JIHAD WATCH 04/16/2015

Canada: Muslim teens in custody until Monday for fear they’ll wage jihad
By Robert Spencer on Apr 16, 2015 12:56 am

But what if they wage jihad on Tuesday? “Montreal Teens Arrested Over Terrorism Fears,” by Peter Rakobowchuk, The Canadian Press, April 15, 2015: MONTREAL – Two 18-year-olds will remain in custody until at least next Monday because authorities fear they will commit a terrorism-related offence. No charges have been filed against the man and woman, […]
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Wisconsin: Public school students must “pretend you’re a Muslim”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2015 09:59 pm

Once they’re pretending they’re Muslim, students must describe the “struggles” they face. When will Union Grove High School have students pretend that they’re Nigerian Christians, and the struggles they face when Muslims of Boko Haram come to their village, burn down their church, and take their female children captive as sex slaves? When will Union […]
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UK: Muslim politician’s son arrested for trying to join the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2015 08:41 pm

No doubt everyone assumed that Waheed Ahmed was moderate and rejected all that. Shakil Ahmed is “shocked,” so everyone still believes that he didn’t learn at home a smidgen, not a jot or a tittle, of the beliefs and assumptions that led him to try to join the Islamic State. And that may well be […]
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Eastern Michigan U: Muslims disrupt “American Sniper” showing, force cancellation
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2015 05:23 pm

In the early 1930s, both before and just after the National Socialists came to power, National Socialist brownshirts would go to universities and disrupt the lectures of anti-Nazi professors, shouting them down and physically menacing them. These students are the new brownshirts, fascists who are determined to shout down and silence anyone and everyone who […]
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Lawyer: Accused jihadist only claimed to support Islamic State to seduce women
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2015 04:59 pm

So says his defense attorney, anyway. What is noteworthy about this story is that Mohamed B. and his lawyer seem to take for granted that Muslim women will find an Islamic State jihadist exciting. Why wouldn’t these niqabbed women that Mohamed was trying to seduce rise up and denounce him for being a member of […]
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Afghan Colonel was paid $250,000 to kill US personnel, Pentagon coverup ensued
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2015 04:41 pm

Speaking of the Pentagon being not quite forthright about inconvenient matters: “BOMBSHELL: Afghan Colonel Was Paid $250,000 to Kill US Air Force Personnel, Pentagon Cover-Up Ensued,” by Patrick Poole, PJ Media, April 15, 2015: A bombshell revelation has emerged in the incident responsible for the greatest US Air Force loss of life during the War […]
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UK Prison Service allowing jihadi book to be distributed to inmates
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2015 04:13 pm

Syed Abul Ala Maududi does indeed reflect the same ideology as that of the Islamic State, but he is also completely mainstream. Go into any Islamic bookstore in the UK or the US and you will see books by Maududi. That ought to tell authorities something, but it doesn’t, because they don’t want to know. […]
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France: more women than men leaving for jihad in the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2015 03:56 pm

For a Muslim woman who believes in jihad, that’s where the real men are. “France: more women than men leaving for jihad,” ANSAmed, April 15, 2015 (thanks to Insubria): (ANSAmed) – PARIS – For the first time in March the number of French young women leaving to fight the jihad has exceeded that of men. […]
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Danish queen: “It is vital that we give Islam opposition”
By Nicolai Sennels on Apr 15, 2015 03:42 pm

In a book written by journalist Annelise Bistruphave, published in April 2005, the Danish Queen Margrethe II said: We are challenged in these years by Islam, both globally and locally, and it is a challenge we have to take seriously. … There is something impressive about people for whom religion permeates life from morning to night, […]
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“Many streets in European cities have become hunting grounds for Jews”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2015 03:28 pm

“They have been put under humiliation wherever they are overtaken, except for a covenant from Allah and a rope from the Muslims. And they have drawn upon themselves anger from Allah and have been put under destitution. That is because they disbelieved in the verses of Allah and killed the prophets without right. That is […]
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Islamic State close to taking Ramadi, just 70 miles from Baghdad
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2015 03:18 pm

Ramadi is in Iraq’s Anbar province, and its strategic importance is huge. Anbar’s governor, Ahmed al-Dulaimi, said in November 2014: “If we lose Anbar, that means we will lose Iraq.” So yesterday the Pentagon told us that the Islamic State had lost 25% of its territory, and today they’re on the verge of capturing a […]
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Islamic State camp a few miles from Texas
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2015 10:54 am

Combine this with Obama’s open borders policy, and America faces a bright and secure future of hope and change. “ISIS Camp a Few Miles from Texas, Mexican Authorities Confirm, Judicial Watch, April 14, 2015 (thanks to Adrienne): ISIS is operating a camp just a few miles from El Paso, Texas, according to Judicial Watch sources […]
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Raymond Ibrahim: Obama’s Christianity — A Political Tool to Silence Christians
By Raymond Ibrahim on Apr 15, 2015 10:45 am

Here in the United States, where Americans are used to hearing their president always invoke Christianity in a manner that silences Christians, United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron’s recent Easter message was moderately refreshing. Among other things, Cameron made it a point to say “that we should feel proud to say, ‘This is a Christian […]
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