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Daniel Greenfield: Muslims Fear Backlash From People They Keep Killing

01/12/2015 2 comments

Because Muslims are somehow the real victims here in the West, not the dead and wounded targets of Islamic terror…

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

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

By Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Mag – “It is important to remember that the real story is not the Jews, Atheists and Christians in France who fear being killed by Muslims…

…but the Muslims who fear being mildly harassed by the Jews, Atheists and Christians they haven’t killed yet.

In fact the latest hostage taker in France has already expressed concern about an Islamophobic backlash from the people he has taken hostage.

‘I can’t let down my guard for a minute,’ the worried terrorist reportedly said. ‘If I stopped holding a gun on them, then they and the police would attack me at any minute for no other reason than that I am Muslim.’

Across France, many Muslims have expressed similar concerns.

‘When I am burning a car these days, I get these looks,’ said Ahmed A. ‘as if I am beneath them because I am a Muslim and burning a car.’

There are similar worries in Australia where after the Sydney Siege and murder of two Australians by a Muslim Sheikh, some Muslims, who were not even killing people at the time, reportedly suffered dirty looks.

The problem has spread even to the Islamic State which is very worried about a backlash from the thousands of Kurds, Christians and others it has killed.

And the Islamic State in Nigeria, also known as Boko Haram, which killed two thousand people on Wednesday is also deeply concerned.

‘This insane Islamophobia must stop. Why do they hate our peaceful religion?’ Demanded Boko Haram leader Hodofo Simaru, a name which roughly translates to Kill All Non-Muslims, Burn Their Books and Steal Their iPhones. ‘We are very worried now that there will be a backlash against us by all the Christians we haven’t killed yet.'” Source – FrontPage Mag.

Flashback: It Isn’t A Phobia When It’s A Reasonable Fear

UK: Machete-Wielding Man In London Shouting “Allah Allah” Threatens To “Stab All White People”

01/12/2015 1 comment

Qur’an Sura 8:59a, “The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them …”

For peaceful purposes …

By Ben Morgan, London Evening Standard – “A fugitive wielding a foot-long machete climbed onto the roof of a block of flats in a four-hour stand-off with police before he was arrested for attempted murder.

The man climbed out of the bedroom window of his top-floor flat to escape police called to reports of a stabbing at Nisbet House in Homerton High Street, east London, at 8.20pm on Friday.

He hurled tiles off the roof and tore guttering from the five-storey block.

Witnesses today told the Standard the man began shouting ‘Allah Allah’ and ‘I’m going to stab all white people’ while striking the machete against roof tiles.

A neighbour in his 40s said: ‘At first I thought he was singing but then he started hurling abuse and chanting at the crowd that had gathered below. He had an audience and was playing up to it.

‘He had a machete that was about a foot long and started hitting the roof with it.

‘There was a helicopter shining its light on him and you could see the sparks coming off and the silver glint of the machete.’

Witnesses said several people were evacuated from the block while the drama unfolded.

A woman in her thirties said: “When he had been up there a while he started screaming ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry’ and a bit later he started shouting that he was going to stab all the white people.

‘I think he lives in the same part of the block where he was standing and had climbed out of his own window to escape.

‘There were lots of police here because they didn’t know what kind of weapon he had.’

Another neighbour said: ‘At first I didn’t know what was going on until I saw a police officer point to the roof of my block of flats. I looked up and saw a man holding what looked like a huge knife.

‘The man seemed very angry and started to hit tiles off the building with his knife and pull down the guttering.’

The man climbed back inside his flat and was arrested by police at 12.30am on Saturday on suspicion of attempted murder.” Read more.

Flashback: Machete Wielding Convert To Islam Beheads Woman In London Garden – “Police have arrested a 25-year-old man after he reportedly beheaded a woman with a machete in a residential north London area. The attack is said to have happened in the afternoon in Edmonton, where special forces were called to the scene when the unidentified man attacked either a dog or a cat with a knife, according to the Daily Mail. In the backyard of a nearby house, police discovered a woman dead. More officers were deployed to the scene, where they cornered and used tasers to subdue the suspect and brought him into custody on suspicion of murder.” Read more.

Flashback: Al-Shabaab Terrorists To UK Muslims: Grab Your BBQ Knives And Start Killing Non-Muslims – “His face is hidden but the voice spouts a hate-filled message that is becoming increasingly familiar. The hooded Islamic fundamentalist calls out to the ‘disbelievers who dominate our lives and lands’. It is a well-rehearsed argument that for years now has featured in jihadist propaganda the globe over. But never before has a terror video been so directly aimed at potential recruits in Britain… ‘A simple knife from your local B&Q will do the job’ …” Read more.

Categories: Radical Islam

Slain “Charlie Hebdo” Killers Were Following The “Excellent Example” Of Mohammed

01/12/2015 1 comment

According to Islam, any Muslim who refuses to follow the murderous example of Islam’s “prophet” is a Muslim who is inferior to all those that do …

Hadith, Bukhari 52:54, “[Mohammed said] I would love to be martyred in Allah’s Cause and then get resurrected and then get martyred, and then get resurrected again and then get martyred and then get resurrected again and then get martyred.”

Qur’an Sura 33:21, “Indeed in Allah’s Messenger (Mohammad) you have an excellent example to follow for him who hopes in (meeting with) Allah and the Last Day …”

By David Wood, Answering Muslims – “When Muhammad entered Mecca, he ordered his followers only to fight those who refused to surrender to him, except certain people who were to be executed whether they surrendered or not. In our earliest detailed biographical source on the fall of Mecca, Ibn Ishaq lists eight people who were to receive the death penalty. The charges against four of the eight were ‘insulting Muhammad.’ One of the four critics was eventually pardoned; the others were killed.

Politicians, the media, and Muslim groups assure us that Muhammad never retaliated against people who insulted him. Too bad these modern apologists weren’t there to tell Muhammad how tolerant they would one day imagine him to be.

Here’s the passage from Ibn Ishaq, with details on the critics underlined. Pass it on.

Ibn Ishaq on Killing Critics

Source – Answering Muslims.

 

Canada: Muslim Cleric In Ottawa Says Cartoons Of Religious Leaders Should Be Outlawed

01/09/2015 3 comments

What he really means is that cartoons that have anything whatsoever to do with Islam should be outlawed. Because they hurt his hyper-sensitive feelings and are offensive to his perpetually offended co-religionists …

Qur’an Sura 33:57, 61, “Lo! those who malign Allah and His messenger, Allah hath cursed them in this world and the Hereafter, and hath prepared for them the doom of the disdained … Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter.”

Should Be Banned!

Should Be Banned!

By Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch – “‘Of course we defend freedom of speech’ — no, he doesn’t. He is an enemy of the freedom of speech, and wishes to establish Muhammad and Islam as off-limits to criticism, which would have the side effect of restricting all investigation of the motives and goals of the jihad terrorists. Note also that Imtiaz Ahmed is an Ahmadi Muslim. The Ahmadiyya are peaceful, but their spokesmen in the West such as Qasim Rashid and Harris Zafar tend to carry water for those who persecute their brethren in Pakistan and Indonesia. And here Ahmed fronts for the effort to silence all criticism of Islam and impose Sharia blasphemy laws upon the West.

‘Satirical religious cartoons should be illegal, says Ottawa imam,’ by Meghan Hurley, Ottawa Citizen, January 8, 2015 (thanks to Kathy Shaidle):

An Ottawa imam has denounced the terrorist attack on a Paris weekly newspaper that killed 12 people, but he says satirical cartoons of religious leaders should be illegal.

Imtiaz Ahmed, an imam with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, said it should be against the law to publish cartoons that depict religious figures in a derogatory way.

“Of course we defend freedom of speech, but it has to be balanced. There has to be a limit. There has to be a code of conduct,” Ahmed said.

“We believe that any kind of vulgar expression about any sacred person of any religion does not constitute the freedom of speech in any way at all.”

Ahmed said there should be limits placed on freedom of speech to prevent the publication of offensive material. He says that seems to be the case for events such as the Holocaust. Members of the public denounce those who say the Holocaust never happened.

“We don’t want the Jewish community to be hurt by these sentiments,” Ahmed says.

Ahmed said the work of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which has been threatened for its caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, is offensive and based on lies that have “hijacked the religion of Islam.”

Instead of looking at the few “disturbed individuals” who have committed terrorist attacks, the focus should remain on Muslims who are peaceful, Ahmed said.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has opposed such illustrations in the past in a peaceful manner. Ahmed said members of the community have gone to universities to educate students about Prophet Muhammad. He has also become involved in a campaign called Stop the Crisis to tackle the radicalization of Muslim youth.

“They are very offensive, but one thing I must say: there’s not a single verse of the Prophet that allows a Muslim to take the law in his own hand and commit horrific crimes against humanity,” Ahmed said. “We denounce that.”

‘There’s not a single verse of the Prophet that allows a Muslim to take the law in his own hand and commit horrific crimes against humanity.’ Except for passages like these:

‘Whoever curses a Prophet, kill him. Whoever curses my Companions, beat him.’ — Muhammad

Muhammad asked: ‘Who is willing to kill Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?’ One of the Muslims, Muhammad bin Maslama, answered, ‘O Allah’s Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?’ When Muhammad said that he would, Muhammad bin Maslama said, ‘Then allow me to say a (false) thing (i.e. to deceive Kab).’ Muhammad responded: ‘You may say it.’ Muhammad bin Maslama duly lied to Ka’b, luring him into his trap, and murdered him. (Bukhari 5.59.369)

‘A Jewess used to abuse the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and disparage him. A man strangled her till she died. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) declared that no recompense was payable for her blood.’ (Sunan Abu-Dawud 38.4349)” Source – Jihad Watch.

Categories: Radical Islam

Five Reasons Why The Qur’an Is Not The Word Of God

01/09/2015 1 comment

The Qur’an — a book that isn’t even arranged chronologically yet teaches its readers that earlier verses have been abrogated — is not the Word of God for many different and, what should be, obvious reasons. Contrary to the claims of Muslim apologists, it is worth mentioning that archaeological discoveries suggest the Qur’an was an evolving text and not the “Word of God” that was revealed in its entirety to Mohammed. It is filled with embarrassing scientific errors that Islamic defenders are forced to rationalize and explain away. It contains historical inaccuracies. It is riddled with contradictions. It incorrectly defines basic Christian doctrine. There are even different Arabic versions of the Qur’an, not to mention missing and incomplete passages according to the Hadith. A “timeless” and “eternal” and “holy” book that should be revered by all? Every Muslim would be wise to think again. Of course, doing so would force one to ask questions. And asking questions is, unfortunately, un-Islamic …

Qur’an Surah 5:101-102, “O ye who believe! Ask not questions about things which if made plain to you, may cause you trouble … Some people before you did ask such questions, and on that account lost their faith.”

Hadith, Sahih Bukhari 1:3:92, “The Prophet was asked about things which he did not like, but when the questioners insisted, the Prophet got angry.”

Hadith, Sahih Bukhari 2:24:555, “… I heard the Prophet saying, ‘Allah has hated for you three things: 1. Vain talks, (useless talk) that you talk too much or about others. 2. Wasting of wealth (by extravagance). 3. And asking too many questions (in disputed religious matters) …”

Categories: Radical Islam

Debate: Is ISIS Islamic? David Wood (Christian) vs. Osama Abdallah (Muslim)

01/09/2015 1 comment

Yep. In fact, according to the Qur’an and Hadith, ISIS is more Islamic than most of the Muslims we know here in the West …

Qur’an Sura 4:95, “Not equal are those believers [Muslims] 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 …”

Hadith, Sahih Muslim 1:33a, “The Messenger of Allah [Mohammed] said: ‘I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Mohammad is the messenger of Allah, and they establish [Islamic] prayer …”

Qur’an Sura 8:12, “… terrorize and behead …”

Hadith, Bukhari 2977, “I have been made victorious with terror” – The “Prophet” Of Islam, Mohammed

Qur’an Sura 8:59-60, “The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them …”

Qur’an Sura 5:33, “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement”

Pakistan: Muslim Man Beats Christian Mother For Protecting Daughter From Abduction And Rape

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Saving non-Muslim girls from abduction and rape is apparently un-Islamic …

Al Rod Al Anf, Volume 2, Page 182: “You see [Allah] will soon make you inherit their land, their treasures and make you sleep with their women.” (The Words of Mohammed as Recorded by Ibn Hisham)

By Samuel Smith, Christian Post – “Two Christian women were aggressively beaten by a Pakistani Muslim man in the country’s capital of Lahore after the women prevented the attacker from abducting the daughter of one of the women.

According to Pakistan Christian Post, Nusrat Bibi and her sister Rani Bibi, along with their two daughters, were walking home from the local factory on an early December evening when a Muslim man approached the women and began molesting Nusrat’s daughter.

The report states that the daughter, whose age was not identified, was initially able to defend herself and make the attacker stop. However, the attacker, who has been identified as a Muslim named Khawar Khokhar, became enraged and began beating the girl with his cricket bat. He then grabbed her by the hand and warned the mother and aunt not to intervene as he attempted forcibly taking the daughter away, presumably to sexually abuse her.

However, the Bibis would not allow for the girl to be abducted without a fight. The mother and aunt were able to free the girl by coming her to her defense. However, this only enraged Khokhar even more. Khokhar then beat both Nusrat and Rani with the cricket bat. The report indicates that Nusrat, the mother of the molested girl, had received more of a beating than Rani.

The report indicates that after Khokhar was done beating Bibi, he threw her on top of a pile of garbage and he then fled the scene. Due to the altercation, both women had their clothes ripped and both sustained injuries.

As Nusrat received the brunt of the beating, she suffered a broken left arm and two broken fingers in her left hand. The injuries suffered by Rani were not identified.

As the trend of abusive hostility towards Christian women in Pakistan continues, the report states that no neighbors came to the scene to help the women fend off Khokhar, due to Khokhar’s political prestige and legal history.” Read more.

Daniel 11:37a, 39a, “Neither shall he regard the God [YHWH] of his fathers [Abraham and Ishmael], nor the desire of women … Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory …”

Flashback: For The Glory Of “Allah”

Report: Two Muslim Brothers Responsible For “Hebdo” Massacre Have Been Killed North Of Paris

01/09/2015 1 comment

Sky News is reporting that the Kouachi brothers “came out firing” as French forces launched their offensive and have been killed …

Qur’an sura 9:111a, “… They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed …”

Sputnik News – “Major police operations in France have reached their climax. The Kouachi brothers, holding a man hostage at a print workshop in Dammartin-en-Goele, have been killed. Shortly after, explosions were heard at a Jewish kosher shop in Porte de Vincennes, east of Paris, as several hostages were freed.

Gunfire and several explosions have been heard at Dammartin as counter-terrorism officers initiated an assault on a print workshop where two gunmen known as the Koachi brothers have been holding a man hostage. The gunmen are responsible for the brutal attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo earlier this week.

The town has been cordoned off by police with local residents told to stay locked in their houses while the police operation continues.” Read more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYlQJbsVs48

Beheaded: ISIS Executes Syrian Imam For Complaining About Allah-Sanctioned Executions

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According to the Qur’an, a true Muslim is one who pursues, fights against, strives against, is ruthless against, sieges, slays, beheads, strikes fear into the hearts of, and terrorizes non-Muslims in order to be victorious over them by either converting them to Islam or, if they refuse, destroying them. To question these teachings, however, is to question the so-called “god” of Islam himself. Like much of the Qur’an, the all-compassionate and all-merciful “Allah” has evidently abrogated compassion and mercy …

Qur’an Sura 24:2, “Let not compassion move you from carrying out [Allah’s] law …”

The Daily Star – “ISIS beheaded a Syrian imam Thursday for ‘insulting God,’ an activist group said.

‘The IS executed the imam of a mosque from the village of Abu Khuyut near Hasakeh city [in northeastern Syria] at dawn Thursday,’ said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, using an alternative name for the group.

The Britain-based Observatory added that three of the man’s sons were ISIS fighters, and that it was the first time the jihadis executed a religious official for this reason.

The man was detained after watching a video on executions carried out by ISIS and cursing because God had permitted them, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.

ISIS carries out near-daily executions in the territories of Syria and Iraq that it controls.

Originating in Iraq, it appeared in Syria’s civil war in spring 2013, and has since committed some of the conflict’s worst abuses.” Source – The Daily Star.

Flashback: Islamic State Announcement: Everyone Who Insults ‘Allah’ Will Be Beheaded – “Islamic State (IS) fighters have beheaded a man for allegedly working for Syrian President Bashar Assad and announced that all who insult Allah are to be executed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said Friday. ‘Der-Ezzor province: ISIS executed a man from al-Mayadin city in al-Jerdaq yard, on the charge of working for Bashar al-Assad as a cop, and judged him with ‘al-Radda’,’ the London-based observatory said on its official Facebook page. ‘ISIS fighters have announced today that everyone [who] insults Allah will be executed and beheaded,’ SOHR said.” Read more.

Flashback: Saudi Arabia ‘Justice’ Minister: Beheading Is Enshrined In Divine Islamic Laws, ‘We Cannot Change Them’ – “Saudi Arabia’s Justice Minister has defended tough Sharia punishments such as beheading, cutting off hands and lashing, claiming they ‘cannot be changed’ because they are enshrined in Islamic law. ‘These punishments are based on divine religious texts and we cannot change them,’ Mohammed Al Eissa reportedly said during a recent speech in Washington… ‘Islam is a religion of wisdom that calls for dialogue with other religious faiths and peaceful coexistence with other communities. [Edit ICA: Then why is there not one single Christian church in all of Saudi Arabia?]” Read more.

France Under Siege: More Killed After Muslims Storm Jewish Deli, “Hebdo” Killers Take Hostage North Of Paris, Possible Armed Incident Near Eiffel Tower

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For peaceful purposes. RT is reporting that the incident near the Eiffel Tower may have been a false alarm 

Update: At least six explosions heard from site of kosher grocery store siege in east Paris, one hostage taker is dead and is reportedly the same man who killed a French police officer in the south of Paris yesterday. Explosions and gunfire was also heard from scene of second siege north of Paris, Kouachi brothers have reportedly been killed …

Update 2: At least four hostages have been killed at site of kosher deli siege …

Hadith, Tabari 9:69, “Killing Unbelievers [non-Muslims] is a small matter to us” – The Words of Mohammad, “Prophet” of Islam

Qur’an Sura 33:57, 61, “Lo! those who malign Allah and His messenger, Allah hath cursed them in this world and the Hereafter, and hath prepared for them the doom of the disdained … Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter.”

Qur’an Sura 3:110, “Ye [Muslims] are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind …”

Qur’an Sura 3:110, “Ye [Muslims] are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind …”

FOX News – “French police were confronting two separate — but apparently related — hostage situations Friday, after a jihadist couple suspected of killing a cop a day earlier stormed a Paris deli, killing two and taking as many as five prisoners even as the suspects Wednesday’s massacre at a Paris satirical magazine were holed up in a printing plant 25 miles north of the city, authorities said.

Authorities feared all four suspects, who may know one another, are bent on going out as martyrs, and potentially killing hostages and police officers in the process. The fast-moving developments came as nearly 90,000 police and military personnel were deployed to bring the terror crisis that has gripped the European nation since late Wednesday morning, when a pair of brothers conducted a bloody commando-style raid on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly satirical magazine that had angered Muslim radicals by repeatedly publishing images of Prophet Muhammed.

‘Even though these guys are a bunch of savages, the negotiators are going to be trying to calm things down … the less volatile things are, the safer it is for everybody,’ James Alvarez, who has worked as a consultant for Scotland Yard and the New York Police Department, told Sky News as the dueling situations unfolded.

The hostage takers in the second case, at a kosher grocery store in eastern Paris, were identified by police as Amedy Coulibaly and Hayat Boumeddiene, a couple suspected in the murder Thursday of Paris Police Officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe as she attended to a routine traffic accident in the city. Authorities believe the case is related to Wednesday’s attack, which 12 people, including two cops, dead at the publication Charlie Hebdo, which has angered Muslim radicals by publishing images of Prophet Muhammed.” Read more.

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Abbas Advisor Warns Of Global Islamic War If Israel Retains Sovereignty Over Jerusalem, “Wherever There Are Muslims, There Will Be Confrontations”

01/08/2015 Leave a comment

Nearly 2,500 years after Zechariah wrote these prophetic words concerning Jerusalem, the surrounding peoples are today reeling over the status of this very city …

Zechariah 12:2-3, “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.”

Flashback: The Cup Of Trembling

Joel 3:11-12, “Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, And gather yourselves there. Bring down, O LORD, Your mighty ones. Let the nations be aroused And come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, For there I will sit to judge All the surrounding nations.”

France: Muslim Brothers Responsible For “Hebdo” Massacre In Paris Returned From Syria This Summer

01/08/2015 1 comment

It isn’t the first time blood-thirsty jihadists returning from Syria have killed in the name of Islam. And it won’t be the last …

Qur’an Sura 24:2, “Let not compassion move you from carrying out [Allah’s] law …”

Qur’an Sura 2:191-193, “And slay them wherever ye find them … for persecution [of Muslims] is worse than slaughter [of non-Muslims] … fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah.”

Qur'an 9:111, "... They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed ..."

Qur’an 9:111, “… They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed …”

By Maya Vidon-White and William M. Welch, USA Today – “Authorities identified three suspects in a deadly shooting attack on a satirical newspaper that killed 12 people Wednesday as thousands jammed a public square for an evening vigil honoring victims of France’s deadliest terror attack in a half century.

Two of those killed were police officers, one of them shot dead on a sidewalk outside the newspaper. Eight journalists were among the victims.

The suspects are two brothers — Said, 34, and Cherif Kouachi, 32, both French nationals — and Hamyd Mourad, 18, whose nationality wasn’t known, a Paris police official told the Associated Press. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

The youngest suspect surrendered at a police station in Charleville-Mezieres, a small town in France’s eastern Champagne region, Paris prosecutor’s spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said. French police early Thursday released photos of the brothers they were seeking, saying they should be considered armed and dangerous.

French news media reported late Wednesday that a major police operation was taking place around an apartment building in Reims, about 90 miles northeast of Paris.

The brothers were born in Paris of Algerian descent. Cherif was sentenced to three years in prison on terrorism charges in May 2008. Both brothers returned from Syria this summer.

At least 15,000 gathered at the Place de la République for a vigil after the three gunmen, wearing hoods and armed with Kalashnikov automatic rifles, stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo, shouting Islamic phrases and killing 12 people. The publication is a satirical newspaper that has caricatured the prophet Mohammed…

President Francois Hollande called the attack a terrorist act ‘of exceptional barbarism,’ and said other attacks have been thwarted in France in recent weeks. Fears have been running high in France and elsewhere in Europe that jihadis returning from conflicts in Syria and Iraq will stage attacks at home.

Cherif Kouachi was well known to French law enforcement. At 26, he was sentenced to three years in prison with 18 months suspended for criminal association with a terrorist enterprise for his conviction in 2008 as part of a group of seven men.

Prosecutors said the group recruited French Muslims to fight for al-Qaeda in Iraq. The group, known as the 19th Arrondissement Network for the working class Paris district where it was based, allegedly recruited young men, arranged for weapons training and helped them travel though Syria to Iraq. Police arrested Kouachi in January 2005, days before he allegedly planned to travel to Syria.” Read more.

Flashback: EU Anti-Terror Chief: Europe Can Expect More Islamist Attacks, French Expert: Threat Is Greater Than 9/11 – “Has Europe under-estimated the security threat posed by battle-hardened homegrown Islamic militants returning from Syria? … concern mounted Monday that the region is ill-equipped to cope with the threat posed by homegrown Islamic militants returning from Syria’s battlefields… Europe can expect further ‘small-scale attacks’ like the fatal shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, the EU’s anti-terror chief Gilles de Kerchove said Monday. ‘I don’t expect another 9/11,’ he said in a video statement. ‘I don’t expect a major sophisticated attack.’ ‘I [do] expect more small-scale attacks like the one in Brussels,’ he added. Not everyone agrees. French Al-Qaeda expert Jean-Pierre Filiu believes the threat posed by groups like ISIS, for Europe, is greater than that created by the Taliban’s sheltering of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan prior to the 2001 attacks on New York.” Read more.

Flashback: UK: Jihadist Fighter In Syria Threatens To Go On Killing Spree In Britain After Returning Home – “THE leader of the city council has moved to reassure people after it emerged a jihadi from Portsmouth posted he would go on a ‘killing spree’ if he returned from Syria. The comments from Councillor Donna Jones come after a man fighting with Al-Qaeda linked group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in Syria wrote a message on Twitter. The man, using the name Abu Abdullah, seemed to threaten to kill non-Muslims. He wrote: ‘Yeah mate, go back to Britain. You got to be joking. I’ll probably end up going on a killing spree with all the kuffar around me.’” Read more.