The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.)
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On September 3, 2024, a majority of the lower house of the Dutch parliament expressed its opposition to a ban on Quran burnings, advanced by Ahmed Marcouch, mayor of the city of Arnhem.
A popular pro-Islamic State (ISIS) cleric based in Michigan said that Muslim police officers who die in the line of duty should be prohibited from receiving Islamic burial rites.
On September 6, 2024, a Department of Justice press release revealed that a Pakistani citizen residing in Canada had attempted to enter the United States to perpetrate a mass shooting at a Jewish site in New York City.
With dozens of posters and essays, jihadis commemorated the 23rd anniversary of Al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
On September 11, 2024, Al-Malahem, the media arm of the Yemen-based jihadi group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), released a 36-second video which includes a speech by a senior AQAP official, Sudanese national, and former Guantanamo detainee delivered on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
On September 11, 2024, the Press Office of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), released a statement marking the anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001, titled: "9/11: Why Muslims Hate America."
On September 11, 2024, a pro-Al-Qaeda media outlet released a four-minute video inciting attacks against Americans and other Westerners.
Between September 2 and 7, 2024, Yemen’s Iran-backed Ansar Allah Movement (the Houthis) claimed responsibility for a drone and missile attack that targeted the vessel the BLUE LAGOON I in the Red Sea, just two days after claiming responsibility for an attack on the GROTON container vessel in the Gulf of Aden.
Syrian Opposition Outlet: Dozens Of Houthi Drone And Missile Specialists Arrive In Syria From Iraq
A Syrian opposition media outlet reported that about 50 Houthi fighters were dispatched from Iraq to Syria's southeast under the protection of Iran-backed militias and the Syrian Army.
On September 8, 2024, three Israeli civilians were shot and killed at the Allenby Bridge (also known as the King Hussein Bridge) border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank, which serves Palestinians and non-Israelis.
On September 8, 2024, three Israeli civilians were shot and killed at the Allenby Bridge (also known as the King Hussein Bridge) border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank, which serves Palestinians and non-Israelis.
On September 8, 2024, three Israeli civilians were killed in a shooting at the Allenby Bridge (also known as the King Hussein Bridge) border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank, which serves Palestinians and non-Israelis.
On September 11, 2024, the Egypt-based jihadi group, Al-Farouq Brigades – Sinai, posted a short video on its Telegram channel which appears to be calling on Israelis to kill their prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
On September 10, 2024, a relatively new group calling itself the Iraqi Resistance-Fighter Groups, which is affiliated with Iran-backed Shi'ite militias in Iraq, released a statement claiming responsibility for a "qualitative operation" in which the group fired ballistic missiles at a logistical support site of the U.S.-led international coalition at Baghdad Airport.
On September 10, 2024, operatives of Katibat Al-Ghuraba' Al-Turkestani, a predominantly Uyghur jihadi force in northwestern Syria, were pictured manning guard posts on Aleppo's western outskirts.
The English-language Salafi-jihadi Telegram channel, "Strangers in the Dunya [World]," recently published posts arguing that industrialization of the Western powers would not have materialized without war and conquest.
On September 5, 2024, an unofficial pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media group linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), published a poster threatening an imminent attack targeting the Capitol.
A pro-Islamic State (ISIS) preacher based in Australia uploaded a video to Instagram discouraging Australian Muslims from voting in upcoming elections.
On September 7, 2024, Islamic State (ISIS) Syria Province claimed that on September 1, its fighters captured and beheaded alleged spies for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in the desert of Raqqa.
On August 29, 2024, a new Telegram channel belonging to a Gaza-based jihad group published a one-minute video clip documenting its fighters firing rockets and guided missiles at Israeli communities north of the Gaza Strip as part of the ongoing "Al-Aqsa Flood battle."
Over the past few days, the Islamic State (ISIS) Syria Province issued statements claiming its operatives had carried out six attacks against U.S-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) operatives and fuel tanks.
On September 9, 2024, an official outlet of the Islamic State (ISIS) released a 13-minute video.
On August 22, 2024, a Facebook account publishing ISKP-related material posted a video critical of the Afghan Taliban rulers for not avenging the Chinese officials' mistreatment of Uyghur Muslims in East Turkestan (i.e., China's Xinjiang province).
On August 22, 2024, a Facebook account publishing ISKP-related material posted a video critical of the Afghan Taliban rulers for not avenging the Chinese officials' mistreatment of Uyghur Muslims in East Turkestan (i.e., China's Xinjiang province).
In a 32-page Pashtu-language booklet, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) accuses former Guantanamo Bay detainee and former senior ISKP member Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost of working for the CIA and Pakistani intelligence, saying that he has now joined the Afghan Taliban after having failed to infiltrate the higher ranks in the ISIS-led Caliphate.
The cover article of the latest issue of Khurasan Ghag, the Pashtu-language magazine of the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP), argues that Hamas's war against Jews is not jihad and its slain leaders, such as Ismail Haniyeh, are not martyrs because they would impose democracy, not shari'a, in Palestine.
A lead article in the current issue of an English-language monthly magazine published by a media outlet linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), which defines itself as a supporting entity for the Islamic State (ISIS), rejects the argument that Islam is a religion of tolerance and eulogizes the slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
A Prominent Al-Qaeda supporter posted an essay rallying Al-Qaeda supporters to mark the upcoming 23rd anniversary of the terrorist September 11 attacks with "special" publications, under the framework of a new media campaign commemorating the occasion.
Between September 5 and 8, 2024, the Shahada News Agency, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), reported on a series of attacks carried out by its operatives against the Somali Armed Forces and African and Western forces active in the country.
On September 9, 2024, the Press Office of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), published a two-page statement titled "Praise And Blessings To Our Mujahideen Brothers In The Islamic Maghreb."
On September 9, 2024, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the Sahel, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (GSIM), released a video showing GSIM operatives undergoing military training at a camp in a desert area.
Ever since the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) seized power on August 15, 2021, their Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has been enforcing strict shari'a, preventing women from travelling alone or going to schools and colleges, or running businesses such as beauty parlors.
On August 29, 2024, Hizb-ut-Tahrir Pakistan shared two Urdu-language statements, one discussing Pakistan Army chief General Asim Munir's meeting with a visiting Chinese military general Li Qiaoming and the other noting the statement of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif regarding a new United Nations report criticizing Israel's role in Gaza.
Following the ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh on August 5, 2024, who was forced to flee to India amid mass protests led by students, the new interim government headed by Nobel Laureat Muhammad Yunus has released the chief of an Al-Qaeda-linked terror group.
On September 1, 2024, the National Mobilization Front (NMF), a resistance group fighting against the Afghan Taliban, published an English-language report on its website detailing the hideouts of different jihadi groups protected by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
In a statement saluting the mujahideen on the third anniversary of the exit of the last American soldier, Chris Donahue, from Afghanistan on August 31, 2021, Hizb-ut-Tahrir Afghanistan says the U.S. is working through regional countries and international organizations "to embed their political, intellectual, and intelligence influence in Afghanistan."
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Amid recurring border clashes and the deteriorating bilateral relations with the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Pakistan's Special Representative for Afghanistan Asif Durrani warned on August 19 of the potential for "a major terrorist attack from Afghanistan, similar to the September 11 attacks" on the United States, according to a media report.
