[IsraelTimes] An eight-year-old boy wearing a yarmulke has been attacked in Rome, Italian media reports.
A 33-year-old Egyptian national has been arrested in connection with the incident.
According to reports, the boy and his mother were walking together on the central Via Nazionale on Thursday when the man appeared in front of them and started yelling at the boy.
After the boy tried to hide between his mother’s legs and covered his face with his hands, the man grabbed him and began kicking and punching him.
The boy’s mother and a shopkeeper tried to stop the man as he took a broken bottle out of his pocket. The man threatened them with the glass before running away.
Using surveillance videos from nearby shops and clubs in the area, Italian anti-terrorist police tracked down the suspect shortly after, still with the broken bottle in his pocket.
The suspect, a migrant living on the streets of Italy, had arrived recently after being rejected at the borders of France and Belgium, reports say.
He was charged with attempting to mutilate a child and two women. There were no charges relating to the motive.
[IsraelTimes] Salwan Najem ‘expressed contempt for the Muslim ethnic group,’ court says, adding he and partner Salwan Momika — shot Thursday — exceeded free speech protections ‘by a wide margin’
A Swedish court found an anti-Islam campaigner guilty on Monday of hate crimes involving staging public burnings of the Koran, in a ruling handed down five days after another man also being prosecuted over the incidents was rubbed out.
Salwan Najem, a 50-year-old Swedish citizen, was given a suspended sentence and fined 4,000 crowns ($358) over the Koran burning ...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship.... s and derogatory comments he made about Moslems in the 2023 incidents, which sparked unrest and drew anger toward Sweden in Moslem countries.
His fellow campaigner, Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, was rubbed out last week on the day he had been due to receive his verdict in a parallel case.
No suspect has been charged yet in that killing. Five people were detained but later released. Sweden’s prime minister has said a foreign state may have been behind it.
The 2023 Koran burnings made the balance between free speech rights and rules protecting ethnic and religious groups a major issue for Sweden and other European countries.
The Stockholm district court said Sweden had extensive free speech rights and that followers of a religion must accept that they would sometimes feel offended, but that Najem and Momika had "by a wide margin" overstepped the mark for reasonable and factual religious criticism.
The court found that the pair had desecrated the Koran in various ways and made offensive and sweeping statements directed towards Islam, representatives of the religion and activities in mosques.
The court said the Koran did not have any special protection just because it was a holy scripture for Moslems and that there could be cases where burning was not considered a hate crime.
Najem was found guilty of hate crimes for "having expressed contempt for the Moslem ethnic group because of their religious beliefs on four occasions," it said.
Najem’s lawyer said he would appeal against the verdict.
"My client considers that his statements fall within the scope of criticism of religion, which is covered by the freedom of expression," he said.
The court had dropped the case against Momika after he was killed.
Have always objected to Swede jokes, but... if that's a court...
I am done with defending the Swede
And his crude, dum i huvutet creed
From the arrows and slings
His stupidity brings
Down upon him and all of his breed.
#4
Amen. But speaking of books, digital "immortality" thereof...
Mohammedans! Dickens, Canetti,
Donne, Dickinson... make 'em confetti!
Shred even your 'bloid --
I would not be annoyed.
Take Britannica. "Look, I'm a yeti!"
Not that I don't appreciate a nice pile of papyrus in between Katrinas and Conquests and whatnot.
#8
Sweden is fundamentally non-serious if they think there is any such thing as a "hate crime", or that Muslims could be anything but the PERP of such a crime. Islam IS a hate crime (were there such a thing).
#10
#6
Perhaps the Swedes are like the Americans, and will do the right thing when all other avenues have been exhausted. Norway and Iceland are nice and relatively safe. Was just there.
As for the rest, Izlom is a violent political system masquerading (poorly) as a religion. Anyone pretending otherwise is a coward and a fool. Or Izlomic...but I repeat myself.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian gunman breaches military post near Tayasir, exchanges fire with troops for several minutes until he is killed; Palestinians later report drone strike nearby
A Paleostinian gunman infiltrated an army checkpoint in the northern West Bank on Tuesday morning, opening fire and wounding eight before being killed, the military and medics said.
The attack took place at the Taysir checkpoint, close to the Paleostinian village of the same name. The checkpoint is on a road leading from the Jordan Valley to the village and other Paleostinian towns.
According to an initial probe by the Israel Defense Forces, the gunman managed to sneak up to a military post at the checkpoint, where he opened fire on troops just before 6 a.m.
The compound next to the checkpoint includes a watchtower and several structures, and it is manned by a squad of 11 soldiers and a commander.
The assailant, who has not yet been identified, was armed with an M-16 assault rifle and two magazines, and wearing a tactical vest.
The IDF’s probe found that the gunman approached the army post on foot undetected overnight. At dawn, the assailant surprised two soldiers who were getting up to leave the post to open the adjacent Tayasir checkpoint for Paleostinian traffic.
The soldiers, who were in full military gear, exchanged fire with the gunman at close range at the entrance to the post.
From there, other soldiers stationed at the army post exchanged fire with the gunman for several minutes, during which he managed to enter the post itself and the entrance to the watchtower. The IDF said that the gunman did not go up to the top of the watchtower.
A backup team then arrived at the scene and opened fire on the gunman from outside the army post, causing him to flee.
During the gunman’s attempts to run away from the post, one soldier from the backup team hurled a grenade at him, and others opened fire. The assailant was killed just outside the army post.
At least eight were maimed in the attack, first responders said, including two listed at death's door. Four were moderately hurt and another two were listed in good condition. They were taken to hospitals in Israel.
Footage posted by Paleostinian media showed the moments of the attack.
In the video, gunfire can be seen at the top of the watchtower. According to the IDF’s probe, troops stationed in the watchtower opened fire from above at the gunman.
The IDF said it would provide further details on the attack later.
Shortly after the shooting attack, Paleostinian media reported an Israeli dronezap in the town of Tamun, close to Tayasir. No injuries were reported.
There was no immediate comment from the IDF on the strike.
Tuesday’s shooting came amid an ongoing counter-terrorism offensive in the northern West Bank, including in several Paleostinian towns near the site of the attack.
The IDF has been operating in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tamun for two weeks.
Over 35 button men were killed by troops during the operation, and another 15 were killed in dronezaps, the military said Sunday.
The IDF has acknowledged mistakenly killing several civilians during the operation, including a toddler.
More than 100 wanted Paleostinians have been detained, and troops have seized some 40 weapons and neutralized over 80 bombs during the operation, according to the IDF.
The offensive, dubbed Operation Iron Wall, was launched on January 21, and the military expects it to last several more weeks.
The West Bank has seen a surge in violence since Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... ’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip ignited the war there.
Since then troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 900 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or holy warriors carrying out attacks.
There has also been a significant uptick in settler violence against Paleostinians since the start of the war.
During the same period, 46 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says troops fired warning shots, after Palestinian suspects approached forces in several areas of the Gaza Strip today.
Israeli troops are still deployed inside some areas of Gaza during the ceasefire with Hamas.
The IDF says it is “determined to fully maintain the terms of the agreement in order to return the hostages,” and is “prepared for any scenario and will continue to take any necessary actions to thwart any immediate threat to IDF soldiers.”
“The IDF calls the residents of Gaza to follow its instructions and avoid approaching the troops deployed in the area,” the military adds.
[IsraelTimes] Wasim a-Sayed was convicted of 2019 murder of Yehuda and Tamar Kaduri, 2022 murder of Ivan Tarnovski; court rules he will never be eligible for release, even in diplomatic deal
The Jerusalem District Court on Monday sentenced Wasim a-Sayed, an ISIS-affiliated terrorist from Hebron who murdered three people in Jerusalem, to three life sentences and another 40-year prison sentence.
A-Sayed murdered Yehuda Kaduri, 71, and Tamar Kaduri, 68, in their home in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv in 2019, and murdered Ivan Tarnovski, a foreign worker from Moldova in 2022 in the same neighborhood.
The day before he murdered the Kaduris he had tried to slit the throat of a 14-year old girl also in Armon Hanatziv, but she managed to escape harm, and he also severely maimed Tarnovski’s roommate in the 2022 attack.
A-Sayed was convicted in September last year on terror charges of two counts of premeditated murder, one count of murder under aggravated circumstances, and two counts of attempted murder.
The court ruled that the severity of his crimes means he will not be eligible for release under any future diplomatic agreement the government might enter into, essentially ruling out his release as part of a hostage deal or similar.
In 2019, A-Sayed, who had associated himself with the ISIS terror organization, crossed into the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood and stabbed Tamar Kaduri to death and then slit the throat of her husband Yehuda Kaduri in their apartment.
In March 2022, A-Sayed entered the same neighborhood and stabbed Tarnovski to death, also severely wounding his roommate.
A-Sayed confessed to the crimes in 2022 after he was arrested by police, telling Sherlocks he had been looking for Jews to kill.
"The accused slaughtered... three people and tried to slaughter two others, by slitting their throats while they were in their homes or were leaving them, just because they were Jews, or because he thought they were Jews," says the Jerusalem District Court in announcing its sentence.
Before his arrest in 2022, the case was regarded by officials as "one of the hardest to solve in Jerusalem over the past few years."
After hitting a dead end in the investigation in 2020, police released security camera footage from the night of the murders and asked for the public’s help in identifying the suspect. The following year, they released a sketch of him.
When a-Sayed was arrested by Border Police officers in March of 2022, police did not know he was linked to either the Kaduri case or the killing of the Moldovan, Tarnovski. According to police, a-Sayed was detained with a knife on his person while trying to cross the West Bank security barrier.
He was transferred to the Shin Bet over his alleged Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ties, with the statement from police and the security agency saying Sherlocks later determined he had carried out the murders.
According to a 2022 report on Channel 13, a-Sayed told interrogators: "I decided that I will murder Jews but I won’t tell anyone about it. It will only be between myself and my God. I decided that Islamic State is my path. I looked for Jewish victims. I wanted to murder a man or a woman but no children."
[IsraelTimes] Fourteen women and one man were killed and fifteen other women were injured in a car bomb explosion on a main road on the outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Manbij, Syria’s civil defense says.
All of them were agricultural workers, it adds in a statement.
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...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship....
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
