JIHAD WATCH 09/16/2015

Texas: Armed Muslim enters church, says Allah told him to “slay infidels”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 15, 2015 08:40 pm

“He said people are going to die today, that’s what he said to me,” said the pastor. “Aziz first approached a deacon outside the church and asked to see the pastor for prayer,” according to KITV. Had the deacon drawn cartoons of Muhammad? Had the pastor committed some act of “Islamophobia”? Or did Rasheed Abdul […]
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Islamic State’s top military commander was trained by American special forces units
By Robert Spencer on Sep 15, 2015 04:51 pm

This article maintains that Abu Omar al Shishani was “radicalized” in a Saudi-funded mosque that challenged the moderate Islam that had hitherto prevailed in that region. Yet despite this supposedly prevailing moderation, its men gained a “reputation as crazy Islamic warriors.” If this scenario is true, U.S. officials should think very carefully about the implications […]
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Montreal: Muslim teens charged with possessing explosives, facilitating terror act “for the profit of a terrorist organization”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 15, 2015 02:59 pm

Here again we see the mystery on full display: it is very, very easy for Western non-Muslim political leaders, church officials, law enforcement authorities and the like to see that Islam is a religion of peace that rejects violence. It is much, much harder for an increasing number of young Muslims to see this. Maybe […]
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Lebanese Education Minister warns: 20,000 Islamic State jihadis have infiltrated Syrian refugee camps
By Robert Spencer on Sep 15, 2015 12:48 pm

But remember: to oppose this influx makes you a racist, bigoted Islamophobe. And so Europe goes merrily to its fate. At least, as the last knife cuts into the last Infidel neck in St. Peter’s Square, the victim can congratulate himself that he was never unwelcoming to the refugees. “Officials warn 20,000 ISIS jihadis ‘have […]
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Modern, moderate Malaysia: Politician gets 16 months’ jail for insulting Islam and Muhammad
By Robert Spencer on Sep 15, 2015 12:02 pm

In the free and enlightened West, we don’t imprison people for insulting Islam and Muhammad. We just denounce them for “provoking” Muslims and “poking them in the eye,” excoriate them for their “racism” and “bigotry,” and ban them from various venues as a danger to all civilized folk, ignoring the fact that the danger comes […]
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Islamic State releases online data on 100 more US military personnel, calling on Muslims to murder them
By Robert Spencer on Sep 15, 2015 11:05 am

“Today hacking…Tomorrow killing.” Meanwhile no U.S. officials are calling upon Muslims in the U.S. to do anything to counter Islamic State recruitment of U.S. Muslims. “‘Today hacking, Tomorrow killing…Happy 9/11’: ISIS threatens to kill 100 US military officers,” by Supriya Jha, Zee News, September 14, 2015: Washington: An ISIS-affiliated group that calls itself ‘Islamic State […]
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Danish girl, 15, and her Muslim boyfriend, 29, stab her mother to death after watching Islamic State beheading videos
By Robert Spencer on Sep 15, 2015 10:55 am

“She found a new soulmate in Iraq-born Abdulla, whom she befriended after meeting at a refugee centre near her home.” Watch for many, many more stories like this one from multicultural, refugee-welcoming Europe. And once Bakhtiar Mohammed Abdulla is deported, how long will it be before he is back in Eurabia? And while there is […]
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Philadelphia: Muslim teen arrested for Islamic State jihad plot against Pope
By Robert Spencer on Sep 15, 2015 09:22 am

“Their ‘innovative use of social media and messaging has played a key role in motivating young U.S.-based males and females to travel to join the self-declared Islamic State or allegedly attempt to conduct attacks in the Homeland on behalf of’ ISIS, the bulletin said.” This FBI-DHS bulletin is completely out of focus. The Islamic State […]
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ISIS abducts 12 Egyptians in Libya
By Raymond Ibrahim on Sep 15, 2015 09:14 am

The Islamic State in Libya has abducted 12 more Egyptians. They were reportedly laborers preparing to return back to Egypt. According to RT Arabic, the Egyptians were abducted in Sirte, late in the evening of Sunday, September 13. Coptic Christians are among those kidnapped. The Egyptian ministry has not issued a statement either confirming or […]
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Skobelev’s Principle
By Michael Devolin on Sep 15, 2015 09:11 am

“I hold it as a principle that the duration of peace is in direct proportion to the slaughter you inflict on the enemy.” –Gen. Mikhail Skobelev, 1881 General Mikhail Skobelev’s words above were in reference to his defeat of the walled citadel of Geok-Tepe and his army’s complete depredation of the Tekke Turkmen, “a fierce, […]
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Raymond Ibrahim: Muslim Soldiers Killing Christian Soldiers in Egypt
By Raymond Ibrahim on Sep 15, 2015 09:07 am

On Sunday, August 23, a Coptic Christian soldier was killed in his army unit in Egypt. Baha Saeed Karam, 22, was found shot dead with four bullet wounds at the headquarters of his battalion in Marsa Matruh.  Although transferred to a hospital in Alexandria, he was pronounced dead upon arrival. According to Baha’s brother, Cyril, […]
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