JIHAD WATCH 06/03/2015

Video: Robert Spencer vs. imam on Hannity on Sharia and U.S. mosques
By Robert Spencer on Jun 03, 2015 03:01 am

Last night I appeared on Fox’s Sean Hannity Show discussing the prevalence of a preference for Sharia over U.S. law among Muslims in the United States, and what mosques are doing (and not doing) about it. Appearing along with me was the Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, […]
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Slain Boston jihadi “radicalized by ISIS,” part of terror network
By Robert Spencer on Jun 02, 2015 09:05 pm

And his brother is a leading moderate Islam who somehow failed to imbue his brother with the true, peaceful teachings of Islam that all non-Muslim authorities have no problem understanding. More on this story. “Source: Man fatally shot by officers in Boston part of terror network,” by Ray Sanchez, Evan Pérez and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, […]
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Oregon: “ISIL we R here” graffitied at elementary school playground
By Robert Spencer on Jun 02, 2015 08:47 pm

This is more likely to be some punks having fun than mujahedin trying to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60), but it is nonetheless true that the Islamic State is here, while government and law enforcement authorities are largely asleep at the wheel, and cultural leaders are in full […]
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Boston: Jihad terror suspect shot after threatening cops with military knife
By Robert Spencer on Jun 02, 2015 08:27 pm

There are active investigations of several sites at one — this could ultimately end up being not just one, but a whole group of lone wolves, all misunderstanding Islam together. “Man shot in Roslindale was under 24-hour surveillance,” by Evan Allen, Laura Crimaldi, John R. Ellement and Martin Finucane, Boston Globe, June 2, 2015 (thanks […]
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“It Is Permissible for the Mujahid to Enjoy Young Boys in the Absence of Women”
By Raymond Ibrahim on Jun 02, 2015 08:05 pm

Recently a number of Arabic language websites posted the following picture which is attributed to the official Twitter account of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Caliph Ibrahim of the Islamic State. The Arabic writing reads: “It is permissible for the mujahid [jihadi] to enjoy young boys in the absence of women.” The purported fatwa then justifies […]
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Boston Marathon bomber’s college friend gets 6 years in prison
By Ralph Sidway on Jun 02, 2015 07:57 pm

“Kadyrbayev’s father, Murat, traveled from Kazakhstan to attend his son’s sentencing hearing. He said his son didn’t fully understand in the moment how serious his actions were. ‘Had he known what he was doing and had he understood what he was doing, we wouldn’t be standing here’, Murat Kadyrbayev said through a translator outside court.” Had […]
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Islamic State threatens ancient monastery filled with Christians
By Ralph Sidway on Jun 02, 2015 07:54 pm

A 1,650-year-old monastery in northern Iraq, one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world, is in danger of falling to ISIS…  “Speak up. Of course there is good people in the Islam people. Not all are bad, I believe. But where is the good people? Where is their voice? Nothing!” Archbishop Sharaf said. “Where […]
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Islamic State bans pigeon breeding as offensive to Islam
By Robert Spencer on Jun 02, 2015 03:01 pm

Pigeon genitals. Wow. The Islamic State is becoming as absurd as Woody Allen’s Republic of San Marcos — but no one is laughing, as it commands respect at the point of a gun, and that’s the kind of respect Western authorities best understand these days. “ISIS bans pigeon breeding – punishable by public flogging – […]
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Bomb threats ground 5 US flights
By Robert Spencer on Jun 02, 2015 01:18 pm

And about a dozen planes in the last two weeks. Those pesky right-wing extremists! “Bomb threats ground 5 US flights,” by Sophia Rosenbaum, New York Post, June 2, 2015: Bomb threats grounded multiple flights leaving from various destinations throughout the US on Tuesday morning. Five flights were threatened, with four of them landing safely. A […]
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Diet Coke Muslima has ties to Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood groups
By Robert Spencer on Jun 02, 2015 08:24 am

What is behind her bogus claim of “Islamophobic” victimhood begins to come clear in this context. “‘Diet Coke’ Muslim Discrimination Passenger Has Ties to Radical Imams,” by Jordan Schachtel, Breitbart, June 1, 2015: A Muslim woman who claimed over the weekend–in a social media post that has since gone viral–that United Airlines discriminated against her […]
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Belgium Muslim official says he’d “slaughter each and every” Jew
By Robert Spencer on Jun 02, 2015 05:04 am

Good thing Mohamed N. was removed from his position as a “guardian of the peace.” Surely the architects of today’s Brave New Europe have much better things in store for such a forthright and enterprising young man. Watch for him to turn up as again as an EU “multiculturalism” authority, or a bishop or something. […]
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