Pakistan: World Worshippers attack police trying to stop Friday prayers in Karachi amid COVID-19 lockdown

Karachi, Pakistan: Worshippers clashed with security forces as they attempted to enforce a complete lockdown to prevent people congregating during Friday prayers in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi in the wake of coronavirus outbreak in the country.

The incident took place at a mosque in Karachi’s Liaquatabad area when police were trying to stop people from attending Friday congregation prayers in view of lockdown imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19.

In a video of the incident, dozens of people can be seen chasing two police vehicles and pelting them with stones as an officer fired in the air to disperse the crowd.

Facing heavy stone-pelting, the police personnel fled from the spot in a bid to save their lives. They, however, later returned with a heavy contingent of police and controlled the situation in the area.

According to the local media reports, police have arrested four people including Imam of a local mosque for violating lockdown imposed by the government and inciting violence in Karachi. continued here

Germany: Gay Men Vote Anti-Migration after Muslim Beatdown in Germany…

German gay man has explained why he turned to the far-right political party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), after he was brutally attacked by ‘Muslim extremists’.

Karsten, 55, from Bremen, met former shadow secretary Ed Balls for his new documentary series, ‘Travels in Euroland’ which airs on BBC2 tonight at 9pm, and explained that despite the populist party’s anti-same-sex marriage policies, he chose to vote for them in 2017. 

Ed Balls speaking to Karsten

The taxi driver had always voted for the country’s left wing green political party, Alliance 90/The Greens, however was swayed after he and his partner Sven were brutally attacked, leaving Karsten with six plates and 17 screws in his head. 

He told how the attack, from two men who soon fled to Syria, left him believing his partner was dead, and said the AfD were the only political group to reply to him after he contacted them about the incident. continued here

Burkina Faso: Gunmen kill 37 in ambush on mining firm convoy

At least 37 people have been killed and 60 wounded in an attack on a mining company convoy in Burkina Faso, authorities say.

Five buses carrying staff of Canadian firm Semafo were ambushed on Wednesday about 40km (24 miles) from the eastern town of Boungou, reports say.

A military escort vehicle was reportedly struck by an explosive device before gunmen opened fire.

It is said to be the third deadliest attack on Semafo staff in 15 months.

Burkina Faso has been wracked by an Islamist insurgency that has killed hundreds of people in recent years.

The military has struggled to contain violence that spilled over the border from neighbouring Mali. more BBC

UK: Lee Rigby killer punches healthcare worker

One of the men convicted of murdering soldier Lee Rigby has admitted punching a healthcare worker in a high-security hospital and knocking him to the ground.

Michael Adebowale attacked Jason Taplin in Broadmoor in July last year, a court heard.

The 28-year-old denied inflicting grievous bodily harm, but admitted a lesser charge of assault causing actual bodily harm.

The eight-month prison sentence he was handed by Mr Justice Jay at Reading Crown Court will be served after his 45-year minimum term for the murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich in 2013. here

UK: Road rage row resulted in the loss off a hand.

A teenage tree surgeon had his hand chopped off with an axe in an ‘appalling’ attack carried out by an armed mob sparked by a road rage row in Rochdale, a court heard.

The victim, then aged just 18, was one of four workmates set upon on Church Road, Newbold, on the afternoon of October 17, 2017 by a gang of up to 20 men.

They had been summoned by Habibur Rahman, 27, who called the victims ‘white b******s’ who were in his ‘country‘, Minshull Street Crown Court heard.

One of the mob, Mohammed Awais Sajid, known as ‘Skinny’, came armed with an axe.

Others were carrying knives, machetes, a clawhammer and a knuckleduster.

Sajid wielded the axe twice in quick succession, the court heard, first slashing the victim in the chest, shattering ribs and causing a collapsed lung.

Describing the second blow, Tim Storrie, prosecuting, said: “He followed up with a 360 degree spin of his arm, an act which was doubtless employed to enhance the speed and devastation of the attack.

“The blow itself was aimed at the victim’s head. continued Manchester Eve News

Man chops off wife’s nose because she refused to make him tea!

MIAN CHUNNU: A man, along with his brother and cousin, chopped off his wife’s nose after she refused to make him tea.

Police said that the incident took place in the village of Saddar in Mian Chunnu village, 97/15 L. The victim, Parveen Bibi, told the police that her husband, Dameera, along with his brother Ameera and cousin Mushtaq, tortured her brutally, causing injuries to her hands, arms and other parts of the body.

“I work at people’s homes as a domestic helper to feed my children as my husband doesn’t support me.

I have been subjected to domestic violence in the past, but this time he has beaten me brutally because I refused to make tea for him and his brother.”

In Mian Channu, the police have arrested the accused and thrown him behind bars, while the victim is currently undergoing treatment at a Hospital continued here

Germany: Nearly 40% of knife attacks committed by migrants.

In the first half of 2019, nearly 40 percent of all knife attacks in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia were carried out by foreign nationals, according to the state’s Interior Ministry. 

“Thus, foreigners are nearly three times more likely to act as their share of the population of 12,8 percent,” stated the AfD group in the state parliament in Düsseldorf.

Markus Wagner, AFD’s state parliamentary leader told Berlin’s weekly Junge Freiheit: “Behind these numbers hides a great deal of human suffering that should not be happening on this scale.”

He emphasized that being politically correct about the problem and refusing to name it would not solve it. “We do not do justice to this phenomenon if we keep it politically correct.” continued here

UK: Prison inmate launches attack on officers and inmate.

A violent inmate is accused of launching a series of barbaric attacks on prison officers and an inmate, a court has heard.

Lincoln Crown Court was told Aklakur Rahman used makeshift weapons constructed from razor blades to slash a prison officer and a fellow prisoner during an incident at Wayland Prison in Norfolk.

The two victims were left seriously injured with each needing dozens of stitches, officials heard.

The jury was told that Rahman was subsequently transferred to Lincoln Prison and days later tried to murder a prison officer using a piece of masonry he had managed to conceal in his cell

He was then moved to Wakefield Jail where, despite being held under the strictest security conditions, he went on to slash another prison officer using a screw, the court heard.

Philip Bradley QC, prosecuting, told the jury at Lincoln Crown Court: “This case concerns a series of violent attacks by this man in three separate prisons in the summer of 2017.

“The first of these was at HMP Wayland. This defendant subjected another prisoner , David Sutton, to an unprovoked and sustained attack on a prison landing.

“The suddenness of that attack is nowhere better demonstrated than by the inconsequential small talk that took place between them just beforehand.”

The jury was told that Rahman asked Mr Sutton if the canteen was opening and when Sutton replied that it was Rahman suddenly launched his attack.

Mr Bradley said: “Using a makeshift weapon the defendant repeatedly aimed blows at Mr Sutton’s neck and face shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ God is great. continued Lincolnshire live H/T jihad watch

UK: Manhunt launched after British soldier attacked in London.

A serving British soldier was left with a fractured skull and other serious facial injuries after being attacked in the West End of London.

On Thursday, London’s Metropolitan Police Service released details of the assault that happened earlier this year, and investigators shared a CCTV image of a man (below) that they wish to speak to in connection with the assault.

The 28-year-old soldier, who was wearing his formal military evening uniform at the time, was attacked at 3:20am on Thursday, January 21st, on Haymarket in the West End’s theatre district. The victim’s injuries were mainly facial, including a fractured cheek bone, eye sockets, and skull. He also received a broken nose which required a number of extensive surgeries to correct.

The news of the assault comes as London has experienced a rise in crime in the past few years. Marking the third year of Mayor Sadiq Khan’s time in office, the London Assembly’s Conservatives released a report in May that claimed that in that time, knife crime has risen by 52 per cent, gun crime by 30 per cent, and robbery by 59 per cent.

Security for soldiers in uniform has also been an issue in recent years, with military personnel being advised in 2014 to not wear their uniforms in public as security chiefs feared another Woolwich terror attack. The last time soldiers were warned against wearing their uniform in public was in the aftermath of the May 2013 attack, in which fusilier Lee Rigby was run over and hacked to death by two Islamic extremists near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, south-east London. continued Breitbart

UK: Afghan asylum seeker sets out to kill the English.

An Afghan asylum seeker who allegedly attacked random members of the public with a knife was ‘fuelled’ by a desire to kill English people, a court heard.

Samiulahaq Akbari, 32, is accused of swinging a 10ins kitchen knife at three ‘total strangers’ within a 10-minute period in Thornton Heath and Croydon in south London after ‘demanding to know their nationality’.

Jurors at the Old Bailey in London were told he approached the first alleged victim, Nicholas Speight, in a Tesco Extra in Thornton Heath on January 8, tapping him on the shoulder.

After Mr Speight confirmed he was English, Akbari allegedly ‘took a powerful swing at him’ with the blade. 

Prosecutor Heidi Stonecliffe said Mr Speight could not have known that ‘events would unfold with such frightening speed’ following that ‘fateful reply’.

She claimed Akbari ‘settled on him because Mr Speight was English’.

Ms Stonecliffe added: ‘This defendant had set out deliberately to threaten, harm and kill members of the public by virtue of their nationality, or what Mr Akbari perceived to be their nationality – they were English.’

Despite only lasting a matter of seconds, jurors heard it was more ‘by luck rather than any design’ that Mr Speight managed to kick Akbari off and escape from the attack without a mark on him. continues here