JIHAD WATCH 09/12/2015

What we have learned since 9/11
By Robert Spencer on Sep 11, 2015 11:56 am

Fourteen years have gone by, and what have we learned? Almost immediately, we learned that Islam was a religion of peace. We learned that, despite the explicit statements of the 9/11 hijackers and plotters explaining and justifying their actions by reference to the Qur’an and Muhammad’s example, those hijackers and plotters were not actually motivated […]
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India: Muslima arrested for recruiting for the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Sep 11, 2015 11:20 am

Afsha Jabeen “allegedly influenced Hyderabad resident Salman Mohiuddin to join the Islamic State.” Salman Mohiuddin “joined the Texas Southern University for a MS degree in Transportation Planning and Management” and “had also left messages on ISIS websites and on social media pages of jihadi groups in Syria.” Were Texas Southern University officials aware that they […]
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Kenya: Muslims arrested with ‘mall IED’ in Nairobi
By Robert Spencer on Sep 11, 2015 11:06 am

They were apparently hoping to replicate the jihad massacre at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall in 2013, in which jihadists murdered 67 people after quizzing their captives and setting free those who could answer questions about Islam. “Kenyan men arrested with ‘mall IED’ in Nairobi,” BBC, September 8, 2015 (thanks to TheReligionofPeace.com): Three men have been arrested […]
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Canada Muslim arrested on terror charges in frequent contact with jihad murderer
By Robert Spencer on Sep 11, 2015 10:55 am

“Lone wolves” collaborating and frequently comparing notes. “Youth arrested on terrorism charges had cell number for Couture-Rouleau,” by Paul Cherry, Montreal Gazette, September 10, 2015: The teenager from western Montreal currently on trial for allegedly preparing to leave Canada to take part in terrorist activity abroad communicated with Martin Couture-Rouleau dozens of times before the […]
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FBI: Australian Islamic State online jihadist actually a Jewish American troll
By Robert Spencer on Sep 11, 2015 10:28 am

Joshua Ryne Goldberg turns out not to be a convert to Islam at all, but a kid playing around on the computer who got in over his head. It’s not at all uncommon for people to pretend to be other people on the Internet. For Joshua Ryne Goldberg it all probably started out as a […]
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Islamic jihadists “trying to recruit Syrian refugees in Germany”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 11, 2015 10:05 am

“The Office for the Protection of the Constitution is currently watching 30 mosques and some 1,900 Islamists in the state, according to the authorities.” 30 mosques? But don’t they know what everyone from David Cameron to John Kerry to the U.S. Catholic bishops knows: that jihad terror has nothing — nothing! — to do with […]
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Robert Spencer, FP: Get Ready: Obama Bringing 10,000 Syrian Refugees to U.S.
By Robert Spencer on Sep 11, 2015 09:48 am

What could possibly go wrong? In FrontPage today: The Reuters headline was “Obama wants U.S. to prepare for 10,000 Syrian refugees next year: White House.” Prepare? How can we prepare? Bomb shelters? Underground bunkers? Metal detectors at shopping malls? Funeral arrangements? Exactly what preparations does the President expect us to make? I know what you’re […]
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Gaza jihad group pledges allegiance to the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Sep 11, 2015 09:21 am

The appeal of the Islamic State’s claim to reconstitute the caliphate continues to draw Muslims to it from all over the world, while Western leaders wave the Islamic State away with the claim that it is not Islamic, voluntarily forgoing the opportunity to understand the group’s motives and goals and thereby devise ways to counter […]
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French police searching Calais refugee camps for “refugee” plotting jihad terror attack in UK
By Robert Spencer on Sep 11, 2015 05:06 am

But remember: if you’re concerned about jihad terrorists among the refugees, you’re a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” “Syrian ISIS suspect ‘is sleeping rough in Calais refugee camps in the hope of sneaking into the UK to wage terror,'” by Tom Kelly and John Hall, MailOnline, September 10, 2015: A frantic manhunt is underway for a suspected […]
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Muslim group accuses Muslim filmmaker of blasphemy for film on Muhammad
By Robert Spencer on Sep 11, 2015 04:46 am

Part of the problem is that this is a Shi’ite production, and so Sunnis are enraged. But what is ironic about this accusation of blasphemy charge is that the film is a sanitized, whitewashed version of Muhammad’s life, produced for the purpose of proselytizing. But even that isn’t good enough: now filmmaker Majid Majidi and […]
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