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India-Pakistan

Love jihad: Man Impregnates Ghaziabad Woman After Raping Her, Converts Her To His Religion

2023-07-24

[OneIndia] A man has been arrested by the cops in Ghaziabad for allegedly raping a woman after befriending her.

He got into touch with her through Facebook using his fake identity in 2020. In the initial days, they used to interact less but gradually it increased. He then asked her to meet her before raping her, according to a report in India Today

He then blackmailed her using those videos and pictures and raped her several times.

After six months, they met at his insistence. Later, they met several times. The Ghaziabad woman stated that she became pregnant after the incident but was compelled by the man to undergo an ~~child sacrifice~~ abortion.

It was during this time that she discovered the man's true identity as Khalid and realized that he had hidden his original religion.

The woman has alleged that the accused had been forcing her to convert to his religion. He then took her to Nizamuddin mosque in Delhi where she was converted to Islam.

"On his birthday, Khalid even got his name tattooed on my waist. He forced me to eat the meat of cows and other animals. Khalid asked me to wear Hijab always. He forced me to convert to Islam and even changed my name," OpIndia quoted the victim as saying.

The cops have said that they arrested the accused based on the complaint near Vijay Nagar railway station and filed the case under the IPC Sections 376, 313, 323, and 509.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

FSB stopped the activities of the Tablighi Jamaat cell in the Moscow region -- UPDATED

2023-07-23

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] FSB officers, together with police officers, stopped the activities of a cell of the international religious extremist organization Tablighi Jamaat
Tablighi Jamaat at Prayer

<span class=Inverse>Tablighi Jamaat</span> at Prayer

A peaceful group of itinerant Deobandi preachers who form one of al-Qaeda's recruiting arms...
(an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), nine of its members were detained in the Moscow region. This was reported on July 22 by the press service of the Federal Security Service of Russia for Moscow and the Moscow Region.

“The FSB of Russia, together with the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow, suppressed the criminal activities of a cell of the international religious extremist organization Tablighi Jamaat,” the report says.

It is noted that nine members of the organization were detained in the Moscow region. During the searches, religious literature of extremist content was found in their possession.

Currently, operational and investigative measures are being taken to establish all the circumstances. A criminal case has been opened on this fact.

As reported by IA Regnum , in Energodar, the FSB stopped the activities of a citizen of Ukraine, who transmitted to the Armed Forces of Ukraine the coordinates of the positions of Russian military personnel guarding the Zaporozhye NPP.

The attacker passed the information to his relative, who serves in one of the artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, operating in the Zaporozhye direction.

regnum.ru media server sucks. Here is the video of the arrest from the V Kontakte page of Wagner PMC affiliated Solder of Fortune:

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Home Front: WoT

Man who sold gun to Texas synagogue attacker gets 8 years in prison

2022-10-28

As we like it: all’s well that ends well. (Yes, of course you see what I did there, dear Reader. I would expect nothing less.)

[IsraelTimes] Ex-felon convicted of possession of semi-automatic pistol later used by Malik Faisal Akram to hold rabbi and 3 others hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville

A man who sold a pistol to a man who used it to hold four hostages inside a Texas synagogue before being fatally shot by the FBI
FBI

...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
was sentenced Monday to nearly eight years in prison for a federal gun crime, the US Department of Justice said.

Henry "Michael" Dwight Williams,

...when not in prison he enjoyed the dubious pleasures of selling illegal drugs and stolen guns to those who appreciate such things...

33, pleaded guilty in June to being a felon in possession of a firearm, prosecutors said.

Williams sold Malik Faisal Akram

...Brit-Paki known wolf, a member of jihad precurser Tablighi Jamaat and divorced father of six, he came to America specially to get the Joos to rescue Aafia Siddiqui from durance vile, but failed spectacularly — first losing his hostages and then his life. Did we ever learn who took him between the Dallas International Airport and the homeless shelter where he was given shelter and who introduced him to the felon who sold him that gun?

the weapon Arkam used when he entered Congregation Beth Israel in the Dallas-area suburb of Colleyville on January 15 and held the synagogue’s rabbi and three others hostage, according to prosecutors.

Williams, who was previously convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and attempted possession of a controlled substance, sold Akram a semi-automatic pistol on January 13.

Prosecutors said that in plea papers, Williams admitted to possession of that firearm despite his prior conviction.

"This defendant, a convicted felon, had no business carrying — much less buying and selling — firearms," US Attorney Chad Meacham said in a news release.

Prosecutors said Williams confirmed selling Akram the handgun at a Dallas intersection.

Akram, a 44-year-old British citizen, held hostages while demanding the release of a federal prisoner. The standoff ended after more than 10 hours when the synagogue’s rabbi threw a chair at Akram and fled with the other two remaining hostages just as an FBI tactical team was moving in. None of the hostages were maimed.

Williams was arrested just over a week after the standoff.

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India-Pakistan

Students Of Pakistani Madrassa Beheaded Their Female Teacher

2022-04-06

[MEMRI.ORG] According to Pak media reports, three female students of a religious madrassa in the Pak town of Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
beheaded their female teacher because a 13-year-old female relative of theirs had dreamt that Muhammad, founder of Islam, had told the relative that the teacher had committed blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
and ordered that she be beheaded. Some Pak media reports have avoided mentioning Muhammad's name, while other reports said that the attackers were teachers. The victim has been identified in some reports as S. Bibi or Safoora Bibi.Roznama Mashriq, an Urdu daily, reported: "At 7 am on Tuesday [March 29, 2022], three female students — Razia Hanifa and Ayesha Noman, daughters of Allah Nawaz; and Umra Aman Hanifa, daughter of Deen Badshah belonging to the Mehsud tribe and residents of Anjumabad area — overpowered their 18-year-old teacher 'S' Bibi, resident of Tiarza in South Wazoo and currently resident of Nawab Multan
...Home of the Multan Sultans...
Road Dera, at the gate of the madrassa and beheaded her by mercilessly running knives on her throat."

The gruesome murder of the female teacher bring attention to the controversial blasphemy laws in Pakistain, where in December 2021 a mob burned alive Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara, who had been accused of blasphemy.

The headline in Roznama Mashriq reads: "Three Female Students Of Madrassa Murdered Female Teacher After Having A Dream." A sub-headline reads: "Describing the dream, a female student declared that the female teacher was a blasphemer, after which the three female students beheaded the female teacher."

A report in Dawn newspaper named the three girls who committed the crime: 24-year-old Umra Aman, 21-year-old Razia Hanifa aka Hanifia, and 17-year-old Aisha Noman. All three were taken into police custody. As per the statements that they gave the police, "a religious personality appeared in the dream of one of their relatives — a 13-year-old girl — and said the teacher had committed blasphemy" — the Dawn report noted.

Another report in the Urdu daily Roznama Jang confirmed this account: "A 13-year-old girl who is a relative of the three women told them that she had dreamt that the victim had blasphemed against the religion [of Islam], based on which the order for beheading was given [in the dream]." Police have arrested the 13-year-old girl and the three students.

According to a police statement: "The three accused ladies have so far disclosed that one of their relative, about a 13-year-old girl, had seen a dream last night [preceding to March 29] that the Prophet [Muhammad]... had directed them that the victim had committed blasphemy against the prophet and that the prophet had ordered them to slaughter the victim."

According to the Samaa TV report, the female students were radicalized by Islamic holy mans opposed to Maulana Tariq Jameel, a Sunni religious scholar who belongs to the revivalist group Tablighi Jamaat
Tablighi Jamaat at Prayer

A peaceful group of itinerant Deobandi preachers who form one of al-Qaeda's recruiting arms...
and is wildly popular for his television speeches on religious and non-religious issues delivered to Moslem audiences across the world via the Internet. "The three women accosted the victim outside the seminary and accused her of being impressed by religious scholar Maulana Tariq Jameel and [of] committing blasphemy," the police statement noted.

Police Officer Najam Hasnain Liaquat said that the name of the 13-year-old girl who reportedly had the dream was Umema. A controversy had been ongoing, the police officer noted, between two religious seminaries for women situated in Dera Ismail Khan, the headquarters of Dera Ismail Khan district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

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Home Front: WoT

FBI says Texas synagogue hostage-taker tried to buy ‘machine gun’ and drugs

2022-02-17

[IsraelTimes] Dallas man accused of selling Malik Faisal Akram pistol says the attacker sought to buy methamphetamines and ’weapon that contains large number of bullets’.

The man who took hostages at a Texas synagogue sought to buy drugs and a "machine gun" before the standoff last month that ended with the hostages escaping and the gunman’s death, an FBI
FBI

...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
agent said in court Wednesday.

The testimony came during a detention hearing for the Dallas man accused of selling Malik Faisal Akram

...Brit-Paki known wolf, a member of jihad precurser Tablighi Jamaat and divorced father of six, who came to America specially to get the Joos to rescue Aafia Siddiqui from durance vile, but failed spectacularly, first losing his hostages and then his life. But who took him to and from Dallas International Airport to the homeless shelter that housed him, and who introduced him to the felon who sold him that gun?

the handgun he used in his attack on Congregation Beth Israel in the suburb of Colleyville.

A federal magistrate ordered the alleged seller, Henry "Michael" Williams, detained ahead of his trial on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Williams, 32, was arrested less than two weeks after the standoff ended with an FBI tactical team rushing into the synagogue and fatally shooting Akram just as the hostages made their escape.

Authorities said Williams confessed to selling Akram, a 44-year-old British national, the previously stolen pistol.

During the detention hearing, FBI agent Taylor Page testified that Williams said Akram initially reached out to him seeking to buy methamphetamines and "a machine gun or a weapon that contains a large number of bullets."

He clearly had a romantic idea of what is available to the random foreigner, even in the far West where cowboys roam with six shooters and such.

Akram explained that he wanted the gun for intimidation to help settle a debt, according to Page.

Page also said that Akram fired his gun at some point during the standoff but did not provide details. Multiple gunshots could be heard in the area around the synagogue soon after the FBI breached the building.

In court, prosecutors highlighted Williams’ past felony convictions and Page said Williams brokered 10 to 15 other gun sales. Williams’ defense lawyer argued that he could not have known what Akram actually planned to do with the gun and said her client was being blamed for another person’s actions.

Magistrate Judge Rebecca Rutherford ordered Williams be held as a potential danger to the community.

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Government Corruption

Was the Terrorist Attack in Colleyville a Replay of the Terrorist Attack in Garland in 2015?

2022-01-18

[The Last Refuge] I have intentionally not written about the terrorist attack in Colleyville, Texas, because my initial review saw significant parallels to the first ISIS attack on U.S. soil which took place in 2015 at Garland Texas, carried out by Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi.

In the Garland attack the FBI organized, facilitated and coordinated the attack. The FBI even drove the terrorists to the attack venue and then left once the shooting began. Yes, you read that correctly, the first ISIS attack on U.S. soil was organized by the FBI. {Go Deep} CTH dug deep on the 2015 Garland attack, so it wasn’t too difficult to spot the similarities between Garland 2015 and Colleyville 2022.

♦ Colleyville, Texas — Malik Faisal Akram, who was known as Faisal Akram, had a well known Islamic extremist history to British and American intelligence. Akram ranted, prior to his travel to the U.S, that he wished he had died in the 9/11 terror attacks. He was a regular visitor to Pakistan, and reportedly a member of the Tablighi Jamaat group set up to ’purify’ Islam. To say the U.S. intelligence system knew Faisal Akram would be an understatement. The FBI knowledge of Akram has now been confirmed by The Daily Mail.

So, the questions become: (1) how did Faisal Akram gain a visa to enter the United States? (2) Who did he visit? (3) Who gave him the weapon? (4) Who facilitated his travel and targeting operations; and lastly, (5) who financed and assisted him in his attack?

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India-Pakistan

'State writ can't be challenged': Fawad says situation in country back to normal

2021-04-18

[DAWN] Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry said on Saturday that the writ of the state could not be challenged and that the situation in the country had returned to normal after countywide protests by the now proscribed Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) over the arrest of its chief Saad Hussain Rizvi.While speaking to the media in Rawalpindi after visiting injured coppers in the protests, the federal minister said that he congratulated the interior ministry, religious affairs ministry and provincial governments for jointly taking action to successfully control the protests and "it was once again firmly established that state writ can’t be challenged".

Chaudhry said Pakistain was the world's fifth biggest country (by population) and an atomic power, questioning how anyone could undermine it and its state.

"Pakistain's state is not a weak state at all and no one should make the mistake of misunderstanding this," he said, adding that Pakistain also had the "biggest defence system and army" in the Moslem world.

"So those who wanted to undermine Pakistain should remove that misunderstanding of theirs," he said.

He said that in a "functional democracy", there were different points of view and they were listened to but no one could attempt to blackmail the government or think they could exert power over it.

"The situation in all of Pakistain at this time has become normal," said Chaudhry and further expressed his regret for yesterday's social media ban for three-four hours, saying it had been "necessary".

He alleged that prior investigations on sectarian riots and organizations had found the involvement of the Indian intelligence agency, RAW
... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man...
, so "here too there are parties who are used and many times they don't even know whose hands they are playing into."

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India-Pakistan

UP court acquits 17, including 7 foreign nationals in Tablighi Jamaat case

2021-02-21

[OneIndia] A court here discharged 17 alleged Tablighi Jamaat
Tablighi Jamaat at Prayer

A peaceful group of itinerant Deobandi preachers who form one of al-Qaeda's recruiting arms...
members, booked early last year for various offences during the COVID-19 lockdown, of all charges, saying there was no prima facie evidence on record to make them stand trial.

Out of the 17, seven are Indonesian nationals.

In the order passed on Wednesday, the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) court observed that there was no prima facie evidence on record to make the accused persons stand trial in the case.

The Indonesian nationals had told the court that they had come to India on a valid visa and passport on January 20, 2020 and the first case of COVID-19 in Indonesia was detected on March 2, 2020.

The FIR against them was lodged at Shahganj cop shoppe in Allahabad on April 1, 2020.

The police had booked them under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Foreigners Act and the Epidemic Diseases Act. They were out on bail in the case.

The court also acquitted 10 Indians -- Ashraf PK, Shahajahn Ali, Khwaja Sabihuddin, Mohd Shakil, Mohd Ahmad, Dr Masiullah Khan, Mohd Tariq, Wasim Ahmad, Mohd Mustafa and Rizwanulhaq.

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India-Pakistan

Gujarat to bring law against 'love jihad'

2021-02-15

[OneIndia] Gujarat
...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime...
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Sunday said his government will soon bring a strict law against 'love jihad' in the state. He made the announcement while addressing a poll rally in Vadodara ahead of the municipal corporation elections.

"We are going to bring a law against love jihad in the Assembly. Such activities being done in the name of love jihad will not be tolerated...The BJP government will bring strict laws against love jihad in the coming days," he said.

In the recent past, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, both ruled by the BJP, have brought religious freedom laws to stop conversion through marriage or by any other fraudulent means.

The chief minister spoke on about other things of interest to his constituents, but not so much to us.

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India-Pakistan

Shahdat is our Goal: NIA picks up key terrorist from Tamil Nadu

2021-02-03

[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a terrorist belonging to a Jihadi gang called Shahdat is our Goal.

The NIA picked up Mohammad Rashid aged 25, who is a resident of Cuddalore district in Tamil Nadu.

The case was originally registered at the Keelakarai Police Station in Ramnathapuram district of Tamil Nadu after the arrest of accused Mohamed Rifas, Muparish Ahamed and Abupakkar Sithik from Keelakarai.

Lethal weapons including swords along with pamphlets pertaining to the terrorist gang were seized from the possession of the accused persons.

Searches were conducted by NIA at the premises of the accused persons in May, 2019

...the mills of Justice are grinding exceedingly slowly in this case...

and Mohammed Rashid was identified as an active member of the terrorist gang. Scrutiny of forensically retrieved data from the seized digital devices and their e-mail and social media accounts, has revealed that the accused persons including Mohammed Rashid, had conducted multiple conspiracy meetings under leadership of Sheik Dawood and Mohammed Rifas with the intention of waging ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful jihad in Tamil Nadu, as part of their efforts to establish Islamic rule (Shariah). The accused, in pursuance of the conspiracy, had also attempted to procure illegal fire arms. Further investigations are on.

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India-Pakistan

Indian troops brawl with Chinese counterparts on border

2021-01-26

[Guardian] Indian and Chinese soldiers were injured in another violent clash along the Himalayan border last week, as tensions between the two nuclear powers showed no signs of abating.

According to reports, Indian and Chinese troops came to physical blows on Wednesday along the high-altitude border in north Sikkim, a small Indian state, situated between India and Bhutan, which has been a flashpoint of India-China conflict for decades.

Indian officials claimed that Chinese troops had attempted to cross over into territory claimed by India in the area of Naku La in Sikkim,

...apparently a pass connecting India to Tibet...

which led to a skirmish which injured soldiers from both sides. It is understood that no shots were fired. A statement from the Indian army called it “minor face-off” between Indian and China’s People Liberation Army (PLA) troops, which was “resolved by local commanders as per established protocols”.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters at a briefing that he had no comment on the clash but urged India to “refrain from actions that might escalate or complicate the situation along the border”.

The incident marks a continued souring of relations between India and China, who have been engaged in an increasingly violent and costly face-off along their 2,100-mile long border since May.

Tensions came to a head in June when 20 Indian soldiers, and an unknown number of Chinese soldiers, died during a brutal hand-to-hand conflict in Galwan Valley in Ladakh, the worst outbreak of violence between India and China for years. China had been accused of building up troop presence, artillery and infrastructure along the contested border for months and moving into territory long claimed by India.

About 100,000 Indian and Chinese troops have since been stationed along the border in eastern Ladakh, weathering hostile mountain temperatures of as low as -40 degrees over the winter months. Disengagement talks between Indian and Chinese commanders are now in their ninth round but a process of de-escalation along the border has yet to be agreed.

Last week, Indian news channel NDTV published satellite images, which showed how China had recently built a village of more than 100 homes in a border area of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, which is officially claimed as Indian territory, another sign of the increased Chinese activity along the border that has enraged Indian officials and locals. China described the village as “construction on our own territory”.

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Olde Tyme Religion

Islam has an Apostasy Spike In its Core

2020-09-15

In seeking an answer to Islam's failure, Islamic revivalist movements proliferated over the last two centuries with the aim of restoring past successes. From Wahhabism to al Qaeda, ISIS to Tablighi Jamaat, fundamentalist movements insisted that glory could be restored to Islam by "implement[ing] Allah's laws faithfully," and "every .... human problem would be solved."

However, wherever Islamism has gained power, "the results have not been impressive." The list of failures is long when considering rule under the Taliban, the Iranian revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood's failed government in Egypt, Erdogan's Turkey, Algeria's failed Islamic revival, and the former Sudanese regime's jihad on its own people. "The harder revivalist movements struggled to promote the success of Islam, the more evidence they seem to provide of Islam's inability to solve the human problem." ...

While it is true that there are many converts to Islam in the West, this is because the utopian ideal does not conflict with a dystopian reality. For similar reasons, second generation Muslim immigrants in the West are often more eager than their parents to embrace Islamic revivalism because they didn't directly experience "the failure of Islam" firsthand. "[I]f you've lived under the boot of [a] revolutionary Islamic regime in Iran, you have a much more realistic view of the effect of Islam on a nation."

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