...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
ordered suspects to take action against Swedish and Dutch missions, Jewish and Christian houses of worship
Istanbul police have arrested 15 suspects connected to the Islamic State terror group, who were allegedly plotting to target synagogues and churches there,
"15 people were detained on the grounds that the so-called Khorasan Province leadership of ISIS [IS] ordered an action against the Swedish and Dutch consulate generals and places of worship belonging to our Christian and Jewish citizens in Istanbul," Istanbul police said in a statement according to the
Last month, the US state department issued a warning to US citizens residing in
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...that terror attacks could be imminent against diplomatic institutions and places Westerners are known to congregate, specifically naming churches and synagogues.
The potential attacks were believed to be retaliation for the public burning of a Koran by a far-right Danish politician outside of the
...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship....
sparked an outcry in Turkey and across the Islamic world, and a Moslem man threatened to burn a Torah scroll outside of Stockholm’s Israeli embassy.
Sweden’s Jewish community condemned the Koran burning.
The suspects arrested Sunday were allegedly affiliated with the "Khorasan" wing of the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS-K, who have warred with the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
in Afghanistan. They are focused on Khorasan, a region that historically covered the eastern frontier of the ancient Persian Empire.