JIHAD WATCH 05/26/2015

Muslim man stabs and drowns Coptic Christian woman By Raymond Ibrahim on May 26, 2015 03:13 am A Muslim man stabbed a Christian woman with a knife multiple times and then threw her body into a canal last week in Egypt. The Coptic Christian woman, Gamila Basilious, was 48-years-old and married, living in the Ibrahmiya region of Minya.  According to police reports, the man, Mahmoud Hassan Abdulhamid, came to her door inquiring […] Read in browser » Turkey bulldozes Armenian Christian orphanage By Raymond Ibrahim on May 26, 2015 03:10 am On the same year that millions around the world commemorated the centennial of the Armenian Genocide—or, more fundamentally, the Christian Genocide—Turkish authorities have started the demolition of Kamp Armen, an Armenian orphanage. Armenian sources reported in early May that bulldozers have begun to demolish the building located in the metropolitan district of Tuzla, despite attempts […] Read in browser » Denmark: Muslims stone police at funeral of Islamic State jihadi By Nicolai Sennels on May 26, 2015 02:48 am Andres Vo Riis, a.k.a. Hamza Samsam, had been fighting for Islamic State. The police suspects that the one who murdered him is a Shi’ite supporter of the Assad regime. Translated by Nicolai Sennels via 10news.dk: A memorial service in the mosque on Dortheavej for the 19-year-old stabbing victim Andres Vo Riis, alias Hamza Samsam [brother of […] Read in browser » Denmark: Armed criminal gangs dividing into Sunni and Shia By Nicolai Sennels on May 26, 2015 02:34 am What could go wrong? I was ridiculed when some years ago in my book, Among Criminal Muslims: A Psychologist’s Experiences from Copenhagen Municipality, I claimed that many criminal Muslims were religious. More about me and my research here. Naser Khader, who was an MP when my book was published, reviewed the book with the words “Read […] Read in browser » Egypt: Muslim convert to Christianity rots in prison By Raymond Ibrahim on May 26, 2015 02:20 am Bishoy Armia Boulous, formerly known as Mohammed Hegazy, an apostate from Islam in Egypt,remains imprisoned on charges of blasphemy related to his conversion to Christianity. Imprisoned now for approximately a year, he has been held well past the legal six month investigation period.  All this time, he has been subject to physical and verbal abuse, […] Read in browser » Iran: Muslim convert to Christianity gets five years in prison By Raymond Ibrahim on May 26, 2015 02:16 am Ibrahim Firouzi, a Muslim convert to Christianity in Iran, was sentenced to the maximum five years in prison for “action against national security through collusion and gathering.” After Firouzi converted to Christianity, he was arrested on August 25, 2013 and convicted of evangelizing, colluding with “anti-regime” foreign networks, launching a Christian website, and, in short, […] Read in browser » The Islamic prerequisite of Kuwaiti citizenship By Raymond Ibrahim on May 26, 2015 02:09 am On May 11, the Kuwaiti Constitutional Court rejected an appeal by MP Nabil al-Fadl to adjust citizenship laws in order to allow Christians to become citizens. The current law, according to Article 4.5 of the Citizenship Act of Kuwait, holds that he [a potential citizen] be an original Muslim by birth, or that he has […] Read in browser » Islamic State forces Yezidi boys to convert to Islam, sends them into battle By Robert Spencer on May 26, 2015 02:00 am Everyone knows that what the Islamic State does is egregious and unique and has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, but those who are willing to allow their balloon to land may be interested to know that there is precedent even for this in the history of the caliphate. The last caliphate, the Ottoman Empire, […] Read in browser » 81% of respondents to Al Jazeera poll support the Islamic State By Robert Spencer on May 25, 2015 09:02 pm That Tiny Minority of Extremists sure “slammed” this poll, as Bill O’Reilly said when he weaseled out of announcing results of his poll on whether our free speech event in Garland, Texas was a good idea. He claimed we had “slammed” the results and declined to release them. Al Jazeera didn’t hesitate to release this […] Read in browser » Robert Spencer, PJM: Obama: Climate Change Causes Jihad By Robert Spencer on May 25, 2015 07:49 pm Over at PJ Media I discuss the recent appalling and fact-free statements by Obama: State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf was widely ridiculed in February for saying of the Islamic State (ISIS): We cannot win this war by killing them, we cannot kill our way out of this war. We need, in the longer term, […] Read in browser » Typical Egyptian mosque sermons identical to “non-Islamic” Islamic State By Raymond Ibrahim on May 25, 2015 07:29 pm On Friday, May 15, the prayer leader of Safa Mosque in the city of Mersa Matruh, west of Alexandria, Egypt, repeatedly declared that “the Islamic caliphate will return and that Jerusalem, though stolen at the hands of the Jews, will return to Muslims once again.” The mosque’s imam further spoke in tones reminiscent of the Islamic State, […] Read in browser » Pamela Geller, WND: “U.K. Rape Jihadis: ‘This Is OK In Our Culture'” By Robert Spencer on May 25, 2015 07:25 pm Here is the equally harrowing follow-up to the initial revelations from the British victim of a Muslim rape gang. “U.K. Rape Jihadis: ‘This Is OK In Our Culture,'” by Pamela Geller, WND, May 24, 2015: On Friday, I published at Breitbart the horrifying reminiscences of a British woman who suffered repeated gang rapes, beatings and […] Read in browser » Pamela Geller, Breitbart: “The UK’s Rape Jihad: A Survivor’s Tale” By Robert Spencer on May 25, 2015 07:10 pm It’s one thing to read the statistics and the evidence of how accepted this is among some Muslims. It is another to read the story of one of the girls to which this actually happened. “The UK’s Rape Jihad: A Survivor’s Tale,” by Pamela Geller, Breitbart, May 22, 2015: For years now, Muslim rape gangs […] Read in browser » Grandson of medical pioneer cannot follow same profession for being Christian By Raymond Ibrahim on May 25, 2015 06:56 pm Dr. Khaled Montaser, an Egyptian intellectual and frequent critic of the Islamization of the country, recently discussed how discrimination against Christians is widespread in certain medical professions. During a televised program, he pointed out that, although the pioneer of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Egypt was a Coptic Christian (Dr. Naguib Mahfouz), his grandson is essentially banned from entering these professions […] Read in browser » Egyptian judge: ‘Unacceptable for Christians to testify against Muslims’ By Raymond Ibrahim on May 25, 2015 06:50 pm True to the medieval teachings of Islam—in this case, that an “infidel” Christian’s testimony against a Muslim is null and void in (a Sharia) court—the following letter was recently published on Arabic media demonstrating that little has changed in Egypt: Yesterday I suffered an extremely harsh and psychological shock.   I went to court with one of my […] Read in browser » Raymond Ibrahim: The Ongoing War between Islam and Europe By Raymond Ibrahim on May 25, 2015 06:43 pm In the following video, Hanne Nabintu, historian of religions, interviews me on the history of Islam and the West. Topics include the original (but forgotten) Arab conquests, the (demonized) Crusades, and why the modern West’s notion of “history” is immensely skewed. Read in browser » Thousands call for Hagia Sophia (Church) to be converted into mosque in Istanbul rally By marc on May 25, 2015 03:45 pm Well, they say hundreds: www.hurriyetdailynews.com Hundreds of people demanded that the historic Istanbul Hagia Sophia museum be converted into a mosque during a rally in Istanbul on May 24. People gathered outside Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, in the historical Sultanahmet district, with some carrying signs that read: “Hagia Sophia needs to be reopened as a mosque,” […] Read in browser » Pakistan: Muslims set Christian colony ablaze over new blasphemy charges By Robert Spencer on May 25, 2015 12:47 pm Those who are saying that non-Muslims should never intentionally provoke Muslims don’t realize that Islamic supremacists in places like Pakistan, where they have the upper hand, seize on even the most innocuous actions as provocations, and commit violence accordingly. If non-Muslims start to pattern their behavior according to what does not offend Muslims, before too […] Read in browser » Belgium: Jihadis threaten to kill Antwerp mayor if he doesn’t convert to Islam By Robert Spencer on May 25, 2015 12:15 pm Well, you see, he provoked them. If he had just kept his mouth shut, all would be well…wouldn’t it? (Yes, folks, that is sarcasm. The idea of tiptoing around so as not to offend Islamic jihadists is a recipe for surrender and subjugation.) “Convert to Islam or Die! Mayor of Antwerp Given Ultimatum by Extremists,” […] Read in browser » UK: Brainwashed Muslim children aged five think Christmas is banned, warns Scotland Yard commander By marc on May 25, 2015 08:27 am Brainwashed by what exactly? Mak Chishty said children have branded it ‘haram’ – forbidden by Allah Children refusing to shop at Marks & Spencer, mistakenly perceived to be Jewish owned, could be early sign of radicalisation, said Mr Chishty Now where would they have got those ideas? Muslim children as young as five have become […] Read in browser »