Another case of government manufactured terrorism is added to the list:
- FBI Arrests 3 Brooklyn Men Suspected of Planning to Join ISIS (Huffington Post)
- Majlis AshShura (Islamic Leadership Council) of Metropolitan New York: Statement on Arrest in NYC of Three Suspects Charged with Support for Terrorism (Majilis ash-Shura)
- Why Does the FBI Have to Manufacture Its Own Plots if Terrorism and ISIS Are Such Grave Threats? (The Intercept)
“He smoked drugs, drank and was violent towards other boys. The fact he portrays himself as a strict Muslim is laughable and shameful. I never saw him pray or wear Islamic dress – he would not even mention religion at all…. [H]e is a total hypocrite” — a member the accused’s former gang …
… “Emwazi’s transition from angry teen to militant was a series of missed opportunities. Then, years of conflict and frustration with the British security services pushed him to act on his radicalism and leave Britain to join IS”:
- How Can We Prevent the Next ‘Jihadi John’? (Christian Science Monitor)
“My tomatoes are Spanish, and so are the potatoes I sell. Please explain this to me! Do I need to sell pork to be a traditional Spanish business? Do I need to sell wine?” – Nouari Benzawi, an Algerian immigrant who runs a kebab shop and halal grocery store:
On the “same day another Egyptian court listed the [entire] Palestinian group Hamas [and not just it’s armed wing] Â as a terrorist organisation”:
“Egypt’s president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, could retain control of the country’s lawmaking process for the foreseeable future, after the supreme court ruled that a law governing upcoming elections was unconstitutional”:
“The weirdest question I got was if I’m showering with my hijab. And I’m just — no, I don’t shower with hijab, how should I do that? No one showers with their clothes on” — Danish Muslim Sarah al-Mousllie:
“The reality is people don’t abuse me just because I’m a woman or because my name is Mariam or because I’m Middle-Eastern. They abuse me because I have a scarf on my head and because I’m a Muslim”:
“[T]he Saudi blogger who was sentenced to a decade in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam, now faces being beheaded for renouncing the religion, his family have said” despite his already having been cleared of that charge …
… while a suspect arrested in 2013 “for threatening an imam who performed funeral prayers for an atheist blogger” and arrested Monday in the case of a Dhaka murder of an American blogger by “attackers wielding meat cleavers” had threatened to kill [the recent victim] in posts on Facebook”
- Bangladesh Arrests Suspect in Killing of American Blogger (AP / abc News)
The “campaign [is] aimed at driving them out of the mainly Sunni Muslim province of Salahuddin”:
