JIHAD WATCH 07/13/2015

Canada: Mayor says arrest of Islamic State jihad plotter “not about Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Jul 12, 2015 07:14 pm

Of course. Why should the arrest of a Muslim plotting to commit mass murder in accord with exhortations found in Islamic texts and teachings, and in accord also with calls made by a group calling itself the Islamic State, have anything to do with Islam? Lori Ackerman, of course, is not singular in her denial […]
Read in browser »

After 4 months, Iraqi Christians who fled ISIS still detained by immigration officials
By Robert Spencer on Jul 12, 2015 06:53 pm

“This follows the disturbing pattern that we have seen from the State Department of ignoring the particular targeting of Christians by ISIS, while giving preferential treatment for asylum to other groups with expedited processing — like Somalis, Iraqis, and Syrians, some of whom could very well be members of jihadist movements.” “After Four Months, Why […]
Read in browser »

John Kerry: Islamic State biggest threat to U.S. today
By Robert Spencer on Jul 12, 2015 06:07 pm

A rare true statement from the Secretary of State. And of course the threat of the Islamic State is increased by the fact that Kerry and his cohorts refuse to acknowledge the ideology, beliefs, motives and goals of the Islamic State, and instead pretend that they are all other than what they really are. This […]
Read in browser »

Iran launches “nuke Israel” video game on nuke deal deadline
By Robert Spencer on Jul 12, 2015 05:40 pm

Barack Obama and John Kerry know they want peace. And they couldn’t be wrong, could they? “Iran Launches Haifa Missile Strike Game on Nuke Deal Deadline,” by Ari Yashar, Arutz Sheva, July 11, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Not only was last Friday “Death to Israel Day” in Iran, and a third deadline […]
Read in browser »

Israel: Muslim who ran down border police officers & civilian gets 25 years
By Robert Spencer on Jul 12, 2015 05:02 pm

Last October the Islamic State issued this call to Muslims in the West: “If you are not able to find an IED [improvised explosive device] or a bullet … smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high […]
Read in browser »

Ramadan in Nigeria: Jihad bomb found in church before it could explode
By Robert Spencer on Jul 12, 2015 03:11 pm

Ramadan is the month in which Muslims are expected to renew and increase their devotion to Allah. Since jihad against non-Muslims is in Islamic theology an act of devotion to Allah, it becomes more virulent during Ramadan. “Explosives found at church in Jos, central Nigeria: police,” Agence France Presse, July 12, 2015 (thanks to The […]
Read in browser »

UK: Former mosque chairman linked to DVD glorifying suicide bombing
By Robert Spencer on Jul 12, 2015 02:46 pm

The Qur’an guarantees Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111). The British political elites will never, ever admit that much of what they consider to be “extremist,” and that they assume most Muslims in Britain reject, is actually established doctrine of mainstream Islam that Muslims reject only at risk of being […]
Read in browser »

Islamic State’s female police force whips, bites women who get out of line
By Robert Spencer on Jul 12, 2015 01:39 pm

The sex slavery has Qur’anic justification (see “the captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50), as does the easy divorce — however, if it is accurate that women are “‘divorced’ by an Islamic cleric and married to another fighter for a week,” this would seem to violate the Qur’an’s prescribed waiting period after […]
Read in browser »

UK counter-terror police official was defender of the Islamic State who “despised Britain”
By Robert Spencer on Jul 12, 2015 10:07 am

The story of Abdullah al Andalusi, aka Mouloud Farid, aka Wazir Leton Rahman, epitomizes the confusion and willful ignorance of the British political class. The British government wouldn’t be able to distinguish a “moderate” from an “extremist” if its life depended on it, and it does. The British intelligentsia will never, even to the point of […]
Read in browser »