Friday, June 13, 2014

JIHAD WATCH 06/13/2014


Jun 12, 2014 07:07 pm | Robert Spencer
“Jihadists”? Expect Obama to get a strongly-worded letter from CIA chief John Brennan, who said in 2010 that jihadists were not jihadists: “They are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify for a legitimate purpose, and there is nothing — absolutely nothing — holy or pure or legitimate or Islamic […]
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Jun 12, 2014 06:16 pm | Robert Spencer
Over at Aleteia today I give background on the jihad between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims that is now escalating in Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has just seized the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Tikrit, and is close to taking control of the nation’s largest oil refinery — indicating that the […]
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Jun 12, 2014 05:56 pm | Robert Spencer
“So when you meet those who disbelieve, strike necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) But of course any Muslim who takes such a verse at face value is misunderstander of Islam, unduly influenced by greasy Islamophobes. Somehow this aggressive organization of misunderstanders of Islam has been able to gain sufficient support and power to wreak havoc in Iraq. […]
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Jun 12, 2014 05:03 pm | Robert Spencer
“Creating a cross-border Islamic state is one of the group’s main aims.” They actually have a shot at doing this now. Yet the reestablishment of the caliphate has never been considered for a nanosecond by those who formulate U.S. foreign policy. It’s high time they started considering its implications. But they won’t. “Jihadists ‘bulldoze berm’ […]
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Jun 12, 2014 04:42 pm | Robert Spencer
Over at Truth Revolt I expose the latest attempt by Leftists and Islamic supremacists to deflect attention away from the grim reality of Islamic jihad. In covering the killings in Las Vegas by Jerad and Amanda Miller this week, mainstream media commentators once again displayed their hypocrisy and double standard regarding Islamic terrorism and terror […]
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Jun 12, 2014 04:33 pm | Robert Spencer
As I wrote here today: “Iraq’s Shi’ite Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has vowed to retake the city, blaming its fall on a ‘conspiracy’ and adding: ‘Today, the important thing is that we are working to solve the situation. We are making preparations and we are regrouping the armed forces that are in charge of clearing […]
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Jun 12, 2014 01:26 pm | Robert Spencer
He has a doctorate in Islamic studies and yet is waging violent jihad in order to restore the caliphate? How could this have happened? Are greasy Islamophobes in charge of Islamic studies at Baghdad university? John Esposito, call your office! Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — Dr. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — is a misunderstander of Islam who […]
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Jun 12, 2014 01:04 pm | Robert Spencer
It is no surprise that Obama turned down these requests. After all, he is aiding the same jihadists in Syria who are now advancing against the Maliki government. He couldn’t very well turn around and attack them in Iraq. That would only bring more attention to what he is doing in Syria. “U.S. Said to […]
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Jun 12, 2014 12:53 pm | Robert Spencer
Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, said in February: “We Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad are fighting Christians wherever we meet them.” Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad is the actual name of Boko Haram: the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad. “Nigeria: 8 Christians killed and church in flames,” […]
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Jun 12, 2014 12:41 pm | Robert Spencer
Imagine if 35,000 Muslims had received threats and fled a city. The media coverage would be intense. The UN would issue resolutions. Obama and David Cameron would offer aid and contemplate military action. But when 35,000 Christians flee Mosul because of threats from Islamic jihadists, no one particularly cares. As long as no one committed […]
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Jun 12, 2014 12:20 pm | Robert Spencer
“We are soldiers of Islam.” And yet it is official dogma, to be questioned only on pain of charges of “Islamophobia,” that groups like The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda and Boko Haram have nothing to do with Islam, and that only “bigots” and “racists” think otherwise. How such an obviously counter-factual […]
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