Germany: Frankfurt professional bike race canceled over jihad plot
By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 11:44 pm
This is just what the jihad terrorists want: to compel non-Muslims to
curtail their behavior and live in fear. This cancellation will only
provoke more jihad terror threats. “Frankfurt bike race cancelled over
Islamist terror plot arrests,” by Justin Huggler, Telegraph, May 1, 2015
(thanks to Pamela Geller): Police in Frankfurt ordered the cancellation
of […]
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Islamic State demands $23 million for Christian hostages
By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 11:24 pm
They’re acting in full accord with Islamic law. Here is a salient
passage on this issue from a Shafi’i manual of Islamic law: When an
adult male is taken captive, the caliph considers the interests … (of
Islam and the Muslims) and decides between the prisoner’s death,
slavery, release without paying anything, or ransoming himself […]
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Minnesota mosques, Muslim orgs complain about anti-terror program
By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 07:16 pm
Have you ever — ever! — seen Muslim organizations anywhere in the U.S.
express their unreserved support for any anti-terror program? Instead,
again and again we get this complaining that such programs stigmatize
and discriminate against them. One might almost get the impression that
Hamas-linked CAIR and the other Muslim groups involved here don’t want
[…]
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Muslim cleric: Jews “malignant tumor” that “can only be treated by eradication”
By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 06:36 pm
This is not what the world considers hate speech. What the world
considers hate speech is opposing this. “Egyptian Cleric Saad Abu Aziz:
Jews Are a Malignant Tumor That Must Be Eradicated,” MEMRI, April 24,
2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller): In an April 24 Friday sermon, which he posted on the Internet, Egyptian cleric Saad […]
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Islamic State hides heavy weaponry at mosques and occupied churches
By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 04:12 pm
“They use the mosques and churches because they know that the coalition
jets won’t shell holy locations.” “IS Hides Heavy Weaponry at Religious
Sites,” by Sardar Sattar, BasNews, May 1, 2015 (thanks to The Religion
of Peace): A member of the Nineveh Province council has revealed that
Islamic State (IS) hides heavy weapons in mosques […]
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Ex-Muslim: Qur’an revealed a religion I did not like
By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 03:55 pm
Mona Walter grew up a Muslim in Somalia. When she moved to Sweden, she
started studying Islam, and found that she did not like what she was
learning. Now she has left Islam and is called an “Islamophobe” and
worse. What should she have done? Stayed in a religion she disliked and
believed to be […]
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India’s spy agency warns of threat from Islamic State’s Af-Pak group
By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 09:17 am
The Islamic State now has a presence not just in Iraq and Syria, but in
Libya, Nigeria, the Philippines, Egypt, Yemen, and Afghanistan and
Pakistan. Its influence is spreading rapidly among Muslims worldwide
while Western leaders wave it away and insist that it has nothing to do
with Islam. “Islamic State’s Af-Pak Group a Cause […]
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Robert Spencer’s Blogging the Qur’an: Sura 5, “The Table”
By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 08:31 am
Newly revised edition up at PJM: Allah spends most of Sura 5, “The
Table,” castigating the Jews and the Christians for their various sins
and offenses. If you think he was angry with them in suras 2-4, you
ain’t seen nothing yet. This sura dates from the Medinan period (as do
suras 2-4) — according […]
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Turkey: Historic 12th-century church to be reopened as a mosque
By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 08:18 am
Turkey’s rapid re-Islamization and assertion of Islamic supremacism
continues. “Historic Hagia Sophia in a Turkish province to be re-opened
as mosque,” by Serdar Korucu, Hürriyet Daily News, May 1, 2015: A ruined
Hagia Sophia dating back to the 12th century in the western border
province of Edirne will be renovated as a mosque, despite former […]
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3,000 more foreign jihadis join the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 07:06 am
The lure of the concept of the caliphate continues to be ignored and
dismissed. The mainstream media is too busy declaring victory: A CNN
headline asked in November 2014: “Has ISIS peaked? Terror group suffers
setbacks in Iraq.” The Atlantic announced in January 2015: “ISIS Is
Losing Its Greatest Weapon: Momentum: Evidence suggests that the […]
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