JIHAD WATCH 08/11/2015

California Muslim admits trying to join Islamic State, faces 25 years of prison dawah
By Robert Spencer on Aug 10, 2015 10:28 pm

Yet another Muslim in the U.S. succumbs to the lure of the caliphate — while the analysts who should be spending their time devising ways to counter that lure wave it away by pretending that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam. “O.C. man admits to trying to join ISIS, faces 25 years […]
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Syria: Sunni jihadis fire 1,000 missiles at Shi’ite towns
By Robert Spencer on Aug 10, 2015 06:56 pm

“Al-Nusra and many of its hardline allies consider Shiite Muslims to be heretical” — and in Islamic law, a pious Muslim is to put a heretic to death. How many missiles have “Islamophobes” fired at Muslims over the last few days? Why, none. Yet how much publicity does “Islamophobia” get in the West, compared to […]
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Huffington Post Arabic edition attacks gays, atheists
By Robert Spencer on Aug 10, 2015 06:33 pm

The Huffington Post Arabic edition is the Leftist/Islamic supremacist alliance come to life. No one should be surprised by these posts: the Left for years now has turned a blind eye to Sharia oppression of women, gays, non-Muslims and others. In the hierarchy of Leftist protected classes, clearly Muslims trump gays and women. And gay […]
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Iraqi archbishop: US more concerned about image of Islam than victims of persecution
By Robert Spencer on Aug 10, 2015 06:16 pm

Archbishop Warda said: “All the statements (by U.S. government and media) have not condemned strongly what damage it is doing. What they are saying is just ‘This is not the true Islam. This is violating the picture of Islam.’ The issue for them is the image of Islam, but none of these statements speak about […]
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Robert Spencer, PJM: Shocked, Shocked To Find That Terror Is Going On In Here!
By Robert Spencer on Aug 10, 2015 03:49 pm

Over at PJ Media, I ask why authorities are still taking mosque leaders’ statements after terror arrests at face value. It’s an iconic moment in American cinema, from Casablanca: Captain Renault tells Rick Blaine that he is “shocked! shocked!” to discover that gambling is going on in his establishment, and that it will be immediately […]
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New Jersey Muslim charged with conspiring to support the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Aug 10, 2015 03:30 pm

“Federal officials say the charges against Nader Saadeh, 20, were the result of an FBI investigation into a group of individuals from New York and New Jersey.” A group of what the government and media would have us believe are misunderstanders of Islam. How did such a group arise? How did they all come to […]
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After 4 jihad murders, Bangladesh police ask secular bloggers not to insult Islam
By Robert Spencer on Aug 10, 2015 09:47 am

The idea that they should be killed for criticizing Islam — that the Bangladesh police take for granted. The idea of telling Islamic supremacists that murdering people who disagree with them is barbaric and pointless — that apparently never crosses the minds of Bangladeshi officialdom. And before you get on your high horse, as Barack […]
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Islamic State jihadis recruiting in Turkish mosques, treated in Turkish hospitals
By Robert Spencer on Aug 10, 2015 09:10 am

Turkey’s head of religious affairs insists that “all the Islamic institutions agree that Daesh is a non-Muslim group.” Turkey’s actions suggest that the head of religious affairs is either dishonest or not informed about what his own government is doing. “Ambulances ferry ISIL terrorists between Adıyaman and Syria, CHP report says,” Today’s Zaman, August 9, […]
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Turkey’s religion chief: “Islam never orders a jihad which approves of bloodshed”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 10, 2015 08:30 am

“All the Islamic institutions agree that Daesh is a non-Muslim group,” says Görmez, but that just yet again begs the question: why does this “non-Muslim group” have such appeal among Muslims that thousands of them from all over the world have traveled to Syria, Iraq and Libya to join it? And if Islam never orders […]
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Pakistani pol says entire nation is united to eradicate terrorism
By Robert Spencer on Aug 10, 2015 07:56 am

Hey, this is great news. However, considering that 84% of Pakistanis want Sharia to be the law of the land, and that jihad groups such as the Taliban (aided and abetted by the ISI, Pakistan’s spy service) are working to implement Sharia, and that Pakistan has a long record of aiding jihadis, it is just […]
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Turkey intentionally late in action against Islamic State recruiters
By Robert Spencer on Aug 10, 2015 07:10 am

It is every day clearer that Erdogan hopes to use the Islamic State to his own advantage, using it as an excuse to hit his enemies and as a stalking horse for the reestablishment of the Ottoman caliphate. “Turkey intentionally late in action against ISIL recruiters: Report,” Hürriyet Daily News, August 10, 2015 (thanks to […]
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