Rilek1Corner

Tag: extremists

  • Body Of Singaporean Fighter Believed To Have Been Recovered In Marawi

    Body Of Singaporean Fighter Believed To Have Been Recovered In Marawi

    MANILA: The Philippine military has recovered what they believe to be the body of a Singaporean fighter in the besieged city of Marawi.

    According to the Marawi joint task force on Tuesday (Jul 4), the Singaporean is believed to be among 11 suspected foreign fighters who have been killed so far as Philippine troops battle to regain control of militant-held areas of the city.

    Fighters from Malaysian, Indonesia, Yemen and India were among the bodies recovered, said the joint task force, adding that it has not yet completed the identification process.

    “A cadaver of a foreign-looking individual was also recovered by troops. It is believed that it is one of the reported foreign fighters from Singapore,” the military was quoted saying in local media reports.

    Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs had in May confirmed that a Singaporean man has been implicated in terrorism-related activities in the southern Philippines, but said it has no information about whether he is involved in the armed insurgency in Marawi city on Mindanao island.

    The southern region of Mindanao has been under martial law since May 23, after hundreds of gunmen waving black Islamic State flags occupied parts of Marawi city and triggered deadly clashes that have yet to end.

    More than 400 people, including 337 militants and 85 members of the security forces, have been killed in the fighting in Marawi. Forty-four civilians have also been killed, either in crossfire or executed by the militants, the military said.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

  • Gunmen Open Fire On Muslims Outside French Mosque, Eight Injured

    Gunmen Open Fire On Muslims Outside French Mosque, Eight Injured

    Two gunmen injured eight people after opening fire on a group of Muslims outside of a French mosque Sunday.

    The group was exiting the house of worship in the southern French city of Avignon at about 10:30 p.m. when the gunmen, who were reportedly wearing masks, opened fire.

    Two of the eight wounded were hospitalized after the incident, according to the source, who also said that worshipers leaving the mosque had not been the intended target.

    Sources told Reuters the gunmen were trying to settle a score with someone else, and a judicial source told the La Provence regional newspaper that officials are “not at all treating it as terrorist related” and instead suspect it stemmed from a dispute between youths.

    Four people were wounded outside the mosque while a family of four in their apartment about 50 yards away took shrapnel, La Provence said.

    Police arrested a man in the Paris suburb of Creteil last week after he tried to drive car into a crowd in front of a mosque.

     

    Source: https://nypost.com

  • Indonesia Says Seized Islamic State Propaganda Books Likely Used By Children

    Indonesia Says Seized Islamic State Propaganda Books Likely Used By Children

    JAKARTA – Indonesian police displayed on Friday scores of notebooks inscribed with Islamic State propaganda seized during a raid on the home of suspected militant and said some appeared to have been used by children.

    Police found hundreds of notebooks containing Islamic State propaganda in Indonesia during the raid in connection with the stabbing death of a policeman in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra province on June 25.

    At the top of every page of the books read the inscription: “You are all obliged to go to war”.

    Authorities believe Islamic State has thousands of sympathizers in Indonesia and are increasingly worried about the group trying to get a foothold in Southeast Asia as it loses territory in the Middle East.

    “We’re still investigating who funded the printing of these books,” police spokesman Rikwanto told a news conference.

    The material was displayed at the national police headquarters, alongside an air gun and other items.

    The front covers of the notebooks had a picture of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and quotes attributed to him as made at Friday prayer,

    “Tell all the apostates in the Muslim countries, these are their last days. And tell every infidel, we’re not playing anymore,” a quote attributed to Baghdadi read.

     

    Children’s handwriting was found in some of the books, including notes about the solar system, which police said could mean the books had been used by children to take notes in school.

    Police believe the men were part of Jemaah Ansharut Daulah, an umbrella organization on a U.S. State Department “terrorist” list which supports Islamic State and has hundreds of Indonesian followers.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

  • On Islamophobia In Singapore: Non-Muslims Must Acknowledge Issue, Educate Themselves, Authorities Must Take Stronger Action Against Islamophobes

    On Islamophobia In Singapore: Non-Muslims Must Acknowledge Issue, Educate Themselves, Authorities Must Take Stronger Action Against Islamophobes

    My dear non-Muslims, saying that Islamophobia doesn’t exist in our country, is ironically similar to the Chinese claiming that racism and discrimination towards minority races doesn’t exist.

    Don’t tell us to condemn these hineous acts, because we have always stood up as one community against it.

    Don’t tell us to “reform” our “backwards” religion by cherry picking “controversial verses” when you probably don’t know anything about it.

    Don’t tell us that our religion is barbaric and incites violence when all the information you get is from islamophobic websites.

    Don’t tell us that we hate the “kafirs” and “infidels” when most of the attacks happen on Muslim countries and holy sites, with victims of such attacks being majority Muslims.

    Don’t you see that you’re not helping, but instead, fuelling the fire of islamophobia in Singapore?

    And don’t tell me that Islamophobia doesn’t exist nor is it a problem.

    Enough is enough. We, the Muslims, have been victimized even more so in this entire process. If you don’t have anything better to say, keep your damn mouths shut instead of worsening the situation.

    I have yet to see any actions taken by the authorities other than the usual “we should not allow this to happen” bla bla, saying things just for the sake of saying it. What’s the point? It clearly is happening and has been going on for the past few years.

    Hoping that the ISA could be applied to those individuals who promote Islamophobia and bad mouthing other religions, just as how the ISD were swift to suddenly apprehend radicalised individuals.

    Sigh. Don’t kecoh-kecoh lah please, we just want to raya..

     

    Source: Ahmad Bin Osman

  • Maliki Osman: No Room For Islamophobia In Singapore

    Maliki Osman: No Room For Islamophobia In Singapore

    There is no place for Islamophobia or any similar attitude against other religions here, as this would harm the social cohesion Singapore has built up over the years, said Senior Minister of State for Defence and Foreign Affairs Maliki Osman.

    He related a recent incident yesterday to illustrate how Islamophobia has crept into the community here, in a climate where acts of terrorism and extremism make headlines regularly.

    A few weeks ago, a Malay pest controller checking for mosquitoes outside a home was shooed away by a Chinese resident who suggested he could be a terrorist, he said.

    “He tried to explain that he was just trying to do his job, and she (said) ‘no, no, no, I hear so much things about terrorism and terrorists, you better go’,” said Dr Maliki, adding that the incident shocked and saddened him.

    “The last thing we want is incidents like this where the inter-ethnic cohesion that we have built for so long, is divided by people who have the wrong understanding of the Muslim community,” he said.

    He urged people who know of such incidents to come forward, as such views cannot be allowed to “take root in the minds of Singaporeans”.

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg