MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

For the glory of the all-compassionate and all-merciful “Allah”. Islam’s so-called deity exudes many different attributes, but compassion and mercy are not among them …

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

Qur’an Sura 48:29, “Mohammed is [Allah’s] apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another.”

Qur’an Sura 9:14, “Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace, and assist you against them and heal the hearts of a believing people.”

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By John Hall, Mail Online – “Militants fighting for the Islamic State terror group in Syria and Iraq have released a video they claim shows Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burnt alive while locked in a cage.

The footage, which is titled ‘Healing the Believers’ Chests’ appears to show the captured airman wearing an orange jumpsuit as a trail of petrol leading up to the cage is seen being set alight.

Flames are seen quickly spreading to the cage where they completely engulf the helpless pilot in images that are far too distressing to publish.

The release of the video has prompted Jordan to announce it will execute all prisoners convicted of association with ISIS ‘within hours’. This includes Sajida al-Rishawi – the female failed suicide bomber whom ISIS had originally demanded Jordan release in exchange for Kasasbeh.

Within an hour of the video’s publication, Jordan reportedly moved five ISIS-linked prisoners to a jail in the south of the country which is usually used for state executions.

Kasasbeh was captured by ISIS after his F-16 fighter jet crashed in territory controlled by the militants in northern Syria in December.

The video, which is ISIS’ most sickening yet, begins by showing Kasasbeh being paraded in front of heavily armed men wearing combat fatigues and yellow masks.

The pilot’s face looks swollen, heavily bruised and bloody in places – no doubt from repeat beatings by the terrorists from the moment of his capture.

At several points the camera zooms in close to his face, upon which there is a look of resignation.

The footage also features close up shots of the masked militants – one of whom is identified at the end of the video by the name Emir Ahmed. Emir Ahmed is believed to be the masked fighter seen kneeling down to set light to the trail of petrol that eventually burns Kasasbeh alive.” Read more.

Jordan Vows “Strong, Earth-Shaking And Decisive” Response After Murder Of Its Pilot – “The Jordanian government released a statement Tuesday saying that a ‘strong, earth-shaking and decisive’ response would follow the killing of one of its pilots by the Islamic State group, Reuters reported.Video uploaded by the Sunni radical terrorist organization on Tuesday showed Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh being burned to death inside a black cage. Tuesday’s statement by the Jordanian government follows last weeks threat to execute all Islamic State captives held in custody following Mr. al-Kaseasbeh’s death. The pilot’s plane was downed in Syria by Islamic State in December.” Read more.

Listen: Shepard Smith Describes Video Of Murder Of Jordanian Pilot

A French soldier protecting Jews makes him one of them. And France, let alone Europe, isn’t the safest place to be right now for Jews …

Qur’an Sura 5:51, “O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them …”

Hadith, Tabari 7:97, “‘Kill any Jew who falls under your power.’” – The “Prophet” Mohammed

Qur’an Sura 3:64, “Verily Allah has cursed the Unbelievers and has prepared for them a Blazing Fire to dwell in forever. No protector will they find, nor savior… ‘Our Lord! Give them double torment and curse them with a very great Curse!’”

By Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch – “Another episode in the jihad against France. But will authorities realize that that is what this is, and proceed accordingly? Almost certainly not. The Islamic State has declared jihad against France, and al-Qaeda in Yemen branded France the #1 enemy of Islam. No one believed them.

‘French Soldiers by Jewish Community Center Attacked,’ by Jamey Keaten, Associated Press, February 3, 2015:

An attacker with a knife hidden in his bag attacked three soldiers on an anti-terror patrol in front of a Jewish community center in southern France on Tuesday, two police officials said.

Sarah Baron, a police union official in the city of Nice, said the attacker was detained after the attack near the Galeries Lafayette department store. Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi said the attacker had an identity card with the name Moussa Coulibaly.

The surname, which is relatively common for families of Malian descent, is the same as that of the man who seized hostages in a kosher supermarket in Paris and gunned down a policewoman last month.

Another police official said the attacker pulled a knife at least 20 centimeters (8 inches) long out of a bag and set upon one of the soldiers, injuring him in the chin. He then swiped two other soldiers — one in the cheek, the other in the forearm — before being apprehended by riot police stationed near the building, which houses the city’s Jewish community center.

A manager at the center, who did not want to be identified because she was afraid, confirmed soldiers posted in front of the building were attacked. She said it happened around lunchtime and no one was inside the office.

The attacker, aged about 30, had a record of theft and violence, the official said on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. His motive was not yet clear, the official added.

Mayor Estrosi told BFM television that a possible accomplice had been detained.

France has been on high alert since the attacks in the Paris region by three Islamic extremists that left 20 people dead, including the gunmen. More than 10,000 soldiers have been deployed around the country to protect sensitive locations, including major shopping areas, synagogues, mosques and transit hubs.

Earlier Tuesday, French authorities arrested seven men and a woman suspected of involvement in a network to send fighters to join Islamic extremists in Syria.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said those arrested in the Paris and Lyon areas are not suspected of links to the Jan. 7-9 attacks.

Police are trying to thwart new violence and find possible accomplices to three radical Islamic gunmen who attacked a kosher grocery and newspaper Charlie Hebdo. The men claimed allegiance to extremists in the Mideast.

Three of those arrested Tuesday had traveled to Syria and returned in December 2014, a French official said, though it was unclear whether they joined the Islamic State group or another group….

Source – Jihad Watch.

In light of the vicious murders of two of its citizens, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan — one of the easternmost nations in the world — is now saying that “Japan must play its part” in fighting Islamic terror. It may mean nothing, but I cannot help but wonder if Japan will now be among the “kings of the east” that eventually come against Antichrist …

Daniel 11:42-44, “He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape. He shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Cushites shall follow in his train. But news from the east and the north shall alarm him, and he shall go out with great fury to destroy and devote many to destruction.”

Revelation 16:12, “Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.”

• Flashback: NASA: The Euphrates River Is Drying Up
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Christian Today – “Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to avenge the deaths of two countrymen killed by extremist Muslim organisation the Islamic State (IS) after a new beheading video was released over the weekend.

The terrorists executed journalist Kenji Goto in a video published Saturday—a week after IS published a death photo of aspiring military contractor and Japanese citizen Haruna Yukawa.

Abe promised ‘to make the terrorists pay the price,’ and condemned the actions of the militants in a statement.

‘I am infuriated by these inhumane and despicable acts of terrorism, and resolutely condemn these impermissible and outrageous acts,’ he said.

‘I will never forgive these terrorists. I will work with the international community to hold them responsible for their deplorable acts.’

Yukawa, 42, was first captured in Syria in April 2014, but released with the help of Goto, 47. Yukawa reentered Syria months later, and was captured a second time in July 2014. Goto entered Syria in October, reportedly to rescue Yukawa. Abe said he grieved for their families.

‘I am rendered simply speechless,’ he intimated. ‘When I think about the unbearable pain and sorrow that his family must be feeling, I am rendered simply speechless.

‘As a government, we have pursued every possible means to save their lives. We feel greatest sorrow and profound grief.’

IS demanded $200 million for the release of Goto and Yukawa after Abe pledged the same amount in non-military aid to countries fighting the terrorists in Iraq and Syria. A former Japanese diplomat and foreign affairs advisor to Abe called the executions a wake-up call.

‘This is 9/11 for Japan,’ Kunihiko Miyake insisted. ‘It is time for Japan to stop daydreaming that its good will and noble intentions would be enough to shield it from the dangerous world out there.

‘Americans have faced this harsh reality, the French have faced it, and now we are, too.’

While Japan remains a pacifist country, Abe will reportedly seek to expand the role of the military legislatively in the coming weeks.

‘No country is completely safe from terrorism,’ he told Parliament last week. ‘How do we cut the influence of ISIL, and put a stop to extremism? Japan must play its part in achieving this.'” Source – Christian Today.

I’m sure that, as a Muslim, his religion had absolutely no influence whatsoever over his personal convictions …

Qur’an Sura 5:82a, “You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the [Muslim] believers to be the Jews …”

Hadith, Tabari 7:97, “‘Kill any Jew who falls under your power.’” – The “Prophet” Mohammed

Hadith, Sahih Muslim, 41:6985, “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him …”

By Norman Silvester, Daily Record – “A FORMER civil servant is being probed by police after he said Hitler should have killed every Jew during the Holocaust.

In his hate-filled Facebook rant Zaim Mohammed, 43, who has worked for both the UK and Scottish governments, branded Jews as greedy troublemakers who make everyone’s lives a misery.

Police Scotland launched an investigation last week after a complaint from Glasgow-based lawyer Matthew Berlow.

The comments by Mohammed, now an IT consultant, were made only days before the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz where one million Jews were executed during World War II.

Mohammed, of Maryhill, Glasgow, wrote: ‘My grievance is with Hitler for failing to exterminate entire Jewish race.

‘He realised this was a nation of manipulative troublemakers; who are extremely greedy with a dangerous appetite to consume, horde and control and, in turn, make everyone else’s lives a misery!’

Berlow, 43, says he contacted police as soon as he saw the comments and officers came to his home in Newton Mearns, near Glasgow, to take a statement.

He added: ‘I saw the grossly offensive message from a gentleman called Zaim Mohammed.

‘I have asked the police to investigate. I was both shocked and offended.

‘As a lawyer I am in favour of freedom of speech but this is just hatred.’

The anti-Jewish comments were made on January 14 during an online debate about the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack.

They sparked a furious reaction from other Facebook users.

Mohammed previously worked for the UK Government as an IT expert, including spells with the Ministry of Defence in England and the Ministry of Justice in Glasgow. He also worked for the Scottish Government in a similar role.” Read more.

Flashback: The Fourth Reich

• Saudi Poet: I Would Pray For Hitler’s Soul
• Why Did So Many Wanted Nazis Convert To Islam?
• Saudi Arabian Television Features Adolf Hitler In Ads
• The Grand Mufti: Recalling The Man Who Inspired Hitler
• PA Newspaper Defames America, Declares Its Love For Hitler
• Again: Turkish Students Arrested For Nazi Salutes At Auschwitz
• Egypt: Arab Spring: Group Announces Intent To Form Nazi Party
• Dutch Muslim Youths Praise Hitler For What He Did To The Jews
• Turkish Pop Singer Writes Anti-Semitic Tweets Over Gaza, Praises Hitler
• Turkish Columnist At Pro-Government Newspaper: ‘God Bless That Hitler’
• Muslim Sheik: Allah Used The Nazis To Punish The Jews, Now It’s Our Turn
• Norway: Muslim Politician Wishes Hitler Could Come Back And Finish The Job
• Kuwait: Muslim Scholar Relies On Hitler’s ‘Mein Kamph’ In Antisemitic Diatribe
• Nazi Propaganda Website Starts Operation In Iran, Government Censors Do Nothing
• France: Jewish Family Assaulted By Nazi-Saluting Muslim Mob Screaming ‘Heil Hitler’
• ‘Muslims Are The New Nazis Of Europe’, Responsible For Large Number Of Hate Crimes
• ‘Europe’s Streets Are Very Dark These Days And You Feel Like A Jew In Berlin’ In 1920s
• Palestinian Youth Magazine Publishes List Of ‘Sharp-Witted’ And ‘Wise’ Sayings It Claims Are Hitler’s

For peaceful purposes …

Qur’an Sura 4:94-95, “O ye who believe! When ye go abroad in the cause of Allah, investigate carefully …. For Allah is well aware of all that ye do… Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home).”

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

• Flashback: Obama’s New Asylum Decree Favors Muslims Over Christians
• Flashback: Obama Allows 80,000 Muslim ‘Refugees’ In The United States
• Flashback: Islamic Butchery Manifests In America With Muslim Immigrants
• Flashback: Trojan Horse: ISIS militants Come To Europe Disguised As Refugees, US Intel Sources Claim

Revelation 9:11, “Their king is the angel from the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon – the Destroyer.”

By Aaron Brown, Sunday Express – “AN OPERATIVE working for Islamic State has revealed the terror group has successfully smuggled thousands of covert Jihadists into Europe.

The Syrian operative claimed more than 4,000 covert ISIS gunmen had been smuggled into western nations – hidden amongst innocent refugees.

The ISIS smuggler, who is in his 30s with a trimmed jet-black beard, revealed the ongoing clandestine operation is a complete success.

‘Just wait,’ he smiled.

The Islamic State operative spoke exclusively to BuzzFeed on the condition of anonymity and is believed to be the first to confirm plans to infiltrate western countries.

Islamic State, also referred to as IS and ISIS, is believed to be actively smuggling deadly gunmen across the sparsely-guarded 565-mile Turkish border and on to richer European nations, he revealed.

There are now more than 4,000 covert ISIS gunmen ‘ready’ across the European Union, he claimed.

The operative said the undercover infiltration was the beginning of a larger plot to carry out revenge attacks in the West in retaliation for the US-led coalition airstrikes.

‘If someone attacks me,’ he said ‘then for sure I will attack them back.’

Islamic State extremists are taking advantage of developed nation’s generosity towards refugees …

‘They are going like refugees,’ he said.

Two Turkish refugee-smugglers backed up the claims made by the ISIS Syrian operative.

One admitted to helping more than ten trained ISIS rebels infiltrate Europe under the guise of asylum seekers.

He said: ‘I’m sending some fighters who want to go and visit their families.

‘Others just go to Europe to be ready.’

The Syrian operative, a former member of his nation’s security forces, said ISIS had ambitious plans ahead.

‘It’s our dream that there should be a caliphate not only in Syria but in all the world,’ he said ‘and we will have it soon, God willing.'” Read more.

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They have no other choice than to wage violent jihad on a global scale. How else could they possibly self-fulfill all of those Islamic “prophecies”? …

Hadith, Sahih Muslim 2889, “Verily Allah has shown me the eastern and western part of the earth, and I saw the authority of my Ummah (Islamic nation) dominate all that I saw.”

Hadith, Sahih Muslim, 41:6985, “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him …”

• Flashback: Claims Of Fulfilled Qur’anic ‘Prophecy’ Rebutted
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• Flashback: ‘This Is The War Muhammad Promised Us, The War Of The Great Tribulation’
• Flashback: The Qur’an vs. The Bible: Predictions Of Human Actions Show Which One Is Truly From God

Proverbs 1:16, “… their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.”

By Justin Koski, Western Journalism – “A British medical student – who went looking for ISIS on a search for a friend’s twin daughters who left home to marry terrorists – lived with ISIS, earned their trust, and managed to escape to Turkey. He said that ISIS, or Daesh, are planning something bigger than 9/11.

‘They want to be more better than al-Qaeda,’ Ahmad Rashidi said to NBC’s Richard Engel on Meet the Press. ‘They want to do something more better than the World Trade Center.’

He added that the U.S. bombings are making Daesh ‘happy’ because they elevate the group’s status to that of al-Qaeda.

Rashidi said that he found the women he was looking for, but ran into their husbands along the way. They thought he was a spy – or worse, a journalist – and proceeded to torture him. Miraculously, he managed to earn their trust by saying he wanted to join their cause. They allowed him to wander through the facilities, and he quickly learned of their hatred and intentions.

‘They are full of hate. You can see the fire in the eyes,’ he said. ‘If you smell like European, they are going to kill you.'” Source – Western Journalism.

Barack Hussein Obama already won the Nobel Peace Prize. Now he’s gunning for the Noble Religion-of-Peace prize …

Proverbs 22:24-25, “Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.”

By Adam Kredo, The Washington Free Beacon – “The Muslim Brotherhood called for ‘a long, uncompromising jihad’ in Egypt just days after a delegation of the Islamist group’s key leaders and allies met with the State Department, according to an official statement released this week.

Just days after a delegation that included two top Brotherhood leaders was hosted at the State Department, the organization released an official statement calling on its supporters to ‘prepare’ for jihad, according to an independent translation of the statement first posted on Tuesday.

The State Department meeting was attended by a deputy assistant secretary for democracy, human rights, and labor and other State Department officials.

The Muslim Brotherhood statement also was issued just two days before a major terror attackThursday in Egypt’s lawless Sinai region that killed at least 25.

‘It is incumbent upon everyone to be aware that we are in the process of a new phase, where we summon what is latent in our strength, where we recall the meanings of jihad and prepare ourselves, our wives, our sons, our daughters, and whoever marched on our path to a long, uncompromising jihad, and during this stage we ask for martyrdom,’ it states.

Preparation for jihad is a key theme of the Brotherhood’s latest call for jihad.

An image posted with the statement shows two crossing swords and the word ‘prepare!’ between them. Below the swords it reads, ‘the voice of truth, strength, and freedom.’ According to the statement, ‘that is the motto of the Dawa of the Muslim Brotherhood.’

The statement also invokes the well-known Muslim cleric Imam al-Bana, who founded the Brotherhood and has called for the death of Jews.

‘Imam al-Bana prepared the jihad brigades that he sent to Palestine to kill the Zionist usurpers and the second [Supreme] Guide Hassan al-Hudaybi reconstructed the ‘secret apparatus’ to bleed the British occupiers,’ the statement says.

The Brotherhood’s renewed call for jihad comes at a time when current Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is cracking down on the group and imprisoning many of its supporters, who notoriously engaged in violence following the ouster of Brotherhood-ally Mohamed Morsi.” Read more.

Flashback: Closer Than A Brother

• Wiesenthal Center: Obama Should Sever Ties With Muslim Brotherhood
• Muslim Brotherhood Officially Endorses President Obama’s Faith Adviser
• Obama Claims To Have ‘Many Shared Interests’ With Muslim Brotherhood
• Egyptians To Obama: Designate Your Muslim Brotherhood Friends As ‘Terrorists’
• Retired US General: The Muslim Brotherhood Is Inside The Obama Administration
• Obama Allows Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration Of US Gov’t, Islamist Influence Of Policy
• Obama To Egypt’s Persecuted Christians: Don’t Protest Against The Muslim Brotherhood
• Obama Condemns Egypt’s Islamist Crackdown After Brotherhood Front Group Demands It
• Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood Allies Honor Al-Qaeda Leader, ‘Jihad Is The Best Way To Raise The Human Psyche’

Egyptian Activist To Obama: The Muslim Brotherhood Terrorists You Support Are The Ones Asking Allah To Destroy The United States

Though some of the “less attractive” slaves have been released and are able to flee with their lives (presumably after “converting” to Islam), scores of others haven’t been as fortunate. For a group that has absolutely nothing to do with Islam, the Islamic State certainly has a knack for doing precisely what the Qur’an commands Muslims to do for the glory of Islam’s deity and his “perfect” man …

Daniel 11:37-39, “Neither shall he regard the God [Yahweh] of his fathers [Abraham and Ishmael], nor the desire of women … But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces [Allah, “The Forceful One”] … Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many …”

Qur’an Sura 4:24a, “And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess. It is a decree of Allah for you…”

Revelation 13:16-18, “… it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate [ψηφίζω – ‘reckon’] the number [ἀριθμός – ‘multitude’ of people] of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is [χξς – ‘In The Name of Allah’ in Arabic].”

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)

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Revelation 9:21, “And they did not repent of their murders … or their sexual immorality …”

Al Monitor – “For Ibtisam, a 15-year-old Yazidi girl, the six months after the Islamic State (IS) attacked her hometown could not have been crueler. Her mother and three younger sisters were taken from the village of Tel Qasab, near Sinjar, as spoils of war by the extremists, who control territory across Iraq and Syria. After five months in captivity, each day not knowing if they would live to see the next, Ibtisam was freed along with some 200 other Yazidis, most of them elderly, sick or disabled.

Two of her sisters, however, continued to be held captive. Asked why she thought they had been kept while she was released, Ibtisam lowered her eyes and stared at the floor in embarrassment. She paused for a moment before responding, ‘They were more attractive.’

Ibtisam and the others who were released are now in Lalish, site of the holiest shrine for Yazidis, whom IS consider to be devil worshippers. Unlike Christianity and Judaism, the Yazidi religion is not acknowledged in the Quran.

Only the Yazidi community can fully comprehend the depth of the tragedy that has befallen them. Hundreds have been massacred, thousands remain in captivity and the majority of the Yazidi minority has been made homeless by IS.

Around 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) from Lalish in the city of Dahuk, a family has taken in three underage girls who were used by IS members as sex slaves for approximately three months. Erivan Mehdi, whose family is caring for them, said, ‘They cry a lot, and they are often lost in their own thoughts.’ One of the girls, Besma, a pseudonym, agreed to be interviewed on the condition her true identity not be revealed. Erivan accompanied her.

Besma, 15, had been in Sinjar town when IS overran the area on Aug. 3, 2014, and gunned down one of her brothers. Nine years earlier, in the midst of sectarian warfare in Iraq, Besma’s father had disappeared without a trace on his way to Mosul.

When IS attacked, Besma’s family had asked one of their Sunni Arab neighbors for help, but instead they were turned over to the militants, who rounded up Besma, her mother and a surviving brother, along with some 500 other Yazidi residents.

They were then loaded onto four buses and transferred to the IS stronghold of Tal Afar, where the militants kept them for two days, feeding them eggs, cucumbers and tomatoes. Besma said they were not mistreated at that time. Yazidi men, however, were separated from the group, and Besma was transferred with her mother and younger brother to a prison, which an older women recognized as Badush, northwest of Mosul.

Besma, who recalled her ordeal in great detail, said the militants served breakfast at 9 a.m., later followed by lunch, which typically consisted of cucumbers and tomatoes. After midnight, the captives were given a dinner of grapes and bread.

The militants repeatedly insisted the Yazidis convert to Islam, Besma said. On the ninth day in Badush, coalition airstrikes targeted an area near the prison, shaking the ground beneath them. ‘Everyone was crying and asking God to finish us off at once, rather than endure the terror,’ she said.

At different stages, young attractive girls were separated from their mothers and then taken away by the militants. The rest were moved from place to place and forced to convert to Islam and pray.” Read more.