Tuesday, December 10, 2013

JIHAD WATCH 12/10/2013

Dec 09, 2013 06:48 pm | Robert Spencer
Note yet again the specifically and inescapably Islamic nature of the appeal -- the one aspect that Western analysts dismiss as unimportant. "Jihad Selfies: These British Extremists in Syria Love Social Media," by Aris Roussinos for Vice, December 5: Above are two other recent British martyrs, Choukri Ellekhlifi, 22,...

Dec 09, 2013 06:08 pm | Robert Spencer
The Rumpled Academic is back! Longtime Jihad Watch readers will remember Sami Al-Arian, who for years was a darling of the Leftist intelligentsia. In March 2002 Nicholas Kristof went to bat for the professor in the New York Times: "The point is not whether one agrees with Professor Al-Arian, a...

Dec 09, 2013 02:51 pm | Robert Spencer
Zarif: Don't you dare, kuffar Please pass new sanctions. "Iran foreign minister says nuclear deal dead if US passes new sanctions," by Arshad Mohammed for Reuters, December 9 (thanks to Kenneth): WASHINGTON — Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said the Iranian nuclear deal would be dead if the U.S. Congress...

Dec 09, 2013 02:44 pm | Robert Spencer
Why the invocations of human rights in the wake of an icon's death ring hollow. My piece over at PJ Lifestyle today: The death of Nelson Mandela has been the occasion for a great deal of self-righteous preening. Barack Obama cribbed from Edwin M. Stanton in his statement, declaring...

Dec 09, 2013 11:47 am | Robert Spencer
The two jihad murderers at the scene of the murder Watch for all the moderate Muslims in the UK and elsewhere to rush to explain how Muhammad would have deplored this murder -- no, wait... "Lee Rigby trial: Live updates as defence case for Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo begins,"...

Dec 09, 2013 11:41 am | Robert Spencer
"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and...

Dec 09, 2013 11:28 am | Robert Spencer
Ibrahim Qassum was a heating oil vendor. They accused him of watering down his fuel and asked him why it was impure. He responded, "How should I know? What am I, the God of fuel?" For this they killed him. And remember: Islamic supremacists and their Leftist allies want...

Dec 09, 2013 07:44 am | Robert Spencer
Mujahid Abu Hamza (Adebolajo) is one of the "very wicked people in the world" Surely David Cameron is on his way right now to see Mujahid Abu Hamza, formerly known as Michael Adebolajo, in order to explain to this jihadi killer that he is actually a Misunderstander of Islam, and...

Dec 09, 2013 07:33 am | Robert Spencer
Gotabaya Rajapaksa Oh, the humanity! Sri Lanka succumbs to "racism" and "Islamophobia"! "Clerics Under Watch in SL," by P K Balachandran for the New Indian Express, December 9: Sri Lankan intelligence agencies are on the vigil against Islamic preachers who create communal tension and spread rumours threatening the security of...

Dec 09, 2013 07:03 am | Robert Spencer
"Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the enemies of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom you may not know, but whom Allah knows." -- Qur'an 8:60 "Taliban magazine urges jihad - and profiles...

Dec 09, 2013 07:01 am | Robert Spencer
Ronald Thomas Smith was most likely killed simply for the crime of being an Infidel in Benghazi, but it is also possible that he was murdered for proselytizing. Daphne Bamburg's statement certainly gives the impression that he was trying to convert Muslims to Christianity: "Ronnie's greatest desire was for...

Dec 09, 2013 06:47 am | Robert Spencer
Yes, but surely right-wing extremists do this kind of thing all the time, don't they? "9 killed by car suicide bomber in northern Somalia," from the Associated Press, December 5: MOGADISHU, Somalia — A police official says a suicide car bomber, targeting two pick-up trucks carrying Puntland Marine Forces...

Dec 09, 2013 06:21 am | Robert Spencer
Taslima Nasrin Hasan Raza Khan Noori Miyan is enraged at Taslima Nasrin for pointing out that some Muslim clerics don't respect free speech. In response, he tries to suppress hers forcibly. A First Information Report (FIR) is a written complaint to police. "Muslim cleric objects to Taslima Nasreen's tweets, files...

Dec 09, 2013 05:35 am | Robert Spencer
Jihadists recruit using the Qur'an and Sunnah. The State Department can't confront them on those grounds for two reasons: because they cannot construct an argument against jihad warfare based on the Qur'an and Sunnah, and because even if they could, they wouldn't, because they are dogmatically committed to the...

Dec 09, 2013 05:23 am | Robert Spencer
This was clear enough at the time that I and others without access to classified material were saying it. But Obama needn't worry: the mainstream media will cover for him again, and he will not be held to account for this any more than he has been for anything...

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