English translation of Q9:66

Submitted by Michael S (United States), Jan 28, 2015 at 06:11

Shalom DNM.

I notice that all your links are in Arabic. Here is an English translation of the primary link:

Surat At-Tawbah (The Repentance):

9:65 (Sahih International)
And if you ask them, they will surely say, "We were only conversing and playing." Say, "Is it Allah and His verses and His Messenger that you were mocking?"

9:66 (Sahih International)
Make no excuse; you have disbelieved after your belief. If We pardon one faction of you - We will punish another faction because they were criminals.

-- http://quran.com/9/65-66

I think Waza is right: the Islamists are using Göbbels' methods of propaganda. By the way, there seems to have been an uptick in Islamist terror attacks in the past couple of months:

• December 4, 2014. - 2014 Grozny clashes. 26 total dead, including 14 policemen, 11 Jihadist from Caucasus Emirate, 1 civilian^[51]
• December 15, 2014. – 2014 Sydney hostage crisis. 2 dead, 4 injured.^{[52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60]}
• December 16, 2014. – 2014 Peshawar school attack. Over 140 people dead, including at least 132 children.^[61]
• December 16, 2014. - Two suicide car bombers rammed their vehicles into a Shiite rebels' checkpoint killing 26, including 16 students.^[62]
• December 18, 2014. - 2014 Gumsuri kidnappings. Boko Haram insurgents killed 32 people and kidnapped at least 185 women and children.^[63]
• December 18, 2014. - Mass grave of 230 Tribesmen killed by Islamic State found in Eastern Syria.^[64]
• December 20, 2014 - 2014 Joué-lès-Tours attack. A man yelling Allahu Akbar attacked a police office with a knife. He was killed and 3 police officers were injured
• December 21, 2014 - 2014 Dijon attack. A man yelling Allahu Akbar ran over 11 pedestrians with his vehicle. 11 injured
• December 22, 2014. – Boko Haram insurgents bombed a bus station in the city of Gombe, killing at least twenty people.^[65]
• December, 2014. - Islamic State militants execute 150 women Iraqi province of Al-Anbar, some of whom were pregnant at the time, who refuse to marry their fighters.^[66]
• December 24, 2014. - A suicide bomber killed 33 people and wounded 55 others in Madaen, about 25 km (15 miles) south of Baghdad.^[67]
• December 25, 2014. - Al-Shabaab (militant group) attack in Mogadishu leaves 9 dead.^[68]
• December 28, 2014. - Boko Haram attacks village in Cameroon leaving 30 dead.^[69]
• January 7-9, 2015. - A series of 5 attacks in and around Paris kill 17 people; plus 3 attackers, and leave 22 other people injured.
• January 8, 2015. – 2015 Baga massacre. Boko Haram attacks town of Baga in northern Nigeria killing at least 200 people. Another 2000 are unaccounted for.^[70]

Boko Haram seems to have been the most active and deadly, but it looks like something of an "all-court press" (a basketball term). The above references are from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamic_terrorist_attacks. I'm impressed at how many countries are involved. The recent attacks in China aren't even listed. On the Wikipedia list, December of last year had by far the greatest number of attacks AND attacks against the greatest number of countries.

Thanks for the Islamic references.

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