JIHAD WATCH 03/17/2015

Even Democrats won’t back Obama’s Iran nuclear deal By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2015 07:56 pm Everyone knows he is handing the Iranians a license to nuke Tel Aviv. Even some Democrats know. “Democrats won’t back Iran nuclear deal in blow to White House as enough break with Obama to to put veto-proof legislation in the works to stop an agreement,” by Francesca Chambers, Daily Mail, March 16, 2015: Democratic senators […] Read in browser »   Robert Spencer in PJM: How & Why Islam Wages War Against ‘Idolatry’ By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2015 07:39 pm Over at PJ Lifestyle today I explain why the Islamic State seeks to destroy all memory of pre-Islamic and non-Islamic civilizations: The Islamic State has now destroyed numerous ancient Assyrian artifacts in the Mosul museum and bulldozed the 3,300-year-old city of Nimrud and the 2,000-year-old city of Hatra. It also recently blew up a tenth-century […] Read in browser » New Islamic State video praises Charlie Hebdo Motoon massacre By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2015 07:27 pm “Yes, Charlie Hebdo is dead, he mocked the prophets/Indeed we will kill without remorse those coming to provoke us/Why are you looking for a fight? You reap what you sow…” Fair enough. Why am I looking for a fight? Because I believe in free expression and a free society, and I don’t believe that violent […] Read in browser » U.S. omits Iran and Hizballah from terror threat list By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2015 06:44 pm Barack Obama is still at it, relentlessly turning allies into enemies and enemies into allies. “U.S. Omits Iran and Hezbollah From Terror Threat List,” by Jack Moore, Newsweek, March 16, 2015: An annual security assessment presented to the U.S. Senate by James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, has excluded Iran and the Lebanese militant […] Read in browser » Uganda: Convert from Islam who fled beating by Muslim uncle mysteriously dies By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2015 06:37 pm “We suspect that the death of our sister Aisha could be related to the medication given the morning of Sunday, which has connection with the arrival of the Muslim relatives on Saturday.” Why would there be such a connection? Muhammad said: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for […] Read in browser » Robert Spencer in the Daily Caller: Is The Islamic State Islamic? Of Course It Is By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2015 12:53 pm In the Daily Caller today I discuss the ongoing and stupid controversy over whether or not the Islamic State is Islamic. Is the Islamic State (ISIS) Islamic? The question would be on the order of “Is the Pope Catholic?” were it not for the fact that Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, David Cameron, and […] Read in browser » South Africa: Muslim students demand that Jewish students be expelled from university By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2015 12:45 pm The Durban University of Technology’s Student Representative Council issued a statement referring to Israel as an “apartheid state.” This is the antisemitic poison that is found on university campuses all over the world these days. And even though this effort failed, there will certainly be more attempts to bar Jews from university campuses. Watch this […] Read in browser » Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Glenn Beck to NRA: It’s Norquist or Me By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2015 12:34 pm Finally, someone stands up and says what needed to be said years ago. My piece in FrontPage today: Glenn Beck has declared that he will leave the National Rifle Association (NRA) if Republican Party kingmaker Grover Norquist remains on the Board of Directors. This is long overdue: it has now been over eleven years since […] Read in browser » Islamic State quotes Qur’an in vow to blow up White House, conquer Rome and Spain By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2015 09:10 am “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” That’s Qur’an 9:111, the justification for suicide attacks. Will some moderate Muslim spokesman in the West kindly explain how the Islamic State […] Read in browser »