JIHAD WATCH 02/18/2015

Texas Islamic Center fire reported as a hate crime wasn’t one
By Robert Spencer on Feb 17, 2015 08:52 pm

Islamic supremacists need anti-Muslim hate crimes to further their claims that Muslims are being victimized unfairly by counter-terror efforts, and that therefore those counter-terror efforts should cease. In this case, Hamas-linked terror org CAIR called for a hate crime investigation, and other Islamic supremacists rushed to claim it was a hate crime. Will they now […]
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Minneapolis: Muslims demand anti-terror program be separate from FBI
By Robert Spencer on Feb 17, 2015 07:38 pm

“At the Tuesday news conference in Minneapolis, representatives from various mosques and Muslim organizations in the state will outline several recommendations on how they think the CVE pilot program would best serve the community. One of their key recommendations: that the program be independent from the influences of all law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, […]
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Charlie Hebdo cartoons banned at Dutch train stations: too dangerous
By Nicolai Sennels on Feb 17, 2015 06:33 pm

Banning the ridiculing or painting of Muhammad is pure sharia. Translated by Thomas for 10News: When three political youth organizations wanted to organize a public show of support for the murdered cartoonists of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, this was refused by the companies operating the advertising pillars on train and underground stations in […]
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Michigan: Muslim asks people if they’re Muslim, stabs those who say no
By Robert Spencer on Feb 17, 2015 05:21 pm

Not that this has anything to do with Islam, you greasy Islamophobe. “Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who follow him are merciful to one another, ruthless to the unbelievers” (Qur’an 48:29). “Man stabs two at a bus stop after asking them if they’re Muslim,” by Abby Ohlheiser, Washington Post, February 17, 2015 (thanks […]
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Islamic supremacist groups including Hamas-linked CAIR say Obama terror summit wrongly singles out Muslims
By Robert Spencer on Feb 17, 2015 04:23 pm

This article is several days old, so it may be that the White House’s insistence that Islamic jihad terrorism not be mentioned at the “Countering Violent Extremism” summit comes at the behest of these groups, to whom Obama always responds, “How high?” when they say, “Jump!” However, the fact that it is a “Countering Violent […]
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Term “Islamic extremism” off limits at White House terrorism summit
By Robert Spencer on Feb 17, 2015 03:44 pm

“We are not treating these people as part of a religion. We’re treating them as terrorists.” In other words, we’re ignoring their stated motives and goals, thereby ensuring that our analysis will be entirely faulty, and our recommendations about what to do to end this threat, if implemented, will create more problems than they solve. […]
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Islamic State cites “grievances” in slaughter of 21 Copts
By Raymond Ibrahim on Feb 17, 2015 03:19 pm

Islamic jihadis never fail to find an excuse to slaughter innocent Christians.  For example, as discussed here, secular Western actions that have nothing to do with Christianity are often enough to provoke Muslims to blame, locate, and attack Christian minorities in their midst as way of “retribution.” Now, as shown in a new video, the Islamic […]
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Raymond Ibrahim: Christian Slaughter in Libya
By Raymond Ibrahim on Feb 17, 2015 03:15 pm

[FrontPage Magazine via RaymondIbrahim.com] The disputed fate of the 21 Coptic Christians abducted in Sirte, Libya is now clear and visible for all to see on video: while holding them down, Islamic State members shove their fingers in the Christians’ eyes, crane their heads back, and slice away at their throats with knives—all in the […]
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State Department’s Harf: “We cannot kill our way out of this war,” we need to give the jihadis job opportunities
By Robert Spencer on Feb 17, 2015 11:17 am

In reality, it’s an unpleasant fact, but killing the enemy is indeed how wars have historically been won. Never in the history of the world has a war been won by alleviating the poverty of the enemy. And while even Chris Matthews finds this hard to swallow here, this is Obama Administration policy, and it […]
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Pope says Copts in Libya were murdered “for sole reason of being Christian,” blames arms traffickers
By Robert Spencer on Feb 17, 2015 10:17 am

        Maybe Pope Francis said something about the people who actually did kill these Christians, and why they did it, in some other part of his homily that isn’t reported here, but I couldn’t find any such reference in any news account. The jihad murderers who murdered these Christians declared: “And we […]
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