Category Archives: Fundamentalist terror

Cal State Long Beach Student Killed In Paris Attacks: LAist

The L.A. Times reports that Nohemi Gonzalez, from El Monte, was attending an exchange program at the Strate School of Design, according to a statement posted on the school’s Facebook page. Strate’s director, Dominique Sciamma, wrote (in translation):Yesterday, with unbridled violence, women and men are dead, dead simply for living in a free space. Others will continue to be marked for their lives, in their body, their spirit. I hoped with all my heart that no one in our community had been touched in some way by these criminal acts. It is unfortunately not the case. One of our international exchange students was the victim in yesterday’s massacre. Her name was Nohemi Gonzalez. We join in the pain of her family and relatives. There are others who have been injured and are now out of danger. We wish them the courage to overcome such a hardship. Our response must always be the same: Live

Source: Cal State Long Beach Student Killed In Paris Attacks: LAist

 

RIP and bless her soul and all those who died in Paris and in Beirut this week from terrorist attacks.

Cops review security cover as capital put on high alert – The Times of India

Delhi has been told about impending threats from Ansar-ul-Tawhid Fi Bilad Al Hind (AuT), an Indian Mujahideen (IM) offshoot based in Af-Pak region, which has been flirting with ISIS of late. Its founder, Dr Shehnawaj, is learnt to be eyeing Delhi, said sources. It was launched a few years ago by the coming together of jihadi elements in Af-Pak region and IM operatives who had rebelled against the leadership of Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal in Pakistan.

Source: Cops review security cover as capital put on high alert – The Times of India

Taslima Nasreen: ′Wahhabism has invaded Bangladesh′ | Asia | DW.COM | 13.11.2015

For the past 21 years, Nasreen has been living in exile in various countries, including India, Sweden, Germany and the United States.Due to her criticism of Islam, multiple fatwas have been issued against the author calling for her assassination. Still, 53-year-old Nasreen doesn’t mince her words when she talks about freedom of expression and the rise of religious fundamentalism in Bangladesh.The South Asian nation has been afflicted by rising Islamist violence in recent months. Extremists have been blamed for the killings of at least four atheist bloggers and a publisher since the start of this year.In an exclusive DW interview, Nasreen, who recently returned to India from the US, talks about the shrinking space for free thinkers in Bangladesh and said that Islam cannot be exempt from the critical scrutiny that other religions go through.Nasreen also believes Bangladesh will be headed for a complete disaster if the government fails to bring Islamic terrorists to justice.

Source: Taslima Nasreen: ′Wahhabism has invaded Bangladesh′ | Asia | DW.COM | 13.11.2015

ISIS warns Russia, says ‘blood will spill like an ocean’ – Times of India

Isis militant group has released a new video threatening to launch attacks in Russia “very soon”.Issued by the group’s foreign language propaganda wing, the al-Hayat Media Centre, the video combined footage of the Charlie Hebdo shootings and graphic depictions of executions with a threat that “soon, very soon, the blood will spill like an ocean”.

Source: ISIS warns Russia, says ‘blood will spill like an ocean’ – Times of India

Afghan Women’s Writing Project | The Taliban in My Dream

The Taliban is attacking inside my country again: Jaleriz in Maidan Wardak, Kunduz province, in Ishpeshta near Bamiyan province, and in Ghazni province near Kabul. How can they make my motherland suffer such pain?Everybody in my country is scared and it seems that half of the people, especially the young generation, are leaving the country.  Nobody leaves their country without serious thought. But with this fighting, everybody wants to leave Afghanistan. They would rather die in a river or on a mountain on the way to peace than live in Afghanistan and be murdered by Taliban.These are the most terrible days for everybody in Afghanistan. Yesterday I met one of my neighbors who wanted to leave the country. He was saying it is like suicide to stay here. “Let’s go from here,” he said. “It is better to die on rivers than to die by the hands of Taliban. If you drown in a river you die at once, but if you live here and are arrested by Taliban you will die a thousand times.” What he meant was if the Taliban arrests someone, they torture him until he asks for death.Everybody, even in Bamiyan, is afraid of the Taliban. Many people who cannot leave the country are saving food in their homes because they say that if Taliban comes, it will not be safe to go out and buy anything.Some days ago at the University I heard that the Taliban were warning Bamiyan that they would attack. I don’t know if it is true or rumor. If it is true, then it is true. But if it is rumor, it means that everybody is afraid and making up rumors.I myself have never seen Taliban, but I have heard many stories of their violence. During their regime they killed many people in Bamiyan. At that time I was living with my family in Iran. But I am scared of Taliban. I have heard what they do to girls and how they oppose education for girls. Last night I dreamed that the Taliban attacked my family. In my dream I ran away but then lost my family and I was alone with my niece. We were running and hiding from Taliban and then I lost her until I found my family hiding in a cave with many other people. People were talking. I was so scared and I shouted at them to be quiet. “Why are you not scared?” I asked. “You should know better.  You saw them attack many years ago. If they hear you talking they will come and kill us.” Then I started crying. When I opened my eyes, it was time for the morning prayers.  I told my dream to my roommate and she said she also dreamed about Taliban. All of this is almost more than I can put into words. I cannot truly express my feelings and fears. I don’t know how our dear president can bring peace to Afghanistan but I hope he hears our voices and will do something for our country. It is every Afghan’s wish.By Zahra H.

Source: Afghan Women’s Writing Project | The Taliban in My Dream

Utah judge orders baby taken away from married lesbian foster parents | US news | The Guardian

Utah state child welfare officials on Wednesday were wrangling with a ruling by a juvenile court judge who ordered a baby to be taken from lesbian foster parents and instead placed with a heterosexual couple, saying it was for the child’s wellbeing.Judge Scott Johansen’s order on Tuesday raised concerns at the Utah Division of Child and Family Services, said agency spokeswoman Ashley Sumner.Its attorneys plan to review the decision and determine what options they have to challenge the order.

Source: Utah judge orders baby taken away from married lesbian foster parents | US news | The Guardian

Israeli MK calls for permitting imprisonment of children | PNN

MK Anat Berko (Likud) submitted a law proposing that minors can be sent to prison, prior to any alleged stab attacks carried out by Palestinian minors. The current legislation prevents the imprisonment of children under the age of 14, although they can still be sent to juvenile facilities.The bill suggests that the age of the offender can be dismissed in cases committed with a “nationalist motive.”According to Berko, it is more likely that minors are recruited to commit attacks, as the ’loophole’ in the law, presumably there to protect children from being sent to jail, makes it easier to convince these children to commit acts of violence.

Source: Israeli MK calls for permitting imprisonment of children | PNN

Palestinian girl shot near Bitar Elit settlement, West Bethlehem | PNN

Israeli media claimed that the girl named Helwa Elayyan (22)  attempted to stab  a policeman and was immediately shot and left to bleed on the ground, surrounded by armed settlers and soldiers.

Source: Palestinian girl shot near Bitar Elit settlement, West Bethlehem | PNN

Video: Israeli soldiers fire at car, killing elderly woman | The Electronic Intifada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mSm7YNxbFUThe Israeli soldiers broke into the station and took its fire extinguishers in order to put out a fire that had been lit outside, the eyewitness said.He said that the soldiers then went outside and at that moment al-Sharawi’s car approached towards the gas station from the direction of the Ras al-Jora area in what he called a normal manner.The Israeli soldiers opened fire on it with volleys of bullets.The eyewitness said al-Sharawi was likely trying to escape towards the gas station from the large amount of tear gas in the Ras al-Jora neighborhood when the soldiers riddled her car with bullets.Occupation forces then barred medics from reaching her, he said.More than half of the Palestinians killed since violence escalated at the start of October were killed during alleged, suspected and actual attacks that have killed 11 Israelis.

Source: Video: Israeli soldiers fire at car, killing elderly woman | The Electronic Intifada

ISIS, Russia, and Egypt | Nervana

Regardless of all this speculation, in fact, whether or not the Russian plane crash was indeed caused by a terror attack, it is more paramount for Egypt to turn this tragic event to its advantage. The Islamic State should not be allowed to establish its dream state by targeting domestic planes. If the terror group resorted already to such tactics, then is a potential sign of weakness hiding under the evil glamour of terror. The group has failed to clinch a state in Egypt, and it may have resorted to bombing planes just to maintain a deceptive perception of existence.Therefore, the Egyptian authority must work harder to project this weak side of IS, and enhance its counter-terrorism abilities. Airport security may need substantial updates, but other aspects of fighting IS must also be considered.This Russian tragedy might have been Egypt’s version of 9/11. Egypt should project itself as a responsible country that need support, not a reckless state that is hiding its own wrongdoing. Bomb or not, Egypt must prevail against terrorism in these circumstances.

Source: ISIS, Russia, and Egypt | Nervana