MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

So says a former classmate. Closet jihadists. They’ll often appear to be “respectful” and “quiet” and “moderate” by friends and neighbors, at least right up until we hear the screams of “Allahu akbar” following by gunfire …

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Qur’an Sura 2:216, “Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not …”

Qur’an Sura 4:95, “Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home) …”

By TOM ODULA and JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press – “Almost one month after gunmen attacked an upscale mall in Kenya, one of them has been identified as a Norwegian-Somali, officials said Friday, as charred body parts taken from a collapsed portion of the shopping center awaited forensics analysis to determine if they were the remains of the assailants.

The suspect was identified as Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, the first time officials have confirmed having a real name of one of possibly four attackers from the Somali militant group al-Shabab who stormed the mall on Sept. 21. Norwegian tax records show a Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow was born in 1990 and was registered at an address in Larvik, southern Norway, as late as 2009.

A former classmate of Dhuhulow’s at Thor Heyerdahl High School – named after the Norwegian adventurer – said she was shocked when she found out he was a suspect in the Nairobi attack.

‘The video I saw looks a lot like him. But it’s difficult to see,’ said the former classmate, who didn’t want her name to be used because she was uncomfortable being associated with a terror investigation.

‘He was a quiet guy,’ she said. ‘He was very committed to his religion, but not extreme. He brought a prayer mat to school.’

Larvik is a coastal town of about 40,000, tucked in between the woods and the sea, surrounded by agricultural land and close to the mountains.

Community leader Mohamed Hassan said that Dhuhulow, as a boy, would listen to his elders in the mosque and be respectful.

‘He was not a trouble maker here in Larvik,’ Hassan told The Associated Press by phone.

But newly released video from closed-circuit TV security cameras installed at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi show four armed men, cold-bloodedly shooting defenseless civilians.” Read more.

Qur’an Sura 4:76a, “Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah …”

“Moderate” Muslims — those who do not practice the true teachings of Islam by not fighting “in the cause of Allah” — are apparently numbered with the “disbelievers” …

By Shiv Malik, Duncan Gardham and Vikram Dodd, The Guardian – “A prominent British Muslim commentator is being protected by police following concerns over his safety following the release of a video by Somali-based terror group, al-Shabaab, which singled out several British Muslims for having criticised jihadists in the aftermath of the Woolwich murder.

Mohammed Ansar, a filmmaker and journalist who has spoken out against extremism in Islam and the far right, said police visited his home at midnight on Wednesday, concerned for his safety after Shabaab released an hour-long film, The Woolwich Attack: It’s an Eye for an Eye.

Other British Muslims named in the film have also been contacted by police and offered security advice since the video’s release, the Guardian has learned.

Narrated by a man with a British accent, wearing a black mask and a camouflage jacket, the Shabaab production praises those behind the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, describes the Woolwich killings as ‘a new and terrifying reality’ and incites others to carry out attacks in the UK.

In the film, the jihadist group, which has also claimed responsibility for the bloody Kenyan Westgate mall attack, singles out specific British Muslims, including Ansar, who have distanced ‘themselves from the mujahideen who carried out these attacks’ as having ‘mutilated the teachings of Islam’.

Holding an automatic weapon in his hands, the narrator tells people to purchase knives: ‘Do not waste your time trying to reinvent the wheel. If you can’t afford to get hold of one of these then certainly a simple knife from your local B&Q will do the job.’

At the end, the narrator encourages others to follow the example of the Woolwich killers and not to let the security services put them off.

Released to coincide with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, which ended on Tuesday, the film also identifies 11 British ‘martyrs’ who have died fighting for al-Shabaab.

One British man, named as Talha from Tower Hamlets in east London is shown calling on others to follow him: ‘I call upon you today all the Muslim men in Britain, especially the people of Tower Hamlets who are in the city I was born in … I call upon you to come to jihad, and raise the banner, humiliate the disbelievers, cut the necks of the disbelievers.'” Read more.

Not so secret if the Arab media is reporting it. And not surprising, either, if true. After all, every Al Qaeda leader was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood or one of its arms at some point and both share one mind and one goal for the cause of “Allah” and his “prophet”: a global Islamist caliphate …

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON, The Jerusalem Post – “Al-Qaida and the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood met secretly last week in Jordan according to a source quoted by the Egyptian daily Al-Youm al-Sabaa on Saturday.

The meeting focused on the conflict in Egypt and Syria and an altercation broke out between a Brotherhood member and jihadist leader Mohammad al-Miqdad, and the latter asked the Brotherhood not to publicly denounce the actions of the jihadists.

The jihadists discussed their plans to start moving Syrian and Iraqi jihadists into Egypt in order to carry out terror operations there after the Eid al-Adha festival, which falls on Tuesday.

It was explained in the meeting that the attempted assassination against the Egyptian interior minister and the attack on a satellite dish, which is part of the state’s TV communication system, were meant to demonstrate that they could access vital institutions in Cairo.” Source – The Jerusalem Post.

Flashback: Al-Qaeda Leader Vows To Rescue Muslim Brotherhood In Egypt, Calls For ‘Victims And Sacrifices’ To Create Islamist State, ‘The Battle Isn’t Over, It Has Just Started’ – “Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri commented on the current events in Egypt in a video released online, in which he criticised Islamists for losing power and not uniting to implement Sharia. ‘The battle isn’t over, it has just started…the Islamic nation should offer victims and sacrifices to achieve what it wants and restore power from the corrupt authority governing Egypt,’ Al-Zawahiri said.” Read more.

Flashback: Every Al Qaeda Leader Was A Member Of The Muslim Brotherhood – “Remember that the Muslim Brotherhood are ‘moderate’ Islamists and by moderate, we mean that they kill people and had Osama bin Laden on board as a member… Zawahiri would know all about the Muslim Brotherhood as he came out of Egypt and joined the Muslim Brotherhood as a teenager. He provided much of the real blueprint for Al-Qaeda based on the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood. The pretense that Bin Laden and Zawahari are extremists while Morsi and El-Shater are moderates is just that. They’re all Muslim Brotherhood veterans carrying out its mission and its goals.” Read more.