JIHAD WATCH 12/18/2015

San Bernardino jihadi and friend plotted campus and freeway jihad attacks By Robert Spencer on Dec 18, 2015 01:54 am If they were plotting this in 2011, why were they able in 2015 to plot and pull off the San Bernardino jihad attack without detection? And if Marquez and Farook were frequenting mosques, are the teachings of those mosques being investigated? If not, why not? “Marquez and Farook plotted campus and freeway attacks, prosecutors allege,” […] Read in browser »   Obama: No “specific and credible information about an attack on our homeland” By Robert Spencer on Dec 17, 2015 02:54 pm Watch out for those right-wing extremists, but otherwise relax. Jihad? Pah! It’s a Religion of Peace! In September 2014, the Islamic State issued a lengthy communiqué calling upon Muslims in the West to murder non-Muslims. It included the exhortation to “strive to your best and kill any disbeliever, whether he be French, American, or from […] Read in browser » Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The LA Schools’ “Not Credible” Threat By Robert Spencer on Dec 17, 2015 02:05 pm In FrontPage today, I discuss how, even though many are “kinda tired of hearing all this ISIS,” they’re still coming. When the Los Angeles Board of Education closed all its schools Tuesday because of a terror threat, officials in New York City, which had received a similar threat, were contemptuous. New York Mayor Bill de […] Read in browser » Michael Moore starts #WeAreAllMuslim campaign in front of Trump Towers By Robert Spencer on Dec 17, 2015 01:48 pm “And now, here we are in 2015 and, like many other angry white guys, you are frightened by a bogeyman who is out to get you. That bogeyman, in your mind, are all Muslims. Not just the ones who have killed, but ALL MUSLIMS.” “Angry white guys”? Jihad terror is not a race. Does Michael […] Read in browser » Minnesota: Parents question public high school’s choice to sing “Allahu akbar” at holiday concert By Robert Spencer on Dec 17, 2015 01:30 pm “No child should be forced to sing a song about the Muslims and the religion of hatred.” Uh oh. That kind of talk is going to get the Multiculturalist Victimhood Re-educators swarming into Blaine, Minnesota. “Another parent, who didn’t want to be identified, said by phone that considering the recent events in Paris and San […] Read in browser » Missouri: FBI notified after “Middle Eastern” men ask if they can rent a boat and tour Bagnell Dam By Robert Spencer on Dec 17, 2015 01:16 pm This follows reports of Muslims buying large quantities of cellphones at a rural Missouri Walmart at 4AM. Relax, you greasy Islamophobe. What could possibly go wrong? “Camden Co. authorities take report on ‘Middle Eastern’ men asking about Bagnell Dam,” by Kelsey Kerwin, KMIZ.com, December 16, 2015: CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo -The Camden County Sheriff’s Office said it took […] Read in browser » Hamas top dog: “The so-called peace process is futile. There is no peace. Only the path of Jihad, sacrifice, and blood.” By Robert Spencer on Dec 17, 2015 12:48 pm “Therefore, the young man who puts his life on the line and the heroic sister, with nothing but a knife at hand, are justified, and Allah accepts them. This is up to Allah, but He accepts their Jihad and their martyrdom. By God, they are the most exalted and the noblest of people.” That echoes […] Read in browser » Russia: Muslim cleric arrested after weapons and explosives found in his apartment By Robert Spencer on Dec 17, 2015 11:53 am An imam? Inconceivable! How could a man who has dedicated his life to understanding Islam correctly and teaching it to others properly get the crazy, Islamophobic idea that jihad had something to do with weaponry and explosives? How could he have misunderstood Islam so spectacularly, and in such an utterly unprecedented way? John Kerry and […] Read in browser » Hugh Fitzgerald: Mr. Allen’s Report By Hugh Fitzgerald on Dec 17, 2015 11:07 am This past Sunday’s Boston Globe carried a front-page article — which continued onto and filled most of two inside pages — on “The New Christian Martyrs.” The author, John L. Allen, Jr., a member of the Globe Staff, whose usual beat is the Vatican, would — I was certain even before I started reading — […] Read in browser » William Kilpatrick: ‘The Vast Majority Myth’ By Ralph Sidway on Dec 17, 2015 10:11 am “The majority of Muslims aren’t waiting to see which side is the most tolerant or which side takes in the most refugees; they are waiting to see which side is winning.” “The Vast Majority Myth,” by William Kilpatrick, Crisis Magazine, December 15, 2015: We often hear it said that the vast majority of Muslims are […] Read in browser » Yazidi slave’s life spared by Islamic State because he didn’t have armpit hair, in imitation of Muhammad’s example By Robert Spencer on Dec 17, 2015 10:05 am This one is straight from our The-Islamic-State-Is-Not-Islamic file. When Muhammad approved the judgment to massacre the Jewish Qurayzah tribe, his companions (that is, his closest followers) made the decision of whom to kill based on body hair: “Narrated Atiyyah al-Qurazi: I was among the captives of Banu Qurayza. They (the Companions) examined us, and those […] Read in browser » Raymond Ibrahim: Islamic Jihad — Symptom of a Western Cause By Raymond Ibrahim on Dec 17, 2015 10:01 am As someone specializing in Islamic jihadism, one would expect I’d have much to say immediately after jihadi attacks of the sort that recently occurred in San Bernardino, or Paris, or Mali, where a total of about 180 dead.  Ironically, I don’t: such attacks are ultimately symptoms of what I do deem worthy of talk, namely, […] Read in browser »