranian and Turkish regimes have shared a common interest in suppressing Kurdish nationalist aspirations. A destabilized Iran could lead to the emergence of an autonomous or independent Kurdish entity on Turkey’s southern border – a prospect Erdogan finds intolerable.
According to several sources, Erdogan and other senior Turkish officials pressured US President Donald Trump not to give a green light to an Israeli operation that would have resulted in Kurdish fighters in Iran starting a rebellion against the Iranian regime.
For decades, the Israelis have had clandestine ties with Kurds in Iraq and Iran. Beginning in the 1960s, Israel provided weapons and training to Kurdish forces — known as the peshmerga — in Iraq, and it still does. Since Muslim fanatics took over Iran 47 years ago, Israel has supplied weapons intermittently to Kurdish militias in that country as well. After the American pullout of forces from Syria, Israel decided to supply weapons to Syrian Kurds in their quasi-autonomous stronghold of Rojava. Erdogan is fearful of any Kurdish separatist movement in Iran or Iraq or Syria, that if successful, might prompt the Kurds in Turkey to join forces with those other Kurds in order to realize the ancient dream of an independent Kurdistan. Turkey wants Iran to be weakened, but left strong enough to suppress the Kurdish militias inside the country.
Adira [sic] points out that Erdogan and Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan drew a red line with Washington regarding the use of Kurdish forces from Iraq to move against Iran.
“Erdogan told his public: ‘Case closed,’ regarding the Kurdish story,” Adiri observes. “He is deathly afraid of that box being reopened. From Ankara’s perspective, the success of a Kurdish-led or Kurdish-supported uprising in Iran would have a domino effect on Kurds in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.”…
That is exactly what Israel would want: that “domino effect” following upon the 15 million Kurds in Iran carrying out a successful separatist uprising. After the shellacking the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iranian army received in recent months from Israeli and American forces, this may be the Iranian Kurds’ best chance to rise up. If they do so, they can almost certainly count on Israel’s support. The IDF could supply the Kurds with both intelligence and weapons, including missiles, drones, artillery, and likely use its fighter jets, too, in order to halt with bombs away any attempted advance by Iranian forces.
See, he didn’t have an actual Islamic State (ISIS) membership card, so his conviction was overturned. This is because authorities refuse to admit the possibility that an individual Muslim might independently decide to turn to jihad, without being a member of a designated terrorist organization. If authorities admitted this, they’d have to admit that there might be something within Islam that incites violence. And they’ll never come close to admitting that.
Akayed Ullah, NJ Department of Homeland Security, Public domain
Court overturns subway bomber’s conviction for giving ISIS ‘material support,’ raising questions about terrorism prosecutions
(CNN) — A federal appeals court reversed a terrorism-related conviction for the 2017 New York City subway bomber in a decision that could have wide-reaching effects for the prosecutions of accused terrorists.
Akayed Ullah detonated a pipe bomb inside a busy Manhattan transit station in 2017, causing panic among commuters and injuring nearby civilians. Ullah later told investigators he carried out the attack in support of the terrorist group ISIS.
After a weeklong trial, Ullah was convicted of six charges, including one count of providing material support or resources to a terrorist organization. This week, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned his conviction on that charge, finding although Ullah was inspired by ISIS propaganda online, he acted “entirely independently” of the terrorist organization.
As a result, the evidence to convict Ullah of providing material support under the relevant statute was insufficient, the court found – though the panel upheld his convictions on the other charges, including committing a terrorist attack against mass transportation systems.
While the ruling will not affect Ullah’s sentence of life in prison, experts say it could affect previous convictions and how prosecutors approach terrorism-related cases going forward….
African Migrant Beats to a Pulp the 85-Year-Old Italian Who Fed Him
Here is one more example of Third World immigrants, overwhelmingly Muslim, repaying with extreme violence the charity workers in Europe who have helped them. The sickening story can be found here:
Italy: 85-year-old soup kitchen volunteer viciously beaten by Nigerian man he fed every day, now calls for remigration
An elderly soup kitchen volunteer, Antonio Turrisi, was viciously beaten to the point that he lost his spleen and has been left unable to walk. Incredibly, the suspect is a homeless Nigerian man who the 85-year-old man fed everyday in the soup kitchen. The injuries, which have proven life destroying, have now left Turrisi calling for remigration.
The attack occurred five months ago on Nov. 14, 2025, in the city of Empoli as Turrisi was headed back home from the Emmaus soup kitchen. However, the victim is far from recovery and can only walk thanks to a walker. Besides having his spleen removed due to the vicious attack, he also has permanent nerve damage to his foot.
Video surveillance shows the man approaching Turrisi and beating him without mercy or warning, with a flurry of punches and kicks. The beating only stopped when a passerby intervened.
The Italian news outlet La Nazione Empoli has since interviewed Turrisi.
“I almost died, they told me that two more kicks would have been enough to send me to the other world,” he told the paper.
When asked if the attacker said anything to him before the beating, Turrisi responded: “Not even a word. He attacked me for no reason. Even now I can’t explain why this could have happened. They told me he was tracked down, arrested and taken to prison.”
While the trauma has blurred his memory of the beating, he says the image of his attacker remains.
“I can’t explain why this could have happened,” said Turrisi….
What fun for a young man who belongs to the “best of peoples” (Qur’an 3:110) to treat an elderly Italian who belongs to the “most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6) in this way.
This vignette, like so many others, offers a glimpse into the Muslim crime wave that has been engulfing all of Europe, where Muslim criminals victimize their non-Muslim hosts. As Milton wrote in Areopagitica, “Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks.” Europe can be that “noble and puissant nation” now rousing herself from her deep sleep of unreason, girding her loins, fighting back against the tens of millions of Muslims now in the continent, who really should vacate the premises. If, that is, it has the will to do so.
UK: Teenage boy converts to Islam, obtains weapons, explosives, and suicide vest
When he converted to Islam, his parents and teachers were likely supportive and positive. After all, they’re not “Islamophobes.” They know Islam is a religion of peace that is completely and entirely benign in all of its aspects, and that only very bad people suggest otherwise. And so they would never have dreamed of trying to convince this young man to reconsider his decision to convert to Islam. That would have been narrow-minded and “bigoted.”
And so now this. The boy became a jihad terrorist. Why did he do that? Did he immediately misunderstand his new, peaceful religion? Why didn’t the local imam and his new friends at the mosque prevent that from happening? Why do so many converts to Islam become terrorists, while so few converts to Christianity do so, if any become terrorists at all? These questions cannot be answered or even asked in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain today. To ask them would also be “Islamophobic.”
Islip, Oxfordshire, by Dave Price, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0
Update as Oxfordshire boy accused of having suicide vest
An update has been issued after an Oxfordshire boy was accused of having a suicide vest and of supporting Islamic State (IS).
The 16-year-old, who cannot be named, has been charged with stockpiling weapons, explosives and a suicide vest at his family home.
From Didcot, he appeared at the Old Bailey in London today (Friday, April 24) with his trial now scheduled for next January, although that may change.
He is also accused of supporting IS and is suspected of sharing its propaganda on terrorist attacks as well as footage of battlefield explosions and killings….
The boy, who converted to Islam as a teenager, is said to have had swords in his possession as well as homemade explosives.
He faces seven terrorism charges including over the alleged possession of a suicide vest….
According to the charges, it is said he sent a video “containing footage of Islamic State” to another person in November last year and the following month shared a “battlefield video containing footage of Islamic State”….
Iranian group claims responsibility for terrorist attack on Jewish men in London
Two Jewish men were stabbed in London on Wednesday by a knife-wielding terrorist
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Iranian regime-backed group has claimed responsibility for the antisemitic attack.
The two men were seriously injured in the heavily Jewish Golders Green neighborhood in a horrific rampage. Iranian proxy group Islamists Ashab al-Yamin soon took credit for the onslaught.
A chilling video shared on X appears to show the man suddenly attacking an elderly man at a bus stop.
Two Jewish men were stabbed in London on Wednesday by a knife-wielding maniac seen running down the street “trying to attack Jews.”
AFP via Getty Images
The same man is then seen chasing a younger man wearing Orthodox Jewish clothing.
Cops later took down the obese knifeman to the ground and put in handcuffs by several police officers — with at least two seen kicking him in the head as they tried to wrestle the knife away from him during a scuffle.
He was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
The attack was officially declared a “terrorist incident” by the UK’s Counter Terrorism Police.
A chilling video shared on X appears to show the man suddenly attacking an elderly man at a bus stop.
“If the law allowing the execution of prisoners is not stopped, you will be executed in the streets,” the group said in a statement shared on Telegram.
The group, which security experts say is a proxy for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has targeted Jewish sites across Europe, recruiting local criminals for its attacks, according to security experts.
The Metropolitan Police on Wednesday defended the actions of its officers after a Muslim activist, Ammar Kazmi, accused cops of going overboard in incapacitating the suspected terrorist.
“Our brave officers confronted a man they believed to be a terrorist, who refused to show his hands, who was violent, and who continued to pose a clear threat,” the Metropolitan Police said in a statement on X in response to Kazmi’s post.
The two men were seriously injured after the suspect went on the rampage in the Golders Green neighborhood in north London on Wednesday.
AFP via Getty Images
“Using only their training, courage, and tasers, they detained him while he continued to try to attack and stab them. This took true courage,” the statement concluded.
The police were helped by Jewish volunteers from the neighborhood watch group Shomrim.
“One male was seen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and attempting to stab Jewish members of the public,” a spokesperson for Shomrim said on social media.
“Shomrim responded immediately and detained the suspect. Police attended and deployed a taser. The male has now been arrested,” the spokesperson continued.
The two victims were being treated by Hatzola, a Jewish volunteer ambulance service.
James Veysey/Shutterstock
The two victims — one in his 70s and one in his 30s — were being treated by Hatzola, a Jewish volunteer ambulance service, the spokesperson said.
They were both listed in stable condition.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the incident “deeply concerning” as he addressed the House of Commons on Wednesday.
“There is now a police investigation, and I think we all need to do everything we can to support that investigation and be absolutely clear in our determination to deal with any of these offenses, the like of which we’ve seen too much recently,” he told MPs.
“One male was seen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and attempting to stab Jewish members of the public,” a spokesperson for the Jewish neighborhood watch group Shomrim said on social media.
X / @CharlieZtuker
The attack is the latest apparent antisemitic incident in London.
Earlier in April, Kenton United Synagogue in north London was hit by a suspected arson attack, while an area around the Israeli Embassy was cordoned off following a report that it had been targeted with drones carrying “dangerous substances,” according to police.
On Tuesday, a memorial wall in Golders Green commemorating anti-regime protesters in Iran was subject to an arson attack, leading to the Iranian ambassador being summoned by the prime minister.
Police investigate a cordoned-off area in the Golders Green neighborhood of north London on April 29, 2026, following the stabbing of two people nearby.
The unidentified suspect, 45, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
X / @CharlieZtuker
Such disturbing incidents have increased in the wake of the war in Gaza.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry called on the UK to act “decisively and urgently” to stop the rise of antisemitism.
“After attacks on synagogues, Jewish institutions, community ambulances and now Jews targeted in Golders Green, the UK government can no longer claim this is under control,” the ministry said in a statement on X.
“Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s statements are no substitute for confronting the roots of antisemitism festering across the United Kingdom,” the statement continued.
“British Jews should not need security patrols and emergency volunteers to live openly as Jews. Enough words. The UK must act decisively and urgently.”
