Yesterday, Ahmad ‘Ashush published a fatwa on the jihadist forums where he “decrees and calls on all Muslim youth in America and in Europa to fulfill this inescapable obligation. Namely, to kill the director, producer and the actors and anyone who helped to promote this film.” The fatwa was published by the relatively new al-Bayan [...]
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Fatwa calling for the death of the director, producer, and actors involved in making the film “Innocence of Muslims”
Posted: 18th September 2012 by Nico Prucha in Egypt, Europe, Germany, Indoctrination, Jihad culture, USA4
Justifiying Martyrdom in German
Posted: 21st May 2010 by Nico Prucha in Afghanistan, Converts, Germany, Suicide bombingsEditor’s note: I am glad to introduce Nico Prucha as a new regular contributor to Jihadica. Nico is an German Arabist who has followed the jihadi Internet for a long time and has written several articles on the topic for Jane’s and other publications.] In mid-April Elif Medya published a 30-page document in German justifying [...]
Guest Post: The Story of Eric Breininger
Posted: 11th May 2010 by Thomas Hegghammer in Afghanistan, Germany, training camps, Travel Routes[Editor's note: This post was written by Christopher Radler and Behnam Said, who are intelligence analysts based in Hamburg, Germany. For links to the original document, see the comments to the preview post.] On 3 May a message announcing the death of Eric Breininger (b. 3 August 1987) and three of his fellow combatants was [...]
Preview: Autobiography of a German Jihadist
Posted: 5th May 2010 by Thomas Hegghammer in Afghanistan, Converts, Germany, PakistanThe memoirs of Erik Breininger, the German jihadist who was allegedly recently killed in Waziristan, have reportedly appeared online. I haven’t seen them myself yet, but if their authenticity can be established, we are dealing with an extremely valuable document. Jihadica will bring you more details soon.
The al-Qaida media offensive against Germany earlier this fall turned out to be just a scare. But at a recent conference, German authorities said there was more to the threat than the September statements. Peter Neumann has interesting details over at FREEradicals.
Fizazi Letter Published
Posted: 29th October 2009 by Thomas Hegghammer in Germany, Morocco, RetractionsDer Spiegel has just published a full version of Fizazi’s letter, as well as a good article by Yasin Musharbash and Andreas Ulrich. Upon reading the letter it seems to me that Fizazi is speaking primarily about terrorism in Germany and by extension about terrorism in Europe. His statements do not amount to a renunciation [...]
Fizazi Joining Recantation Club?
Posted: 26th October 2009 by Thomas Hegghammer in Germany, Morocco, RetractionsDer Spiegel reports that the imprisoned Moroccan scholar Muhammad Fizazi has issued a letter to Muslims in Germany declaring Germany “not a battle zone”. The letter, which was allegedly issued on 21 July, has not yet been made public. Without knowing the precise content, it is difficult to assess its importance. We don’t know whether [...]
The Mou10ra11bitt18oun25 Code
Posted: 8th October 2009 by Scott Sanford in Better Know a Forum, GermanyOn 3 October 2009, “Mou10ra11bitt18oun25″ (sic), a “new member” on the Faloja Forums, posted a statement reiterating the threat of an al-Qaida attack on Germany. He claimed that the attack will occur on a Sunday in October stating, “After we [al-Qaida] chose Thursday for London, Tuesday for New York and Washington, and Tuesday for Madrid, [...]
Al-Qaida and the German Elections
Posted: 25th September 2009 by Thomas Hegghammer in Bin Laden, Germany, StrategyUsama Bin Ladin has just released a new audio statement to the European peoples. It is relatively short (under 5 minutes) and basically tells the Europeans to get out of Afghanistan. The statement is subtitled in German and is clearly timed to coincide with the German elections this coming Sunday. Bin Ladin’s statement comes in [...]
Are the Uzbeks Going Global?
Posted: 17th June 2009 by Einar Wigen in Afghanistan, Germany, Jihadi media, Pakistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan[Editor’s note: I am thrilled to introduce Einar Wigen, author of the recent FFI report on the IJU, as a guest contributor. Einar interned at FFI last summer and is currently a a student fellow at the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI). A fluent Turkish speaker, Einar specialises in jihadism among the Turkics. Not [...]