A prayer to
Allah to “destroy the enemies of Islam, and annihilate the heretics and the
atheists” is not just a request directed to the deity. The Qur’an explicitly
says that Allah will punish people by the hands of the believers: “Fight them;
Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and give you
victory over them and satisfy the breasts of a believing people, and remove the
fury in the believers’ hearts.” (9:14-15) Thus Kathrada may be issuing a call
to action to believers who think it incumbent upon themselves to heed this
Qur’anic directive and become instruments of Allah’s wrath.
Swedish Islamic Political Party to Challenge Social Democrats in No-Go Zone
The Islamic Nyans Party are looking to cause an upset in upcoming municipal elections in the notorious Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby after recruiting a popular member of the local Somali community.
Nyans party leader Mikail Yüksel announced that Mohammad Hagi Farah, a popular member of the no-go zone’s Somali community, would be running as a local candidate in the area for the party in the upcoming local elections in 2022.
Described by local press as “Rinkeby’s mayor” and “the father of the town” by local media, Mohamed Hagi Farah has been involved in the Somali community in Rinkeby for years and was praised last December when he went into retirement.
New Swedish Islamist Party Wants to Grant Muslims ‘Special Minority’ Status https://t.co/TeWsbtxDuD
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 24, 2020
Johan Westerholm, the author of a book on Islamism in Sweden, told news website Nyheter Idag that the candidacy could pay off for the Islamic party and could threaten the Social Democrats.
“Mikail Yüksel has been smart. He has sat down and calculated on which cities you have the chance to get in and so he has invested there,” Westerholm said.
Westerholm noted the influence of local mosques and clans on voting in areas like Rinkeby that have high migration-background populations and stated that the Social Democrats would not be able to respond to such a party.
“They call themselves a suburban party,” Westerholm said and added, “It’s the classic Islamist rubber language.”
The Nyans party emerged in January this year, saying they wanted Muslims in Sweden to become recognized as a “special minority” in the same way the country recognizes Sami people and Jewish people.
Party chairman Mikail Yüksel was formerly a member of the Centre Party but was kicked out after it emerged he had links to the Turkish ultranationalist Grey Wolves, a group that was recently banned in France after clashing with police and vandalising an Armenian genocide memorial.
Muslim Party ‘Taken over by Islamists’ Rejected by Swedish Election Agency
https://t.co/YyhKlkhkEp— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) September 20, 2017
The Grey Wolves participated in a protest in the southern Swedish city of Malmo earlier this month following the French ban.
Swedish-Kurdish author Kurdo Baksi commented on their appearance, saying: “I’ve checked and I don’t know that it’s ever happened before. It’s unusual. This is an organisation that in the ’80s hid in laundromats because they did not want to expose themselves.”
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Sweden: Boys Raped, Tortured, Made to Dig Graves by Migration-Background Men Survive Ordeal
Two underage boys who were brutally tortured and raped at a Swedish cemetery have described their horrific ordeal to police as new details of the incident have emerged.
The incident took place earlier this year in August in the city of Solna and saw two migration-background men allegedly torture two underage boys in a local cemetery for hours before the boys were found naked and bloody the following morning.
Earlier this week the two suspects in the case, an 18-year-old Tunisian-Swede and a 21-year-old Kurd with Swedish citizenship, were charged with aggravated robbery, kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated rape, and assault.
The two underage victims in the case also gave testimony to police which has now become public, Nyheter Idag reports.
The Iraqi migrant found guilty of murdering and beheading Swedish teen Wilma Andersson has launched an appeal over his conviction to Sweden’s supreme court. https://t.co/zLhbbAJwz4
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) November 15, 2020
The boys told the police that the two men had initially approached them to sell drugs but when the boys refused, the pair claimed to be members of the “Death Squad” criminal gang and threatened the pair while taking them to a nearby wooded area.
After being taken to the cemetery, the boys were forced to strip naked at knifepoint with one boy lying on his stomach for hours as both men sat on his back.
One of the victims also stated that the men stood directly on his head saying, “It felt like my head is going to be, like, mashed potatoes.”
Both boys were stabbed in various part of their bodies, tortured with cigarette lighters, and one even had a stick forced into his rectum by one of the migration-background men. Both were also viciously beaten.
One of the victims stated that the Tunisian-background teen was the main driver of the violence and threatened to break the neck of one of the boys and sexually assault him afterwards.
According to British tabloid the Sun, the boys were also forced to lie down in graves they had dug themselves and feared being buried alive.
Afghan Migrant Prosecuted For Raping Underage Swedish Girl https://t.co/u32CA4Mpja
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 15, 2020
Another Christian Country Makes a Doomed Peace with Islam
"Peace" was recently achieved between Armenia and Azerbaijan, who had been fighting for nearly two months, after the Christian nation agreed to cede its ancestral lands in Artsakh to its Muslim neighbor.
From a temporal and myopic point of view, such a settlement may seem like progress; from a long point of view, it is a regress and reflective of the continuum of Armenian-Islamic history and relations: in exchange for peace, Christians have always been forced to cede territory to Muslims. After all, the heart of the Muslim world — the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia Minor — were all Christian before the sword of Islam invaded.
Before Islam violently conquered eastern Anatolia (Asia Minor) in the eleventh century, Armenia was significantly larger than today. For over a thousand years, however, Muslim Turks chipped away at and absorbed ethnically Armenian territory. What is happening today is simply part of that continuum.
The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa (d. 1144), an Armenia historian who lived during the initial conquests, makes all this clear. According to this valuable historical resource, in 1019, "the first appearance of the bloodthirsty beasts ... the savage nation of infidels called Turks entered Armenia ... and mercilessly slaughtered the Christian faithful with the sword." Three decades later, the raids were virtually nonstop. In 1049, the founder of the Turkic Seljuk Empire himself, Sultan Tughril Bey (r. 1037–1063), reached the Armenian city of Arzden, west of Lake Van, and "put the whole town to the sword, causing severe slaughter, as many as one hundred and fifty thousand persons."
Other contemporaries confirm the devastation visited upon Arzden. "Like famished dogs," writes Aristakes (d. 1080) an eyewitness, the Turks "hurled themselves on our city, surrounded it and pushed inside, massacring the men and mowing everything down like reapers in the fields, making the city a desert. Without mercy, they incinerated those who had hidden themselves in houses and churches."
Eleven years later, in 1060, the Turks laid siege to Sebastia (which, though now a Turkish city, was for the preceding 400 years Armenian). Six hundred churches were destroyed, "many and innumerable people were burned [to death]," and countless women and children "were led into captivity to Persia."
Between 1064 and 1065, Tughril's successor, Sultan Muhammad bin Dawud Chaghri — known to posterity as Alp Arslan, one of Turkey's unsavory but national heroes — laid siege to Ani, the fortified capital of Armenia, then a great and populous city. The thunderous bombardment of Muhammad's siege engines caused the entire city to quake, and Matthew describes countless terror-stricken families huddled together and weeping. Once inside, the Islamic Turks "began to mercilessly slaughter the inhabitants of the entire city ... and piling up their bodies one on top of the other[.] ... Innumerable and countless boys with bright faces and pretty girls were carried off together with their mothers."
Not only do several Christian sources document the sack of Armenia's capital — one contemporary succinctly notes that Muhammad "rendered Ani a desert by massacres and fire" — but so do Muslim sources, often in apocalyptic terms: "I wanted to enter the city and see it with my own eyes," one Arab explained. "I tried to find a street without having to walk over the corpses. But that was impossible."
Such is an idea of what Muslim Turks did to Christian Armenians — not during the Armenian Genocide of a century ago, but one thousand years ago, starting in 1019, when the Turkic invasion and subsequent colonization of Armenia began.
From here one can understand why many Armenians are not pleased with their government's recent surrender of even more land, to the point of storming parliament and "beating Parliament Speaker Ararat Mirzoyan unconscious in front of his family."
After recounting the devastation visited upon Armenia at the hands of the Turks in the eleventh century, Matthew of Edessa wrote: "That was the beginning of the misfortunes of Armenia. So, lend an ear to this melancholy recital."
This has proven to be an ominous remark, for Matthew's recitation was, indeed, just "the beginning of the misfortunes of Armenia," whose "melancholy recital" continues to this day, as the ever shrinking nation makes more concessions that, in the long term, will likely have been in vain.
For if history is any indicator, true and permanent peace between Armenia and its Muslim neighbors will be achieved only when the Christian nation has ceded itself into nonexistence.
Note: Quotes from Matthew of Edessa were excerpted from the author's book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West. Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute.
France: Woman Stabbed in the Back in ‘Random’ Attack
An unknown perpetrator stabbed a 23-year-old woman in the back outside a French railway station in what is being described as a random act of violence.
The incident took place at around 6 p.m. on Tuesday in the city of Massy outside of Paris. A man had snuck up to the woman and stabbed her in the back after she had been shopping at the near the Massy-Palaiseau RER station.
According to the victim, her attacker made “incomprehensible remarks” before fleeing the scene on foot, according to Actu17.
“She received a single stab in the lumbar area of the spine, in the lower back,” a police source told Le Parisien, confirming that she required hospital treatment.
Asylum Seeker Brutally Stabbed in Middle of Paris Railway Station https://t.co/nTByZDdo2i
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) September 8, 2020
The attacker remains at large, and a source close to the investigation said that so far a terrorist motive is not being considered.
According to the newspaper, the attack comes nearly four years after a similar incident in front of the RER station when a young man was stabbed for refusing to give the perpetrators his mobile phone.
Random acts of violence, known as “violences gratuites” in France, have become common across France, with a 2018 report claiming that the country sees as many as 777 random acts of violence every day.
Another similar stabbing attack took place in September at the Gare du Nord railway station in Paris and saw a man randomly attack another man sitting on a bench waiting for a train.
The man, described as European by some and Asian by others, stabbed the victim in the neck in what also appeared to be a random act of violence.
Statistics Show Paris Violent Crime and Robberies Surging https://t.co/KPiy9L7CqH
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 30, 2019
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