JIHAD WATCH 09/06/2015

Christians in Syrian town where priest was kidnapped now paying jizya
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2015 10:11 pm

Every element in the “contract” below is an established and mainstream element of Islamic law, although of course Aleteia, which is an organ of the establishment Catholic denial regarding the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, doesn’t tell you that. The Islamic State is not fabricating these laws in a manifestation of their “extremism.” […]
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Pakistan: Muslim family kills Christian son-in-law, shoots daughter who left Islam
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2015 09:50 pm

“The attackers returned to their village and publicly proclaimed that they had avenged their humiliation and restored the pride of the Muslims by killing the couple in cold blood.” Think for a moment about the values and assumptions and beliefs someone would have to have in order to say such a thing. “Christian in Pakistan […]
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Spain accuses 18-year-old Muslima of trying to join the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2015 09:26 pm

No one seems at all curious about why so many young Muslims from the West keep trying to join the Islamic State, despite the fact that virtually all Muslim groups in the West have denounced it. “Spain arrests ‘Syria-bound’ teenage girl who preached jihad online,” The Local, September 5, 2015: Spanish police said they arrested […]
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Sharia Pakistan: Christian arrested on false charges of blasphemy
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2015 09:08 pm

No one will be concerned about this. It isn’t as if this were a case of “Islamophobia” or something serious and important like that. “Pak Christian arrested on false charges of blasphemy,” UCAN Directory, September 4, 2015: A Christian of the village of Usman Wala in the district of Kasur in Pakistan’s Punjab province has […]
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Sharia Afghanistan: Man, woman given 100 lashes in public for adultery
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2015 09:00 pm

Remember: opposing Sharia punishments makes you a racist, bigoted Islamophobe. “Afghan man, woman given 100 lashes in public for adultery,” Gulf News, September 2, 2015: Kabul: An Afghan man and woman found guilty of adultery received 100 lashes on Monday in front of a crowd who filmed their punishment, TV footage showed. Public lashings and […]
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Kashmir: Muslims warn people to “strive for the supremacy of the religion”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2015 08:43 pm

Or else. Sharia, as we see here yet again, is an empire of fear. “Hizbul Mujahideen puts up posters in Pulwama, threatens against ‘those spreading immorality,'” DNA India, September 4, 2015: Hizbul Mujahideen militant outfit on Friday pasted posters in Kellar belt of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, asking people to live life the Islamic way […]
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Afghanistan: Sunni jihadists murder 13 Shi’ites on a minibus
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2015 10:55 am

The Sunni/Shi’te jihad has killed far more people than the trumped-up propaganda term “Islamophobia.” Yet no one seems particularly concerned about it as a human rights issue. Perhaps too much concern about it would in itself be “Islamophobic.” “Gunmen kill 13 civilians on a minibus in north Afghanistan,” Reuters, September 5, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann): […]
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At least 10 killed in jihad attacks in Tajikistan, U.S. embassy shut
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2015 08:50 am

“The group was led by Major General Abdulkhalim Mirzo Nazarzod…Nazarzod is a member of the opposition Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan…Rakhmon, a former head of a Soviet state farm who tolerates little dissent, has put pressure on the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan…He faced embarrassment earlier this year when the U.S.-trained commander of the country’s […]
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