JIHAD WATCH 03/12/2015

Australian convert to Islam in jihad suicide bombing for Islamic State By Robert Spencer on Mar 11, 2015 10:48 pm He was a gifted student. Then he converted to Islam and everything changed. Now he is dead. Instead of choosing life and loving it, he chose death and destruction to appease his bloodthirsty god. “Islamic State: Australian teenager Jake Bilardi believed to be involved in suicide bombing in Iraq,” by Matt Brown, ABC.net.au, March 11, […] Read in browser »   Bangladesh police stood by while Muslim murdered atheist blogger By Robert Spencer on Mar 11, 2015 10:14 pm Clearly the police thought that this “blasphemer” deserved what he got. “Bangladesh police stood close by during US blogger attack: Wife,” Reuters, March 11, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): DHAKA: The wife of an American blogger and critic of religious extremism who was hacked to death in Dhaka last month said that police […] Read in browser » Pakistan: Muslim cleric laments that no Islamic scholar is confronting Islamic State By Robert Spencer on Mar 11, 2015 05:01 pm Pakistani Islamic scholar Maulana Zahidur Rashidi is apparently unimpressed with the cynical and deceptive pieces that appear regularly in the Western media, assuring us that the Qur’an is benign, that it teaches only defensive jihad, that the U.S. Constitution is Sharia-compliant, and that the Islamic State is not Islamic. If he sees them at all, […] Read in browser » Feds urge limits on phone access of Ohio would-be jihad murderer By Robert Spencer on Mar 11, 2015 04:40 pm Why does this clown have any phone access at all? Would it be “Islamophobic” to ban his phone access altogether? “Feds urge limits on Hamilton Co. terrorism suspect phone access,” WLWT, March 11, 2015: CINCINNATI (AP) —Federal prosecutors Tuesday asked a judge to restrict phone access for a southwest Ohio man accused of plotting to […] Read in browser » Canada: Muslim arrested after plotting to bomb U.S. consulate in Toronto By Robert Spencer on Mar 11, 2015 03:32 pm “Mass destruction and possible loss of life would have been the result.” Striving to serve Allah by giving him what he wants most: destruction. “ISIS sympathizer arrested after plotting to bomb U.S. consulate in Toronto: CBSA,” by Stewart Bell, The National Post, March 11, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller): TORONTO — A Pakistani man arrested […] Read in browser » Muslim at Miami synagogue screams: “Allahu akbar! I’m gonna cut your heads off!” By Robert Spencer on Mar 11, 2015 03:03 pm “I want to take them to paradise. I don’t want them to burn in hell for the rest of eternity. I feel like that they’re worshipping right now is nothing, it’s fake. It don’t exist, in my opinion.” Clearly the best approach then would be to scream threats at the Jews. That will certainly make […] Read in browser » Kuwaiti Muslim preacher, Islamic State call for demolition of Sphinx, pyramids By Robert Spencer on Mar 11, 2015 02:42 pm “Attacks on the Sphinx date back centuries. Despite many legends surrounding the monument’s missing nose – with harm from Napoleon’s cannon being among the most popular myths – historians believe it was actually destroyed by Sufi Muslim Muhammad Sa’im al-Dahr in the 14th century, after he learned that some peasants worshipped the Sphinx.” Many of […] Read in browser » Nigeria: Some politicians think opposing child marriage “would be synonymous with taking a stand against the Muslim faith” By Robert Spencer on Mar 11, 2015 01:15 pm Maryam Uwais says: “The religion has been misinterpreted to convey that child marriage is encouraged in Islam, whereas contextual interpretations would suggest the opposite.” In reality, few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her […] Read in browser » UK Muslims decry “the continued public targeting of Muslims through endless ‘anti-terror’ laws” By Robert Spencer on Mar 11, 2015 12:40 pm “We reject the portrayal of Muslims and the Muslim community as a security threat.” They don’t want anti-terror laws. What will be the result of not having anti-terror laws? More jihad terror. Note also that “Dilly Hussain, a spokesman for the group, said the list of 62 signatories included moderate Islamic thinkers alongside names he […] Read in browser » Islamic State kidnaps Catholics, threatens to decapitate adults, burn children alive By Robert Spencer on Mar 11, 2015 11:09 am “The Assyrian Human Rights Network, meanwhile, said the captives had been ordered released by a Shariah court after paying an unspecified amount of money levied as a tax on non-Muslims.” “Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have […] Read in browser »