Monday, January 20, 2014

JIHAD WATCH 01/20/2014

Jan 19, 2014 08:14 pm | Robert Spencer
And what is to stop this from happening? It has broad sanction in Islam, as few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated...

Jan 19, 2014 07:59 pm | Robert Spencer
This stage of the jihad will come to the West after "hate speech" laws are enacted forbidding people to discuss how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism. When those laws prove to be inadequate to eradicate "Islamophobia," the shooting is likely...

Jan 19, 2014 07:32 pm | Robert Spencer
Yet another convert to Islam somehow gets the idea that jihad involves waging war against unbelievers. Nary a mosque nor an Islamic school anywhere in the West has any program designed to stop converts to Islam from getting this idea, despite their claim to reject this understanding of Islam...

Jan 19, 2014 07:31 pm | Robert Spencer
"When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4 "Violence against Christians in Syria is becoming 'one of the worst persecutions endured by Christians in this part of the third millennium.'" Shhh! "Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might...

Jan 19, 2014 07:12 pm | Robert Spencer
The Olympic site in Sochi At Sochi, jihadist savagery threatens to overwhelm the civility of the international games. "Russian Islamic video threatens Sochi Olympics," by Lynn Berry for the Associated Press, January 19 (thanks to Kenneth): MOSCOW (AP) -- An Islamic militant group in Russia's North Caucasus claimed responsibility Sunday...

Jan 19, 2014 07:01 pm | Robert Spencer
Why should they? They're pressing on to final victory over a confused and demoralized foe that has announced that it doesn't want to fight them, and doesn't consider them the enemy. "Taliban rejects US’ call to lay down arms," from The Hindu, January 19 (thanks to Jerk Chicken): The...

Jan 19, 2014 01:15 pm | Robert Spencer
He said it. But of course as we all know, the fault lies not with him, but with those who dare report his words. "Murder conviction for Albany man in wife slaying," by Robert Gavin for the Albany Times-Union, January 17 (thanks to Pamela Geller): A jury spent roughly...

Jan 19, 2014 01:03 pm | Robert Spencer
"Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have had differences with the Palestinian Authority, I believe that you do have a true partner in President Abbas..." -- Barack Obama, March 21, 2013 "Terrorist murderers are...

Jan 19, 2014 08:48 am | Robert Spencer
Boroujerdi Takfir is the practice of one Muslim individual or group declaring another Muslim individual or group to be non-Muslim, and hence to be killed as a heretic or apostate. Al Qaeda and other jihad groups are sometimes referred to by other Muslims as takfiri groups because they claim to...

Jan 19, 2014 08:13 am | Robert Spencer
Why shouldn't they be confident of victory? Their opponent doesn't consider them the enemy and doesn't want to fight them: "Last year, during my visit to Washington, in a very important briefing a day before I met U.S. President [Barack Obama], his national security adviser Tom Donilon, and senior...

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