JIHAD WATCH 03/01/2015

UK: “Jihadi John” linked to 2005 London jihad bomb plot By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2015 08:32 pm “Mohammed Emwazi, the Islamic State extremist known as ‘Jihadi John’, was able to flee Britain and the scrutiny of the security services, despite being a member of a terror cell that was known to have links to the failed 21/7 attacks on London in 2005, the Observer can reveal.” Would it have been “Islamophobic” for […] Read in browser »   To Hell With Silence By Michael Devolin on Feb 28, 2015 08:21 pm “Not every truth is the better for showing it face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.” -Pindar 518-438 B.C. My first inclination that something was disconcertingly portentous about Islam were my discoveries of all the grandiloquent anti-Jewish texts in the Quran, how they sounded so much like something […] Read in browser » Former Pakistan Army Chief: America is “a superpower that has made the world a dangerous land” By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2015 02:42 pm Friend and ally indeed. “Former Pakistan Army Chief Gen. Aslam Beg: ‘America Is Not Just Any Other Country, But It Is A Superpower That Has Made The World A Dangerous Land,'” MEMRI, March 1, 2015: In a recent article, former Pakistan army chief General Mirza Aslam Beg examined the geostrategic scenario emerging in Asia as […] Read in browser » Video: Devout Muslims of the Islamic State destroy priceless artifacts with sledgehammers at Mosul museum By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2015 01:47 pm Besides removing supposed temptations to idolatry, Islamic jihadists want to ruin the artifacts of non-Muslim civilizations because doing so testifies to the truth of Islam, as the Qur’an suggests that ruins are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his truth: Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before you: […] Read in browser » Hundreds of jihadists have been able to slip out of UK to join the Islamic State because they “weren’t properly monitored” By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2015 01:30 pm Their being able to slip out to join the Islamic State is not an immediate problem for Hopeless Britannia, except insofar as it highlights the absolute unwillingness and/or inability of British authorities to face the jihad threat realistically and do what has to be done to stop the jihadist advance. No doubt monitoring these young […] Read in browser » UK’s first anti-Islamization rally dwarfed by counter-demo By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2015 12:51 pm Britain is finished. When defenders of free society against Islamization are dismissed as “right-wing nutters” and “fascists,” and the counter-demo is over five times larger, and when the government routinely allows foreign jihadis to enter the country but bans counter-jihadis solely for the crime of speaking the truth about Islam and jihad, Britain as a […] Read in browser » Ohio: Million-dollar bond set for Muslim charged with aiding jihad terror group By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2015 12:02 pm “Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien…had asked Common Pleas Magistrate Elizabeth Watters for a bond of $2.5 million, calling Mohamud a public-safety threat and a flight risk. She set a bond of $1 million.” A public-safety threat: was he plotting a jihad mass murder attack in Ohio? “West Side man in terrorism case made Middle East […] Read in browser » Muslim group after murder of Islamocritical writer: “Target Down here in Bangladesh.” By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2015 11:43 am Islamic jihadists apparently believe that they can move violently against critics of jihad terror with no fear of adverse consequences; the people who should be defending the freedom of speech are everywhere in retreat. The jihadis have nothing to fear. “American writer hacked to death in Bangladesh spoke out against extremists,” CNN, February 28, 2015: […] Read in browser » Nigeria: Islamic jihadists murder 35 people in wave of jihad-martyrdom suicide attacks By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2015 11:07 am “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah , so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111) “Wave of suicide attacks leaves 35 dead in Nigeria,” AGI, February 26, 2015 (thanks to C. Cantoni): (AGI) Kano, Feb 26 […] Read in browser » Iran: Muslim cleric vows to “raise flag of Islam on White House” By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2015 09:56 am As Obama continues to show weakness, the bellicose rhetoric from those who consider themselves to be at war with the United States continues to heat up. How long will pretending that we are not at war work as a war strategy? “Iran cleric vows to ‘raise flag of Islam on White House’ to avenge Israeli […] Read in browser »