JIHAD WATCH 04/21/2015

Turkish cops detain UK Muslim family thought to be headed for Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Apr 20, 2015 10:52 pm

This is not the family that tried to get there last week. This is a new one. They are coming all the time. Yet Western analysts still wave away the Islamic State’s appeal to Muslims worldwide by dismissing them as “un-Islamic.” “Turkish police detain British family thought to be headed for Syria,” Reuters, April 20, […]
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“Australian values are the values of the kuffar” (unbelievers)
By Robert Spencer on Apr 20, 2015 10:06 pm

No doubt moderate Muslim spokesmen in Australia and all over the West will quickly explain to us how Harun Mehicevic is wrong on Islamic grounds, and is a misunderstander of Islam. “Harun Mehicevic hits out at Australian values in Al-Furqan rants,” by James Dowling, Sam Landy, Aleks Devic, and Tom Minear, Herald Sun, April 21, […]
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Montreal Muslims had explosives, accused of trying to join jihad group
By Robert Spencer on Apr 20, 2015 09:12 pm

Their families have already swung with dispatch into victimhood mode. “Terrorism charges against young Montreal pair after RCMP probe,” by Allan Woods, Toronto Star, April 20, 2015: MONTREAL—A young Montreal couple arrested last week is now facing terrorism charges after investigators claim to have found explosive substances and evidence the 18-year-olds planned to join an […]
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San Diego: Muslims who tried to join Islamic State held without bail
By Robert Spencer on Apr 20, 2015 08:53 pm

Neither law enforcement officials nor the mainstream media seem to have any curiosity about why so many Muslims from the U.S. try to join the Islamic State. More on this story. “Terror suspects ordered held without bail,” FOX 5, April 20, 2015: SAN DIEGO — Two 21-year-old Minnesota men, who allegedly traveled to San Diego […]
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UK Muslim groomed friend to murder British soldiers
By Robert Spencer on Apr 20, 2015 07:51 pm

“Islam ruthlessly exploited to the utmost Thomas’ vulnerability and obvious wish to try and ingratiate himself with Islam.” Are British officials going to compel Kazi Islam to change his name, so as to avoid giving anyone the impression that his plot to murder British soldiers had anything to do with…Islam? “Teenager ‘groomed friend to copy […]
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UK admits Nazis from Spain, Canada and US for rally calling Jews “the enemy” and “children of darkness”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 20, 2015 10:13 am

Recall that when Pamela Geller and I were banned from entering Britain, the Home Office sent me a letter saying that allowing me into Britain would be “not conducive to the public good” because I made the true statement that Islam “mandates warfare against unbelievers.” Then it came out that one email from the Home […]
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UK cops arrest 14-year-old Muslim in connection with Australia Islamic State jihad plot
By Robert Spencer on Apr 20, 2015 09:28 am

I read the news today, oh boy, 14-year-old jihadi in Blackburn, Lancashire… “UK police arrest boy, 14, over Australia IS attack ‘plot,'” AFP, April 20, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann): Police in Britain said Monday they have arrested a 14-year-old boy in connection with an alleged Islamic State-inspired attack plan in Australia. The boy was arrested […]
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Egypt: Christians celebrated Easter outdoors because Muslims forbid church building
By Raymond Ibrahim on Apr 20, 2015 09:03 am

Due to the difficulties Egypt’s Coptic Christians experience in trying to build—or even repair—churches in their homeland, some end up meeting in Coptic homes to worship (and often are attacked for it), while others worship out in the open. This was the case for the Christians of Nag Shenouda, in Sohag City.  For 44 years they […]
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Saudi thinker: Muslim institutions teach that Christians are ‘infidels’ and ‘enemies’
By Raymond Ibrahim on Apr 20, 2015 09:00 am

According to Saudi novelist and writer, Hani Naqshabandi, “Our [Islamic] religious institutions do not give us room to exercise free thought.”  By way of example, he pointed out that “They [Saudi institutions] said that the Christian is an infidel, a denizen of hell, an enemy to Allah and Islam.  So we said, ‘Allah’s curse on […]
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Raymond Ibrahim: Christians Prefer Death to Islam
By Raymond Ibrahim on Apr 20, 2015 08:57 am

Approximately two months after the Islamic State (IS) published a video depicting its members slaughtering 21 Coptic Christians in Libya, on Sunday, April 19,  the Islamic jihadi organization released another video of more Christians in Libya being massacred, this time for not paying jizya—extortion money demanded of the “People of the Book” according to Koran 9:29. Two scenes […]
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