JIHAD WATCH 08/04/2015

UK: Jihadi sentenced to 2 1/2 years released after 11 months By Robert Spencer on Aug 03, 2015 04:00 pm “Sentencing, Judge Charles Wide QC told Ali he had made a ‘really determined attempt’ to evade justice. He said: ‘It is absolutely clear you are an extremist and you do support terrorism.'” Good thing he was released early. Maybe he can get a job in the Cameron government. “Extremist released: 31 months jail for terror […] Read in browser »   No Jihad in Gaza, Says George Washington U’s Nathan Brown By Andrew Harrod on Aug 03, 2015 03:22 pm Current Middle East Studies Association (MESA) president and George Washington University political science professor Nathan Brown downplayed Hamas’s long history of terrorism on July 23 at the anti-Israel Jerusalem Fund think tank in Washington, DC. He and others on a panel titled “Gaza in Context: Broader Implications in the Palestinian Plight” claimed that the Islamic supremacism of Hamas and, increasingly, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is […] Read in browser » Germany: Jewish athletes warned to hide identities after Muslim attacks By Robert Spencer on Aug 03, 2015 03:09 pm The new Europe, same as, or much like, the old Europe. “You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers to be the Jews,” says the Qur’an, which in practice means that the most intense of the people in animosity toward the Jews are Muslims. “Euro Maccabi games marred […] Read in browser » Hamas summer camps’ goal is to “instill the spirit of Jihad and of fighting” By Robert Spencer on Aug 03, 2015 02:20 pm This is what the children of Islamic jihadis and supremacists are doing, while ours are learning about “safe spaces” and “microaggressions.” “Hamas Summer Camps in Gaza Train Youth in Warfare, Instill Spirit of Jihad,” MEMRI, n.d.: On July 28, Al-Mayadeen TV reported on Hamas “Vanguard of Liberation” summer camps, which provide military training to youth. […] Read in browser » FBI: “Middle-Eastern males” approaching family members of military personnel By Robert Spencer on Aug 03, 2015 02:02 pm The Islamic State has told Muslims to target and murder members of the U.S. military in their homes. “(U//FOUO) FBI Alert: Middle-Eastern Males Approaching Family Members of US Military Personnel,” Public Intelligence, August 3, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller): The following alert related to “Middle-Eastern males” approaching military family members was obtained from the website […] Read in browser » Islam: Fastest Shrinking Religion in the World (Part 2) By Ibn Warraq on Aug 03, 2015 11:23 am PART TWO CONTINUED: CONVERSIONS TO CHRISTIANITY. MOROCCO In Morocco, there is also a certain amount of evidence of Muslims converting to Christianity. While the majority of Christians are foreigners, the organisation known as the Voice of the Martyrs, founded to help persecuted Christians round the world, claims that there are at least 45,000 native Moroccans […] Read in browser » Surprised — But Not Really By Noor al-Amriki on Aug 03, 2015 10:36 am I converted to Islam at the age of 18, on February 25, 2001 at the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City (ISGOC). (I left Islam in 2003 and went back to ISGOC as an informant for law enforcement from 2006 to 2011.) Before that, I had visited the mosque on numerous occasions to ask questions […] Read in browser » Polish police monitoring 200 jihadis; many entered country as “refugees” By Nicolai Sennels on Aug 03, 2015 10:20 am Jihad reaches Eastern Europe. Apparently several of the jihadis have come to Poland as “refugees.” Find the PEW research mentioned at the end here. Translated by Lukasz from wiadomości: As reported by the tvn24.pl news portal, a detailed report about the terrorist threat was presented last week by the ABW vice director Jacek Gawryszewski to […] Read in browser » “72 virgins are waiting for me in heaven – so why I should prefer only one here?” By Robert Spencer on Aug 03, 2015 06:30 am The interviewer invokes the Islamic prohibition against suicide against this would-be jihad-martyrdom suicide bomber. However, the Qur’an says: “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah , so they kill and are killed.” (9:111) Many Islamic scholars, including […] Read in browser » Israel: Muslim fakes hate attack by “extremist Jews” By Robert Spencer on Aug 03, 2015 05:54 am Hate crimes are currency, and Islamic supremacist advocacy groups are prime traffickers. In Israel, “Palestinian” jihadists use incidents such as this to stir up hatred and violence against Jews. In the United States, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Muslims have on many occasions not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes,” including attacks […] Read in browser »