MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

Feel like watching soccer balls kicked around in the spirit of competition and good sportsmanship? That’s evil and un-Islamic, so don’t even think about it. It’ll destroy nations. Feel like watching decapitated heads kicked around in the spirit of jihad and Islamic supremacy? That’s an Allah-advocating prophet-praising holy act of worship, and you should do the same. For peaceful purposes …

Update: At least 21 killed, dozens more wounded …

Qur’an Sura 8:55, “Surely the vilest of animals in Allah’s sight are those who disbelieve [non-Muslims] …”

Hadith, Al-Tirmidhi 4649, “He does not belong to us who imitates other people. Do not imitate the Jews or the Christians …”

Halal Soccer: Rebel Fighters Enjoying Game With Heads Of Enemies

BBC News – “A suicide bomber has killed several people in northern Nigeria’s Yobe state at a venue televising a World Cup match, residents and medics say.

A hospital worker told the BBC that truckloads of injured people are being treated in overcrowded wards.

‘The injured people are so numerous I cannot count them,’ the worker said after the blast hit Damaturu town.

An emergency has been declared in three states, including Yobe, amid attacks by suspected Boko Haram militants.

Witnesses say the suicide bomber in a tricycle taxi detonated the explosives as people watched Brazil’s match against Mexico. on Tuesday evening.

‘The military and police trucks that brought them in have made four return trips so far ferrying them in. Every single truck was full of the injured. And all of them are young men or children,’ the hospital worker said.

The worker said that the injuries suffered by people caught up in the blast were ‘horrific’ and that troops were prioritising bringing in the injured for treatment, before returning to the scene of the blast to collect bodies.

Damaturu resident Mohammed Kurkure Yobe told the BBC that the venue where the attack took place is very popular and often crowded with people watching big events.

Open-air viewing centres – where people pay to watch live football – are popular throughout Nigeria…

Analysts say Islamist militant groups, including Boko Haram, have described football as un-Islamic.” Read more.

“When Muslims imitate the disbelievers [non-Muslims] their rank in the sight of Allaah decreases. This is because a Muslim is superior to a disbeliever … Islaam is superior to everything else …” – Alminbar on Imitating Non-Muslims

Muslim Cleric: Watching Soccer Destroys Nations Because It ‘Cause Muslims To Love And Support Unbelievers’ – “At the height of international world cup fervor, an ultra-conservative Egyptian cleric has said that watching soccer matches was unacceptable in Islam because it is a distraction and ‘destroys nations.’ Yasser Borhami, a founding member of the main Salafi movement in Egypt, the Salafi Call, said spending time watching the games was ‘a disaster that makes me very irate.’ He said it was a distraction from religious and worldly duties, ultimately leading to ‘the destruction of nations and peoples.'” Read more.

Flashback: German Soccer Player Turns To Islam, Develops Urge To Wage Jihad, Dies In Syria Fighting – “A former German footballer who represented his country seven times at youth level has been killed after joining Islamist rebels in Syria. Burak Karan, 26, played in the youth teams with Germany’s current crop of stars including Sami Khedira and Kevin-Prince Boateng. But in 2008 at the age of 20 he turned away from sport towards Islam, Focus magazine reported …” Read more.