Four teenagers in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/germany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Germany</a> have been arrested for allegedly planning an Islamic terrorist attack against Christians and Jews.
Deutsche Welle, a German public state-owned international broadcaster, <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/germany-3-teens-held-over-suspected-islamist-attack-plans/a-68800624" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that three teenagers — two girls aged 15 and 16 and a 15-year-old boy — had &#8220;glorified&#8221; ISIS and &#8220;declared themselves ready&#8221; to carry out an “Islamist-motivated terror attack” against churchgoers and police.
The suspects were arrested in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The Associated Press <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/3-teenagers-suspected-planning-islamic-extremist-attack-arrested-109157987" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that a fourth teenager, a 16-year-old boy in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, was also arrested.
Police arrested the suspects on pending charges of &#8220;declaring themselves ready to commit murder and manslaughter and preparing a serious act of violence,&#8221; the report said.
The teens planned to use knives and Molotov cocktails to carry out the attacks. Investigators recovered a dagger and a machete from the suspects.
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The investigation was launched after officials suspected that the 16-year-old girl was planning to leave Germany to go to Syria to fight for ISIS.
Investigators found on her cell phone messages that indicated possible targets for their Islamic terror attack included churches and synagogues in Dortmund, Duesseldorf, Cologne, and Iserlohn.
DW reported that one of the suspect&#8217;s fathers had been under investigation because they suspected he was raising money for ISIS.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taliban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taliban</a> vowed in a message to the West over the weekend that it will soon return to stoning women to death in public.
“You say it’s a violation of women’s rights when we stone them to death,” said Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, according to The Telegraph. “But we will soon implement the punishment for adultery. We will flog women in public. We will stone them to death in public.”
&#8220;These are all against your democracy but we will continue doing it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We both say we defend human rights – we do it as God’s representative and you as the devil’s.&#8221;
The publication said that these remarks are the most extreme that he has made since the Biden administration effectively handed over control of Afghanistan to the Taliban during President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdraw from the country in August 2021.
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The report noted that the Taliban reverted to its old extreme methods of punishment almost immediately after taking over, including carrying out public executions and beating people.
“Do women want the rights that Westerners are talking about? They are against Sharia and clerics’ opinions, the clerics who toppled Western democracy,” he said. “I told the Mujahedin that we tell the Westerners that we fought against you for 20 years and we will fight 20 and even more years against you.”
“It did not finish [when you left]. It does not mean we would now just sit and drink tea. We will bring Sharia to this land,” he continued. “It did finish after we took over Kabul. No, we will now bring Sharia into action.”
A U.N. report from last year found that 37 people had already been sentenced to stoning under the Taliban regime and that more than 100 had received sentences for &#8220;crimes against God&#8221;, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/taliban-vows-publicly-stone-women-death-direct-message-western-democracies">Fox News</a>. Some of the punishments included lashings and having walls knocked down on individuals.

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Law enforcement officials in Italy arrested three Palestinians this week at the start of Ramadan for allegedly planning to conduct terror attacks on foreign soil.
Italian police did not disclose the names of the three Islamic terrorist suspects but said that they were connected to the Palestinian terror group Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades.
&#8220;The suspects engaged in proselytism and propaganda (&#8230;) and planned attacks, including suicide attacks, against civilian and military targets on foreign territory,&#8221; police <a href="https://www.poliziadistato.it/articolo/199665eee7d0e77c1487527864">said</a>.
The arrests happened in the Italian city of L’Aquila where the suspects made contact with an existing terror cell.
“It is rare for terrorist organizations such as the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades to orchestrate schemes to target civilians on foreign soil,” said Joe Truzman, Senior Research Analyst at FDD’s Long War Journal. “However, this heinous plot serves as a stark reminder that this group and its affiliates in the West Bank and Gaza are not ‘resistance fighters,’ as they claim to be, but cold-blooded terrorists with the sole purpose of inflicting death and destruction.”
David May, FDD Research Manager and Senior Research Analyst, added: “The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades are linked to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s supposedly moderate Fatah party. Italy’s arrest of the three terrorists planning attacks underscores the folly of treating Abbas and the PA as peace partners.”
Numerous Islamic terror suspects have been arrested throughout Europe for plotting attacks in the months following Hamas’ October 7 massacre in Israel.
During the massacre, 1,200 people were murdered, 5,300+ were injured, and hundreds more were taken hostage.
Israel launched a military offensive inside Gaza following the attacks and has so far eliminated at least 13,000 terrorists, Israel said this week.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-blasts-biden-for-criticizing-israels-military-strategy-hes-wrong-on-both-counts">Netanyahu Blasts Biden For Criticizing Israel’s Military Strategy: ‘He’s Wrong On Both Counts’</a>

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A cargo ship was attacked by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/houthis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Houthi</a> terrorists off the coast of Yemen on Sunday.
British maritime authorities said that the attack happened 35 nautical miles south of Al Mukha, Yemen, in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
An explosion happened in close proximity to the Belize-Flagged Commercial Shipping Vessel, M/V Rubymar, resulting in damage, officials said in their initial report.
Subsequent updates said that the crew was forced to abandon the ship due to damage from a reported fire on board.
Military officials were on site providing assistance.
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The private security firm Ambrey <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/houthi-rebels-suspected-attack-damaged-belize-flagged-ship-107333051" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Associated Press that the ship was &#8220;being partially laden with cargo, but it wasn&#8217;t immediately clear what it had been carrying.&#8221;
The ship also turned off its Automatic Identification System once it entered the region to make it harder for the terrorists and Iran to locate and target the ship.
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A Significant Fire is reported to be Burning aboard the Belize-Flagged Commercial Shipping Vessel, M/V Rubymar after it was Struck earlier by a Houthi Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile while transiting North through the Bab al-Mandab Strait from the Gulf of Aden into the Red Sea; the… <a href="https://t.co/5JUPIRWzaA">pic.twitter.com/5JUPIRWzaA</a>
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U.S. Central Command said in a statement that it conducted &#8220;five self-defense strikes against three mobile anti-ship cruise missiles, one unmanned underwater vessel (UUV), and one unmanned surface vessel (USV) in Iranian-backed Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.&#8221;
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&#8220;This is the first observed Houthi employment of a UUV since attacks began in Oct. 23,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;CENTCOM identified the anti-ship cruise missiles, unmanned underwater vessel, and the unmanned surface vessel in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and determined they presented an imminent threat to U.S. Navy ships and merchant vessels in the region.&#8221;
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TAMPA, Fla. – Between the hours of 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (Sanaa time), Feb. 17, CENTCOM successfully conducted five self-defense strikes against three mobile anti-ship cruise missiles, one unmanned underwater vessel (UUV), and one unmanned… <a href="https://t.co/TwR9RUmMMu">pic.twitter.com/TwR9RUmMMu</a>
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The U.S. and U.K. have launched repeated strikes against the Islamic terrorist group to degrade its ability to launch attacks; however, while the strikes may have limited some of the group&#8217;s ability, it has not deterred their mission to disrupt global trade moving through the Red Sea as the attacks have now gone of for four months.

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The Islamic terrorist group <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/al-qaeda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al Qaeda</a> is reportedly rapidly growing in size inside of Afghanistan just a couple of years after President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdrawal from the country.
A <a href="https://www.longwarjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/N2343179.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the U.N. Security Council at the end of last month said that despite the Taliban&#8217;s claims, &#8220;the relationship between the Taliban and Al-Qaida remains close, and the latter maintains a holding pattern in Afghanistan under Taliban patronage.&#8221;
The report said that the Taliban is trying to hide its relationship with Al Qaeda even though many inside the Taliban share the same extreme ideology.
The report claimed that the group was not strong enough yet to start carrying out terrorist attacks overseas, but noted that the terrorist group has &#8220;established up to eight new training camps in Afghanistan, including four in Ghazni, Laghman, Parwan and Uruzgan Provinces, with a new base to stockpile weaponry in the Panjshir Valley.&#8221;
Al Qaeda has also established five madrasas, a school for Islamic indoctrination, in Laghman, Kunar, Nangarhar, Nuristan, and Parwan Provinces.
&#8220;The group maintains safe houses to facilitate the movement between Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Provinces of Herat, Farah and Helmand, with additional safe house locations in Kabul,&#8221; the report added.
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A separate <a href="https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyreports/2024-01-30qr.pdf#page=50" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), also released at the end of last month, said that it was unclear whether the Taliban could or was willing to stop Islamic terrorist groups inside the country from being able to conduct operations beyond its borders and from allowing foreign fighters from coming to the country to join the groups.
&#8220;The movement of weapons, ammunition, and explosives—many seized from the former U.S.-funded Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)—remains a security concern,&#8221; the report said.
&#8220;This quarter, Al Qaeda’s general command, believed to be based in Afghanistan, released three press statements calling for attacks on American, European, and Israeli embassies and buildings globally in response to the Israel-Hamas war,&#8221; the report said, adding that while the group is rebuilding, it is committed to carrying out attacks against the West.

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The U.S. Military launched airstrikes this week against an Islamic terrorist group in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/iraq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iraq</a> after the group injured multiple U.S. service members in a drone strike on Christmas.
U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria have been attacked more than 100 times since October 17, according to a recent <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/12/21/us-troops-in-iraq-and-syria-have-faced-over-100-attacks-since-october/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Military Times.
Three U.S. service members were hurt, including one who was in critical condition, after the terror group launched a suicide drone at a U.S. base in Erbil, Iraq.
In response to the attacks, the U.S. conducted airstrikes against multiple facilities used by Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed terrorist group, and affiliated groups in Iraq late on Monday night, U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
&#8220;Early assessments indicate that these U.S. airstrikes destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of Kataib Hezbollah militants,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;There are no indications that any civilian lives were affected. The U.S. military will continue to evaluate the effectiveness of these strikes.&#8221;
CENTCOM Commander General Michael Erik Kurilla said that the strikes were &#8220;intended to hold accountable those elements directly responsible for attacks on coalition forces in Iraq and Syria and degrade their ability to continue attacks.&#8221;
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the other terror groups that have been involved in attacking U.S. forces in the region were also &#8220;Iran-aligned.&#8221;
&#8220;Let me be clear – the President and I will not hesitate to take necessary action to defend the United States, our troops, and our interests,&#8221; Austin said. &#8220;There is no higher priority. While we do not seek to escalate conflict in the region, we are committed and fully prepared to take further necessary measures to protect our people and our facilities.&#8221;

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Law enforcement officials in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/germany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Germany</a> and Austria arrested multiple suspected Islamic terrorists this week who were allegedly planning terrorist attacks on Christmas or New Year&#8217;s Eve.
The <a href="https://www.jpost.com/international/article-779351" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the German publication Bild said that several suspects were arrested in the Ottakring district of Vienna and that another was arrested in Saarland, Germany.
The report said that the suspected terrorists were Tajiks who were connected to the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, also known as ISIS-K.
Police in Vienna said that there was an &#8220;increased terror alert level&#8221; as Islamic terrorists &#8220;across Europe are calling for attacks on Christian events &#8211; especially around December 24th.&#8221;
&#8220;The security authorities have increased the corresponding protective measures in public spaces in Vienna and the federal states,&#8221; the police added, noting that they would be increasing their presence and at religious events to deter any attacks.
In Vienna, St. Stephen&#8217;s Cathedral was at high risk for an attack while German officials were so concerned about an attack at Cologne Cathedral, they swept the building looking for explosives.
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The Cologne Police said that they were taking &#8220;special protective measures&#8221; to prevent Islamic terrorist attacks, but they did not disclose details about what they were going to do so that terrorists could not adjust any plans they may have.
&#8220;We will take everything into account this evening to ensure the safety of cathedral visitors on Christmas Eve,&#8221; said Chief of Cologne Police, Michael Esser. &#8220;In coordination with the security officer of the cathedral chapter, the cathedral is searched with sniffer dogs after the evening mass and then locked. Tomorrow all visitors will be screened before entering the church.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-suspected-islamic-terrorists-arrested-in-france-after-planning-attack-on-christmas-market-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5 Suspected Islamic Terrorists Arrested In France After Planning Attack On Christmas Market</a>

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Several Muslim men were arrested in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/france" target="_blank" rel="noopener">France</a> late this week after law enforcement officials, who had been investigating the men for criminal terrorist associations, discovered that they were scouting out a Christmas market.
Five men between the ages of 20 and 23 were arrested on Friday in Meurthe-et-Mosell following the terrorism investigation by French intelligence services, who were surveilling the men, according to <a href="https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/meurthe-et-moselle-cinq-personnes-interpellees-dans-une-operation-antiterroriste-22-12-2023-PXR6KRIZBZEGHBH7VFZSQGRPFY.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Le Parisien</a>.
The suspected Islamic terrorists carried out reconnaissance on Strasbourg Christmas market, officials said. Police said that the arrests came after &#8220;worrying elements&#8221; were discovered. During a raid connected to the investigation, officials discovered a video filmed at the market where one of the suspects reportedly said, “And there, we shoot.&#8221;
Law enforcement told French media that the men belonged to the Salafist movement, a sect of Sunni Islam that numerous Islamic terrorist groups subscribe to, including Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, and Al-Shabaab.
Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin called on the country to “maintain extreme vigilance” during the Christmas season due to the “very high level of terrorist threat” posed by Islamic terrorists in the country as France has the largest Muslim population in all of Europe.
Last week, seven people were arrested in Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands for allegedly planning terror attacks against Jews.
German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/multiple-hamas-terrorists-arrested-in-europe-for-planning-terror-attacks-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement that German law enforcement “in cooperation with Dutch authorities, (on Thursday) arrested four members of Hamas who were planning attacks on Jewish institutions in Europe.”
“Abdelhamid Al A., Mohamed B., Ibrahim El-R. and Nazih R. have been longstanding members of HAMAS and have participated in HAMAS operations abroad,” prosecutors <a href="https://www.generalbundesanwalt.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/aktuelle/Pressemitteilung-vom-14-12-2023-Nr-57-Englisch.html?nn=677796" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. “They are closely linked to the military branch’s leadership.”
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Three of the suspects were arrested in Germany, while another was arrested in the Netherlands. Three additional suspects were arrested in Denmark on terrorism-related charges, but it was not clear if they were connected to the other four suspects.
“On behalf of HAMAS, Abdelhamid Al A. started searching for an underground weapons cache in Europe no later than spring 2023, which the organisation had created in the past in a conspiratorial manner,” prosecutors said. “He received his orders from HAMAS leaders in Lebanon. The weapons were due to be taken to Berlin and kept in a state of readiness in view of potential terrorist attacks against Jewish institutions in Europe. In October 2023, Abdelhamid Al A., Mohamed B. and Nazih R. travelled repeatedly from Berlin to look for the weapons, with Ibrahim El-R. providing assistance.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hundreds-of-hamas-terrorists-believed-to-be-living-in-germany-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hundreds Of Hamas Terrorists Believed To Be Living In Germany</a>

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5 Suspected Islamic Terrorists Arrested In France After Planning Attack On Christmas Market: Report

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U.S. forces killed a senior leader of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/somalia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Somalia&#8217;s</a> Islamic terrorist group al-Shabaab this week who was believed to be responsible for planning attacks that resulted in the deaths of well over 100 people, including Americans.
A U.S. Special Operations drone strike killed Maalim Ayman on Sunday in an operation conducted in coordination with the Somali national army, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/world/africa/somalia-shabab-maalim-ayman-killed.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
Officials said that he was responsible for the January 5, 2020, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-islamic-terrorist-group-attacks-base-used-by-u-s-forces-in-africa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">terror attack</a> on a military base in Manda Bay, Kenya. Three Americans, two contractors and one soldier, were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-americans-killed-in-terror-attack-on-african-military-base-rockets-fired-at-u-s-embassy-in-iraq?%3Futm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> in the attack, and six U.S. aircraft were destroyed.
The strike was carried out near Jilib, Somalia. U.S. Africa Command said in a statement: &#8220;The command’s initial assessment is that one al-Shabaab militant was killed in the strike and that there were no civilian casualties.&#8221;
&#8220;This is another step to defeat the terrorist group that undermines Somalia’s peace and development,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;Al-Shabaab is the largest and most kinetically active al-Qaeda network in the world and has proved both its will and capability to attack U.S. forces and threaten U.S. security interests. U.S. Africa Command, alongside its partners, continues to take action to prevent this malicious terrorist group from planning and conducting attacks on civilians.&#8221;
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The news comes as the Biden administration finally <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-finally-does-bare-minimum-to-address-houthi-attacks-in-red-sea" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to dozens of attacks against commercial cargo ships in the region this week by announcing an international coalition to combat the attacks from the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists.
The administration unveiled “the establishment of Operation Prosperity Guardian, an important new multinational security initiative under the umbrella of the Combined Maritime Forces and the leadership of its Task Force 153, which focuses on security in the Red Sea.”
Operation Prosperity Guardian is comprised of 20 countries combining forces to ensure safety in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, including the U.S., United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, Greece, Australia, and Spain. Other countries that were participating in the operation asked to not be identified, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us-red-sea-taskforce-gets-limited-backing-some-allies-2023-12-20/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>.
Biden has repeatedly refused to launch strikes against the Houthis, even though some of their attacks appear to have targeted U.S. destroyers operating in the area. Biden’s lack of action has frustrated many of his top military officials who say that he has done nothing to establish deterrence as he does not want to risk upsetting Iran.
The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-ship-attacks-bp-yemen-houthis-dcece18717aa59648ff9a6b04fbc798c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the attacks have upended global commerce as some of the world’s largest shipping companies and oil producers have had to reroute their ships, taking significantly longer routes that can delay shipments by weeks and drive up costs for consumers.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/turkey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Turkish</a> lawmaker collapsed on Tuesday immediately after declaring that Israel cannot &#8220;escape the wrath of God.&#8221;
Video from the Turkish Grand National Assembly showed Saadet Party Kocaeli Deputy Hasan Bitmez, 53, giving a speech before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when he collapsed.
&#8220;Even if history remains silent, the truth will not remain silent. They think that if they get rid of us, there will be no problem,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjyxwblip" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a translation of his speech. &#8220;However, if you get rid of us, you will not be able to escape the torment of conscience. Even if you escape the torment of history, you will not be able to escape the wrath of God.&#8221;
Immediately after making the remarks he turned and collapsed onto the floor as people rushed in to help him.
Turkish officials later said that &#8220;during angiography, it was seen that two main veins were completely blocked, and after the intervention did not yield any results, he was connected to a heart-lung pump.&#8221;
&#8220;He is now vital with a heart-lung pump,&#8221; they added.
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Turkish parliament member Hasan Bismet strongly condemned Israel, shouting that it will &quot;suffer the wrath of Allah&quot;. Moments later Bismet suffered a heart attack and collapsed. <a href="https://t.co/lDxYhAZ0CH">pic.twitter.com/lDxYhAZ0CH</a>
&mdash; Ariel Oseran (@ariel_oseran) <a href="https://twitter.com/ariel_oseran/status/1734581690910056652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Turkish Lawmaker Declares Israel Cannot 'Escape The Wrath Of God,' Instantly Collapses From Heart Attack

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Yesterday, tape broke of Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, openly celebrating the October 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israelis — the worst terror attack in the West since September 11.
“I was happy to see people breaking the siege,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1732712958281629864" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proclaimed:</a>
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CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad at AMP Convention: I Was Happy to See the People of Gaza Break the Siege on October 7; They Were Victorious; the People of Gaza Have the Right to Self-Defense &#8211; Israel Does Not <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hamas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hamas</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestinians?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestinians</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CAIRNational?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CAIRNational</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NihadAwad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NihadAwad</a> <a href="https://t.co/WDbSRjFJo0">pic.twitter.com/WDbSRjFJo0</a>
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Awad’s words were perfectly in line with CAIR’s generalized anti-Semitism and radicalism. 
On October 7, the date of the Hamas massacre, CAIR National <a href="https://twitter.com/CAIRNational/status/1710758201358966893" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>: 
<blockquote>We join @USCMO and the American Muslim community in reaffirming our support for the Palestinian people’s right to freedom and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation, which … sparks the deadly violence that we see again and again, including today.</blockquote>
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We join <a href="https://twitter.com/USCMO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USCMO</a> and the American Muslim community in reaffirming our support for the Palestinian people&#39;s right to freedom and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation, which kills hundreds of Palestinian civilians every year, subjects millions of Palestinians to racist… <a href="https://t.co/eW4waBJGc2">pic.twitter.com/eW4waBJGc2</a>
&mdash; CAIR National (@CAIRNational) <a href="https://twitter.com/CAIRNational/status/1710758201358966893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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On October 7, before any Israeli response, they also called for an end to American aid to Israel and the Abraham Accords. The group has not offered a single word condemning Hamas.
Yet CAIR remains a go-to organization for the media and Democrats in politics. In May, in an attempt to counter accusations of anti-Semitism from inside the Democratic Party, the White House organized a National Strategy to Counter Anti-Semitism. That strategy included a group dedicated to “cross-community” solidarity — and that group included CAIR, which the White House <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-biden-administrations-commitment-to-comprehensive-approach-to-combating-antisemitism-islamophobia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> would launch a tour: 
<blockquote>&#8230;to educate religious minority communities about steps they can take to protect their houses of worship from hate incidents, such as appropriate security measures, developing strong relationships with other faith communities, and maintaining open lines of communication with local law enforcement.</blockquote>
Why was CAIR included in this enterprise? To support the intersectional coalition the Biden administration has attempted to build. The Jews don’t truly fit in that intersectional coalition, of course. They don’t fit comfortably in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kill-dei-to-fight-anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the oppressor-oppressed matrix</a> that underscores the coalition because Jews are both highly targeted and also highly-successful.
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But the Left likes the pretense that Jews belong in the coalition.
CAIR is the price of Jewish belonging: Since there is no substitute for CAIR in that organizational coalition, Jewish groups are expected to swallow hard and pretend CAIR is legitimate.
Tablet Magazine’s Armin Rosen has written on this topic, <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/biden-antisemitism-strategy-cair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>: 
<blockquote>The ADL and CAIR might not get along, but they are protected by the same dynamic: They both provide a nearly identical service to the same larger coalition, which returns the favor by keeping both groups at a level of prominence that crowds out any potential rivals.</blockquote>
That’s the Biden administration’s program: Activate the coalition of the oppressed at all costs. That means covering up radical Muslim hatred for Jews — and that means including radical Muslims in the program to fight anti-Semitism.
At least, that was the plan. Biden Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt admitted CAIR was problematic, but <a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-745971" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they could be included in the White House working group on anti-Semitism because: “If they’re really willing to change, if they’re really willing to say, ‘Hey, we now see this is a serious problem,’ then they are welcome.”
But, of course, CAIR wasn’t willing to change.
That was obvious.
To actively oppose Hamas would violate CAIR’s raison d’être.
The roots of CAIR are fascinating and frightening. As prosecutor Andy McCarthy writes about in his book, “The Grand Jihad,” Hamas supporters gathered at a Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia on October 27, 1993, with the intent of creating a new public relations organization in the United States. Those Hamas supporters included one Omar Ahmad, president of the Islamic Association for Palestine; concerned about being recorded, Ahmad referred to himself as “Omar Yahya” and referred to “Samah” instead of “Hamas” — “Samah” is “Hamas” backwards, of course. Ahmad, at the meeting, said it would be worthwhile to lie about the agenda, that the new organization could not admit “We represent Samah” or that “Ahmed Yassin,” the head of Hamas, “represents me.”
Awad, who was at the time the PR director for IAP, was at the conference too. There, according to McCarthy, he was an active participant in the meetings, where he agreed with Ahmad about adopting lying to Americans: “When I speak with the American,” he said, “I speak with someone who doesn’t know anything. As for the Palestinian who has a martyr brother or something, I know how to address him, you see?”
Less than a year later, CAIR was born. CAIR was linked with the Holy Land Foundation and the Muslim Brotherhood from its foundations. Daniel Pipes elaborated on the creation of CAIR in a National Review article, <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/11/cair-terror-group-daniel-pipes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, 
<blockquote>Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and many other governments, indirectly created CAIR and the two groups remain tight. Examples: In 1994, CAIR head Nihad Awad publicly declared his support for Hamas; the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), a Hamas front group, contributed $5,000 to CAIR; in turn, CAIR exploited the 9/11 attacks to raise money for HLF.</blockquote>
Multiple board members and staff at CAIR have been arrested or denied entry to the United States or were indicted on and pled guilty to terrorism charges. CAIR defended the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, calling their convictions a “travesty of justice,” did not condemn Osama Bin Laden for September 11 until Bin Laden himself claimed the crime, opposed the deportation of terrorist Rasmea Odeh, and steadfastly tied virtually all anti-terror efforts to phantom “Islamophobia.”
In 2008, the FBI cut off relations with CAIR.
But under Democrats, the American government has never been willing to let go of the illusion that CAIR represents a crucial part of the intersectional coalition. In 2011, the Obama Justice Department declined to prosecute CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmad; Ahmad worked closely with the Holy Land Foundation, as well as the Islamic Association of Palestine. That declination to prosecute came despite the fact both Attorney General Eric Holder and then-FBI Director Robert Mueller had serious reservations about CAIR. Reporter Patrick Poole <a href="https://pjmedia.com/patrick-poole/2011/04/14/did-obama-and-holder-scuttle-terror-finance-prosecutions-n11596" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on the indictments, saying they “were scuttled last year at the direction of top-level political appointees within the Department of Justice (DOJ) — and possibly even the White House.”
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The Trump administration cut off relations with CAIR. But under the Biden administration, CAIR returned to prominence.
Nihad Awad has spent years being feted by the media because the Left-wing media require a Muslim organization within the intersectional coalition, no matter how extreme. Thus, Awad is welcomed to national television to pretend at moderation, even while he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JipwLrSn4PM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spouts</a> Hamas talking points. 
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Now, of course, we’ve heard the radicalism from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. The question is whether the Left will be willing, this time, to admit what is plain: that CAIR is a radical Islamist organization.
Don’t hold your breath.

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Law enforcement officials in the state of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nevada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nevada</a> thwarted an Islamic terrorist attack late last week involving a teenager who said he was targeting &#8220;zionists.&#8221;
The foiled attack comes amid a spike in anti-Semitic attacks across the U.S. and the rest of the world following Hamas&#8217; terrorist attack on Israel on October 7.
The 16-year-old said &#8220;he was planning an attack in Las Vegas in furtherance to support the Islamic State terrorist organization, also known as ISIS,&#8221; the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department <a href="https://www.lvmpd.com/en-us/Press%20Releases/PO%20205%2012-1-23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;LVMPD SWAT served the warrant, and the suspect was taken into custody without incident.&#8221;
During the search of the suspect&#8217;s home, police recovered &#8220;numerous items of concern to include terrorism propaganda and indications that the suspect intended to commit an act of terrorism, including instructions and components for building an explosive device.&#8221;
The suspect, who was not named due to his age, was charged on multiple felony counts, including: Terroristic Threats; Attempt to Further an Act of Terrorism; Providing Material Support to a Terrorist, Terrorist Organization, and/or Act of Terrorism; and five counts of Possession of Explosive Components.
During a press conference, officials showed a screenshot of the threat that the suspect posted to social media: “Peace be upon all brothers who see this. I am here to announce that I will be starting lone wolf operations in Las Vegas against the enemies of Allah. I ask you to make Dua for victory. I am a supporter of the Islamic State, and I will make sure the zionists in this city know it.”
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Police found an ISIS flag, ISIS patches, and an ISIS headband at the residence, as well as ISIS and Al-Qaeda propaganda. The suspect was described as a recent convert to Islam.
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Las Vegas Police, FBI Foil ISIS Terrorist Attack Against ‘Zionists’

Las Vegas Police, FBI Foil ISIS Terrorist Attack Against 'Zionists'

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