JIHAD WATCH 05/13/2015

Canada: Jihad plotter would “explain Islam” to undercover cop By Robert Spencer on May 12, 2015 11:00 pm How did Jahanzeb Malik get the idea that what he was doing in plotting jihad mass murder had anything to do with Islam? After all, all non-Muslim authorities assure us that jihad terror is completely distinct from Islam. Yet here is Jahanzeb Malik thinking that he can teach about Islam. The cognitive dissonance is enormous. […] Read in browser »   CNN: “Star Wars” is more Islamic than the Islamic State By Robert Spencer on May 12, 2015 06:03 pm I was all set to take out more garbage — i.e., answer still more media lies and distortions, but in this piece, “‘Star Wars’ or ISIS: Which is more Islamic?,” (CNN, May 12, 2015), author H. A. Hellyer, a non-resident fellow at the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Qatar-funded Brookings […] Read in browser » UCLA Prof Khaled Abou El Fadl Condemns ISIS, But Does He Condemn Stealth Jihad? By Cinnamon Stillwell on May 12, 2015 05:32 pm UCLA Prof Khaled Abou El Fadl Condemns ISIS, But Does He Condemn Stealth Jihad? By Cinnamon Stillwell and Adelle Nazarian Given the apologias for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) barbarism from the ranks of Middle East studies, it was encouraging to find the University of California, Los Angeles hosting the recent lecture, […] Read in browser » Duke Prof Bruce Lawrence: Pamela Geller a “free speech jihadi” By Robert Spencer on May 12, 2015 05:20 pm Let’s be clear on who we’re dealing with here. Bruce Lawrence is emeritus professor of Islamic studies at Duke University. In 2013 he was reported as saying that Islam “has no connection with terrorism and the propaganda of the forces which are trying to link Islam with terrorism is baseless.” In 2005, he said that […] Read in browser » Brooklyn: Muslims plead guilty to aiding jihad terror group al-Shabaab By Robert Spencer on May 12, 2015 02:56 pm This is the group that carried out the Westgate Mall jihad massacre and the recent jihad massacre at Garissa University College in Kenya. How many more supporters does this group have in the U.S.? Is anyone trying to find out the answer to that question, or would that be “Islamophobic”? “Somali natives plead guilty to […] Read in browser » Canada: Accused jihad mass murder plotter says, “I’m a simple Muslim” By Robert Spencer on May 12, 2015 02:08 pm John Kerry is packing now for his trip to Toronto to explain to Jahanzeb Malik that he is not actually a simple Muslim at all, but a Misunderstander of his beautiful Religion of Peace. “‘I’m a simple Muslim': accused terrorist addresses deportation hearing,” Canadian Press, May 12, 2015: TORONTO — A Pakistani man accused of […] Read in browser » Bangladesh: Muslims hack to death another atheist blogger By Robert Spencer on May 12, 2015 01:13 pm Ananta Bijoy Das is the third atheist blogger who has been recently murdered in Bangladesh. How dare they provoke them! These atheists have to stop poking the Muslims in the eye. They have to realize that their atheism is offensive to Muslims — and you see, they must have known that before they were murdered. […] Read in browser » Egypt: Underage Coptic girl abducted, Muslim neighbor suspected By Raymond Ibrahim on May 12, 2015 06:35 am A 17-year old Coptic Christian girl named Tihani al-Nur Hakim was kidnapped in late April in the village of al-Kom al-Qibliyya in Samalout, Upper Egypt. Her family accuses the next door neighbor, a Muslim man named Ahmed Khalifa. An eyewitness said he saw the Muslim man seizing the girl.  Although the family planned on organizing a protest, […] Read in browser » Egypt: Gunmen kidnap 8-year-old Copt from mother’s arms By Raymond Ibrahim on May 12, 2015 06:31 am Armed gunmen seized an 8-year-old Coptic Christian child from his mother’s arms.  The child, Antonious Zaki Hani, was walking with his mother to school in Nag Hammadi, where he attended second grade. Four armed gunmen appeared, forced the child from his mother’s hands under threat of death, and immediately fled in a car. Since the […] Read in browser » Raymond Ibrahim: Islam’s ‘Reformation’ Is Already Here—and It’s Called ‘ISIS’ By Raymond Ibrahim on May 12, 2015 06:29 am The idea that Islam needs to reform is again in the spotlight following the recent publication of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s new book, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now.  While Hirsi Ali makes the argument that Islam can reform—and is in desperate need of taking the extreme measures she suggests to do so—many of her […] Read in browser »