Thursday, June 26, 2014

JIHAD WATCH 06/26/2014


Jun 25, 2014 07:27 pm | Robert Spencer
John Maguire doesn’t say it, but another reason why the CIA was completely wrongfooted by the advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was because the Obama Administration has completely deemphasized the jihad threat, and pretended that al Qaeda was the only jihad group. An obscure offshoot of al Qaeda in […]
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Jun 25, 2014 07:13 pm | Robert Spencer
How could a “radical interpretation of Islam” have “nothing to do with the religion”? How is it that these groups that uniformly explain and justify their actions on the basis of Islam have nothing to do with Islam? How is it that a group that calls itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant and […]
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Jun 25, 2014 06:45 pm | Robert Spencer
Imad Youkhana “has noted that the main victims of the current conflicts are precisely Iraqis who confess Christ; ‘that is why the native and foreign Christian parties, organizations and activists must unite in order to help refugees and to stop the humanitarian catastrophe which may befall the Nineveh valley.’” Not a chance. It could harm […]
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Jun 25, 2014 06:14 pm | Robert Spencer
“Mohamud’s attorneys argued that prosecutors didn’t notify the defendant that they had received information regarding Mohamud under the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act until he was already convicted. They also argued that the important information was withheld from the defense team, according to Fox.” The question is: did Mohamud plot to commit jihad mass murder […]
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Jun 25, 2014 05:53 pm | Robert Spencer
“Nonviolent terrorism”? Is that like “moderate Islamist”? Western officials become contortionists, twisting themselves into pretzels trying to avoid facing the reality of jihad. “Prosecutors pushing for 10-year sentence for Toronto man who tried leave Canada to join ‘brutal’ terrorists,” by Stewart Bell, National Post, June 25, 2014: A Toronto man convicted of attempting to join […]
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Jun 25, 2014 02:56 pm | Robert Spencer
David Wood puts it well at Answering Muslims: This would be a bit too graphic to post as a video, but as news, it needs to be addressed. A number of European activists have put together an animated film about Muhammad’s relationship with Aisha. The film is being released in numerous languages (including English, French, […]
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Jun 25, 2014 02:42 pm | Robert Spencer
“Thousands of young men from the south have flocked to Baghdad to bolster the flagging army, and many observers have assumed that the flow of southern militiamen would help stem an ISIS advance that’s captured much of northern and central Iraq in the weeks since the city of Mosul fell under ISIS control June 10.” […]
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Jun 25, 2014 02:10 pm | Robert Spencer
There is a hint of menace to this morality initiative, for the recipients of the brochure know that if they don’t comply, some Muslims may think that killing them is preferable to the continued affront to their honor that their immoral dress represents. Re-Islamization of Turkey Update: “Islamists hit beach to advise women to cover […]
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Jun 25, 2014 02:02 pm | Robert Spencer
Boko Haram, the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, once again shows that it can operate with absolute impunity in Nigeria, without fear of any significant reaction from the Nigerian government. Since Nigerian generals have been found to have been arming the group, doubtless out of approval of its activities, […]
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Jun 25, 2014 01:52 pm | 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. Whatever you spend in the cause of Allah shall be repaid to you, and you shall […]
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Jun 25, 2014 01:44 pm | Robert Spencer
This jihad attack probably has to do with the Sunni-Shi’ite jihad, which is now raging in Iraq and Syria. It is practically inevitable that it engulf Lebanon as well, with that nation’s Christians caught in the middle. “Suicide attack at Beirut hotel, casualties feared,” Al Arabiya, June 25, 2014: A suicide bomber attacked a hotel […]
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Jun 25, 2014 01:19 pm | Robert Spencer
The Metropolitan Police’s Assistant Commissioner, Cressida Dick, says that it is up to the police to make Muslim communities “wholly hostile to violent extremism.” Why is that the police’s responsibility? Isn’t it a core assumption of British policymakers that Muslim communities in the U.K. wholeheartedly reject “violent extremism,” except for a tiny minority of misunderstanders […]
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Jun 25, 2014 12:21 pm | Robert Spencer
Drinking alcoholic beverages is, of course, forbidden in Islam. But Islamic law asserts authority over unbelievers, and even though the letter of the law holds that non-Muslims are allowed to drink alcohol, they are not to do so publicly, so as not to cause Muslims offense. When this group of Muslims saw a non-Muslim drinking […]
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Jun 25, 2014 11:06 am | Robert Spencer
“He explained that the Holy Quran clearly pointed out that the sins of anyone who kills one innocent soul is seen as haven killed the entire humanity however, anyone who gives life to another soul is rewarded same.” The problem here, as always, is the definition of “innocent” — especially since, as Dr. Sheikh Amin […]
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Jun 25, 2014 09:57 am | Robert Spencer
Clearly Islamic law still has a strong influence, even in post-Muslim Brotherhood Egypt. The government has said that it would protect the Christians, but with verdicts like this, it doesn’t look all that much different from the Brotherhood regime. “Egyptian Christian jailed for contempt of religion,” Associated Press, June 24, 2014: LUXOR, Egypt — A […]
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