This Week's Islamic Massacres > 30 Christians murdered, 70 houses burnt - DRC; Jabbar expected Paradise after death in New Orleans; Religion of Peace injures 14 Christians praying for peace

 

Democratic Republic of Congo:

Islamic State boasts of murdering

over 30 Christians, burning 70 houses

Jan 3, 2025 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

In the wake of an Islamic State (ISIS) jihadi’s massacre in New Orleans, some have professed to find it suspicious that ISIS has “mysteriously reappeared.” Anyone who thinks that ISIS has just reappeared simply hasn’t been paying attention.

“Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) Claims Beheading, Stabbing, Shooting To Death Over 30 Christian Villagers, Burning Over 70 Houses In Series Of Attacks In Eastern Democratic Republic Of Congo (DRC),” 

MEMRI, January 1, 2025.

At his home, New Orleans jihadi had Qur’an

opened to verse promising paradise

to those who ‘kill and are killed’

Jan 3, 2025 8:30 am By Robert Spencer

“Indeed, Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth, because the garden will be theirs, they will fight in the way of Allah and will kill and be killed. It is a promise that is binding on him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. Who fulfills his covenant better than Allah? Rejoice then in your bargain that you have made, for that is the supreme triumph.” (Qur’an 9:111)

The Torah and the Gospel actually do not promise paradise to those who fight in the way of God and kill and are killed. That idea is in the Qur’an only.

Even after this, however, no law enforcement or intelligence officials will dare to consider the possibility that the Qur’an itself is the source of “radicalization.”

New Orleans ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar had bomb-making station

and Quran open to chilling passage in his home, new photos reveal

by Jennie Taer, Chris Nesi and Alex Oliveira, New York Post, January 2, 2025:

HOUSTON – ISIS-inspired New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar kept a bomb-making workbench in his ramshackle Texas trailer home — where a Quran was left open on a page about “slaying” in the name of Allah, exclusive photos obtained by The Post show.

Jabbar’s north Houston home was filled with chemical residue and chemical bottles, while an inventory of items seized by the FBI — left behind by investigators who raided his house on Wednesday — included a long list of compounds used in bomb-making.

His Quran was propped atop a bookshelf, a centerpiece in his living room, and open to a passage reading, “they fight in Allah’s cause, and slay and are slain; a promise binding…”

That passage, Verse 9:111, expounds on Muslims’ responsibility to kill Allah’s enemies, and to be willing to die for that mission in return for eternity in paradise.

I'm sure Jabbar woke up to a terrifying surprise. The very opposite of what he was expecting. So many devout Muslims are fooled by Mohammed into doing Satan's work and getting Satan's 'reward'. 

Numerous books about Islam were also on the shelf and around the squalid home, while a prayer rug was rolled up nearby.

FBI officials on Thursday said Jabbar posted five disturbing videos on Facebook on his drive from Houston to New Orleans just hours before he unleashed carnage on Bourbon Street, leaving 14 innocent pedestrians dead.

In the first disturbing video — posted at 1:29 a.m. — the US Army veteran said he had initially planned on murdering his family and friends, but changed his mind over concerns that the resulting media coverage wouldn’t focus on the “war between the believers and disbelievers,” FBI counterterrorism official Chris Raia said.

In other videos, he said he had joined ISIS “before this summer” and showed off his last will and testament.

Investigators confirmed that Jabbar, 42, was ideologically aligned with ISIS and that he specifically chose Bourbon Street as the target of his monstrous act of terror.

However, they have yet to piece together what precisely brought about his radicalization….

The FBI revealed that Jabbar acted alone in the attack after poring over his social media accounts, conducting “hundreds” of interviews with witnesses and searching three cellphones and two laptops recovered from an Airbnb on Mandeville Street in New Orleans linked to the terror suspect….

 

 

Sudan: Muslims attack church prayer service, injuring 14

Jan 4, 2025 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

Imagine the international headlines if Christians attacked a mosque during prayers, which they would not do and should not do. But you’ll likely only hear about this here.

Church Prayer Service Attacked in Sudan, Injuring 14 Christians

Morning Star News, December 31, 2024:

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Militants of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked a church prayer service in Sudan’s Al Jazirah state on Monday (Dec. 30), wounding 14 Christians, sources said.

In the town of Al Hasaheisa, the militants mounted the assault as 177 Christians of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) were praying and fasting for the end of the military strife in Sudan, said church Secretary Joseph Suliman.

The militants of the Islamist RSF, which has been battling the equally Islamist Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) since April 2023, stormed into the worship building and beat church members on suspicion of supporting the SAF.

Mina Joseph, 18-year-old daughter of a church elder, was among those who sustained serious injuries and were in critical condition, Suliman told Morning Star News. The RSF also destroyed tables and the chairs in the worship building in the 10 a.m. assault.

The RSF, which controls the area, has prevented the church members and other Christians from leaving the area.

“They have attempted to flee the area several times, but they were prevented by RSF,” Suliman said.

The RSF has often accused civilians of supporting SAR as they attack, rape, kidnap and loot. The civil society group Al Jazirah Conference estimates RSF militants have driven all residents from 400 villages and partially emptied another 115 hamlets in the eastern part of the state alone, according to the Sudan Tribune.

The RSF reportedly began retaliating against local civilians on Oct. 20 after RSF leader Abu Aqla Kikil, a native of the area, defected to the army. The commander’s defection reportedly led to RSF violence that has displaced more than 500,000 people and killed hundreds of others….

 

Islamic Madness > Preached in Canada - Does Islamic Scripture confirm a horrible interpretation of Mark 9:48?

 

Canada: Muslim cleric calls on Muslims to wage jihad

and be killed in the process so they’ll get 72 virgins

JAN 3, 2024 2:30 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER

How many people will be killed because of this exhortation from Sheikh Younus Kathrada? While he is calling upon young Muslims to seek martyrdom, which involves killing and being killed, the Canadian government is busy clamping down on “Islamophobia.”

The Qur’an guarantees paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111). It makes a promise to those who gain a place in paradise: “Indeed, for the righteous is achievement, enclosed gardens and vineyards, and large-breasted women of equal age, and a full cup” (78:31-34). A hadith has Muhammad expand on this: “There is no one whom Allah will admit to Paradise but Allah will marry him to seventy-two wives, two from houris and seventy from his inheritance from the people of Hell, all of whom will have desirable front passages and he will have a male member that never becomes flaccid (i.e., soft and limp)’” (Sunan Ibn Majah vol. 5, book 37, no. 4337). The “inheritance from the people of hell” are women who have been condemned to eternal torment and sentenced to serve their time by becoming sex slaves for the Muslim men in paradise.

This is absolutely stunning! I have never read these passages before and I am astonished by how well it fits with the Bible. In Mark 9:48, when Jesus says, “Where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched” (ESV), He is talking about Hell. Few scholars will attribute that to mean that the male member will never become flaccid, but it strikes me as being appropriate punishment for those who sexually abuse women and children. Imagine the horror of 'never becoming flaccid'. I have always questioned my interpretation of Mark 9:48, but never expected to find what appears to be confirmation in Islamic Scripture.

Why would a virgin be 'people from Hell'?  This is surely a joke being played upon naive Muslim boys to get them to commit suicide. It is madness, like the madness we see in the eyes of the Sheikh in the photo below. Perhaps his madness comes from reaching such an old age and wondering if he completely missed out on the 72 virgins.

Canadian Sheikh Younus Kathrada in Friday Sermon Titled “Jihad and Marytrdom”:

Martyrs Receive 72 Virgins in Paradise, Nobody Has The Right to Mock This – 

We’ll See Who Has the Last Laugh; May Allah Make Us Martyrs,

Grant Victory to the Mujahideen, Curse the Jews

MEMRI, December 1, 2023:

On December 3, 2023, the Muslim Youth Victoria YouTube channel livestreamed a sermon delivered by Canadian Islamic scholar Sheikh Younus Kathrada titled “Jihad and Martyrdom.”

In the sermon, Sheikh Kathrada listed the seven blessings received by a martyr when he is killed while waging Jihad for the sake of Allah, which include receiving 72 black-eyed houri virgins in Paradise. 

Kathrada said that the enemies of Islam mock the Muslims about the promise of 72 virgins and label mujahideen as terrorists, but are in fact jealous of the Muslims, adding: “Let’s see who has the last laugh.” He also cursed Muslims who similarly mock the idea of receiving 72 virgins in Paradise, elaborating that Allah’s martyrs have sacrificed everything for His sake and for the sake of Islam, and that nobody has the right to mock them.

But the reality is, some, if not most of the Muslim martyrs have not sacrificed everything for Allah, but have rather sacrificed everything for 72 virgins. But they will not be virgins, nor will they be found in Paradise.

In addition, he praised the mujahideen in Gaza, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kashmir, and said: “I beg of Allah to make us of those who have been martyred in His cause.” He concluded his sermon by asking Allah to grant victory to the mujahideen all over the world, to annihilate the Jews, and to liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

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California: Muslim cleric weeps, asks ‘What have we done

wrong to not be martyrs for the sake of Allah?’

JAN 3, 2024 3:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER

In Islam, a martyr is not just someone who is killed for Allah, but someone who kills non-Muslims for Allah.

“Indeed, Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth, because the garden will be theirs, they will fight in the way of Allah and will kill and be killed.” (Qur’an 9:111)

Will anyone in the congregation take Mohammad S. Ahmed’s words to heart?

Torrance, California Imam Mohammad S. Ahmed During Friday Sermon:

The Children Of Israel Have A Long History Of Wickedness, Murder, 

And Occupation; Bursts Into Tears: What Have We Done Wrong To Make Allah 

Not Choose Us To Be Martyrs Like The Palestinians?

MEMRI, December 23, 2023:

Imam Mohammad S. Ahmed broke down in tears during a December 22, 2023 Friday sermon at the Islamic Institute of Torrance, California, asking: “What have we done wrong to not be martyrs for the sake of Allah?” He added: “What have we done for our mothers not to be like the mothers of the martyrs in Palestine […] for our men not to be among those resisting in Palestine?” Ahmed went on to say that the Palestinians have been chosen by Allah to be “the best people living on the earth nowadays.” He said that the Children of Israel have a long history of cowardice, wickedness, and murder and that Allah has punished them for this. The sermon was posted on the YouTube channel of the Islamic Institute of Torrance.

Imam Mohammad S. Ahmed: “Whatever is happening nowadays in Palestine is not something that is new or just recent. The Children of Israel have a long history of cowardice, a long history of wickedness, a long history of murder and occupation, and all kinds of things that Allah has punished them for.

But then, why is Allah punishing you? 

“How come Allah chose those Palestinian Muslims to be closer to him? What have we done wrong to be so far from Allah? What have we done wrong to not be martyrs for the sake of Allah? What have we done wrong to not be blessed like the people in Palestine have been blessed? What have we done wrong for our mothers to not be like the mothers of the martyrs is Palestine? What have we done wrong for our men not to be among those resisting in Palestine?

“What have we done wrong for us not to be chosen for that perfect picture that the Palestinians have drawn today? That perfect picture of faith in Allah, that perfect picture’s trace, that perfect picture of belief. They were chosen for this picture…

“They were chosen for this. This is not our choice, it is the choice of Allah, and He chose them to be the best people living on the face of the earth nowadays. He did not choose us.”

Have you ever heard such madness? You have not been chosen to be martyrs for Allah because the Real God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has given you an opportunity to renounce your false god and turn to the Truth. Jesus said: I am the Truth!

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EX-TERRORIST LEADS INDONESIA’S CHRISTIAN CONVERT MOVEMENT

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Jakarta.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA – The married-father-of-three has come a long way since he nearly blew up a Protestant church in Jakarta. Author Ahmad Quraisy, which isn’t his family name, was a commander of the feared Islamic State of Indonesia (NII), an Indonesian militant group. But the former Islamic terrorist now leads an underground movement in Indonesia converting Muslims to Christianity or, in his words, “personal faith in Christ.”

Quraisy, a 48-year-old humble man, told BosNewsLife that his movement has grown into some 7,000 members. “All of them are former Muslims. They meet in house churches across the country,” he revealed in an extensive interview. A BosNewsLife reporter met Quraisy, accompanied by his wife and an interpreter, in a secure separate room at a Jakarta restaurant. Leaving Islam remains a high-risk undertaking in what is the world’s largest Muslim nation. “But it was worth all the hardships we endured,” Quraisy stressed.

BosNewsLife agreed to cite only the publicly available name he uses in his self-published books due to security concerns. His remarkable journey to embracing the Christian faith began in the late 1990s. “I had become radicalized after the economic crisis. As a young commanding officer of the NII, I blamed Christians. One day, I took a bag with a time bomb to a Protestant church in the Indonesian capital. I was ready to set it off and kill many people. But then I heard the pastor telling the faithful that they should love their enemies and those who persecute them,” he recalled.

“I never saw that Christian love before in my life. I became convinced that I should not carry out my destructive plan.” He declines to say the exact name of the Church to avoid more repercussions from NII or other Muslim hardlines. “After I returned the bag with the bomb, the NII leadership got furious. I was put one month in detention.”

STRANGE VISIONS

Soon after his decision not to kill Christians, he started to see visions from the Lord, he explained. “It was in early 2000 that I met Jesus Christ in a miraculous way for the first time. Eventually, in 2001, I became a Christian.”

Quraisy believes Christ healed him from illness through visions and miracles. “I was suffering from typhus that knocked me down for a long time. One day I saw a person in white robes and glowing light saying: ‘Get up and get healed.’ I did not know it was Jesus, who healed me. But according to my old Islamic belief, a person can have a spiritual being as a teacher that accompanies you everywhere.”

He said Jesus Christ returned five months later. “He touched my head. I was shaking and became hot in my whole body. I still didn’t realize that this spiritual being was Jesus.” Quraisy claimed that demons left his home. “The next morning after He appeared to me, neighbors said they saw a being looking like a dragon wrecking in the courtyard of my house. Next week my neighbors saw hairy men in hunting apparel there. A week later, they saw a being appearing as a tiger.”

After what he called “black magic” left his life, he started “searching for the Light.” Quraisy opened a Bible that he borrowed from a Christian neighbor. “When I started to understand it, a great wind came into my room, and there was a bright light,” he remembered. “It was amazing because all the doors and windows were shut.

I was fully awake and sober when someone came, touched me, and brought me to another place. I later understood it was the work of Jesus Christ. He took me to a dessert that looked like a kingdom. A fellow with a big red eye and a sword was guarding that.”

He said the strange guard appearing in his vision led him into a “very bright” noisy place. “When I knocked on the door, someone opened. When I asked whether I could come in, that person said I had to wait while he looked up my name in a big book.”

The news wasn’t right. “The person told me that my name was not in the book. And then the guard with the red-eye brought me into a long dark alley. He said: ‘This is the place where you belong.’ It was a place full of torture.”

EXPERIENCING HELL

Quraisy said it was hell. “Because of Islam, I understood that in hell, people are burned alive. In this vision, I saw people being burned all the time.”

The vision, he expressed, also showed him a chained Islamic leader facing torture. But there were also religious Christians who had not accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior enduring hardships, Quraisy stressed. “I decided to go back to the bright room.” He suggested that the room symbolized Heaven. “The person who was standing in front of the bright room said it was not yet my time. But he added: “One day, you will be able to enter.”

In too many churches there is not enough emphasis on the Lordship of Jesus Christ in our personal lives. We must each accept Him completely as Lord before we are ready to spend Eternity with Him. IMHO.

The visions, Bible studies, and talks with Christians eventually made him think that Christ had been looking for him. He said he accepted Him as Lord and Savior in 2001. “It was an answer to my prayers,” said his wife. She was a Muslim who had already become a Christian. “My husband didn’t know. I had been praying for him in secret,” she told BosNewsLife. “I was praying that one day he would find Christ too.”

But then the problems began. They were removed from the mansion of Quraisy’s father. “He was outraged that I had left Islam and had become a Christian,” the author recalled.

Quraisy and his young wife and two small children were forced to live on the streets. “Two months, we lived in a bus station, because we had nowhere to go.” But fellow believers learned about their predicament. To them, Quraisy had become like the Biblical Paul, who first persecuted the Church before becoming an apostle. “But to my family, I was a traitor. They took away everything. But I told my father: ‘I don’t need your inheritance. I only need Christ.”

FACING TEMPTATIONS

That’s easier said than done, he admitted. “Sometimes, I was thinking of going back to Islam.” But, he said, he withstood these temptations. The couple tried to work hard to make a living. “My wife worked in an Indian restaurant. I took up all kinds of odd jobs. It was a huge difference in my previous life as an NII officer. At that time, we were rich and had nothing to worry about. Now we had to think about how to feed ourselves and our two children who were just three and four years old.”

They eventually moved to a small room with a filthy floor. “We lived on handouts from neighbors and friends from whom we received food and other supplies.” But Christ remained faithful, he noted. And what started as a seemingly hopeless undertaking, grew into a blessed work supported by thousands of former Muslims, Quraisy told BosNewsLife.

“In 2012 my then small group wanted to preach the Gospel. We went to pray to the Lord. Soon after, we began publishing my books and other materials. We decided to extend the movement and include discipleship training.”

With his success came church career opportunities. “I was even offered to have a congregation with a house and a car. But I turned the offer down. Because I want to focus on reaching the Muslim community for Christ.”

He said virtually all of his 7,000 members working underground are former Muslims. “They are all Christ-followers. We communicate through social media when organizing events in our many house churches. The smallest house church has about 20 members; the biggest contains hundreds of people of the same village.”

With his movement continuing to grow, he hopes one day to have one “large congregation full of people with a Muslim background.” High on his wishlist is a training center specialized in Bible study and discipleship. “This way they can go back and help their families and friends grow in the faith.”

There is more to this fascinating story. Please go to BosNewsLife to read the rest.