JIHAD WATCH 07/17/2015

FBI raids Chattanooga jihadi’s house, two women led out in handcuffs By Robert Spencer on Jul 16, 2015 11:05 pm A widening plot? “LIVE UPDATES: FBI raids shooting suspect’s house, two women led out in handcuffs,” Times Free Press, July 16, 2015: The FBI is investigating two brazen attacks on military facilities in Chattanooga in which four Marines were killed, leading to lockdowns at the Army Recruiting Center on Lee highway as well as the […] Read in browser »   Chattanooga jihadi’s HS yearbook: “My name causes national security alerts” By Robert Spencer on Jul 16, 2015 11:03 pm The false claim that Muslims in the U.S. are discriminated against and harassed in the U.S. by an overreaching and bigoted national security apparatus is thus shown, in the blood and terror in Chattanooga, to be not only false, but dangerous. If the “Islamophobia” grievance industry hadn’t been encouraging young Muslims like Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez […] Read in browser » Chattanooga jihad murderer: Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez By Robert Spencer on Jul 16, 2015 03:58 pm His motive is unclear, says Heavy, but in light of the Islamic State tweet that went out at the time the shooting began, and the Islamic State calls to Muslims in the West to target military personnel, it seems clear enough. “Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know,” by Tom Cleary, Heavy, […] Read in browser » ISIS tweets “Chattanooga” as gunman begins shooting there; 4 murdered By Robert Spencer on Jul 16, 2015 03:34 pm UPDATE: New reports say this was a Pacific timestamp, and that the Tweet came three hours after the attack. More updates when available. According to AP, the shooting started “around 10:30 or 10:45 a.m.” The Islamic State tweet warning of the attack or crowing about the attack was posted at 10:34AM. “Gunshots were fired at […] Read in browser » Egypt: Three Christians arrested for showing “contempt for Islam” By Robert Spencer on Jul 16, 2015 01:09 pm “In Egypt there is no such crime as evangelism,” yes, but in all majority-Muslim countries, Sharia remains a cultural hangover, and in Sharia, proselytizing among Muslims is an offense punishable by death. In the enlightened West, meanwhile, we do not arrest those who show “contempt for Islam,” or who oppose jihad terror. We just excoriate […] Read in browser » Islamic State jihad bomb plotter: “I am no butcher…it was jihad” By Robert Spencer on Jul 16, 2015 12:56 pm “I didn’t do it because I am bloodthirsty. It was jihad. I thought, at some point these Shiites would convert or leave the city. I’m not a butcher. I was carrying out a plan.” Abu Abdullah thus provides a handy capsule explanation of the jihadist agenda: the bloodshed is not carried out for its own […] Read in browser » Islamic State rocket attack sets Egyptian navy warship ablaze By Robert Spencer on Jul 16, 2015 12:41 pm The JV team continues its busy Ramadan. “ISIS-linked terrorist’s rocket attack sets navy warship ablaze in Mediterranean,” by Chris Hughes, Mirror, July 16, 2015: ISIS forces dramatically blew up a navy ship today in the first sea attack the extremists have launched. They fired a deadly rocket salvo at the Egyptian patrol boat which burst […] Read in browser » Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Obama’s Freudian Slip was true By Robert Spencer on Jul 16, 2015 12:40 pm In PJ Media today I discuss a strange case of Barack Obama accidentally telling the truth. Barack Obama, lauded for his allegedly spellbinding eloquence, sure makes a lot of verbal miscues: “57 states,” “my Muslim faith,” etc. If he were a conservative Republican, he would have long since been banished to the Dan Quayle Rest […] Read in browser » Islamic State flogs, puts in metal cages 94 who violated Ramadan fast By Robert Spencer on Jul 16, 2015 12:00 pm Sharia is a slow-motion reign of terror, enforcing the law of Allah by fear and terror. “Islamic State punishes 94 it said violated Ramadan fast: Syria monitor,” Reuters, July 16, 2015: BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have punished at least 94 people including five teenagers, accusing them of violations during the Muslim fasting month […] Read in browser » Islamic State in Libya puts up billboards ordering women to be fully veiled By Robert Spencer on Jul 16, 2015 11:37 am Muslims must not wear anything that might “resemble the attire of unbelievers.” The Islamic State in these billboards insists that it wants all of life to be regulated according to Sharia, Islamic law. Yet Western leaders persist in insisting that the international Islamic State phenomenon, growing more lethal by the day, has nothing to do […] Read in browser » France: Jihadis had planned to behead military officer, film the scene By Robert Spencer on Jul 16, 2015 11:21 am French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said: “We note the power of the threat, a threat level (France) has never before known. The threat is outside, the threat is inside.” Yes, it is. But neither Valls nor any other Western leader is prepared to speak with full honesty about where exactly it is, and from what […] Read in browser » Australia: Bulletproof vests, hoodie with Islamic profession of faith seized By Robert Spencer on Jul 16, 2015 10:18 am “The man’s baggage contained the 17 undeclared ballistic vests and a black hoodie featuring an Islamic creed known as the Shahada, while two more vest were found in unaccompanied baggage.” The Shahada is the Islamic profession of faith: “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” Saying it in Arabic […] Read in browser » UK: Labour pols covered up Muslim rape gang scandal to court Muslim vote By Robert Spencer on Jul 16, 2015 09:36 am “I understood that the community in Rotherham were described as coming from possibly three villages in Kashmir, and that this identification was very important to them.” Not as important as she thinks. Much more important is the fact that the Qur’an sanctions the sexual slavery of Infidel women (see the passages on “the captives of […] Read in browser » Mali: Police arrest 20 Islamic jihadists on bus bound for capital By Robert Spencer on Jul 16, 2015 09:26 am The jihadis “want to show that they can strike anywhere, north or south.” With plots in France and Mali over the last few days, as well as lone jihadis plotting in Boston and acting in Rome and Boise, Idaho, they are showing that well. “Police in Mali Nab 20 Suspected Islamist Militants on Bus Bound […] Read in browser »