This Week's Islamic Massacres > Car bomb kills 14 women in Syria; 27 Nigerian soldiers murdered in suicide bombing; Hysterical Pakistanis sentence 4 to Death and Life

 

Car bomb kills at least 14 women, 

injures many near Aleppo

By Darryl Coote

A car bomb detonated in Syria's city of Manbij, located about 57 miles northeast of Aleppo, killing at least 14 women. Photo courtesy of Syrian Civil Defense/X

Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A car bomb detonated near Aleppo on Monday, killing several people, mostly women, according to Syrian Civil Defense and a human rights monitor.

The explosion occurred in the city of Manbij, located about 57 miles northeast of Aleppo. Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, said in a statement that the car bomb detonated next to a vehicle transporting agricultural workers on a main road on the outskirts of the city.

It reported that 14 women and one man were killed in the blast, while another 15 were injured, some seriously. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated at least 18 were killed, including at least 14 women. Twelve others, mostly women and children, were injured.

The death toll is expected to rise.

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Despite the discrepancy in casualty figures, both groups separately described the incident on X as "a horrific massacre."

The SOHR stated that this is the sixth explosion in areas of Syria controlled by the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army coalition, which includes radical Islamic rebel factions.

The violence comes days after the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was appointed interim president of Syria.

Al-Sharaa and his jihadist rebels toppled the Syrian government of dictator President Bashar al-Assad in December.

Following al-Sharaa's appointment as president on Wednesday, a number of changes were announced, including the dissolution of the Syrian parliament, cancellation of the country's 2012 Constitution and a mandate that all armed factions in Syria disband or be absorbed by the new national army, The Guardian reported.

Nigeria: Islamic State jihadis murder 27 soldiers

in jihad suicide attack

Jan 29, 2025 8:00 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)

Once again we see jihad forces apparently more powerful than the national army. Who is funding and equipping them?

27 Nigerian soldiers killed in suicide attack

Agence France-Presse, January 26, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

At least 27 Nigerian soldiers were killed in a jihadist suicide attack in the northeast, two army sources said on Sunday.

On Friday, troops launched a ground offensive on a stronghold of Islamic State-affiliated militants in a wasteland straddling Borno and Yobe states….

He said the death toll could rise as some of the wounded were in a ‘critical condition’.

A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle concealed in thick foliage into a convoy of advancing troops targeting the Islamic State West Africa Province in Timbuktu Triangle, the two military officers said.

ISWAP split from the mainstream Boko Haram in 2016 to become the dominant militant faction in the northeast.

They seized territory hitherto under Boko Haram control, including the Timbuktu Triangle and Sambisa forest, a game reserve turned jihadist stronghold….

The 15-year-old conflict has killed 40,000 and displaced around two million from their homes in the northeast.

And only God knows how many girls have been taken captive. At least, AFP doesn't know, and doesn't seem to care an awful lot.

The violence spilled into neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, leading to the creation of a regional force to fight the militants.

 

Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Four men sentenced to death for blasphemy against Muhammad and Qur’an

Jan 28, 2025 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

How likely is it that they really dared to criticize Muhammad and the Qur’an, which would almost certainly mean death in Pakistan? Isn’t it more likely that someone has it in for them and knows that the blasphemy law is an easy way to destroy their lives? In any case, Pakistan being Pakistan, we will likely never know the actual facts of these cases.

4 men sentenced to death in Rawalpindi over ‘online blasphemy’: lawyer

by Tahir Naseer, AFP, January 27, 2025:

A court in Rawalpindi sentenced four men to death for posting blasphemous content online, a prosecution lawyer told AFP on Monday.

“They were sentenced to death … on Friday for spreading blasphemous content online against the Prophet Muhammad (PUBH) [sic] and the Quran,” Rao Abdur Raheem, a lawyer from the Legal Commission on Blasphemy Pakistan, a private group which brought the case to court, told AFP.

“Our case was supported by forensic evidence from the devices used in this heinous act,” he added.

According to the court order dated January 24 — a copy of which is available with Dawn.com — the four individuals were sentenced to death by hanging for violating Section 295C (Use of derogatory remarks, etc, in respect of the Holy Prophet [PBUH]) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).

They were also sentenced to life in prison under 295B (defiling, etc, of the Holy Quran) and 10 years imprisonment under 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting Its religion or religious beliefs). “All the above-mentioned sentences of imprisonment shall run concurrently,” the order read.

This is the first time I have heard of someone being sentenced to both Life and Death. Pakistan is a bizarre place! Their hysteria over alleged blasphemy is astonishing.

The four were charged under sections 295A, 295B, 295C, 298A (use of derogatory remarks, etc, in respect of holy personages) and Section 11 (hate speech) of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act in October 2022, according to a first information report seen by Dawn.com…                              

Islam - Current Day > IDF capture terrorist's son; France writes new immigration law; San Diego Imam questioned; Boko Haram slaughter wives of rivals

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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 Terrorists

In 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.

Islam: Current Day - 81 Killed in Boko Haram Attack in Nigeria

At least 81 killed in Boko Haram attack in Nigeria;

civilians shot, children shot, abducted, bodies run over

By Samuel Smith, CP Reporter|

Women gather at a water collecting point at the internally displaced people's camp in Bama, Borno State,

Nigeria, August 31, 2016. | REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Authorities in the Borno state of Nigeria said Wednesday that at least 81 people were killed in an attack on a nomadic community believed to have been carried out by militants aligned with the Islamic extremist groups Boko Haram or Islamic State West Africa Province. 

The Borno government in northeast Nigeria released a statement Wednesday explaining that residents described how militants in armored tanks and trucks attacked the Faduma Kolomdi community in the Gubio local government area on Tuesday morning. 

Along with killing dozens in the community, it's believed that the militants also abducted seven individuals, including the head of the village, and women and children. 

A video posted on social media shows dead bodies scattered out across a dirt field.

Abubakar Sadiq Kurbe

@iamKurbe

These are not Animals, they are human being kills by Boko Haram insurgents in the village of Gubio local gov't of Borno state.

President @MBuhari, you were voted to protect the lives and properties of the electorates, these people need your attention, they too are human.

The incident reportedly lasted hours. Borno State Gov. Babagana Umara Zulum traveled to the community on Wednesday in the wake of the attack. 

According to the government's statement, a male witness told the governor that the armed men came to the village at around 10 a.m. on Tuesday. 

“They gathered us and said they wanted to deliver religious sermon to us,” the unnamed resident was quoted as saying in the statement. “They asked us to submit whatever arm we had. Some villagers gave up their dane guns, bow and arrows.”

The survivor said the militants then began shooting “at will.”

“Even children and women were not spared, many were shot at close range,” the man said. “Many started running.”

Five people were evacuated to a hospital for treatment, according to the state.

“We have buried 49 corpses here while another 32 corpses were taken away by families from the villages around us,” the resident said. “The insurgents abducted seven persons including our village head. They went away with 400 cattle.”

A resident of a nearby village also verified what the survivor told Zulum, the government said. 

Zulum described the attack as “barbaric and unfortunate.” He also noted that around the same number of individuals were killed in an attack last year in Gajiram. 

“The only solution to end this massacre is by dislodging the insurgents in the shores of Lake Chad,” the governor said. “Doing so will require collaborative regional efforts.”

The Nigerian government has faced criticism over its inability to thwart attacks on civilians carried out by Islamic extremist groups, including Boko Haram and its offshoot, Islamic State West Africa Province.

While the Borno government’s statement placed blame on Boko Haram militants, other reports have implicated militants aligned with ISWAP.  No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Since its insurgency began over a decade ago, Boko Haram has killed and abducted thousands and displaced millions from their homes. The group has killed Muslims and Christians. 

In 2016, Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State but splintered soon after amid disagreements over leadership. 

According to the government, the militants did not set the Gubio village on fire as often happens during their attacks. There are also fears that the death toll could be higher than 81. 

"The bodies were strewn over a large area as the insurgents pursued their victims, shooting them and crushing them with their vehicles," Ibrahim Liman, a member of a government-backed anti-jihadist militia, told AFP on Wednesday. He said the death toll was around 69.

Gubio resident Modu Ajimi told The Washington Post that he lost four cousins in Tuesday's attack. He found their dead bodies in the dirt field. 

“Their bodies bore a bullet hole in almost every part,” Ajimi said. 

The coronavirus pandemic has not stopped Boko Haram or ISWAP from carrying out attacks against villages in both Borno and Adamawa in recent months. 

The Nigerian government has also faced criticism from international activists for failing to thwart attacks in Middle Belt states where thousands have been displaced. 

“The most essential responsibility of any government is the protection of its own citizens,” U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Commissioner Johnnie Moore, an evangelical human rights advocate, wrote in a tweet. “Nigeria’s government keeps failing at this. It is time for the U.S., U.K., [European Union] and others to evaluate every single area of cooperation until the Nigerian’s fix this.”

According to The Washington Post, ISWAP has continued to stage attacks on Army bases and is collecting taxes from residents in villages where it's attempting to take control. 

The International Crisis Group reported last year that ISWAP’s approach to law and order is “extraordinarily harsh and violent.”

As per Sharia?

“It metes out the full range of punishments it believes the Quran to mandate, including cutting off the hands of alleged thieves and killing adulterers, though some units are reportedly more lenient than others,” a May 2019 report states. “It meets perceived threats to its fiscal base (fishing without authorization, failure to pay requisite taxes) and security (using mobile phones in areas where they are forbidden, which is interpreted as spying) with brutal beatings, sometimes even executions.”

Nigeria is listed on the U.S. State Department's watch list of countries that engage in or tolerate severe violations of religious freedom. Advocates in the U.S. are calling for the appointment of a special envoy to assess the human rights crises in Nigeria. 

“In Nigeria, ISIS and Boko Haram continue to attack Muslims and Christians alike,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday. “ISIS beheaded 10 Christians in that country just this past December.”