JIHAD WATCH 06/30/2015

Netanyahu to Gaza flotilla: Surely you got lost, meant to help butchered Syrians
By Robert Spencer on Jun 29, 2015 06:23 pm

Israeli aid to Gaza amounts to 500,000 times more than the flotilla aid. The supporters of “Palestine” are outrageous moral hypocrites. “Netanyahu to Gaza flotilla: Surely you got lost and meant to help the Syrians being butchered,” by Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, June 28, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller): Israeli officials reiterated on Sunday that […]
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Tunisia: Islamic State jihadi knelt to pray to Allah after massacring tourists
By Robert Spencer on Jun 29, 2015 05:43 pm

Nothing to be concerned about. David Cameron and Boris Johnson assure us this has nothing to do with Islam. And they couldn’t possibly be wrong, and leading their country to ruin through their determined willful ignorance of the enemy’s identity, motives and goals, could they? “Filmed from a hotel balcony, the chilling moment ISIS gunman […]
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Author: State Department guilty of ignoring Muslim persecution of Christians
By Ralph Sidway on Jun 29, 2015 05:23 pm

John L. Allen, author of the 2013 bestseller The Global War on Christians and Associate Editor of Crux Catholic journal, finds that in general, “religion is undervalued” throughout the State Department 2014 “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” which derives from the administration’s “demotion of religious liberty to a second-class right,” listed only as a sub-heading. The Obama-Kerry […]
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UK’s Cameron: “I wish the BBC would stop calling it ‘Islamic State’ because it is not an Islamic state”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 29, 2015 04:14 pm

As if the BBC were telling anything remotely close to the truth in its reporting about the jihad threat. Like the rest of the mainstream media, it retails  politically correct fictions that prevent us from understanding what the jihadis themselves tell us about who they are, what they intend to do, and why they are […]
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London mayor: “Islamic State? This death cult is not a state and it’s certainly not Islamic”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 29, 2015 03:40 pm

“Rehman’s point is that if you call it Islamic State you are playing their game; you are dignifying their criminal and barbaric behaviour; you are giving them a propaganda boost that they don’t deserve, especially in the eyes of some impressionable young Muslims. He wants us all to drop the terms, in favour of more […]
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Bookmark Ibn Warraq’s new website
By Robert Spencer on Jun 29, 2015 12:31 pm

Ibn Warraq has a website at last, and it is a fine one indeed. Be sure to visit it, bookmark it, and visit again, making it a regular habit to do so. Ibn Warraq is one of the few honest thinkers in the world today. His 1995 book Why I Am Not A Muslim was […]
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Islamic State releases video of Kuwait jihadi, consisting largely of Qur’an verses
By Robert Spencer on Jun 29, 2015 11:21 am

As the Islamic State releases a video filled with Qur’an verses, London Mayor Boris Johnson writes in the the Telegraph: “Islamic State? This death cult is not a state and it’s certainly not Islamic: We must settle on a name for our enemies that doesn’t smear all Muslims but does reflect reality.” Obviously Boris Johnson […]
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Strategies of Denial Revisited, Part III
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jun 29, 2015 08:32 am

In opinion poll after poll, Muslims in Western Europe show an astonishing willingness to admit to their support for suicide bombing and for other forms of terrorism, not even in distant lands, but within the very countries they live in, and of course, given the likelihood that many will hide their real feelings, the true […]
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Where are the Protests to Ban Islam’s Black Flag?
By Ralph Sidway on Jun 29, 2015 08:13 am

Even Southerners are calling for the retiring of the Confederate Flag. Where are the Moderate Muslim protests to ban the Black Flag of Islam?  Over at The American Conservative, Rod Dreher has a really stirring piece in which he grapples with the complexity and pain of the guerre du jour, the movement to finally banish […]
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Sister Hatune Dogan on Persecuted Christian Girls Under Islam — on The Glazov Gang
By Jamie Glazov on Jun 29, 2015 08:08 am

The Glazov Gang is a fan-generated program, so please donate to keep it alive, subscribe to its YouTube channel and LIKE it on Facebook. This week’s episode of The Glazov Gang was joined by Sister Hatune Dogan, a Syrian Orthodox nun taking care of persecuted Christians and refugees in Iraq and throughout the Islamic Middle […]
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