JIHAD WATCH 03/16/2015

UK: Three Muslim teens arrested on way to join Islamic State By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2015 01:20 am Not that this has anything to do with Islam. But that leads to the question: if the Islamic State really has nothing to do with Islam, why does it have this unprecedented appeal among young Muslims in the West? The learned analysts don’t even try to offer an explanation for that. “UK arrests 3 teens […] Read in browser »   UK police told not to investigate Muslim rape gangs By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2015 08:13 pm 1,400 British non-Muslim children were gang-raped and brutalized by Muslims in one city alone, and “several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.” And here we see police bosses telling officers not to […] Read in browser » UK Muslim doctor who became Taliban commander killed in drone strike By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2015 07:50 pm A doctor? But…but…poverty causes terrorism! He just needed some economic opportunities and all would have been well! “NHS doctor who became Taliban commander killed ‘in drone strike,'” by Robert Verkaik and Robert Mendick, the Telegraph, March 14, 2015 An NHS doctor who skipped bail to join the Taliban has been killed in a counter-terrorism offensive […] Read in browser » Germany: Muslims plotted jihad terror attack on cathedral, synagogue By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2015 07:12 pm Well, that’s one way to conduct “interfaith dialogue.” “Report of planned attack on Bremen cathedral, synagogue,” Catholic World News, March 12, 2015: A potential Islamist attack on the cathedral and synagogue in Bremen, Germany, was averted following action by police on February 28, a Belgian newspaper reported. Numerous police guarded the cathedral and synagogue and […] Read in browser » Feeding Christians Propaganda Against Jews By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2015 07:01 pm Feeding Christians Propaganda Against Jews by Christine Williams Sabeel Ecumenical Liberal Theology Center states that its mission is to support the “oppressed” Palestinians of the “indigenous Church,” but it is a main artery of anti-Israel propaganda that feeds Christian Churches globally. Based in Jerusalem, the influential Sabeel Center describes its mandate as “working for justice, […] Read in browser » Toronto Star: Mainstream Islam must do more to prevent extremist violence By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2015 06:24 pm Dow Marmur is rabbi emeritus at Toronto’s Holy Blossom Temple. In this column he repeats a sentiment that non-Muslims have expressed many, many times before. No one, however, ever seems to stop and ponder the implications of the fact that now, thirteen and a half years after 9/11, articles like this one still need to […] Read in browser » Pope Francis: Christians “are persecuted, and the world tries to hide it” By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2015 05:53 pm Meanwhile, the Pope himself has tried to hide the ideology of the persecutors, when he said: “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” Even here, he notes that “Christians are persecuted.” He does not name the perpetrator. It is the great global force that no one […] Read in browser » Iran’s President: Iran and Indonesia can present “true and moderate Islam” By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2015 05:38 pm On November 20, 2013, Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, said: “The Zionist regime is a regime whose pillars are extremely shaky and is doomed to collapse.” Israelis, he declared, “should not be called humans.” Rouhani himself has said: “The Imam [the Ayatollah Khomeini] set long-term goals for the day the occupying Zionist regime is […] Read in browser » India: Muslim clerics’ fatwa forces cancellation of women’s soccer match By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2015 04:53 pm “Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. […] Read in browser » US State Dept posts photo touting Sharia over “man made law” By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2015 04:24 pm The U.S. State Department clearly has a firm grasp of the reality of the jihad threat. Of course, it is bound as a matter of policy to deny and downplay that threat, so gaffes like this are bound to happen. “Internet gaffe by US government as UK extremist’s sharia law photo used in free speech […] Read in browser » Pakistan: Muslims murder 15 Christians, injure 70 with blasts at churches By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2015 08:00 am These blasts led to protests by Christians in Pakistan because for too long the Pakistani government has done nothing to protect the Christians, and has even aided and abetted those who persecute them. And the response from Christians in the West? Yawns of indifference. “15 killed, 70 injured as blasts target Lahore churches,” The News […] Read in browser »