Friday, December 20, 2013

JIHAD WATCH 12/20/2013


Dec 19, 2013 07:01 pm | Robert Spencer
Loewen said that he hoped to cause (as he put it in a letter to his wife) “maximum carnage + death.” He wanted this to be yet another jihad mass murder attack on American soil, in which he would be, as he wrote in the same letter, “martyred in...

Dec 19, 2013 06:56 pm | Robert Spencer
Here is video of the panel I was on with Caroline Glick and Congressman Trent Franks at the Freedom Center's Restoration Weekend last month in West Palm Beach, Florida. The moderator was Erick Stakelbeck....

Dec 19, 2013 06:37 pm | Robert Spencer
Jeremiah Adebolajo Jeremiah Adebolajo is assuming that there is a war between Islam and the West, and that Muslims in the West are not on the side of the countries in which they live, but on the side of Islam. No one, however, will examine the implications of his statements....

Dec 19, 2013 05:18 pm | Robert Spencer
This morning I had this exchange with the prominent British Muslim spokesman Mohammed Ansar on Twitter: He didn't really answer my question, as I had asked for sources giving a peaceful interpretation of sura 9, that is, Surat at-Tauba, the ninth chapter of the Qur'an, which jihad murderer Michael Adebolajo...

Dec 19, 2013 04:49 pm | Robert Spencer
Gays being hanged in Iran But gay activists everywhere know that Phil Robertson is the real threat. "Bareilly cleric issues fatwa against homosexuality, live-in relationships," by Shailvee Sharda for TNN, December 20: LUCKNOW: A Bareilly-based cleric has issued a fatwa against homosexuality and live-in relationships calling them anti-Islam and said...

Dec 19, 2013 12:03 pm | Robert Spencer
Of course. To put him under surveillance would have been "Islamophobic." "Could MI5 have prevented murder of Lee Rigby?," by Tom Whitehead for the Telegraph, December 19 (thanks to Inexion): MI5 was still in contact with Islamist fanatic Michael Adebolajo just months before he murdered soldier Lee Rigby, it...

Dec 19, 2013 11:56 am | Robert Spencer
The quest for justice continues. It's noteworthy that millions of Muslims can fight against Islamization in Egypt, but to do so here is "bigoted." "Final Brief Filed in Appeal to USPTO’s Denial of “Stop Islamisation of America” Trademark," from the American Freedom Law Center, December 19: Washington, D.C. (December...

Dec 19, 2013 11:39 am | Robert Spencer
Muslim groups in the UK condemn the murder. That's great. But are they teaching in the mosques against the understanding of Islam that led to the murder? "2 men found guilty of UK soldier murder," by Jill Lawless for the Associated Press, December 19 (thanks to Steve): LONDON —...

Dec 19, 2013 08:12 am | Robert Spencer
Note that in this AP story there is no hint of the motivations of these killers until paragraph 10, where "martyrdom" is mentioned, and then explicitly in paragraph 12, where it is noted with some hyperbole that there was a spate of anti-Muslim attacks after this murder -- in...

Dec 19, 2013 07:40 am | Robert Spencer
This is the second attack on a mosque in Pakistan in two days. No one will take much notice, because the attackers were Muslims. If non-Muslims had attacked two mosques in Pakistan, the "human rights community" would be in an uproar, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation would be thundering...

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