JIHAD WATCH 05/05/2015

Here we go: McClatchy suggests limits on free speech after Texas jihad shooting
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2015 10:12 pm

You knew this was coming. It was inevitable. We have seen it before. When the Obama Administration blamed the Benghazi jihad attack on a video about Muhammad, there were calls in the mainstream media for restrictions on the freedom of speech. Eric Posner in Slate derided the First Amendment’s “sacred status” and declared that “Americans need […]
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Video: Robert Spencer at the AFDI/JW Muhammad Cartoon Contest
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2015 08:02 pm

In Garland, Texas, last night, before the latest outbreak of violence that has nothing to do with Islam.
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Video: Geert Wilders at the AFDI/JW Muhammad Cartoon Contest
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2015 07:55 pm

We can be thankful that Wilders had to leave early to catch a flight, and thus missed the arrival of the mujadhedin.
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Video: Pamela Geller at the AFDI/JW Muhammad Cartoon Contest
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2015 07:51 pm

Yesterday in Garland, Texas, before the bullets started flying.
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U.S. probes possible international terrorism link with Texas jihad shootings
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2015 07:40 pm

It isn’t as if it is hard to find such a link, but U.S. authorities under Obama are so determinedly clueless that it takes them a great deal of effort to arrive at the obvious. At very least, the shooter appears to have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (Amirul Mu’mineen is Leader of the […]
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Jihad gunmen at AFDI/JW Texas free speech event had more ammo in car
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2015 01:37 pm

“At a news conference, investigators were uncertain of the identities and motives of the gunmen.” Yes, their motives are a total mystery! “Gunmen at Muhammad cartoon event had more ammunition in car, police say,” by Richard A. Serrano and Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann): A federal law enforcement official […]
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Video: Geller vs. Camerota: Free speech warrior bests advocate of Sharia submission
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2015 01:16 pm

The stakes couldn’t possibly be higher, but no one in the mainstream media seems to understand that or to be willing to recognize it publicly. The question is this: will the free West allow thugs and murderers to dictate our behavior and force non-Muslims to conform to an Islamic religious law? Or will it stand […]
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Texas shooter: “When will the kuffar understand and stop insulting the prophet?”
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2015 11:47 am

UPDATE: Apparently Abu Hussain al-Britani is not the gunman, unless someone else has access to his Twitter account, as he is back on Twitter today. —– These tweets (click to enlarge) come from one of the shooters at the AFDI/Jihad Watch Muhammad Art Exposition and Cartoon Contest yesterday — Elton Simpson, aka Shariah is Light, […]
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Texas jihad gunman ID’d, was previously subject of terror investigation
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2015 09:31 am

“Simpson was well known to the FBI. Five years ago he was convicted for lying to federal agents about his plans to travel to Africa, but a judge ruled the government did not adequately prove he was going to join a terror group there.” He did it here instead. And today the mainstream media is […]
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Robert Spencer warned U-Wisconsin students about Islamic State attacks days before Texas shooting
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2015 06:57 am

Here is a fine account of my talk at the University of Wisconsin Madison on April 29, in which I warned about the Islamic State striking in the U.S. — just days before what appear to be a couple of Islamic State jihadis tried to commit jihad mass murder at our AFDI/Jihad Watch Muhammad Art […]
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