MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

And the Muslims who vowed to carry out the wishes of the “Prince of the Faithful” chose beheading as their preferred method of murder. This must serve as a warning to the whole world that the eyes of the ISIS caliphate is not simply upon the necks of Australians, but upon the necks of Americans, Canadians, Europeans, Israelis and anyone else who “gets in their way” …

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 …”

Qur’an Sura 47:4, “So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them …”

Channel NewsAsia – “A series of anti-terror raids across Sydney and Brisbane were sparked by a senior Islamic State militant ordering ‘demonstration killings’ in Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Thursday (Sep 18).

‘The exhortations, quite direct exhortations, were coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in ISIL to networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country,’ he said referring to Islamic State by its other commonly used acronym. ‘So this is not just suspicion, this is intent and that’s why the police and security agencies decided to act in the way they have.’

A major pre-dawn operation by more than 800 officers detained 15 people. So far one person has been charged with serious terrorism-related offences. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said court documents were expected to reveal that the plan involved snatching a random member of the public in Sydney, draping them in an Islamic State flag and beheading them on camera.

‘These people, I regret to say, do not hate us for what we do, they hate us for who we are and how we live. That’s what makes us a target,’ said Abbott. ‘It’s important our police and security organisations be one step ahead of them and this morning they were.'” Source – Channel NewsAsia.

Is this a foretaste of more alliances to come? …

Qur’an Sura 24:35, “Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth… Allah doth guide whom He will to His light…”

2 Corinthians 11:14-15, “… for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.”

By Michael Carl, WND – “The Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram, known for its kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls, has deepened its connection to the Middle East terror army ISIS by forming an information and materiel-support alliance, according to sources.

A Nigeria staff member for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, a non-profit foundation promoting democratic institutions, says leaders Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of ISIS and Abubakar Shakau of Boko Haram ‘have been sharing military strategy and other information back and forth.’

Kristina Baum says the alliance will empower Boko Haram.

‘Boko Haram is hopeful that this will give them more financial support,’ she said. ‘Before, Boko Haram has been getting their money from kidnapping, ransom and extortion from local governments.’

Maha Hamdan, an analyst for Consultancy Africa Intelligence and IntelligenceCommunity.com, confirms the link-up, calling it a dangerous development.

She believes the weakness of the Nigerian army in its war against Boko Haram is ‘one of the major reasons for the rise of the Boko Haram and ISIS alliance.’

‘We are standing at the precipice of the birth of a new radical Islam,’ she said.

Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy and the Economic Warfare Institute, says the alliance will feed Boko Haram’s hunger for spreading its vision of Islam as it provides more funding.

‘Boko Haram and ISIS share the same basic ideology, and it worked with al-Qaida. And we know that with food – in this instance, success –comes an even bigger appetite,’ she said.

She said jihadist groups that started out with a domestic agenda are ‘joining the larger jihadist agenda to impose Shariah everywhere.'” Read more.

Flashback: ‘May Allah Protect You’: Leader Of Boko Haram In Nigeria Voices Support For ISIS Caliphate– “The head of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists has voiced support for the extremist Sunni Islamic State (IS) militants who have taken over large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, in a video obtained by Agence France Presse Sunday… Near the beginning of the video he calls several of the world’s most prominent Islamist extremists his ‘brethren.’ ‘May Allah protect you’ he said, listing IS chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, al-Qaida head Ayman al-Zawahiri, Taliban leader Mullah Omar and several others.” Read more.

Whether literally or not matters little. They do what they do for the “gory of Allah” and his messenger of misery. Hating God. Where would Islam be without? …

Proverbs 8:35-36, “For whoever finds Me finds life, And obtains favor from the LORD … All those who hate Me love death.”

Isaiah 59:7-8a, “Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their ways …”

By Jack Moore, International Business Times – “An Arab-Israeli member of Isis (now known as the Islamic State) has claimed that the terror group takes pleasure in ‘drinking blood’ of its enemies.

Rabie Shehada, otherwise known as ‘the Palestinian slayer’, spoke openly in a new video of the Islamic group’s love of death.

‘I swear we are a people who love death for the sake of [Allah] just as you love to live,’ says Shehada.

‘I swear we are a people who love drinking blood. We came to slaughter you,’ he adds. ‘We love dying for [Allah] as much as you love life.’

According to Dubai-based outlet Al-Arabiya, Shehada, 26, is from the northern Israeli city of Nazareth which holds a majority-Arab population.

Shehada studied mechanical engineering in Nazareth before quitting university and disappearing just three months into his studies.

It is reported that he went to Turkey before moving into Syria to join forces with the moderate Free Syrian Army (FSA) against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

It was here that he switched allegiance to the more extreme Islamic State group and now goes by the nom de guerre of Abu Mussab al-Safouri.

When contacted by the Arabian outlet, Shehada’s wife and daughter said that they were terrified by his radicalisation …” Read more.

Flashback: Syria: Jihadist Rebel Cutting Out And ‘Eating’ Heart Of Soldier Defends Actions, Says He Sawed Another In Small And Large Pieces – “A Syrian rebel who was filmed apparently cutting out and eating the organs of a soldier has defended his actions as revenge for regime atrocities, Time magazine reported on Tuesday… ‘I have another video clip… In the clip I am sawing another shabiha with a saw. The saw we use to cut trees. I sawed him in small pieces and large ones,’ Time quoted him as saying… ‘Hopefully we will slaughter all of them,’ he told the magazine …” Read more.

Apart from dropping nukes, American combat troops will be needed to “destroy” ISIS, according to the greatest military leaders and analysts in America and abroad. Barack Obama, mind you, seems to think he knows more about what it takes to win a war dispute than they all do …

Proverbs 20:26, “A wise king sifts out the wicked, and brings the threshing wheel over them.”

But …

James 1:8, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”

“How can I start a war when I should be getting another Nobel peace prize?”

FOX News – “The top U.S. military leader opened the door Tuesday to U.S. troops on the ground in the fight against the Islamic State, testifying before Congress that he could recommend ‘U.S. military ground forces’ if the international coalition being formed proves ineffective against the terror group.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey made the statement during testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Though President Obama vowed last week that the U.S. would ‘not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq’ and military leaders say ground troops are not needed at the moment, Dempsey said he could change his recommendation if he found circumstances ‘evolving’ in the region.

‘My view at this point is that this coalition is the appropriate way forward,’ Dempsey said. ‘I believe that will prove true, but if it fails to be true and if there are threats to the United States, then I of course would go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of U.S. military ground forces.’

Dempsey provided one example of a scenario where he might recommend U.S. ground forces, saying they could be used to help Kurdish and Iraqi forces retake Mosul, now controlled by the Islamic State, or ISIS.

The statement comes as the administration faces a deep divide in Congress that muddies traditional partisan lines over the possibility of ground forces being introduced. Many Democrats and Republicans oppose U.S. combat troops entering the fight. But some Republican lawmakers have criticized the president for appearing to rule out that option.

‘ISIS is an army,’ Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., top Republican on the committee, said Tuesday. ‘It will take an army to beat an army.’

Inhofe also criticized the administration for its ‘indecision and hand-wringing’ before last week and expressed concern that the administration is still treating the mission as a chiefly counterterrorism mission.

Dempsey and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, though, defended the U.S. strategy in Iraq and Syria. And, for those uneasy about the U.S. entering yet another conflict in the Middle East, they claimed the group will directly threaten the U.S. homeland if left unchecked.

‘It considers itself the rightful inheritor of Usama bin Laden’s legacy,’ Hagel said.” Read more.

Report: Obama Overruled ‘Best Military Advice’ On Ground Troops To Fight ISIS – “The Washington Post reports today that when the president tasked military leaders with devising the best strategy to defeat ISIS, the Pentagon presented a plan that involved a limited number of combat “boots on the ground.” … ‘Such a mission was not the U.S. military’s preferred option. Responding to a White House request for options to confront the Islamic State, Gen. Lloyd Austin, the top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, said that his best military advice was to send a modest contingent of American troops, principally Special Operations forces… The recommendation, conveyed to the White House by Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was cast aside in favor of options that did not involve U.S. ground forces in a front-line role …” Read more.

“Saying that ‘Islam is the religion of Peace’ or condemning the IS as being ‘un-Islamic’ without condemning the principle that Muslims must fight non-Muslims to subjugate them to Islam is not just hypocritical but also counterproductive as it hides the true cause of the problem and impedes the efforts to solve it.” While moderate Muslims exist, “moderate Islam” does not. According to the inured ignoramus like Barack Obama, John Kerry, David Cameron and many other like-minded politically correct simpletons, however, the only type of Islam that truly exists is moderate and peaceful. So while I’d normally recommend they read articles like the one below, they’ve already decided, not surprisingly, that it’ll have absolutely nothing to do with “Islam” …

Islamic Scholar Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi: “Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation that rules it. Islam requires the earth – not just a portion – but the whole planet.”

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The Jerusalem Post – “Until the leading Islamic scholars provide a peaceful theology that clearly contradicts the violent views of the IS, the existence of a ‘moderate Islam’ must be questioned.

The guiding principle of the Islamic State (IS) is that Muslims must fight non-Muslims all over the world and offer them the following choices: Convert to Islam, pay a humiliating tax called ‘Jijya,’ or be killed. This violent doctrine was the primary justification for the Islamic conquests by the early Muslims.

Following the latest in a long string of inhumane and barbaric attacks by the IS, who only offer these three options to non-Muslims, it becomes mandatory to ask whether this principle IS uses is Islamic or Un-Islamic.

In other words, can a young Muslim become more religious — and more obedient to Allah — without subscribing to this ancient brutality? Will he be able to find an approved Islamic theological source or interpretation that clearly contradicts this principle, or at least teaches it in a different way (i.e., contextualizing it in time and place)?

The sad answer is: No, he cannot.

Traditionally there are five sources for Islamic Law: the Koran, the Hadith of Prophet Mohamed (such as Sahih Al-Buchakry), the actions of the disciples of Mohamed (Sahaba), the four schools of Islamic jurisprudence, and the Tafseer (or Interpretations) of the Koran.

If a young Muslim were to do some research to examine whether what the IS is doing is in fact Islamic or Un-Islamic, he would find some shocking results.

The literal understanding of the Koran 9:29 can easily be used to justify what the IS is doing. ‘Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture (Jews and Christians) – [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humiliated.’

But perhaps this young Muslim will decide to see if the Hadith of Al-Buchakry may explain it differently. The following Sahih (authentic) Hadith in Al-Buchakry also supports the violent IS ideology: Sahih al-Bukhari 6924—Muhammad said: ‘I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: ‘La ilaha illallah’ (none has the right to be worshipped but Allah), and whoever said ‘No God other than Allah’ will save his property and his life from me.’

Feeling uncomfortable with the literal interpretations of such texts, the young Sunni Muslim might try to find an answer in the actions of the Sahaba. Sadly, the Sahaba (Disciples of Mohamed) were the ones who first used these principles to justify the Islamic conquests and the subjugation of non-Muslims to Islam.

The fourth source for Islamic law is the four schools of Islamic Jurisprudence, namely: Al-Shafeii, Al-Hanbali, Al-Hanafi, and Al- Maleki. These four schools, without a single exception, support the principle that Read more…

Even the equally demented mother seems to be amused at the sight. “Do not laugh too much,” says the “prophet” of Islam, “for laughing deadens the heart” (al-Tirmidhi, 2305; Ibn Maajah, 4193). Maybe this twisted “man” wanted to strengthen the children’s heart by nearly scaring them to death. After all, what doesn’t kill them should make them stronger, right? If these little children didn’t have enough nightmares already as it is in having to flee Mohammed’s marauding murderers in Syria, they’ll be sure to have a few more now …

By Naharnet – “A man who staged a sick prank by filming himself threatening to behead three Syrian refugee children has confessed that he was amused by their weeping and their mother actually loved the video, a police statement said on Saturday.

Meanwhile, a security official told Agence France-Presse that the video proved to be a ‘sick joke,’ and that the children had been left in the man’s care by their mother, his neighbor, while she went to buy groceries.

According to an Internal Security Forces communique, the now-detained 30-year-old man told interrogators that he gathered the kids in a room near the bakery he owns and threatened them ‘after he saw them trying to go down from their home’s balcony on a public phone pole.’

He said he wanted to scare them so that they don’t repeat the attempt.

‘He started filming because he liked the scene of the crying children, and that happened in the presence of Lebanese 14-year-old minor M. T.,’ the ISF said in its communique.

In a surprising twist, the kids’ mother arrived during the last moments of filming and she actually ‘loved the scene’ and asked that the video be sent to her phone.

The knife man, M. F., was referred to the relevant judicial authorities while the minor M. T. was released after his father signed a pledge.

The mom was also freed after she pledged to take good care of her children, the ISF said.

The man had been arrested Friday by ISF Intelligence Bureau agents in the southern town of Ebba in the Nabatiyeh province.

The video, which was posted on YouTube Friday and shared widely, shows the three terrified children crying as a man standing behind a camera waves a knife and asks: ‘Whom do we behead first?’

‘Put your hand here or else I will sever your head,’ he tells one of the terrified boys, who cry their lungs out throughout the video.

‘You, come here … Do you belong to Daesh?’ the man says, using an acronym for the full Arabic name of the extremist Islamic State group, which has recently beheaded two Lebanese soldiers.

Adding to the pathos of the incident, the crying children respond by pointing at each other.” Read more.

Matthew 24:12, “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.”

The Judeo-Christian world and the Islamic world. Love and life inspires one, hate and death inspires the other. Lawlessness. Where would Islam be without it? …

Proverbs 4:14-17, “Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil… For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall. For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.”

Qur’an sura 9:111a, “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah , so they kill and are killed …”

Making The “Prophet” Proud

By Robert Booth, The Guardian – “Graphic videos showing British and American hostages being murdered by Islamic State (Isis) fighters are stirring support among foreign jihadis who are excited by a new confrontation with the west, monitoring of Islamists’ social media activity suggests.

Barbarous online films, such as the two-and-a half-minute video showing the killing of British aid worker David Haines released on Saturday night, are ‘turning on’ jihadists in countries such as Tunisia and Libya who had previously reacted coolly to the civil war between the Sunni fundamentalists of Isis and the Shia minorities in Syria and Iraq.

Evidence from the Twitter, Facebook, Ask.fm and Instagram accounts of 450 foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq and others who follow them suggests the filmed murders and speeches attacking Washington and London appear to have made Isis’s cause more glamorous to extremists abroad, according to the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King’s College London.

The response may explain why Isis fighters have released the videos and have threatened to kill another Briton, Alan Henning. Some analysts have asked why Isis leaders would invite stronger military intervention from the west, but postings on social networks used by jihadis suggest the tactic could be aimed at widening support for Isis.

‘We have been monitoring the social media reaction and you can already see that the wannabe foreign fighters are excited by these killings,’ said Peter Neumann, director of the ICSR. ‘People in Tunisia and Libya are particularly interested in the prospect of fighting American and now British enemies. This is turning on people who were radicalised before this conflict started but weren’t particularly excited by the Sunni-Shia battle. There are three types of reaction. There is pure jubilation, comments that America and now Britain are getting what they deserve, and the thought that this is not pretty, but that this is the kind of thing that happens with revolutions.’

The man who beheaded Haines, a father of two born in Yorkshire and raised in Scotland, directly addressed David Cameron in the film, ridiculing him as ‘an obedient lapdog’ of Washington.

‘Your evil alliance with America, which continues to strike the Muslims of Iraq and most recently bombed the Haditha dam, will only accelerate your destruction,’ the masked man said.

There are already estimated to be more than 2,000 Isis fighters from Tunisia in Syria, but Neumann said the direct challenges to western leaders in the beheading videos were “an even stronger incentive for people who were sitting on the fence and thinking about going to fight”.” Read more.

Flashback: Pure Evil: ISIS Caliphate Releases Video Of Mass Killings, Supporters Online Cheer Massacres As ‘Most Beautiful’ – “In what should be a time of happiness when Muslims mark the end of Ramadan, Islamist militants in Iraq celebrated Eid by releasing a video showing scenes of them carrying out genocide. The slickly produced footage shows prisoners being rounded up and summarily executed, suicide bombers boasting before blowing up buildings and Iraqis being gunned down in drive-by shootings. In one of the most shocking passages, terrified prisoners are piled into the back of trucks, where they hold each other and huddle in fear before driven off to their deaths.” Read more.