JIHAD WATCH 05/12/2015

Muslim had photo of Toronto tower with caption, “If I only had a plane”
By Robert Spencer on May 11, 2015 11:01 pm

How many more like him are still in Canada? “Pakistani immigrant declared security threat, to be deported, while another ordered back into custody,” by Stewart Bell, National Post, May 11, 2015: TORONTO — Mohammed Aqeeq Ansari stockpiled firearms, made trips to Pakistan to visit a cleric who fought “jihad” in Afghanistan and wrote provocatively about […]
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Virginia Muslima, Islamic State supporter, gets 4 1/2 years prison for lying to FBI
By Robert Spencer on May 11, 2015 10:45 pm

“The social media machine ensnared Ms. Coffman…” No. The Islamic State ensnared Ms. Coffman. The social media machine was just its instrument. But authorities are generally not interested in looking into what really motivates such people, as it would involve considering Islamic texts and teachings. “Henrico woman, ex-ISIS supporter, sentenced for lying to FBI,” by […]
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MIT’s Muslim chaplain raised money for al-Qaeda groups
By Robert Spencer on May 11, 2015 10:07 pm

Everyone at MIT no doubt assumed that Laher was a “moderate.” To question that assumption would have been “Islamophobic.” “Al Qaeda’s Base at MIT,” by Ilya Feoktistov and Charles Jacobs, Breitbart, May 11, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): At the end of April, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled a permanent memorial to […]
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Minnesota: Jihad terror recruit back in custody after violating release conditions
By Robert Spencer on May 11, 2015 08:58 pm

“After Yusuf pleaded guilty earlier this year to conspiracy charges, Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis agreed to a proposal by his attorneys to enroll the 18-year-old man in Heartland Democracy’s program designed to reshape the attitudes of troubled youth, with special emphasis on Somali-American teens who feel disenfranchised.” It didn’t work. It could never […]
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Geller and Spencer in Breitbart: “In Cathy Young’s World, Everybody Surrenders”
By Robert Spencer on May 11, 2015 02:20 pm

Cathy Young and The Daily Beast clearly intended her hit piece on Pamela Geller and me to be a comprehensive source for lazy journalists, for everything that is wrong with us. The problem is that her piece is a farrago of misrepresentations and outright lies. Pamela Geller and I respond at Breitbart today: The teaser […]
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Pakistan: Muslims tell Christian, “stop building churches or we will kill you”
By Robert Spencer on May 11, 2015 12:14 pm

What, then, should Javed David do in the face of this violent intimidation? He should stop building churches, right? Because if he continues to build churches, he will offend Muslims, and be needlessly provocative. Right? That is what the mainstream media has been telling us in the wake of our Muhammad cartoon contest: it offended […]
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Haroon Moghul: Geller & Spencer are “the Anwar al-Awlakis of anti-Muslim terrorism”
By Robert Spencer on May 11, 2015 11:07 am

Haroon Moghul, fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, Fellow at the New America Foundation, perennial Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University, energetic purveyor of the propaganda fiction “Islamophobia,” and defamation peddler, attended Pamela Geller’s recent talk at Brooklyn College, where she was set upon by Islamic supremacist thugs who demonstrated their contempt for […]
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Michigan: Muslim publisher says Pamela Geller is “worse than ISIS”
By Robert Spencer on May 11, 2015 09:19 am

Watch for the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims to rise up and denounce Osama Siblani, the publisher of Arab American News, and affirm their disgust with the Islamic State (ISIS) and support for Pamela Geller’s freedom of speech. Watch for them to excoriate Siblani for his hateful and inflammatory rhetoric, especially at a time when […]
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Jihad Watch: The most attacked site on the Internet
By Robert Spencer on May 11, 2015 08:06 am

Daniel Cid, the Chief Technical Officer of the web security firm Sucuri, has informed me that of the thousands of websites his company protects, including sites much bigger than this one, Jihad Watch is by far the most frequently attacked: Here at Sucuri we protect thousands of websites through our enterprise Website Firewall. One of […]
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Malaysia: Muslim leader forbids Mother’s Day, says it honors Virgin Mary
By Robert Spencer on May 11, 2015 05:00 am

“Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. […]
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