Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan incorrectly stated on Friday that former U.S. President Ronald Reagan compared the Afghan Mujahidin to the “Founding Fathers” of the U.S. while hosting some of the group’s leaders at the White House in 1983.
Disturbing video out of Afghanistan this week showed Taliban fighters holding the severed head of an Afghan soldier in celebration of a gruesome execution.
Canadian Imam Younus Kathrada in a recent sermon attacked Jews and Christians as “our enemies,” accusing them of funding a failed war against Islam while calling on fellow Canadians to support the Taliban and its efforts to impose Islamic sharia law — which includes death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality — in Afghanistan.
Activist and former Afghan judge Najla Ayoubi alleged that the Taliban burned a woman for her alleged bad cooking.
The Taliban on Monday announced it captured a key district in the northern province of Kunduz and its forces have encircled the provincial capital, the latest battlefield gains in a relentless campaign waged by the Islamist extremists against the internationally recognized government in Kabul as U.S. and NATO forces prepare to end their 20-year intervention in Afghanistan.
The highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Marine Corps described the American forces in Afghanistan as “Mujahideen” freedom fighters, or Muslim holy warriors, triggering criticism from some analysts.
Hamas has started arresting relatives of Gaza Salafists in an attempt to coerce the suspects to turn themselves in, Salafi propaganda arms are reported.
An Islamic State-supporting jihadi in Gaza rejected the resolutions of Sunday’s Paris Mideast summit, saying that “the mujahideen aren’t committed to the resolutions made by the Crusaders and the treacherous leaders who turned their back on Islam and represent secular infidelity in Palestine and the Arab world.”
Hamas sympathizers on Thursday marked the 21st anniversary of the assassination of Yahya Ayash, the movement’s first explosives expert, who was responsible for the killing of more than 100 Israelis.
Abu Omar Almaqdesi, a senior Gaza-based Islamic State jihadist, said the soldiers and supporters of the Caliphate must not permit the celebration of Christmas in Islamic countries. He went on to describe the festivities as depraved, lewd and based on the blasphemous idea that Allah had an equal in Jesus.
Abu Suheib Alanssari is a 28-year-old jihadi from Gaza, who has gone underground since Hamas started persecuting radical Islamists which led to hundreds of raids and arrests.
A top Salafi leader has addressed the weaknesses of the jihadi strategy following the severe losses encountered by jihadi organizations, chief among them the Islamic State.
Deradicalisation programmes for Islamic State fighters who have returned from Syria and Iraq are largely unsuccessful. Some are continuing to make propaganda videos for the terrorist group while back in Germany, and most rejoin the country’s flourishing Salafist community.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Islamic State threatens Israel in an article in its weekly newsletter this week, saying that unlike Hamas, the “war on Israel will not be limited by geographical boundaries or by international norms.”
TEL AVIV – An Islamic State faction in Sinai has been making gains against the Egyptian army and setting up autonomous enclaves in the peninsula, a Salafi militant source in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem. He claimed that the Arab and international media collude with the Egyptian army to downplay IS victories. IS, said the source, has driven troops out of the strategic Sinai towns of Sheik Zweid and Al Arish.
Samy Mohamed Hamzeh, a 23-year-old resident of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was arrested after officials charged he was in the final stages of a plan to commit mass murder inside one of the city’s Masonic temples, the FBI said Tuesday.
Asim Abdur Rashid, the Imam of the Masjid Mujahideen in west Philadelphia, misled the public about a radical Muslim who, on Thursday, attempted to execute a police officer in the name of Islam.
TEL AVIV – The Pentagon has reportedly denied Russian media claims that a top Islamic State commander was captured by American troops, while Kurdish security officials told the Al Hayat newspaper the commander was indeed seized over the weekend.
