Pakistan Muslim scholars: Jihad groups have “nothing to do with Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 07, 2015 06:44 pm
This is the same Pakistan Ulema Council that has endorsed
jihad-martyrdom suicide bombings, so its understanding of what
constitutes “extremes” and “excesses” might not be identical to that of
your average Western non-Muslim analyst. In any case, their fatwa
against the jihad terror groups is, unfortunately, unlikely to be
effective, since the Islamic State and […]
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Islamic State recruiting ‘highly trained foreigners’ to produce chemical weapons
By Robert Spencer on Jun 07, 2015 04:28 pm
How can they attract “highly trained foreigners” when they represent,
as every Western authority will tell us, a twisted version of Islam that
outrages all of the true, peaceful principles of the religion? The
cognitive dissonance is absolute, but no one in any position of power or
influence seems to notice or care. “Isis recruiting […]
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Saudi Supreme Court upholds guilty verdict against blogger for insulting Islam
By Robert Spencer on Jun 07, 2015 09:12 am
In the enlightened West, we don’t jail and flog people for insulting
Islam. We believe in the freedom of speech and the free exchange of
ideas, including the right to criticize ideas one finds wanting in
whatever way. In the free and enlightened West, the only thing that will
happen to you if you are […]
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Jihadi selfie leads US airmen to Islamic State headquarters
By Robert Spencer on Jun 07, 2015 09:01 am
Everyone is chortling over this, but there is one aspect of it about
which no one has remarked: why is the U.S. military relying on this kind
of luck? Why didn’t it know where the Islamic State headquarters
building was already? Are “terrorist selfies” going to come in
sufficient quantity to destroy the Islamic State? […]
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Turkey’s Erdogan: ‘Jewish capital’ is behind New York Times
By Robert Spencer on Jun 07, 2015 08:48 am
Thinking that the New York Times is remotely pro-Jewish or pro-Israel
shows how out of touch Erdogan really is — and demonstrates yet again
how anti-Semitic conspiracy paranoia so often goes along with Islamic
supremacism. “Turkey’s Erdogan: ‘Jewish capital’ is behind New York
Times,” Haaretz, June 7, 2015: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
lashed out […]
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Egypt: Copts attacked, expelled because of Muhammad cartoon
By Raymond Ibrahim on Jun 07, 2015 07:46 am
On Sunday, May 24, in the village of Kafr Darwish, just south of Cairo,
a Muslim mob attacked Coptic Christian homes, including by hurling
stones and Molotov explosives at them. More than 10 homes were torched
and damaged. This latest bout of Muslim persecution of Christians was
prompted by a familiar narrative: one of […]
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Pakistan: Muslims destroy church, beat Christians for ‘proselytism and conversions of Muslims’
By Raymond Ibrahim on Jun 07, 2015 07:43 am
On May 28, in Chakwal city south of Lahore, Muslim men destroyed a
Protestant church and beat six Christians, including the pastor. Some
of those wounded were hospitalized with minor injuries. Pastor Suhail
Masih and five other Christians were in the church when armed men
entered the holy place, instigated by a local imam. […]
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Egypt: Masked men open fire on evangelical church
By Raymond Ibrahim on Jun 07, 2015 07:41 am
On Sunday
morning, May 31 in Senoras city, Fayum, masked men on motorbikes opened
fire on an Evangelical church. Security forces guarding the church
briefly exchanged fire with the assailants before the masked men fled on
their motorbikes. No one was reported hurt.
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Ethiopia: Muslim convert to Christianity told to murder pastors ‘or else’
By Raymond Ibrahim on Jun 07, 2015 07:38 am
On April 25,
police raided a Christian worship service in Asella just south of the
Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The Church of Asella had just baptized
40 new converts to Christianity, prompting mass arrests. One of those
imprisoned, a former Muslim who converted to Christianity known only as
“Palus Ejigu,” said, “We were gathered […]
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Islamic State burns 80-year-old Christian woman alive
By Raymond Ibrahim on Jun 07, 2015 07:34 am
According to a May 26 report, the Islamic State “burned an 80-year-old
Assyrian [Christian] woman to death in a village southeast of Mosul.”
The elderly woman was reportedly immolated for “failing to comply with
Islamic Sharia law.”
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Pope Francis said to back sainthood for anti-Semitic priest
By Robert Spencer on Jun 07, 2015 04:25 am
Canonization in the Roman Catholic Church has already become a charade,
with recently deceased popes whose records are likely to be viewed by
history quite differently from how they are now rushed to sainthood the
way Roman Emperors used to be deified right after their deaths (no
matter what rogues they had been in life), […]
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