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Former ISIS Hostage: French Journalist Nicolas Henin

Read the Mail Online article here | Friday, October 17, 2014

Living Next Door to ISIS

Deutschland kämpft mit radikalen Islamisten im eigenen Land

Vor allem in einem Bundesland werben salafistische Gruppen Jugendliche an – auch ganz gezielt für den IS. Rund 400 Deutsche sind bereits nach Syrien und in andere Länder gezogen, um mit IS-Milizen in den Kampf zu ziehen. SRF-Korrespondent Adrian Arnold hat sich umgesehen.

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Ray Cole: My Time in a Moroccan Jail for Being Gay Was 'Hell on Earth'

69-year-old Ray Cole was four weeks into a holiday in Morocco when he was charged with breaking the country's strict anti-gay laws. A local man, Jamal, with whom he'd struck up a relationship, was also arrested and both men were thrown in jail. Having spent 19 days in an overcrowded cell, Cole was eventually released following a high-profile campaign by his family, but he remains haunted by his ordeal. Now he has begun a campaign to be reunited with Jamal, who may be eligible to claim asylum in the UK
Watch the video here | Thursday, October 16, 2014

Queen Rania: Extremism Is Everyone’s Battle

Read the Telegraph article here | Thursday, October 16, 2014

John Cantlie: Lend Me Your Ears

Read the Telegraph article here | Thursday, October 16, 2014

New Dark Age Alert! British Jihadi Taunts The West: 'We Will Kill Every Soldier You Send'

Sam Harris Defends Assertion That ‘Islam Is the Motherlode of Bad Ideas’

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Now ISIS Boasts About Invading the Vatican: Propaganda Magazine Says Terrorists Will 'Conquer' Rome and 'Break Your Crosses'

MAIL ONLINE: ISIS publishes picture in Dabiq of their black flag flying above the Vatican / Militants' flag superimposed in magazine on obelisk in St Peter’s Square / Its article also urges Muslims to attack and kill 'every Crusader possible'

Islamic State jihadis today issued a clear threat to the heart of Christianity, as they published an image of their black flag flying above the Vatican.

In a picture on the cover of their official magazine showing a mock-up of Caliphate-controlled Rome, the militants’ flag is superimposed on the obelisk in St Peter’s Square.

It is the front cover of the fourth edition of the ISIS online propaganda magazine Dabiq, which calls in its latest issue for a war against the Catholic Church.

While the headline reads The Failed Crusade, the article threatens to ‘conquer’ Rome and ‘break your crosses’.

The article in Dabiq - named after a town in northern Syria where in 1516 the Ottomans defeated the Mamluks, establishing the last Islamic caliphate - also urged faithful Muslims to attack and kill ‘every Crusader possible’.

It added that ‘it is lawful to kidnap the women of the infidels and use them as sex slaves’. » | Hannah Roberts for MailOnline in Rome | Monday, October 13, 2014

John Cantlie's Sister Appeals to Isil to Communicate with His Family

Jessica Cantlie, the sister of British journalist John Cantlie who is being held hostage by the Islamic State (IS), has urged the terror group to "restart dialogue" with his family

Read the Telegraph article here | Telegraph Video, and PA, video source APTN | Monday, October 13, 2014

Inside an Isil Training Camp in 60 Seconds

With up to 500 British jihadis feared to have joined the ranks of the Islamic State in Syria, this video shows the brutal initiation many will have undergone

Read more here | Sunday, October 12, 2014

In Britain, Islamist Extremist Anjem Choudary Proves Elusive

THE WASHINGTON POST: LONDON — As British war planes arc through Middle Eastern skies and security services race to unravel terrorist plots at home, the nation’s most prominent propagandist for the Islamic State sits in a London sweets shop, laying out his radical vision in between bites of dessert.

Iraq and Syria, Anjem Choudary says confidently, are only the beginning. The Islamic State’s signature black flag will fly over 10 Downing Street, not to mention the White House. And it won’t happen peacefully, but only after a great battle that is now underway.

“We believe there will be complete domination of the world by Islam,” says the 47-year-old, calmly sipping tea and looking none the worse for having been swept up in a police raid just days earlier. “That may sound like some kind of James Bond movie — you know, Dr. No and world domination and all that. But we believe it.”

With such grandiose proclamations, it is tempting to dismiss Choudary as a cartoonish hate preacher straight out of central casting. Many do. But harder to ignore is his record of inspiring impressionable young men to carry out violence in the name of Islam — both in Britain and overseas. » | Griff Witte | Saturday, October 11, 2014

Iraq Asks for US Ground Troops as Isil Threaten Baghdad

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Islamic State jihadists move within eight miles of the Iraqi capital, sparking calls for America to return to the country

Iraqi officials have issued a desperate plea for America to bring US ground troops back to the embattled country, as heavily armed Islamic State militants came within striking distance of Baghdad.

Amid reports that Isil forces have advanced as far as Abu Ghraib, a town that is effectively a suburb of Baghdad, a senior governor claimed up to 10,000 fighters from the movement were now poised to assault the capital. » | Alastair Beach | Saturday, October 11, 2014

Army Chiefs Tell Government: Stop Gulf States Funding Terrorism

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Government urged to put pressure on Gulf leaders into tackling extremism by strangling the funding of terrorist networks and the religious ideology that fuels them

Pressure is mounting on the Government to take action against wealthy Gulf states accused of funding Islamist terrorism after the beheading of Alan Henning, the British aid worker kidnapped in Syria.

Two retired generals and a former defence secretary claimed that nations such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia were helping the rise of violent extremism by channelling cash to terrorist groups such as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil), which carried out Mr Henning’s murder.

The trio of senior military figures said air strikes against Isil were insufficient to defeat the terrorist threat. Instead, they called on the Government to pressure Gulf leaders into tackling extremism by strangling the funding of terrorist networks and the religious ideology that fuels them.

Investigations by The Telegraph suggest that tens of millions of pounds have been raised for Isil — and al-Qaeda — by wealthy individuals in the Gulf region while its leaders have “turned a blind eye” to the problem or been complicit in funding certain groups. » | Robert Mendick, Tim Ross and Patrick Sawer | Saturday, October 04, 2014 [?]

Inside ISIS' Threat to Baghdad

Oct. 10, 2014 - 3:33 - ISIS has shoulder-fired missiles and has shot down Iraqi helicopters. Why Baghdad is in potential peril

Austria Teenage Girl Jihadis 'Want to Come Home’ from Isil

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Two Austrian teenagers who moved to Syria to form relationships with Islamic State jihadists are pregnant and have told their families they want to return home

Samra Kesinovic, 17, and Sabina Selimovic, 15, had been dubbed poster girls for the jihadist groups after fleeing to Raqqa in central Syria. They have since married foreign fighters in the city and become pregnant.

But the city’s strict Islamic lifestyle has turned sour for the girls, who want to return to Europe.

They have contacted their loved ones and told them they are sick of living with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) jihadis.

But they also said they don’t feel they can flee from their unwanted new life because too many people now associate them with Isil.

Austrian officials have said the girls have discussed going back home but that the country’s current laws were blocking their return. » | Damien McElroy | Friday, October 10, 2014

Salman Rushdie Condemns 'Hate-filled Rhetoric' of Islamic Fanaticism

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Salman Rushdie says all religions have their extremists but "the overwhelming weight of the problem lies in the world of Islam"

Accusations of 'Islamophobia' are being levelled at anyone who dares to speak out against the "hate-filled rhetoric" of Islamic fanaticism, Salman Rushdie has claimed in a speech condemning Isil and "this new age of religious mayhem".

Rushdie voiced his fears that the language of "jihadi-cool" is seducing young British Muslims, many via Twitter and YouTube, into joining the "decapitating barbarianism" of Isil, the group also referred to as Islamic State or Isis.

In his PEN/Pinter Prize Lecture, the author said all religions have their extremists but "the overwhelming weight of the problem lies in the world of Islam". » | Anita Singh, Arts and Entertainment Editor | Thursday, October 09, 2014

Isil Hostage Peter Kassig 'Is Now Devout Muslim Who Prays Five Times a Day', Says Ex-captive

Nicolas Henin, a former cellmate of Peter Kassig and John Cantlie, reveals intimate details of their lives as hostages of Islamic State

Read the Telegraph article here | Ruth Sherlock, Paris | Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Moazzam Begg: Government Rejected My Help to Free Alan Henning