JIHAD WATCH 06/28/2015

Islamic jihadists murder four with bombs at Baghdad street markets By Robert Spencer on Jun 27, 2015 02:52 pm Ramadan is in full swing not just in France, Kuwait, and Tunisia, but in Baghdad, less than 100 miles from the domains of the Islamic State. “Bomb attacks kill four people at Baghdad street markets,” Egypt Independent, June 27, 2015: Four people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics […] Read in browser »   Tunisia jihad murderer: “There was no sign he was an extremist, he just looked like a normal young man.” By Robert Spencer on Jun 27, 2015 02:35 pm The Islamic State’s manual How to Survive in the West teaches Muslims “how to live a double-life, how to keep your Secret life private, how to survive in a threatening land, how you can Arm and strengthen the Muslims when the time for Jihad comes to your country, and neighborhood….If you are a convert to […] Read in browser » Offer for Rod Dreher of The American Conservative: A Free One-Way Ticket to the Islamic State By Robert Spencer on Jun 27, 2015 01:52 pm Rod Dreher of The American Conservative writes: “I am more concerned today, in 2015, post-Indiana and post-Brendan Eich, with secularist threats to religious liberty and religious tolerance than I am with Islam in America — and if you’ve been reading me for a while, you know that’s a big shift for me.” Indeed it is. […] Read in browser » Foreign Policy thinks tweeting photos of gay marriage supporters will defeat the Islamic State By Robert Spencer on Jun 27, 2015 12:17 pm It is much, much more likely that the Islamic State will see the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage as evidence of the U.S.’s decadence and societal decay, and that will only serve to embolden and encourage them. But there is another glaring fallacy in this “analysis”: “That’s the lesson of history,” Rosa Brooks asserts: […] Read in browser » Australia: Muslim teen in touch with Islamic State allegedly compiled hit list of people he wanted to behead By Robert Spencer on Jun 27, 2015 11:38 am “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” — Qur’an 47:4 One might almost get the impression that all this had something to do with Islam, were it not for all our wise and learned leaders assuring us to the contrary, and feeding us a steady diet of Kardashians so that we stay fat, happy, […] Read in browser » Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Michigan Professor Juan Cole Thinks the Charleston Race Murders Are My Fault By Robert Spencer on Jun 27, 2015 10:45 am In PJ Media I take apart the latest farrago from a leader of the academic left. …University of Michigan professor Juan Cole, showing an imaginative reach that would arouse envy in J. K. Rowling, blames Roof’s murders on … Pamela Geller and me. He reveals how uninterested in truth and rational analysis the academic Left […] Read in browser » France, Kuwait, Tunisia attacks followed IS call to make Ramadan “calamity” for “infidels, Shi’ites & apostate Muslims” By Robert Spencer on Jun 27, 2015 10:10 am “If the attacks were indeed an answer to ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani’s recent call for savagery,” the unnamed Fox News writer assures us, “it would represent a hideous perversion of Islam’s most holy period, which began June 17 and ends July 17.” Why is Fox editorializing in this manner in the middle of what […] Read in browser » Tunisia plans to close 80 mosques for inciting violence after hotel jihad attack By Robert Spencer on Jun 27, 2015 09:04 am Tunisia’s government can recognize that preaching in mosques can incite violence. The government of the United States cannot. To do so would be “Islamophobic.” “Tunisia government says to close 80 mosques for inciting violence, after hotel attack,” Reuters, June 26, 2015: TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia plans within a week to close down 80 mosques that […] Read in browser » Strategies of Denial Revisited (Part II) By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jun 27, 2015 08:53 am One of the ways, paradoxically, to deny or minimize the threat of Islam is to focus only on the Qur’an, and then on selective quotation from the handful of verses that appear to reassure, not threaten. There is 2.256 (“no compulsion in religion”) and 5.32  (an injunction against murder) without the considerable modifying of that […] Read in browser » U.S. troops face eating, drinking restrictions during Ramadan By Robert Spencer on Jun 27, 2015 08:24 am Do U.S. troops fast during Yom Kippur? Lent? No? Why not? “U.S. Troops Face Eating, Drinking Restrictions During Ramadan,” by Jeryl Bier, Weekly Standard, June 26, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller): A top commander in southwest Asia reminded U.S military personnel stationed in Muslim countries in the Middle East of the restrictions placed on them […] Read in browser »