Terror Attacks in Mombasa

We reported last night that Kenyan police raided two mosques in Mombasa. One person was killed while attempting to throw a grenade, and more than 250 people were arrested.

Today, in what may have been a response to yesterday’s events, “youths” went on a rampage in Mombasa, killing at least four people. However, residents of Mombasa were relieved when they learned that the incidents had nothing to do with Islam.

Below is a TV news report about the attacks in Mombasa:

The following news report from The Daily Nation describes the day’s events:

Pastor, Three Others Killed in Mombasa

There were unconfirmed reports from Mombasa on Monday night that youths wearing army fatigues went on a killing spree, leaving four people dead.

The bodies were taken to Coast General Hospital.

In one incident, a pastor who was waiting at a bus stop with four women was accosted by the youth and chopped with machetes.

He was cut in the back of his head and in his hands and left sprawled on the ground bleeding. He died on the spot.

The women were, however, left unharmed. One of them, who was said to be the wife of the deceased, identified him as Pastor Joshua Muteti.

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Helmets, Hoods, and Burkas

Sergio Redegalli is an Australian artist and anti-Islamization activist whose no-burka mural and other public actions have been covered extensively here at Gates of Vienna (see, for example, here, here, and here).

Last month Mr. Redegalli and two of his friends dressed up in a burka, a Ku Klux Klan get-up, and a motorcycle helmet, respectively, and tried to enter the Australian parliament building in Canberra. Their stunt was an attempt to draw media attention — which it most certainly did — to the incoherence of the rule that permits the niqab, but no other face-coverings, in public buildings and businesses. Allowing the burka while forbidding other coverings is evidence of special treatment for Muslims, and not “religious freedom”. The unexamined premise behind the policy is that someone wearing a niqab could never possibly commit the sort of criminal acts that the ban on motorcycle helmets is intended to prevent.

Vlad Tepes recently interviewed Sergio Redegalli — who was wearing the Ku Klux Klan robes — about this incident and related matters:

Here’s a flashback to the event, which took place on October 27, as reported in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Protester Wears Ku Klux Klan Outfit to Oppose Burqas at Parliament House

Anti-burqa protesters dressed in a motorcycle helmet, a niqab and a KKK uniform try to enter Parliament House with their faces covered.

A trio of men have attempted to enter Parliament with one wearing a Ku Klux Klan mask, and the others wearing a niqab and a motorcycle helmet as part of a protest against the burqa.

All three were forced by Parliament security to remove their facial coverings.

Sergio Redegalli, Nick Folkes and Victor Waterson call their protest movement “Faceless” and oppose the burqa being worn in public spaces. They also expressed strong views against what they said was the “political ideology” of Islam which they said was “contrary” to Australian beliefs.

The protesters were stopped between Old Parliament House and the Parliament House forecourt and told by police that the men wearing the Ku Klux Klan hat and motorcycle helmet would be forced to remove their facial coverings but the person in the niqab would be allowed to keep theirs on.

“One of the requirements of coming into Parliament House is that the motorcycle helmet is going to have to come off, your headdress is going to have to come off and your burqa … your identity will be checked,” the security guard told the protesters.

Mr Redegalli removed his Ku Klux Klan mask to reveal a niqab underneath. He said “so I guess this is the time to say that I’m now allowed into Parliament House am I?” “No,” responded the security guard.

“Bit of a loophole, eh?” Mr Redegalli questioned.

The group were screened as part of the regular entry procedures and all three emerged with their facial coverings removed.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/17/2014

A French convert to Islam named Maxime Hauchard may be one of the ISIS mujahideen who assisted “Jihadi John” in the Islamic States’ latest videotaped mass beheading extravaganza. Thus we have the unusual situation where a French convert to Islam may have assisted in the beheading of an American convert to Islam, Peter Tassig, a.k.a. Abdul-Rahman Tassig. Yet the victim is identified by his Islamic name in news reports, while the executioner is not. Funny about that.

In other news, the Colombian government suspended peace negotiations with the narco-terrorists of FARC after a general in the Colombian army was kidnapped.

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Mosque Raids in Mombasa

One person has been killed and more than 250 arrested in police raids on two mosques in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa. The mosques had apparently been used as armories, in addition to being incubators of violent jihad.

A report from KTN in Kenya:

And from NTV in Kenya:

Below are excerpts from a BBC article on the same topic:

Kenya Police Seize Weapons in Mombasa Mosques Raid

Kenyan police say they have conducted dawn raids on two mosques in the coastal city of Mombasa, recovering grenades and ammunition.

One person was shot dead by police and more than 250 people were arrested during the operation.

Police said the Masjid Musa and Shakinah mosques were being used to store weapons.

They have accused the Masjid Musa mosque of having ties to the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.

Al-Shabab, which is based in neighbouring Somalia, has carried out several attacks in Kenya since 2011, when Kenya sent troops into Somalia to battle it.

Police say they recovered a pistol, eight grenades and a flag associated with al-Shabab at the mosques.

One man was shot dead during the raid after he “attempted to hurl” a hand grenade at police officers, Mombasa police chief Geoffrey Mayek told reporters.

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“This Is Our Country”

There has recently been a series of rallies against Islamization in various German cities, including Cologne and Dresden. The latest was in Hannover on November 15, and was organized by Hannover Hooligans Against Salafists (Hannover Hooligans gegen Salafisten, HoGeSa).

The video below shows a speech in Hannover by Heidi, who has become famous over the last year or so for standing bravely against Islam. Her most well-known action involved the interruption of a Muslim prayer service in a Lutheran church (after which she was thrown out of the building). She had made headlines earlier confronting a menacing group of Muslim men much bigger than herself on the street during a demonstration.

In this clip she gives the closing remarks at last Saturday’s rally in Hannover. Like the man who spoke in the previous video, she discusses the way the anti-Islamization protesters in the audience are being set up by police.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

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“I Stand for the Cause”

Over the last few weeks German cities have seen a series of rallies against the Islamization of Germany. The latest was in Hannover last Saturday, November 15, organized by Hannover Hooligans Against Salafists (Hannover Hooligans gegen Salafisten, HoGeSa).

The following video clip shows a brief speech given by a man at the Hannover rally. The general atmosphere is reminiscent a demo during the heyday of the EDL several years ago. You’ll hear the speaker discuss in a matter-of-fact way the infiltration of the crowd by agents of the state, and the deliberate provocations intended to ensure that violence occurs, and gets blamed on HoGeSa.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

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What Happened at the National Cathedral Last Friday?

On Friday November 14, 2014 the Episcopal Church in the United States hosted an “ecumenical” Muslim prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.

The date was the 100th anniversary to the day of the last jihad declared against non-Muslims by the last Caliph, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Here are three brief excerpts from what the imams said in their prayers. But what were they really saying?

The following 4.5-minute video contains short clips from Friday’s service, accompanied by explanatory material to help the reader understand what all devout Muslims already know about the imam’s words.

Many thanks to Dr. Andrew Bostom for his invaluable research, to ritamalik for the timing and translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Those who are interested may watch the longer video (1 hour 20 minutes).

Let’s take a look at the details behind these clips (time-stamps refer to the full video)…

Ebrahim Rasool, South African Ambassador to the United States, reciting Qur’an 5:82

24:24   These are Christians about whom the Koran says:
24:28  
24:30   “And nearest to the believers in love you will find those who say,
24:36   ‘We are Christians.’ Amongst them are those devoted to learning,
24:42   renouncing the world, and they are not arrogant.”
 

What Mr. Rasool omitted is the opening half of verse 5:82: “Verily, you will find the strongest among men in enmity to the believers (Muslims) the Jews and those who are Al-Mushrikun (i.e., ‘idolatrous’ Hindus, Buddhists, and Animists).” The Jew-hating nature of this verse was re-affirmed by Sunni Islam’s most prestigious center of religious education, Al-Azhar University, and its current leading cleric, Grand Imam, Ahmed al-Tayeb.

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Qur’an 3:26-27

39:58   Say, “O Allah , Owner of Sovereignty, You give sovereignty to whom You will and You take sovereignty away from whom You will.
40:09   You honor whom You will and You humble whom You will. In Your hand is [all] good. Indeed, You are over all things competent.
40:15   You cause the night to enter the day, and You cause the day to enter the night; and You bring the living out of the dead,
40:24   and You bring the dead out of the living. And You give provision to whom You will without account.”
 

Authoritative classical and modern exegeses on this verse show its implied threat of violent jihad.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/16/2014

The Islamic State has released a video that appears to show the severed head of the American hostage Peter Kassig. Mr. Kassig, who converted to Islam after he was taken captive, was also known as Abdul-Rahman Kassig.

In other news, on November 30 the Swiss will vote in a referendum to decide whether their government will be required to repatriate all its gold reserves and return to a gold-based monetary policy.

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Deluded and Infantile Swedish Politicians

Last Friday we posted a subtitled video of Kent Ekeroth speaking to the Swedish parliament about the horrors unleashed on Sweden by Multiculturalism and mass immigration.

The same day (November 12, 2014) Richard Jomshof, another member of the Sweden Democrats, addressed parliament about the problems associated with Islam and the Islamization of Sweden

Many thanks to Alfred Fredriksson for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

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“An Intellectual and Moral Disgrace on a Massive Scale”

Dr. Andrew Bostom has written a scholarly analysis of some of the wonderful “ecumenical” themes featured during the last Friday’s Islamic prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral. The following article was originally published at Dr. Bostom’s website.

Dr. Bostom sends his thanks to ritamalik, who did the initial analysis of the Arabic-language content of the service, and compared it with portions of the supposed English translations.

Keynote Muslim Sermon Recites Koranic Themes of Conquering and Condemning Christians and Jews at National Cathedral “Ecumenical” Event

by Andrew G. Bostom

This past Thursday (11/3/14) in anticipation of a midday Friday Islamic service, to be held, November 14th in the National Cathedral I noted the willful obliviousness to a grim centennial remembrance: November 11, 1914, when the Ottoman Sheikh ul-Islam (supreme Muslim religious authority) issued fatwas (religious edicts) declaring a jihad against non-Muslim state enemies of the last Muslim “Caliphate.”

Subsequent Ottoman Muslim fatwas (see here; here) promulgated during the World War I era would target Christian minorities, under Sharia-based Ottoman Muslim rule, for genocidal jihadism against these hapless non-Muslim victims. The Ottoman jihad ravages were as barbaric and depraved as the recent horrific spate of ISIS atrocities in Iraq and Syria, and far more extensive. Occurring, largely between 1915-16 (continuing through at least 1918), some one million Armenian, and 250,000 Assyro-Chaldean and Syrian Orthodox Christians were brutally slaughtered, or starved to death during forced deportations orchestrated by their Ottoman Muslim rulers, through arid wastelands.

Following the Friday November 14th event (which can be viewed in its entirety, here; or here; see also this useful written summary account ), Dean of the National Cathedral, Gary Hall, when questioned about this cruelly ironic timing, conceded, “I did not know that it was that anniversary” — but then segued into an unconscionable immoral equivalence defending the “ecumenical” Muslim prayer service.

But knowing it now, it actually seems to be more appropriate to have an event that is on an anniversary of a hard time… There have been atrocities on both sides. There have been extremists on both sides.

After viewing Friday’s ostensible exercise in “ecumenism” at The National Cathedral, it is impossible for me to discern whether the Christian event organizers are more ethically, or intellectually cretinous. Consider the main khutbah (or sermon) delivered by Muslim South African Ambassador to the U.S. (and champion of the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood), Ebrahim Rasool.

Extolling his National Cathedral Christian hosts, the good ambassador Rasool quoted (video here; hat tip Ken Sikorski) — in deliberately truncated fashion — only the latter portion of Koran 5:82 (equivalent to this: “…and you will find the nearest in love to the believers (Muslims) those who say: ‘We are Christians.’ That is because amongst them are priests and monks, and they are not proud.”) What Mr. Rasool omitted is the virulently Jew- and “pagan”-hating, opening half of verse 5:82: “Verily, you will find the strongest among men in enmity to the believers (Muslims) the Jews and those who are Al-Mushrikun (i.e., “idolatrous” Hindus, Buddhists, and Animists).” The Jew-hating nature of this verse — well-established by classical Koranic commentaries, spanning over a millennium — was re-affirmed by Sunni Islam’s most prestigious center of religious education, Al-Azhar University, and its current leading cleric, Grand Imam, Ahmed al-Tayeb. During an interview with Al-Tayeb, which aired on Channel 1, Egyptian TV, October 25, 2013, Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam gave a brief explanation of the ongoing relevance of verse 5:82 which has been invoked — “successfully” — to inspire Muslim hatred of Jews since the advent of Islam:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/15/2014

The ESA’s comet probe Philae was forced to shut down, but not before it had transmitted valuable data about the comet 67P to controllers on Earth. The probe landed in the permanent shadow of a cliff on the comet’s core, and was unable to obtain enough sunlight to keep its batteries charged.

In other news, Fuad Nahdi, a British Muslim with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, has been invited to address the Church of England’s General Synod. The topic for the occasion will be the persecution of Christians in Islamic countries.

The synod will discuss the “unspeakable evil” of the recent persecution of Christians an

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Geert Wilders in Palm Beach

Earlier today Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) in the Netherlands, spoke at this year’s Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach. Below is the prepared text of his remarks.

Speech by Geert Wilders at the Restoration Weekend

Palm Beach, Florida
November 15, 2014

Dear friends,

It is always a pleasure to be in the United States. And it is an honor to be at Restoration Weekend again. Especially at this moment when a new Congress and a new majority in the Senate are preparing to lead this great country and change it for the better.

I am a politician from Europe. I am a member of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands and the leader of the Party for Freedom, the leading party in the Dutch opinion polls today.

Before I continue, let me tell you something about my life as a European politician. I am not a President, nor a Governor, nor even a member of Cabinet, just a member of Congress. For over ten years now, I have been living under 24/7 police protection. I lived with my wife in army barracks, prison cells and safe houses until this very day, just to be safe. Wherever I go, armed policemen accompany me to protect me against Islamic jihadis. Al Qaida, the Taliban, ISIS and many others threatened to kill me because I tell the truth about Islam and speak out against the Islamization of our free Western societies. In Europe we have made a terrible mistake. During the past decades, our politicians foolishly allowed millions of Islamic immigrants to settle within our borders. Everywhere the Islamic culture was welcomed as an enrichment. Nowhere the demand was made that the immigrants assimilate.

Not a single European leader had the guts to state the obvious and tell the truth: our Western culture based on Christianity, Judaism and Humanism, is far superior to the Islamic culture and immigrants have to adopt our values. And now, we in Europe are paying the price for this folly. Islam is eating away our Judeo-Christian and humanist civilization and replacing it with intolerance, hatred and violence. And our so-called leaders allow it.

25 years ago, the Berlin Wall fell and the Iron Curtain was dismantled. Thanks to President Ronald Reagan, America’s greatest and best President ever, the totalitarian ideology of Communism was defeated in Europe and my continent was liberated. But now another totalitarianism has nestled itself in the heart of Europe.

Last Summer, my home town, The Hague, witnessed scenes which brought back memories of the darkest period in our history, the Nazi era. Sympathizers of the Islamic State paraded in our streets. They carried swastikas, they carried the black flags of the Islamic State. They shouted “Death to the Jews” and “Oh Jews, the army of Mohammed is coming for you”. In the streets of The Hague in broad daylight. And instead of rounding up these hatemongers, the Dutch authorities did nothing.

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Taqiyya and Kitman in Washington D.C.

As we reported yesterday, while an imam was saying a prayer on the floor of Congress, the Episcopal Church was hosting some imams from various Muslim Brotherhood front groups for a prayer service at the National Cathedral (now the National Masjid) in Washington D.C. The latter event was live-streamed, and Vlad Tepes captured the footage and uploaded it so that our Arabic translator ritamalik could evaluate it.

Ritamalik just wrote me back with this summary of what she noticed in the video. Here’s what she said:

Hi Baron,

I listened to the video! I must admit the amount of mush and nonsense and taqiyya was stomach-turning, but there was nothing really controversial in their Arabic prayers.

Most of the time they translated right away what they said into English, and although sometimes their Quranic quotations were a little bit creatively translated, shall we say (to give it more goody-good and New-Agey feel), they were OK enough translations to give the gist of what the verse said.

Some verses from Meccan Surahs were quoted, but quite a few Medinan verses were recited too, such as 3:26-27 which was recited and translated into English right afterwards by the ambassador during the khutbah, or sermon, which says:

Say, “O Allah , Owner of Sovereignty, You give sovereignty to whom You will and You take sovereignty away from whom You will. You honor whom You will and You humble whom You will. In Your hand is [all] good. Indeed, You are over all things competent. 26

“You cause the night to enter the day, and You cause the day to enter the night; and You bring the living out of the dead, and You bring the dead out of the living. And You give provision to whom You will without account.” 27

And during the Salah itself the Imam or prayer leader electively recited the first two or three verses of Surah 2:

Alif, Lam, Meem. 1 This is the Book about which there is no doubt, a guidance for those conscious of Allah — 2 Who believe in the unseen, establish prayer, and spend out of what We have provided for them,… 3

The rest was the standard Salah chants which are repeated ad nauseam, which of course have all the built-in insults to Christians and Jews in the mandatory recitation of Surah 1:7:

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