JIHAD WATCH 05/09/2015

Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: Je Suis Pamela Geller By Robert Spencer on May 08, 2015 09:58 pm Standing for the freedom of speech no matter what the risks. From FrontPage: I was standing next to Pamela Geller just after our American Freedom Defense Initiative/Jihad Watch Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest ended last Sunday in Garland, Texas when one of our security team ran in and told us that there had been […] Read in browser »   Australian police disrupt jihad mass murder bomb plot In Melbourne By Robert Spencer on May 08, 2015 09:46 pm How did this young adherent of the Religion of Peace get “provoked”? Is someone drawing Muhammad in Melbourne? “Australian Police Say They Disrupted Bomb Plot In Melbourne, Associated Press, May 8, 2015 (thanks to Kenneth): Police arrested a 17-year-old and accused him of plotting to detonate three homemade bombs in the Australian city of Melbourne, […] Read in browser » Are Muslims the New Jews? By A. J. Caschetta on May 08, 2015 09:23 pm In the twentieth century, the field of Middle East Studies was dominated by the graduates of only a handful of schools. Then, inspired by the horrors of 9/11, scholars from a variety of fields entered the discourse on terrorism, Islamism and the Middle East. Valuable contributions have been made by surgeons, psychiatrists, theologians and classicists. […] Read in browser » Robert Spencer, PJM: Our Cartoon Contest Provoked Jihadis? Here’s News: They Were Already Provoked By Robert Spencer on May 08, 2015 08:32 pm Over at PJM I discuss the charge that our free speech event that was attacked by jihadis in Texas was needlessly provocative. Islamic jihadists tried to commit mass murder at the American Freedom Defense Initiative/Jihad Watch Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest that Pamela Geller and I hosted in Garland, Texas, last Sunday. Media pundits […] Read in browser » Norway ends blasphemy law because of Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre By Robert Spencer on May 08, 2015 07:56 pm This is interesting: just as the U.S. is instituting a de facto blasphemy law, Norway is abandoning its de jure one. “Norway ends blasphemy law after Hebdo attack,” The Local, May 7, 2015: Norway has scrapped its longstanding blasphemy law, meaning it is now legal to mock the beliefs of others, in a direct response […] Read in browser » UK police officer’s son is waging jihad in the Islamic State By Robert Spencer on May 08, 2015 04:12 pm Insane Britannia: shoes are no good to send to his jihadi brother but underwear or socks would have been OK. But the main point of interest in this story is not with Majdi Shajira at all, but with his brother Amer. Presumably the household in which he was raised, since his father was a police […] Read in browser » Syrian Archbishop: “We expect Christians in the West to help us. They do not” By Robert Spencer on May 08, 2015 03:43 pm Why don’t the Christians in the West help them? Because it might harm the dialogue: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.” — Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February […] Read in browser » Hamas-linked CAIR urges Michigan Muslims to take precautions after Islamic State threatens Pamela Geller and non-Muslims in US By Robert Spencer on May 08, 2015 11:07 am The actual Islamic State threat said that at our free speech event in Garland, Texas, last Sunday, “our aim was the khanzeer Pamela Geller and to show her that we don’t care what land she hides in or what sky shields her; we will send all our Lions to achieve her slaughter.” But Hamas-linked CAIR […] Read in browser » UK chooses slow suicide over immediate suicide By Robert Spencer on May 08, 2015 09:01 am David Cameron and the Tories have won an upset victory over the man who was supposed to be Britain’s next Prime Minister, Ed Miliband of Labour. How wonderful! Britain has rejected Miliband, who said that he would criminalize “Islamophobia,” and chosen to re-elect Cameron, the dhimmi appeaser who banned Pamela Geller and me from Britain […] Read in browser » A Person Who Consents By Michael Devolin on May 08, 2015 08:21 am (Dedicated to Pamela Geller) “To a person who consents no injustice is done.” –Latin maxim It should be quite disturbing for all Canadians to read in the newspapers that Omar Khadr has been granted bail and, if the Federal Government’s attempt to have this bail order stayed is unsuccessful, he will be released into the […] Read in browser »