JIHAD WATCH 10/01/2015

Head of Italian Bishops Conference hits West’s silence on Muslim persecution of Christians By Robert Spencer on Sep 30, 2015 06:49 pm “Why, we ask the western world, why not raise one’s voice over so much ferocity and injustice?” asked Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, the head of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI). The Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregory III has also said: “I do not understand why the world does not raise its voice against such acts of […] Read in browser »   On 10th anniversary of publication of Muhammad cartoons, Danish newspaper submits: reprints original page without cartoons By Robert Spencer on Sep 30, 2015 04:13 pm The President of the United States, the Pope, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, and virtually every other Western leader has decided: the freedom of speech must be sacrificed to those who will kill us for exercising it. They have all told us that the proper response to violent intimidation is to give in to […] Read in browser » Germany distributing Arabic translation of its constitution to refugees By Robert Spencer on Sep 30, 2015 03:25 pm “Refugees will have to familiarize themselves with Germany’s basic laws…, first passed in 1949 in the aftermath of World War II, featuring concepts such as freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and equal rights between men and women.” Yes, they will accept those principles readily. This will solve everything, won’t it? The refugees will read […] Read in browser » UK: Convert to Islam threw acid in face of mother of six, leaving her disfigured and blind in one eye By Robert Spencer on Sep 30, 2015 03:04 pm For years we have seen women who were not thought to be dressed modestly or who were believed to have transgressed against the family honor attacked with acid by Muslims in Pakistan. Now that savage ethos is coming to Western countries. But no one would have dared try to talk Billal Kidd Mujahedin out of […] Read in browser » University of Chicago gets $100 million donation to study global conflict By Robert Spencer on Sep 30, 2015 02:41 pm This is how the foreign policy establishment reinforces itself, and keeps applying the same failed policies over and over again: it’s lucrative to do so, the mainstream media never offers a challenge, so what’s the downside? “If you build a bridge, insurgents blow it up so the government won’t be successful. Cash subsidies to poor […] Read in browser » Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas says he is no longer bound by the Oslo Accords By Robert Spencer on Sep 30, 2015 01:41 pm “Mr. Abbas delivered his speech against a backdrop of growing frustration among many Palestinians over the paralysis in peace negotiations with Israel.” Maybe they’d be less frustrated if they stopped shooting rockets into Israel and ended the genocidal anti-Semitic rhetoric on “Palestinian” TV. In any case, the Oslo Accords were always for the “Palestinians” just […] Read in browser » The Tables of Our Enemies By Michael Devolin on Sep 30, 2015 01:30 pm “…by defining modernity, progress, trade, consumption, and even pleasure as Western assaults on Islam, al-Qaeda left little on the table for themselves.” –Lawrence Wright, from The Looming Tower (al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11) In their book Kingmakers, Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac refer to a certain William Gifford Palgrave and his warning, […] Read in browser » Australia: Muslim leader of “impeccable character” avoids jail after raid finds weapons, Islamic State flag, jihad DVDS, machete By Robert Spencer on Sep 30, 2015 12:53 pm “Controversial Islamic fundamentalist Wisam Haddad has avoided prison over a counter-terrorism raid on his western Sydney home that uncovered weapons, an Islamic State flag, a large stash of extremist DVDs, newspaper clippings and a machete under his bed….Police prosecutor Nick Nicholas cast doubt on Mr Haddad’s claim that he had confiscated the OC spray and […] Read in browser » UK: Muslim who ran amok with knife screaming: “I’m a Muslim and I’ll chop your f***ing head” escapes deportation By Robert Spencer on Sep 30, 2015 12:30 pm He apparently can’t be deported because when he was arrested, “the Iranian Embassy was closed.” UK authorities are far too busy to come back when it is open: the UK Home Office has its hands too full making sure foes of jihad terror can’t enter the country to bother themselves with the trivial matter of […] Read in browser » Italy: Muslim who had been deported but returned slashes throat of random passerby By Robert Spencer on Sep 30, 2015 11:56 am “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) Amine Aassoul should never have been allowed back into Italy after he was deported. “Moroccan gets 30 years for David Raggi murder,” by Samuel Smith, ANSA, September 29, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): (ANSA) – Terni, September 29 – A court in the […] Read in browser » Obama Administration granted asylum and residency to 1,519 foreigners with terror ties By Robert Spencer on Sep 30, 2015 06:54 am “Of the 1,519 with terrorist associations, 627 provided material support, ‘while under duress,’ to undesignated terrorist groups. Another 189 provided material support, ‘while under duress,’ to designated terrorist groups. Designated terrorist groups are the most dangerous. They are classified as Tier I and Tier II organizations and include groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda and Palestinian […] Read in browser »