JIHAD WATCH 03/14/2015

CIA’s Brennan: Islamic State not Islamic — they’re “psychopathic thugs” By Robert Spencer on Mar 13, 2015 11:14 pm “CIA Director John Brennan at an event Friday warned against ascribing “Islamic legitimacy” to the overseas terrorist group, saying that allowing them to identify themselves with Islam does a disservice to Muslims around the world.” The fallacious assumption here is that Muslims around the world are looking to non-Muslims in the West to show them […] Read in browser »   Islamic State amputates hands of five people caught smoking By Robert Spencer on Mar 13, 2015 10:43 pm The Islamic State probably judged that they were spreading corruption upon the earth. “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they […] Read in browser » France: Muslims assault, rob Jewish teens outside synagogue, screaming “dirty Jews, we will exterminate all of you” By Robert Spencer on Mar 13, 2015 06:03 pm Behold the future of France, and of all of Europe. “Jewish Teens Assaulted, Robbed Outside French Synagogue,” by Ari Yashar, Arutz Sheva, March 12, 2015: The French National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) reported that two Jewish teens were assaulted and robbed while leaving a synagogue in Marseille, and as a result of the […] Read in browser » UK: Anglican vicar holds Muslim prayer service in his church, asks congregation to praise “the god that we love, Allah” By Robert Spencer on Mar 13, 2015 02:16 pm When Giles Goddard painted that cross on his church building, and had one placed on his forehead, was he aware of this hadith? “Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, ‘By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, son of Mary (Jesus) will shortly descend amongst you people (Muslims) as a just ruler and will break […] Read in browser » Australia: Muslim cleric quotes Qur’an to incite Muslims against Jews, “strongest people in enmity towards the believers” By Robert Spencer on Mar 13, 2015 01:16 pm “You shall find the strongest people in enmity towards the believers to the Jews and the polytheists.” That’s Qur’an 5:82. “Fight them until there is no fitna [‘strife’], and religion belongs to Allah alone.” That’s Qur’an 8:39. “Fitna is worse than killing.” That’s Qur’an 2:191 and 2:217. Will some moderate Muslim leader please explain how […] Read in browser » Spanish police arrest eight Muslims suspected of planning attacks in Spain and recruiting for Islamic State By Robert Spencer on Mar 13, 2015 11:32 am Muslims? How odd. Everyone knows that the Islamic State has absolutely nothing to do with Islam. So many misunderstanders of Islam are out there today — what programs do mosques and Islamic schools have in place to prevent all this misunderstanding of Islam? What? None? Now, why is that? “Spain arrests eight suspected Islamist militants […] Read in browser » Obama Administration claim to have “taken out half” of Islamic State’s senior leadership is false By Robert Spencer on Mar 13, 2015 11:01 am Never since the invention of the airplane has any territory been conquered solely from the air. Kerry and Allen have a vested interest in making the U.S. airstrikes look good, but in reality they’re just a cosmetic exercise to make it look as if the U.S. is doing something about the Islamic State. “U.S. Exaggerates […] Read in browser » Islamic State blows up 10th century Assyrian Catholic monastery near Mosul By Robert Spencer on Mar 13, 2015 10:37 am 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 » Middle East Studies Profs Distort, Dissemble about Paris Attacks By Robert Spencer on Mar 13, 2015 06:40 am Middle East Studies Profs Distort, Dissemble about Paris Attacks by Cinnamon Stillwell and Rima Greene Only in academe can a panel discussion on Islamic terrorism turn into an exercise in obfuscation and denial. Titled “Shooting Rampage in Paris: Free Speech, Anti-Semitism, Freedom of Religion, Islamophobia,” the recent University of California, Berkeley panel—which promised to “start […] Read in browser » Video: Robert Spencer, Raymond Ibrahim, and Bruce Thornton on the advancing jihad By Robert Spencer on Mar 13, 2015 05:52 am On Saturday, March 7, 2015, at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s West Coast Retreat in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, Bruce Thornton, Raymond Ibrahim and I spoke on the topic “Jihad on the Offensive.” It was a special live-audience edition of the Glazov Gang, with Jamie Glazov himself in the moderator’s chair. This is an especially […] Read in browser »