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Italy: 40 Muslim migrants engage in ‘Islamic ritual’ of mass sexual molestation on New Year’s Eve

JAN 13, 2025 1:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER

The whole world is talking about this happening in Britain now, but not about how it also happens elsewhere. And why? Yes, sexual molestation happens all over. But we see Muslim migrants involved in this kind of story is seen on a not infrequent basis. Why? One reason may be because such treatment of infidel women is sanctioned in the Qur’an.

In France, a Muslim quoted Qur’an while raping his victim. A survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK has said that her rapists would quote the Qur’an to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam. Thus it came as no surprise when Muslim migrants in France raped a girl and videoed the rape while praising Allah and invoking the Qur’an. In India, a Muslim gave a Qur’an and a prayer rug to the woman he was holding captive and repeatedly raping. And the victim of an Islamic State jihadi rapist recalled: “He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God…He said that raping me is his prayer to God.” In India, a Muslim kidnapped and raped a 14-year-old Hindu girl, and forced her to read the Qur’an and Islamic prayers. In Pakistan, another Christian woman recounted that her rapist was also religious: “He threw me on the bed and started to rape me. He demanded I marry him and convert to Islam. I refused. I am not willing to deny Jesus and he said that if I would not agree he would kill me.” Rapists demanded that another girl’s family turn her over to them, claiming that she had recited the Islamic profession of faith during the rape and thus could not live among infidels.

The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). The Qur’an says: “O prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their veils close around them. That will be better, so that they may be recognized and not molested. Allah is always forgiving, merciful.” (33:59) The implication there is that if women do not cover themselves adequately with their outer garments, they may be abused, and that such abuse would be justified.

“Two Britons among NYE Milan victims – media,” ANSA, January 10, 2025:

Two young British citizens were among the victims of attacks reported amid New Year’s Eve celebrations in Milan’s Piazza Duomo, including a group of friends from Belgium, Belgian newspaper Sudinfo reported on Friday.

One of the six young Belgian women from Liège who reported the alleged assault was questioned by the Italian police on Friday.

The two British nationals, “a girl and her boyfriend, met the six young people from Liège in Milan in the afternoon of December 31 and got together with them.

“The two then went to the police and filed a complaint”, reported the French-language newspaper.

Milan prosecutors have opened a probe into allegations that the six young Belgians were sexually assaulted by second-generation North African men in the northern city’s Piazza Duomo.

The reported assaults and molestation were allegedly carried out by Islamic men, some of whom also allegedly waved their national flags and disparaged Italy, according to the Italian media.

“The ‘Islamic ritual’ as in Cologne. The hypothesis of the prosecutor’s office on the violence in Piazza Duomo,” translated from “Il ‘rituale islamico’ come a Colonia. L’ipotesi della procura sulle violenze di piazza Duomo,” by Francesca Galici, Il Giornale, January 9, 2025:

The Milan prosecutor’s office is proceeding with the investigations for the sexual assaults in Piazza Duomo on New Year’s Eve against 6 Belgian tourists, 4 girls and 2 boys. According to the investigators, they could be linked to the phenomenon of “taharrush game” or “collective harassment” as a sign of contempt for women. This is one of the hypotheses currently on the table of the investigators. From the investigations there would be other people attacked.

Tomorrow, the detectives from the Flying Squad will travel to Belgium to gather the exact information on the exact location of the alleged attacks.

“The first thing I said to my best friend, who I was holding by the hand, was: ‘I’m going to die.’ I felt that something serious was about to happen. I felt really dirty, everything was beyond my control”, said the student who is acting as a spokesperson for all her friends to the cameras of Dritto e Rovescio on air this evening. “We didn’t file a complaint in Italy directly because at the time we didn’t realize the gravity of the facts. Since we had a return flight the next day, we only had one day to realize everything. We were in shock and we spent January 1st talking about it among ourselves to process it, it just didn’t occur to us,” continued the young woman.

The investigators’ hypothesis is currently only a hypothesis, which will have to be verified. There are no suspects or even identified individuals. It will be essential to view all the images, collect testimonies and, above all, hear the victims’ stories. In addition to the 6 young people, there are other people who have been harassed, as also emerges from the story of the Belgian student: “I escaped thanks to an Italian gentleman who was between 40 and 50 years old: he wanted to save his wife, who was screaming with all her strength, and he dragged me along, too.” The investigation is extremely delicate, the team in charge is the same one that also followed the case of harassment in Piazza Duomo in 2022, when there were about ten women and girls harassed, always by foreigners or second-generation individuals.

It will take weeks before reconstructing the facts and reaching some certainty. Two of the individuals identified in the square that night have already been repatriated to Tunisia, but now the prosecutor’s office is pushing for answers on the reported violence.

“Italian police investigate mass sexual molestation on New Year’s Eve,” by Nick Squires, Telegraph, January 11, 2025:

Italian authorities are investigating allegations that young women, including at least one from Britain, were molested by gangs of men carrying Palestinian and other flags on New Year’s Eve.

Six young Belgian tourists who were on holiday in Milan claim they were surrounded by a group of around 40 men and subjected to a terrifying ordeal in which the men put their hands up their skirts and tops.

The men are suspected to have molested other women, including some Italians and an unknown number of tourists from Spain and South America….

Inside terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s squalid home, where sheep and goats roam his yard — after his financial ruin

By Jennie Taer, Joe Marino and Jared Downing
Published Jan. 1, 2025
New York Post

HOUSTON — The terrorist who killed 15 people when he plowed his truck down crowded Bourbon Street in New Orleans was an American-born military veteran who was living in a run-down trailer park where he kept sheep and goats in the yard — just blocks from the local mosque.

Authorities say Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, from Houston, had an ISIS flag strapped to the rented Ford F-150 Lightning EV truck he used to carry out an act of premeditated terror on New Year’s Day.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar was a US-born military veteran who went from success to a squalid Houston trailer park where sheep roamed his yard.

He served in the Army for more than a decade and deployed to Afghanistan before he carried out his ISIS-inspired attack on Wednesday, according to his service record.

Working as an IT specialist, he was stationed in Afghanistan from February 2009 until January 2010, the service branch said in a summary of military experience.

Jabbar served active duty from March 2007 until January 2015 and was a reservist from January 2015 until July 2020.

He left the service at the rank of staff sergeant, according to the Army.

In a YouTube video he posted in 2020 for his real estate business, a clean-cut Jabbar described himself as a reliable, trustworthy native Texan who spent 10 years in the military, which taught him “the meaning of great service.”

But when he carried out the terror attack — one of the deadliest since 9/11 — Jabbar lived in a squalid trailer park on the outskirts of Houston that is home to mostly Muslim immigrants.

Geese, chickens and sheep roamed freely in Jabbar’s yard when The Post visited hours after the attack.

One neighbor told The Post she spoke only Urdu, Pakistan’s national language.

The neighborhood is also within walking distance of the local mosque, Masjid Bilal — where no one answered the telephone on Wednesday.

Law enforcement sources told The Post that they found videos Jabbar made where he referenced the Quran — Islam’s holy text.

Jabbar traveled to Egypt for 10 days last year, officials told The Post.

By mid-afternoon, the feds swooped in — kicking The Post and other journalists out of the area and cordoning it off.

Dozens of police vehicles swarmed the neighborhood, including an armored, military-style truck.

Initially, residents were allowed past the barriers, although The Post heard one agent telling a family to “take your kids and leave,” and another order of “Get your hands up!” blasted over a loudspeaker.

In brief conversations before the lockdown, his neighbors seemed to know little about him.

Francois Venegas described Jabbar as a “simple person” who kept to himself, though they would occasionally exchange words on the street.

“[He was] pretty quiet … Just walking, [he would say] ‘Hello,’ ‘Hola,’ and that was it,” Venegas said.

Jabbar had been arrested twice: once in Katy, Texas, for theft in 2002, court records show, and again three years later for driving without a valid license, the New York Times reported.

He had also been divorced twice, and the failed marriages apparently left him in financial ruin.

Jabbar’s first wife sued him for child support payments in 2012, court records show.

Amid his second divorce in 2022, he said he had racked up more than $16,000 in credit card debt paying court fees and expenses for a second home, according to an email to his ex-wife’s lawyer viewed by the Times.

“I cannot afford the house payment,” he wrote.

He added that his real estate business suffered more than $28,000 in losses the previous year.

His first wife, Nakedra Jabbar, has since remarried, and she and her new husband were cooperating with investigators, her husband’s father, Nelson Marsh Sr., told the New York Post.

New Year’s Eve sex assaults also reported in Finland, Sweden and Austria

JANUARY 8, 2016
Network writer and AFPNews Corp Australia Network

WOMEN in other European cities were the targets of sex attacks on New Year’s Eve, similar to a spate of apparently co-ordinated sexual assaults on women in Germany.

Police in the western German city of Cologne said they had received 120 criminal complaints by Thursday and quoted witnesses as saying that groups of 20-30 young men “who appeared to be of Arab origin” had surrounded victims, assaulted them and in several cases robbed them on New Year’s Eve.

Similarly Finnish police have revealed an unusually high level of sexual harassment in Helsinki on New Year’s Eve and said they had been tipped off about plans by groups of asylum seekers to sexually harass women.

Swiss police said several women were allegedly robbed and sexually assaulted in Zurich on New Year’s Eve, adding the attack method appeared “a little bit similar” to that used in a spate of assaults in Germany.

And it has now emerged that similar sex attacks were carried out in Austria, but police didn’t publicise the incidents “to protect the privacy of the victims”.

The incidents only came to light after several females came forward to complain to local media.

One identified as Sabrina S (not her real name) told Austrian newspaper Osterreich that she and her friends were attacked by a group of 10-15 men while walking home from a new club in the historic district of Salzburg.

“A friend was grabbed by one of the men and put into a headlock. Her face was in his jacket. He cuddled her and licked her face. She then said that she had no strength to free herself, she was completely at his mercy,” Sabrina said.

It was only after she managed to hit and kick the attacker that her group was able to flee. She claimed to be aware of many other incidents after posting a warning on Facebook.

“Some wrote me that they were greatly distressed at the state bridge, the Makartsteg or the railway station. A girl has even reported it to have been abducted almost New Year’s Eve at the Town Hall by a group,” Sabrina said.

Helsinki deputy police chief Ilkka Koskimaki told AFP: “There hasn’t been this kind of harassment on previous New Year’s Eves or other occasions for that matter ... This is a completely new phenomenon in Helsinki.”

Security guards hired to patrol the city on New Year’s Eve told police there had been “widespread sexual harassment” at a central square where around 20,000 people had gathered for celebrations.

Three sexual assaults allegedly took place at Helsinki’s central railway station on New Year’s Eve, where around 1000 mostly Iraqi asylum seekers had converged.

“Police have ... received information about three cases of sexual assault, of which two have been filed as complaints,” Helsinki police said in a statement.

“The suspects were asylum seekers. The three were caught and taken into custody on the spot,” Koskimaki told AFP.

Police said they had increased their preparedness “to an exceptional level” in Helsinki for New Year’s Eve after being tipped off about possible problems.

“Ahead of New Year’s Eve, the police caught wind of information that asylum seekers in the capital region possibly had similar plans to what the men gathered in Cologne’s railway station have been reported to have had,” police said in a statement.

Koskimaki said police did not see a link between the Cologne and Helsinki incidents.

Shortly before New Year’s Eve, Finnish police also arrested six Iraqis at an asylum residency centre in Kirkkonummi, around 30km west of Helsinki, suspected of “publicly inciting criminal behaviour”. They were released on January 2.

According to Koskimaki, the arrests were linked to the information police received in the run-up to New Year’s Eve.

In November, Finnish authorities said around 10 asylum seekers were suspected of rapes, among the more than 1000 rapes reported to police in 2015.

In Zurich, six women reported being surrounded by “several dark-skinned men”, who had robbed, groped and molested them, police said, adding that this was an unusually high number for Switzerland.

A police statement mentioned the shocking rash of sexual assaults in several Germany cities also on New Year’s Eve.

“It’s a little bit similar,” Zurich police spokesman Marco Cortesi told AFP, stressing though that the scale of the alleged attacks was “difficult to compare.”

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Militants blew up 13 cars in three hours Sunday, injuring at least 20 people while 13 Iraqis were killed in other violence that fed the turmoil following last month's contested parliamentary elections.

Sunni Arabs made their opening bid in what could be protracted negotiations to form a new government. Leaders of the minority's main political group, the Iraqi Accordance Front, traveled to the northern city of Irbil for a Monday meeting with the president of the Kurdish region.

Sudan, meanwhile, said six kidnapped embassy employees were freed Saturday, a day after Sudan announced it would close its Baghdad mission as demanded by al-Qaida in Iraq. A Cypriot kidnapped four months ago also was freed after his family paid a $200,000 ransom, a relative said.

A third hostage, a Lebanese engineer kidnapped four days ago, was also released, Lebanon's official National News Agency reported Sunday.

The Kurdish region in Iraq's north already has seen a flurry of postelection bargaining between Kurds and the governing Shiite Muslim religious party, the United Iraqi Alliance.

Preliminary results from the Dec. 15 election have given the Shiite group a strong lead in the voting for Iraq's 275-member parliament, but not enough for it to govern without other political blocs.

A year ago, it took nearly three months of negotiations between the Shiite religious alliance and a coalition of Kurdish parties to form an interim government after a Jan. 30 election that was boycotted by the Sunni Arabs at the core of the insurgency.

The first quarter of 2006 looks more crucial as Iraq tries to shape an administration that will govern for four years. U.S. officials are pushing the parties to form a broad-based coalition government, and failed negotiations could worsen the civil strife.

"This is perceived, inappropriately or inaccurately perhaps, by the enemy as a time of vulnerability, as the government transitions from its transitional government to a permanent government, to the constitutional-based, democratically elected four-year permanent government," said Brig. Gen. Donald Alston, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition force.

The Sunni Arab visit to the Kurdish region was the first since the election, whose results have been protested by Sunni and secular Shiite parties. Their trip came as Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a leading member of the governing United Iraqi Alliance, met on Sunday with Kurdish regional president Mazoud Barzani and discussed the outlines of a future coalition government.

"We agreed on essential principles for exerting efforts to form a broad-based government, a strong national unity government. Meetings will be continued later here and in Baghdad and we will continue to cooperate until we achieve what is beneficial for Iraq," Barzani said.

Final election results are expected as early as this week, and the Shiite religious bloc may win about 130 seats - short of the 184 seats needed to avoid a coalition with other parties to elect a president. That vote is a prerequisite before a government can be formed.

The Kurds could get about 55 seats, the main Sunni Arab groups about 50 and the secular Shiite bloc headed by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi about 25.

A representative of Allawi's group said it had not been invited to the Irbil talks.

The Irbil meetings came ahead of Monday's visit to Iraq by a team of international monitors who will assess the elections, which have been endorsed as credible by the United Nations but denounced as rigged by opposition groups. About 1,500 complaints have been registered.

"We are highly confident that the international team will look deeply into the complaints regarding the election results, will present its recommendations, and compensate us for the votes we lost," Tarek al-Hashimi, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party, told the Al-Jazeera satellite television channel.

Al-Hashimi, who is among the delegation headed to meet with Barzani on Monday, said the Accordance Front would not boycott the next parliament - a threat that has been made by smaller groups - and would promote Sunni Arab demands for broad amendments to the constitution approved in an Oct. 15 referendum.

"In the case the results remain as they are, we will remain in the parliament and our message to all will be to amend the constitution and this is our priority," he said.

The day's worst bloodshed came in eastern Baghdad, where police said gunmen killed five people at a butcher shop and a bomb killed two police officers at a gas station.

Two more Iraqis were slain and five wounded by gunfire at a Sunni mosque in southern Baghdad, while a Shiite sheik was fatally shot at a market in the same part of the city.

In the northern city of Mosul, about a dozen gunmen attacked a police checkpoint, killing a bystander and wounding three policemen, police said.

Eight of the cars bombs exploded in Baghdad and wounded a total of 11 people, police said. Officers later destroyed a ninth car bomb that failed to go off.

A suicide car bomber near Tikrit injured six civilians, and in the northern city of Kirkuk, a bomb aimed at an Iraqi police convoy wounded three civilians, police said. Car bombings in the northern city of Kirkuk and in Muqdadiyah caused no injuries.

A gasoline shortage because of insurgents' threats against tanker-truck drivers has added to the unease. Police killed two protesters in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk on Sunday when a demonstration by 500 people over rising fuel prices escalated into a riot. Authorities imposed a curfew on the city.