JIHAD WATCH 04/30/2015

Top Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Luz says will no longer draw Muhammad By Robert Spencer on Apr 29, 2015 10:43 pm Capitulation to violent intimidation is the order of the day. Kowtowing to thuggery is today’s act of “respect” for the “disadvantaged” and “marginalized.” Yet the more we kowtow to thuggery, the more a thugocracy is enabled. “Top Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Luz says will no longer draw Mohammed,” AFP, April 29, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller): […] Read in browser »   Cousin: Tamerlan Tsarnaev went to Russia looking for jihad By Robert Spencer on Apr 29, 2015 10:24 pm But ultimately, he found it in Boston. “Cousin: Tamerlan Tsarnaev Went to Russia Looking for Jihad,” by Hilary Sargent, Boston Globe, April 29, 2015: In January 2012, Tamerlan Tsarnaev arrived in Russia and began planning an act of terrorism, according to a cousin’s interview with FBI. Sonya Petri, a paralegal for the federal defender’s office, […] Read in browser » Once magnet for foreign mujahedeen, Bosnia now exports them By Robert Spencer on Apr 29, 2015 10:10 pm Bill Clinton’s Balkan intervention of the 1990s will go down in history, if that history is written by free people, as one of the earliest of a series of disastrously ill-considered U.S. foreign policy initiatives that were born of a false, politically correct view of Islam, and ended up aiding the global jihad. “Once magnet […] Read in browser » UK Muslim guilty of jihad plot to murder soldiers By Robert Spencer on Apr 29, 2015 09:53 pm How many more young men like Kazi Islam are in Britain today? What is being done — by anyone — to disabuse them of their religious ideas, which give rise to their plotting in this way? Where will these young men be in ten years? Where will Britain be? “Pictured: Teenage Islamic terrorist who pestered […] Read in browser » Robert Spencer’s Blogging the Qur’an, Sura 4: ‘Women’ By Robert Spencer on Apr 29, 2015 09:36 pm Continuing the revised Blogging the Qur’an series over at PJM: Beating your wife? Fine. Saying Jesus was crucified? Not so good. Welcome to Sura 4, “Women,” another important Medinan sura containing laws for the conduct of women and Islamic family life, and a great deal more. Allah starts by saying that he created men and […] Read in browser » Reza Aslan hypes “Islamophobia” By Cinnamon Stillwell on Apr 29, 2015 04:59 pm At an April 13 lecture at the University of California, Riverside, UCR creative writing professor and self-styled expert on Islam and the Middle East Reza Aslan employed biased sources, isolated statistics, and ad hominem attacks to blame critics of radical Islam for the alleged rise in “Islamophobia” in post-9/11 America. “Islamophobia: The Real Enemy” was […] Read in browser » Islamic State bombs Assyrian, Armenian churches in Syria By Robert Spencer on Apr 29, 2015 02:53 pm Not to worry. No “Islamophobia” was committed. “ISIS Bombs Assyrian, Armenian Churches in Syria,” AINA, April 29, 2015: (AINA) — According to reports from Syria and also the Turkish press, ISIS has bombed two churches in Syria, the St. Odisho Assyrian Church in Tel Tal and the St. Rita Tilel Armenian Church in Aleppo. The […] Read in browser » UK: School officials publicly humiliate students because parents refused permission for mosque visit By Robert Spencer on Apr 29, 2015 02:18 pm The parents were mistaken in citing fears of terrorism in refusing permission to visit the mosque. Their children are unlikely to be attacked or killed there. Much more likely, however, is that students who go to the mosque will be indoctrinated with a dose of soothing nonsense designed to render them complacent about jihad, Sharia, […] Read in browser » Senior Iranian cleric says Kerry told Iran’s negotiator he “wished U.S. had a leader like Iran’s supreme leader” By Robert Spencer on Apr 29, 2015 11:47 am “Seeing unprecedented weakness in the U.S. president, Iranian leaders do not fear the United States anymore.” That says it all. “Report: Kerry Told Iran He Wishes ‘U.S. Had a Leader like Iran’s Supreme Leader,’” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, April 29, 2015: Secretary of State John Kerry told his Iranian counterpart that he wished […] Read in browser » Muslim driver tries to run down cops at Minneapolis Airport By Robert Spencer on Apr 29, 2015 09:30 am “Stanek said they believe the incident was isolated and does not appear to have any ties to homeland security.” How do they know that? Last October the Islamic State issued this call to Muslims in the West: “If you are not able to find an IED [improvised explosive device] or a bullet … smash his […] Read in browser »