Muslims from ISIS attacked two churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday, detonating themselves and killing 44.
April 9, 2017
The first bomb exploded in St. George's Church in Tanta (60 miles north of Cairo) killing at least 27 and injuring nearly 80 others.
The second Muslim jihadi blew himself up inside St. Mark's Cathedral in Alexandria where Coptic Pope Tawadros was celebrating Mass. At least 17 people were killed and nearly 50 were injured. Pope Tawadros was not injured in the attack.
Before European or North American leaders begin telling us these incidents of "violent extremism" have nothing to do with Islam, let us review Islamic doctrine.
Islam defines itself as a "complete way of life governed by sharia (Islamic law)." According to unanimous rulings by the highest authorities in Islam, sharia comes from the Koran and the example of Islam's prophet Mohammad, whom the Koran calls a "beautiful pattern of conduct" for Muslims to follow for all time.
In the most authoritative Islamic reports of what Mohammad said:
"Allah's Messenger said: 'I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Messenger, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah.'" [Bukhari 25: Book 2, Hadith 18]
In Islam, the Tafsir legally defines every verse in the Koran - because Islam defines itself as being controlled by a legal system (sharia). Tafsir ibn Kathir is the most authoritative Tafsir in all of Islam. Koran 9:5 is: "Fight and slay the unbelievers wherever you find them, capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush." The Tafsir defines "besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush" legally as: "Do not wait until you find them. Rather, seek and besiege them in their areas and forts, gather intelligence about them in the various roads and fairways so that what is made wide looks ever smaller to them. This way, they will have no choice, but to die or embrace Islam."
In the Koran beheadings, crucifixions, whippings, stonings, and amputations are punishments from Allah for all time, which is why they can be found in modern books of Islamic Criminal Law (Hudud) all over the Muslim world.
The last 1400 years of world history demonstrate the West has defeated Islam on the battlefield to preserve liberty and the lives of free peoples again and again. From Tours (France) in 732, to the launch of the Crusades in 1095 to stop the unprovoked Islamic attacks on Christian holy lands, to the miraculous victory of Christians over the Muslims at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, to the defeat of Muslims at the Gates of Vienna in 1683 thanks to the Christian alliance led by Polish King Jan Sobieski, the West has been forced to deal with Islam's barbaric and unprovoked attacks since the hijra of Mohammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 AD.
Why? Because Islam's god Allah and the "perfect example of a man" Mohammad told Muslims it is a permanent command for all Muslims to wage jihad ("warfare against non-Muslims") until the entire world is under the control of a global Islamic state ruled by sharia (Islamic law).
While no group has claimed responsibility, the attack bore the hallmarks of recent ISIS attacks in that the terrorist used a truck to plow into pedestrians on a crowded street. It comes close on the heels of a similiar attack in Westminister which killed five people.
Here's what we know so far:
A 39-year-old Uzbek man was arrested after a large manhunt on suspicion of carrying out the attack. Two other suspects were arrested in connection with the attack but later released. During those arrests, near the area of Rinkeby, which was identified as a no-go-zone by U.S. President Donald Trump in a speech in February, gangs of local youths reportedly pelted police officers with stones.
A suspicious "technical device" was found in the truck and is under police analysis. "We confirm that we have found a device in the truck that doesn't belong there. We are now investigating its content," Dan Eliasson, chief of the Swedish police said in a news conference on April 8. "Whether this was a classic bomb or some sort of flammable device is now a matter for our analysis
The suspect was previously featured in intelligence reports, but was not being monitored at the time of the attack.
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"It is with shock and a heavy heart that I can confirm that Chris Bevington from our Spotify team lost his life in Friday's senseless attack on Stockholm," Ek wrote.
Bevington had worked with the company for five years, Ek noted in the post. The British 41-year-old had served as Spotify's director of global partnerships/business development, working from Stockholm.
In a statement to the BBC, Bevington's father, John, said, "We are all devastated by the untimely and tragic death of our talented, compassionate and caring son Chris. A wonderful husband, son, father, brother and close friend to many."
On Friday, four people were killed and about 15 more were injured when a truck plowed through a shopping area in the heart of Sweden's capital. According to CNN, a suspect - a 39-year-old man from Uzbekistan - was arrested hours after the attack on suspicion of terrorism offenses. A second suspect was also reportedly placed under arrest on Sunday in connection with the attack.
Stockholm terror suspect boasted he had 'run over 10 people' in WhatsApp messages to Isil supporter
The man suspected of ploughing a truck into a crowd of people in central Stockholm chatted with Isil supporters before and after the attack, boasting in one message that he had "run over ten people", it has been claimed.
Rakhmat Akilov, a failed asylum seeker from Uzbekistan, had been in contact with an extremist calling himself Abu Fatyma via the online messaging service WhatsApp, Swedish newspaper Expressen reported.
According to unverified screenshots of the WhatsApp messages published by Expressen, Akilov told Fatyma he was trying to build a bomb.
"How do I make explosives? Tomorrow I want to find a car and run it into a crowd," he is said to have written.
