MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

Every eye of this multi-headed Beast is reading the same books for Jihadi inspiration. But worry not, Islam has absolutely nothing to do with Islamic terrorism …

Qur’an Sura 8:12b, “… terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Qur’an.”

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By Raymond Ibrahim, Islam Translated – “I just spent the better part of the day reading and listening to sermons by the leaders and jihadis of the new ‘caliphate’ in Mesopotamia, the Islamic State (formerly ‘Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’).

I did so in the vain hopes of learning something ‘new.’

But it was absolute déjà vu — taking me back to a decade ago, when I was reading and translating the Arabic writings and speeches of al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri, as collated in The Al Qaeda Reader.

Now as then, it’s the same Koran verses; the same hadiths of Islamic prophet Muhammad waging and praising jihad; the same threats of hellfire for the munafiqun (hypocrites or lukewarm Muslims); the same carnal rewards in the now or hereafter for those who join the ‘caravan’ of jihad.

Consider for instance the following opening words of a recently released short video from the Islamic State titled, ‘There is No Life Without Jihad’:

If you wish to know the way to glory and power, to goodness, security and joy, you must learn that there are no rights without jihad, no justice without jihad, no dignity without jihad, no security without jihad, no future without jihad, no life without jihad, no life without jihad.

After this rather hackneyed opening, one Abu Muthana, a jihadi from Britain, appears quoting some more of the usual Koran verses, hadiths, and ulema, in this case, Imam Qurtubi, who wrote that ‘jihad gives life.’  Finally he summarizes the goal of the jihad — in case anyone is still not sure — namely, to fight until ‘the law [Sharia] of Allah is implemented and the caliphate restored.’

To reiterate, there is little new or original in the videos and communiques from the Islamic State.  Just static Islamism.

If one turns to the speeches of other Islamic and jihadi groups around the world—from the African groups such as Boko Haram (Nigeria) and al-Shabaab (Somalia), to Asian groups such as Abu Sayyaf (Philippines) and the Islamic Movement (Uzbekistan)—it’s the same thing, same themes, same scriptures, same quotations, same exhortations, same condemnations.   Only their temporal circumstances and vicissitudes of victory or defeat differ.

While the Western mentality, so used to seeing and hearing about the ‘latest’ or ‘newest’ fad, may deem the Islamist approach as static or insipid, it is, quite the contrary, immensely effective for its purposes, and thus dangerous.

Consider: It’s the same exact message — of supremacism, hate, and violence, capped off with divine sanctioning — repeated over and over again, from a myriad of sources and organizations, all of which claim authority.

One can think of few better ways to brainwash and indoctrinate young and impressionable minds—to the point that they eagerly embrace death, including through suicide (AKA “martyrdom operations”).

Nor is this message of jihad, conquest, and death-to-the-infidel, limited to the verbiage that transpires among terrorist organizations; instead, this sort of rhetoric has spread far and wide, thanks to Read more…

We’re barely into Summer, but for Hamas it’s that time of year again when the community all bands together towards the hope of a bumper crop and ritual sacrifice. After all, harvesting the skulls of Jews is an act of worship that draws them closer to “Allah” …

Ezekiel 35:1-6, “Again a message came to me from the LORD: ‘Son of man, turn and face Mount Seir, and prophesy against its people. Give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: ‘I am your enemy, O Mount Seir, and I will raise my fist against you to destroy you completely. I will demolish your cities and make you desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD. Your eternal hatred for the people of Israel led you to butcher them when they were helpless, when I had already punished them for all their sins. As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, since you show no distaste for blood, I will give you a bloodbath of your own. Your turn has come!’”

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Sowing Seeds Of Destruction

Haaretz – “Israel launched a series of airstrikes on Gaza militants early on Tuesday, dubbing the offensive ‘Operation Protective Edge.’ More than 50 targets were hit in the offensive.

Meanwhile, rocket fire on Israel’s south continued. According to the IDF, eight projectiles were launched between 2 and 6 A.M.

Militants in Gaza fired more than 85 rockets toward Israel on Monday evening, with Hamas openly claiming responsibility for some of the launches for the first time since the current round of fighting began. The rockets hit several major cities in the south and, also for the first time in the current fighting, caused alarms to go off in central Israel and Jerusalem. The barrages lightly wounded two Israelis and caused property damage.

The Israel Defense Forces called up 1,500 infantry and Border Police reservists in preparation for further escalation, after the security cabinet decided on Monday afternoon to intensify attacks against Hamas and other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip. A senior official said the ministers want to refrain from a large-scale military operation for now, but they instructed the army to prepare for significant expansion of its current operations.

Palestinian officials said Gaza was bracing for further Israeli attacks. They said Hamas had evacuated likely targets and its leaders had gone underground lest Israel attempt to assassinate them. Hamas also issued a statement on Monday night demanding that the Palestinian Authority take action against Israel, saying ‘national unity sometimes requires paying a price.'” Read more.

Flashback: The Nature Of The Beast: Hamas TV Tells Israelis That We ‘Love Death More Than You Love Life’ – “It hates Israel. It hates the true God of Abraham. Yet it loves and glorifies that which came into the world as a result of the fall of man, something that will, along with hell itself, one day have no place to reside other than the Lake of Fire: Death. This is the nature of Islam. This is the nature of the Beast …” Read more.

Flashback: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: Palestinians Who Kill Jews Cannot Be Punished – “Because to punish Palestinians for killing Jews would, in their mind, be punishing someone simply for following the commands of their ‘prophet’ Mohammed. He was, after all, a ‘perfect example for mankind‘ to follow whose teachings are ‘the fire with which’ they ‘harvest the skulls of the Jews.’ It is therefore an act of worship to kill Jews, and an act that draws them closer to ‘Allah’ is an act that must be praised, not punished …” Read more.

Flashback: Hamas MP Al-Astal: We Must Massacre Jews, Impose Jizya Poll Tax On Them – “… I would like to begin by quoting what Allah said about them: ‘The worst of beasts in the sight of Allah are those who disbelieve. They are the ones with whom you made a covenant, but they break their covenant every time.’ … The obvious question is: What is the solution to this gang of people? The Al-Anfal chapter of the Koran provides us with the answer… Allah added: ‘If you gain mastery over them in war, use them to disperse those who follow them that they may remember.’ This indicates that we must massacre them, in order to break them down and prevent them from sowing corruption in the world…” Read more.

Flashback: Hamas Islamist MP: Allah Used The Nazis To Punish The Jews, Now It’s Our Turn – “Allah punished the Israelites many times throughout history. He punished them by means of the Assyrians and the Babylonians. He punished them by means of the Companions of the Prophet in the Arabian Peninsula, at Al-Madina, and at Khaybar. He punished them by means of the Germans, and before that by means of the Romans. Today, it is the turn of the Islamic nation to punish them once again.” Read more.

When Islam’s politically correct enablers and the Western media go out of their way to whitewash everything else to do with Islam, why not take it a step further and whitewash the “Islamic State” itself? …

Proverbs 14:8, “The prudent understand where they are going, but fools deceive themselves.”

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By Robert Spencer, Real Clear Religion – “The dominant dogma regarding jihadism, that Islam is a religion of peace that has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists who distort its teachings to justify violence, has been put to a severe test by the declaration of a new caliphate in Iraq and Syria. The mainstream media is fighting back.

The Islamic State, as it calls itself, has issued several declarations thick with Koranic citations and mainstream media to explain and justify its positions. Its conscious, explicit, and deeply rooted Islamic character has rattled mainstream media cages — to the extent that articles have begun to appear claiming that this new caliphate is no caliphate at all, so unlike its illustrious predecessors as to be unworthy of the name.

That was the central claim of an article that appeared in the New York Times Wednesday: ‘The Caliphate Fantasy’ by Khaled Diab, ‘an Egyptian-Belgian journalist based in Jerusalem.’ Diab complains: ‘The problem with this new caliphate… is that it is ahistorical, to say the least.’ Why? Because ‘the Abbasid caliphate, for example, which ruled from 750 to 1258, was an impressively dynamic and diverse empire.’ The Abbasid caliphate, Diab asserts, ‘thrived on multiculturalism, science, innovation, learning and culture — in sharp contrast to ISIS’ violent puritanism.’

Multiculturalism? Bat Ye’or, the pioneering historian of dhimmitude, the institutionalized second-class status Islamic law stipulates for non-Muslims in the Islamic state, notes of Jews and Christians in this ‘multicultural’ caliphate that ‘it was during the Abbasid period that their degrading status developed and was integrated into the legal system of the dar al-Islam.’ She writes of the crushing taxes that the Abbasids made the dhimmis pay, in accord with the Koran’s dictum that they ‘pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued’ (9:29). ‘Money was extorted by blows, torture and death,’ Bat Ye’or writes, ‘particularly by crucifixion.’

Ultimately ‘the dhimmis, ruined by taxation, abandoned their lands and villages,’ hoping to escape to the anonymity of the city, whereupon a ‘drive to track down dhimmi peasants, organized throughout the Abbasid Empire, required a considerable number of participants, who were joined by brigands greedy for plunder and pillage.’ The plunder and pillage of the minority communities was considered to be their due Read more…

Here we have a “pure” Islamic entity that, as commanded by the “prophet” Mohammed, claims to abhor idolatry (even while bowing down towards Mecca five times a day) yet is itself engaged in the perpetual pursuit of earthly possessions and pleasures, as commanded by the “prophet” Mohammed. Hypocrisy evidently isn’t hypocritical when it’s done in the name of the all-knowing (except-for-science-and-history) “Allah” …

Al Rod Al Anf, Volume 2, Page 182: “You see [our god Allah] will soon make you inherit their land, their treasures and make you sleep with their women.” – The “prophet” Mohammed

Revelation 9:21, “And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries [“φαρμακεία” – idolatry] or their sexual immorality or their thefts.”

By Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Mag – “While ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has proclaimed an Islamic State, was telling Muslims they had to obey him, he showed off some of the loot that his followers could expect to pick up along the way.

The Islamic State leader spoke publicly for the first time at Mosul’s Great Mosque of Friday, an intervention in which he called on the world’s Muslims to “obey” him as “the leader who presides over you”.
But the self-anointed ‘Caliph Ibrahim’ also brought a touch of branding into the bloody conflict, with many who have seen the 20-minute sermon commenting on his bulky and expensive wristwatch.

Appearing in black robes and a turban in an attempt to evoke memories of the last Caliphs to rule from Baghdad, the jihadist broke with the tradition to sport an ill-fitting chrome watch with a dark face.

His choice of accessory, which is believed to be either a Rolex, Sekonda or £3,500 Omega seamaster…

Some are calling this a misstep, but looting was the core of Mohammed’s conquests. His followers weren’t all that devout, they were looking for stuff to steal. That is why many of Mohammed’s original targets, including the Jews, were well off.

Like most thieves, Mohammed went where the money was.

“Allah made booty lawful and good. He used it to incite the Muslims to unity of purpose. So enjoy what you have captured.

Ishaq:327

“Allah saw what was in their hearts [what they coveted] so he rewarded them with victory and with as much spoil as they could take. Allah promised that they would soon capture a great deal of booty.”

Ishaq:503

Allah taught them how to divide the spoil. He made it lawful and said, ‘A fifth of the booty belongs to the Apostle. (Mohammed)’

Ishaq:324

On the Badr expedition, the Messenger took the sword of Dhu al-Faqar as booty. It had belonged to Munabbih. On that day he also took Abu Jahl’s camel as booty. It was a Mahri dromedary on which he used to go on raids. It is said that he wrote ‘Ma’aqil’ [Blood-Money] on his sword.”

Religion was a means for Mohammed to rob people. It’s not that different from what Al-Bagdadi is doing. The ‘spiritual’ aspect of martyrdom simply promised those of the Mohammedan bandits who died in the process of robbing people that they would enjoy the spoils of victory, e.g. food, women, wealth, in Islamic paradise.

Islam, as I have said before, is innately a gang religion. Its faith is in its ability to steal from others.” Read more.