Tag: Jihad
Islamists celebrate damage to France’s Notre Dame Cathedral
Islamists worldwide have been celebrating the destruction of large parts of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in a devastating fire on April 15.
Reactions by jihadis on social media refer to the cathedral as...
International Union of Muslim Scholars urges imams to preach armed jihad against Israel
On April 1, 2019, the International Union of Muslim Clerics (IUMS) proclaimed Friday, April 5, 2019 as a “Day of Support for Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa and Gaza,” and urged Muslim preachers worldwide to devote their...
The Seductive Appeal of Jihadist Terror in Israel — and Around the World
While the professional literature on terrorism and counter-terrorism devotes considerable attention to martyrdom and jihad, not much has pertained to critically underlying promises of immortality. Nonetheless, it is precisely the cumulative appeal of these...
A Jewish organization lobbies on behalf of Pakistan’s new anti-Semitic and pro-jihad prime minister
Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-politician who is now Pakistan’s prime minister, is in a win-win situation. To his Pakistani audiences, Khan blames “the Jewish lobby,” the Jews, America, and Israel for the many ills that...
Gaza judge on Hamas TV: ‘Jihad in Palestine a duty incumbent on all Muslims’
Interviewed by Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV channel, Sheikh Omar Nofal, a judge in Gaza’s Shari’a appeals court extolled the six virtues of martyrdom, asking: “How can anyone cling to this world after hearing all of these...
Saying Kaddish for jihadists
On 15 May the U.N. Security Council held a minute of silence for the 62 Gazans who were killed by Israeli forces to prevent them from—in Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s own words—“taking down the border with Israel”...
IDF strikes 35 ‘terror sites’ in Gaza after barrage of rockets
The Israeli Defense Forces struck 35 “terror sites” in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon local time after the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas terror groups fired at least 28 mortars at on southern...
WATCH: Friday sermon by Gaza cleric: The ‘Return March’ goes hand in hand with...
In a Friday sermon, Gaza cleric Sheikh Musa Abu Jleidan said that the “Great Return March” is a “form of Jihad” that “does not eliminate the need for Jihad by the sword, by missiles,...
Sermon in Egypt: Wage jihad in all lands until Islam rules
Dr. Abu Bakr Al-Qadi called to wage jihad against the infidels in their own lands. Stressing that he was not only talking about defensive jihad, he said: “I am talking about seeking out the...