JIHAD WATCH 02/06/2015

Iran: The “Americans are begging us for a deal” By Robert Spencer on Feb 05, 2015 04:40 pm Obama appears desperate to get a deal with Iran to cement his “legacy,” and maybe the bombs will fall after he is out of office. “Iran: The ‘Americans Are Begging Us for a Deal,’” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, February 5, 2015: A top Iranian military leader claims that U.S. officials have been “begging […] Read in browser » Muslim leaders say death by burning is un-Islamic, but don’t address its Islamic justifications By Robert Spencer on Feb 05, 2015 04:22 pm None of the Muslim leaders and spokesmen quoted in this article address this story from Ibn Ishaq’s eighth-century account of Muhammad’s conquest of Khaybar, even to explain why the conduct of the man whom the Qur’an holds up as the supreme example to be emulated by Muslims (33:21) is not to be emulated in this […] Read in browser » Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: Hundreds More Muslim Rape Gang Cases Discovered in UK By Robert Spencer on Feb 05, 2015 03:57 pm In FrontPage today I discuss yet another feature of Britain’s gallop to ruin: The Muslim rape gang scandal in Britain just keeps getting worse. Last August, the BBC reported that “at least 1,400 children were subjected to appalling sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, a report has found. Children as young as 11 […] Read in browser » Islamic State jihadis throw gay man from building, stone him to death when he survives fall By Robert Spencer on Feb 05, 2015 03:36 pm Woe to you — from the gay community — if you dare to point out Sharia persecution of gays. When Pamela Geller and I ran ads highlighting the mistreatment of gays in Islamic law, the San Francisco City Council issued a resolution condemning not that mistreatment, but our ads. Gay advocates such as Theresa Sparks […] Read in browser » Obama: “Remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ” By Robert Spencer on Feb 05, 2015 02:35 pm Obama says, “No God condones terror.” Yet Muhammad is depicted in a hadith as having said: “I have been made victorious through terror” (Bukhari 4:52.220). And the Qur’an says: “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of […] Read in browser » Video: Robert Spencer on Sun TV on the French terror arrests By Robert Spencer on Feb 05, 2015 02:16 pm Yesterday, on Straight Talk with Jerry Agar. Read in browser » Obama: “We are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion for their nihilistic ends” By Robert Spencer on Feb 05, 2015 11:26 am Wait, what? He said, “our religion”? Back in 2008, when he referred to “my Muslim faith,” it was dismissed as a slip of the tongue. But now, if this AP report is accurate in quoting him, this is two “slips of the tongue” in the same direction — along with six years of foreign and […] Read in browser » Official Palestinian Authority TV quotes Qur’an: Jews are “apes and pigs” By Robert Spencer on Feb 05, 2015 11:04 am But remember: if you point out that Islamic Jew-hatred is in the Qur’an, you’re a racist, bigoted Islamophobe. “PA TV sermon: Jews are ‘apes and pigs,'” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, February 5, 2015: In Friday’s sermon on official Palestinian Authority TV, the cleric demonized Jews as “apes and pigs.” “Many Muslims are being […] Read in browser » UK anti-Semitism hit record level in 2014 By Robert Spencer on Feb 05, 2015 10:49 am In this piece on our being banned from the UK because Muslims might respond to our presence with violence, Pamela Geller and I asked rhetorically, “What next? Will the UK ban Jews?” But this report makes that seem like much less of a rhetorical question. If they aren’t being banned, they’re being driven out. And […] Read in browser » What next? Will the UK ban Jews? By Robert Spencer on Feb 05, 2015 05:00 am What next? Will the UK ban Jews? by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer A British Court of Appeal handed down its judgment dismissing our appeal challenging our ban from entering the United Kingdom. The key element of its decision is its emphasis on the fact that “this was a public order case where the police […] Read in browser »