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For the glory of Satan “Allah” and his demon-possessed servant “prophet” of perfect behavior …

Isaiah 14:13-15a, “For thou [Satan] hast said in thine heart, ‘I will ascend [עָלָה ‘alah‘] into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.’ Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell …”

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By Mike Pflanz, The Telegraph – “Gunmen flying the flag of Somalia’s al-Qaeda affiliate roared into a Kenyan coastal town and opened fire indiscriminately on pedestrians, shop-owners and people watching the World Cup, leaving at least 48 people dead.

Two banks, government buildings and a dozen vehicles were set alight as the Islamist attackers worked their way through the town of Mpeketoni, close to Lamu island, until Kenyan forces repelled them hours later.

It was the boldest raid inside Kenya blamed on al-Shabaab since the terror strike against the Westgate Shopping Centre in the capital, Nairobi, last September, when more than 70 people died.

Britain has advised tourists to avoid areas of Kenya’s coast south of where the attack took place, including Mombasa island. Mpeketoni does not fall inside that alert zone, but is rarely visited by Western tourists.

Three minibus taxis carrying al-Shabaab’s black flag and full of armed men in balaclavas arrived soon after dark on Sunday night, shooting dead people walking on the roads leading into Mpeketoni before continuing into town and opening fire.

Two workers’ hostels where people were watching Switzerland v Ecuador on bar-room televisions were amongst the first targets. Both buildings were set on fire and completely destroyed.

Julius Kimotho, an activist with a church-based human rights organisation who lives in Mpeketoni, said he could hear gunfire through the night.

“My house less than a mile from the town centre, and I could see the houses burning and hear the gunfire, it went on until something like 3am,” he said. “I could hear people wailing, crying for someone to save them. It was very bad.”

Richard Amana, a local politician, said that business properties appeared to have been targeted for destruction.” Read more.

Recommended: What Does It All Mean? – “The name of Satan in Isaiah 14:12 (Lucifer) is ‘heylel,’ which means ‘light-bearer.’ The Arabic equivalent of Satan’s name is ‘hilal,’ which means ‘crescent moon.’ Also consider the ‘Takbir’ of Islam, the victory cry of ‘Allahu Akbar.’ What are they saying? It doesn’t mean ‘God is great’ as it is often translated in the West. It actually means ‘Allah is greater.’ If it is Satan’s intention to be like the Most High and to exalt his throne above the stars of God and sit upon the mount of his own congregation, it only stands to reason that Satan will seek to accomplish these things and perform these blasphemies through the religious system to which he has given power and authority — Islam. After all, those who marvel and follow the Beast ‘worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast’ (Rev 13:4), and Satan knows that when they are worshipping ‘Allah’ and the image of the Beast, they are worshipping him.” Read more.

And the winner of Most Infidels Killed Since 9/11 is … Don’t hand out any gold crescent medals just yet. Islamic terror groups all across the Muslim world seem to be jockeying for that coveted title as of late …

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) …”

Qur’an Sura 9:111a, “[Allah] hath purchased of the believers [Muslims] their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain …”

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By Robert Windrem, NBC News – “In the two months since Boko Haram fighters kidnapped hundreds of schoolgirls in northeastern Nigeria, the terror group has taken at least 1,000 lives in what may be the deadliest killing spree by a single terrorist group since the Sept. 11 attacks, according to an NBC News analysis of reports from the region.

While the fate of the 272 girls kidnapped on April 14 remains unknown, Boko Haram has added to its bloodthirsty reputation since the abduction with a string of attacks — including three that killed more than 100 men, women and children apiece. The pace of the attacks has increased dramatically since the kidnappings, instilling fear not just in the civilian population, but in the Nigerian government and security services as well, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials.

“The group’s ability to conduct high-casualty attacks has evolved to an unprecedented level, even compared to 2012 when they bombed the U.N. building in Abuja,” said one senior counterterrorism official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “This period far surpasses that. The group has learned how to make their tactics more deadly and has expanded their reach beyond the control of security forces.”

The worst was an attack last month on two public markets in the towns of Gamboru and Ngala in Borno state that killed more than 300 people. That incident alone was the third-worst terror attack since al Qaeda used hijacked jetliners to attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, trailing only a coordinated string of car bombings targeting Yazidi communities in northern Iraq on Aug. 14, 2007, that left 796 dead, and the school massacre in Beslan, Russia, in 2004, which killed more than 380 people, mostly children.

Boko Haram Continues to Abduct Young Girls

At the same time, the group has continued to abduct young girls, according to a senior U.S. counterterrorism official, who spoke with NBC News on condition of anonymity. There have been at least three similar abductions of groups of 10 to 20 girls since the raid on a school in Chibok in which hundreds were snatched. The most recent abduction occurred on Monday, when Boko Haram fighters seized 20 more girls from a village not far from Chibok, loaded them onto trucks and drove away, the official said.

On Thursday, fears that the group could mount massive attacks on World Cup “viewing centers” prompted the government to ban public screenings of games in the northern part of the country. Such centers have been the target of Boko Haram at least twice in the last two months. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has previously preached against football, as soccer is known in Africa, as part of the Islamist group’s agenda to impose strict sharia law in northern Nigeria.” Read more.

Flashback: Islamist Leader: ‘Our Religion And Our Way Of Worship Is Nothing But Killings, Killings And Killings … Killing Is My Job’ – “‘I swear by Allah’s holy name that I will slaughter you. I will not be happy if I don’t personally put my knife on your necks and slit your throats. Yes! I’ll slaughter you! I’ll slaughter you! And I’ll slaughter you again and again… I call on all my followers and brethren wherever you are, to rise and take up arms and start killing the vagabond. Kill them, kill them and kill them… By Allah, I will kill you. Killing is my job. Let’s kill them all, we’d rather leave this world. Let the whole world perish! May Allah curse you!’” Read more.

Flashback: Number Of Islamic Terror Groups Increases By 58% Since 2010, Number Of Jihadists Double, Number Of World-Wide Attacks Triple – “One of the principal narratives of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign — as in al Qaeda has been ‘decimated’ and put on a ‘on the path to defeat’ — has itself been decimated. According to a study released yesterday by the RAND Corporation, there has been a 58 percent increase in the number of jihadist groups over the last four years. Even more troubling, the number of jihadist fighters has doubled, and the number of worldwide attacks has tripled. The report further notes that terrorist groups operating in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan pose the greatest threat to the United States. ‘Based on these threats, the United States cannot afford to withdraw or remain disengaged from key parts of North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia,’ states Seth G. Jones …” Read more.

Iraq asking Iran for help? Can’t say we didn’t see that coming …

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Breitbart – “Sunni militants captured a strategic northern Iraqi city along the highway to Syria on Monday, sending thousands of residents from an ethnic minority fleeing for safety and moving closer to their goal of linking areas under their control on both sides of the border.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that American drone strikes are an option in a bid to halt the dramatic sweep by insurgents over a swath of Iraq. He also said the Obama administration is willing to talk with Iran and does not rule out potential military cooperation between the two rivals to stop the rampage.

Already, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, Gen. Ghasem Soleimani, is in Iraq, consulting with officials on how to roll back the al-Qaida-breakaway group leading the insurgent charge, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Iraqi security officials said. They said the U.S. government was notified in advance of Soleimani’s visit.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, also said that U.S. aircraft have in recent days flown reconnaissance missions over Iraq to gather intelligence on the militants’ positions.

Soleimani has been inspecting Iraqi defenses and reviewing plans with top commanders and Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite militias, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the visit. He set up an operations room to coordinate militias.

He also visited the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala south of Baghdad, home to the most revered Shiite shrines, and areas west of Baghdad where government forces have faced off with Islamic militants for months. The Islamic State has threatened to march to Baghdad, Karbala and Najaf.

Soleimani is one of the most powerful figures in Iran’s security establishment. His Quds Force is a secretive branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard involved in external operations. In the mid-2000s’, it organized Shiite militias in a campaign of deadly violence against U.S. troops in Iraq, according to American officials. More recently, it has been involved in helping Syria’s President Bashar Assad in his fight against Sunni rebels.

The militants’ capture of Tal Afar on Monday was a key prize, as it sits on a main highway between the Syrian border and Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, which the Islamic State captured last week.

At the same time, further south, Islamic State fighters were battling Monday with government troops at Romanah, a village near another of Iraq’s main border crossings into Syria in Sunni-majority Anbar province …” Read more.

Isaiah 5:20a, “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness …”

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ISIS Narrator: “Indeed, openly speaking the truth and revealing the path of Ibraheem [Abraham] leads to a real conflict between the camps of truth and falsehood. As such, the jihad waged in order to establish the religion is an Islamic obligation, which cannot be done correctly, except with adherence to the truth and the jamaa’ah and with lots of effort and sacrifice so that the laws of the religion are defended and its penalties are carried out without fear of any criticism for the sake of Allah. And after patience, combat, strife, and tribulation, we now see The Islamic State controlling a vast area in Iraq and Shaam with Al-Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem] no more than a stone’s throw away … ‘We will conquer Jerusalem, oh Jews!’ …” (Warning: Extremely Graphic Content)

We all saw the bitter fruit that the “Arab Spring” produced. Now a new crop will reveal just how poisonous it truly is …

Daniel 8:25, “He will be a master of deception and will become arrogant; he will destroy many without warning. He will even take on the Prince of princes in battle, but he will be broken, though not by human power.”

By Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Mag – “Many of us declared the Arab Spring dead and buried. But the Arab Spring really came in two phases.

The first phase was the political destabilization of formerly stable Arab countries by liberals and Islamists. The second phase was an armed conflict by Islamists to take over entire countries.

Advocates of the Arab Spring promised that political Islam would lead to an end to Islamic terrorism, but armed Jihad and political Jihad are two phases of the same Islamic struggle. Now the shift to the second phase is complete. The real beneficiaries of the Arab Spring were always going to be those who had the most guns and cared the least about dying in battle. And that was always going to be Al Qaeda.

Libya and Syria’s civil wars had a ripple effect as weapons were seized and recruits assembled. The lessons of the Afghan wars should have made it clear that the Jihadists involved in those conflicts would not simply go home and live normal lives once the fighting was concluded.

Instead they would find other wars to fight.

The War on Terror was fed by veterans of those wars. So were a dozen more minor Jihadist conflicts that don’t normally make the news. Those conflicts produced their own veterans and spread the war around.

The Arab Spring was supposed to use ‘moderate’ political Islamists to thwart ‘extremist’ terrorists, but that was never going to happen. There is no such thing as a moderate Islamist. There are only Islamic activists more focused on one phase of the conflict. Like the distinction between the political and armed branches of terrorist groups, these distinctions are tactical. They are not ideological.

While the Muslim Brotherhood was running for office in some countries, it was waging wars in others.  While liberal foreign policy experts assumed that an Islamist group’s shift from violent to political tactics was a change in worldview, there was plenty of evidence that, like the Muslim Brotherhood, they were opportunistically working both phases of the conflict.

Even if the political Islamists had succeeded in taking over, their own internal conflicts would have boiled down to the same bloody civil wars.” Read more.

Zechariah 5:3a, 8a, ”… This is the curse [אָלָה – “alah“] that goes out over the face of the whole earth … This is Wickedness …”

Flashback: ‘A New Era Of Chaos’: Arab Spring Yields To Muslim Winter … And It’s Here To Stay – “In France, more than 1000 cars were torched across the country on New Year’s Eve [by Muslims] … In Iraq, the government has lost control of the city of Fallujah … On Christmas Day, car bombs exploded outside three churches … In Lebanon, a car bomb exploded in Beirut on Friday, killing or wounding dozens… In Syria, the anti-government uprising remains dominated by Sunni fundamentalists…  In Afghanistan, Islamic repression is increasing … Fire-bombings of Coptic churches by Muslim extremists remain ongoing [in Egypt] … In Libya, a power vacuum exists in the capital and armed militias have divided control of the country. In the Central African Republic, almost a million people have been displaced since the government was overthrown by Muslim rebels engaged in systemic violence against the Christian majority… In Somalia, the Muslim fundamentalist al-Shabab movement bombed a hotel …  In Iran, the government continues to move towards acquiring nuclear capacity …  Collectively, these events – all recent – tell us something we don’t want to hear. ‘We have entered a new era of chaos, the Arab Spring has given way to the Muslim winter’ …” Read more.

Flashback: Muslim Group: ‘Christianity Should Be Destroyed And Wiped From The Face Of The Earth’, It Is ‘Evil’ and ‘Demonic’ – “A Muslim group has released its plan to ‘wipe Christianity from the face of the earth,’ Islamize the West and establish an Islamic system of world government – placing those who resist ‘under a police state.’… ‘Islamic Power has returned upon the face of the earth and the Revived Global Caliphate has set eyes on the West to once and for all rid the world of Christianity and there is nothing you can do about it,’ al-Mohammedi said. He makes his objective clear.” Read more.