JIHAD WATCH 05/14/2015

Italy: Muslims disrupt Catholic procession with insults and threats
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2015 11:55 pm

The Catholics must have provoked them. “Apparently understanding the procession to be a provocation, a group of Muslim youth from the Islamic Center began hurling verbal abuse and threats at the passing procession.” If only they weren’t so…Catholic. If only they wouldn’t stop needlessly provoking the Muslims by…not being Muslims, then things like this wouldn’t […]
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Afghanistan: Taliban gunmen murder seven anti-Taliban Muslim clerics
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2015 11:39 pm

These clerics provoked them, you see. They were needlessly provocative. They should have just gone along with what the Taliban wanted. Didn’t they realize that they were offending the Taliban? How offensive! “Gunmen kill seven in attack on Muslim council in Afghan south: police,” Reuters, May 13, 2015: LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Gunmen opened […]
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Geller, Wilders, Spencer “fighting the West’s battle for freedom”
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2015 11:01 pm

But as those who are excoriating us for “provoking” Muslims with this contest are cowed and intimidated into total submission, they can console themselves that at least they were never “provocative.” “What Good Is Free Speech If You Can’t Speak Freely?,” by Jerry Newcombe, Christian Post, May 13, 2015: By now, gallons of ink have […]
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Pamela Geller “following in the steps of those Sons of Liberty in the Boston Tea Party of 1773″
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2015 10:29 pm

Brilliant piece, and no doubt provocative to the cowards who control the public discourse today — not that they will do anything but heap more opprobrium upon Pamela Geller and others who are fighting to defend freedom. Those who say “Yours was a gratuitous event that was needlessly provocative” don’t realize that Islamic supremacists are […]
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VDH: Jihadists have “already cut a huge swath out of American free speech”
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2015 10:04 pm

“Apparently there is no longer a First Amendment as our Founders wrote it, but instead something like an Orwellian Amendment 1.5, which reads: ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press — except if someone finds some […]
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Vatican officially recognizes the “State of Palestine”
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2015 10:01 am

There is no “State of Palestine” at this time. This is part of the ongoing pressure upon Israel to create one. Creating one will be a great victory for the global jihad force, as a “State of Palestine” will inevitably be a new jihad base for renewed attacks against what remains of Israel. Events will […]
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Jeffrey Tayler in Salon: “The left has Islam all wrong”
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2015 09:28 am

It’s an ongoing puzzle: Salon, which routinely excoriates Pamela Geller and me as “bigoted” “Islamophobes,” even more frequently allows Atlantic writer Jeffrey Tayler to tell the unpopular and unwelcome truths that Salon otherwise lambastes us for telling; see, for example, here and here. One can only speculate as to the provenance of this editorial inconsistency. […]
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Islamic State in Nigeria targets Catholics: 100,000 homeless
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2015 08:40 am

One might think that this ongoing persecution would be a worthy topic of discussion in the Church in America. One would be wrong. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is so committed to “dialogue” with Muslims that it is willing to gloss over uncomfortable truths in pursuit of that dialogue: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists […]
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Pakistan: Islamic State jihadis murder 45 Ismaili Shias in jihad attack on bus
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2015 08:17 am

The Ismailis provoked them by being Ismailis, you see. How dare they poke them in the eye in such a way? Didn’t they realize that their being Ismaili was offensive to these jihadists? They have no one to blame but themselves. So goes the reasoning of those who blame us for the jihad attack on […]
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NSA chief: Islamic State’s ideology “increasingly resonating” with Muslims in US
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2015 07:27 am

The U.S. government’s official position is that the Islamic State’s ideology has absolutely nothing to do with Islam, and that the Muslims who join it know and care little or nothing about their religion, and that the overwhelming majority of Musims reject and are repulsed by its understanding and practice of Islam. And now Mike […]
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