JIHAD WATCH 02/11/2016

New study claims that the Bible is more violent than the Qur’an By Robert Spencer on Feb 10, 2016 05:27 pm Problems with this study: 1. Tom Anderson used an English version of the Qur’an, which often obscure the martial meaning of words such as jahada, strive or struggle, which is the verbal form of jihad. Translating this word as “strive” is common, but obscures the violent import. 2. The study seems to have simply counted […] Read in browser »   Islamic State preaches Qur’an to Christians after collecting Qur’anic tax on non-Muslims By Robert Spencer on Feb 10, 2016 04:56 pm How dare the Islamic State collect the jizya from Christians! Don’t they know there’s a Muslim-Christian dialogue going on? When is the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops going to send one of the bishops over to Raqqa to explain to the Islamic State leaders how they’re misunderstanding their religion, and that it is peaceful at […] Read in browser » US Catholic Bishops launch National Catholic-Muslim Dialogue, partnering with groups linked to Hamas and MB By Robert Spencer on Feb 10, 2016 03:37 pm “The current regional Catholic-Muslim dialogues are the Mid-Atlantic (partnering with the Islamic Circle of North America), Midwest (partnering with the Islamic Society of North America) and West Coast (partnering with the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California and the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County). Each is co-chaired by a bishop and a Muslim leader […] Read in browser » Hugh Fitzgerald: Israel and the Reconquista of Language By Hugh Fitzgerald on Feb 10, 2016 02:30 pm For quite some time, now, Israel has been out of the headlines. There’s been so much else going on in the Middle East and in the wonderful world of Islam. Among the dizzying vicissitudes, in Iraq and Syria we’ve had nonstop news about many different little wars, involving Sunnis and Shi’a, and regime supporters and regime […] Read in browser » Robert Spencer in PJ Media: The Washington Post Tells Us ISIS Is Losing, Again By Robert Spencer on Feb 10, 2016 01:50 pm In PJ Media today I discuss how the mainstream media parrots the Democratic Party line on the Islamic State, just as it did last year when it falsely claimed that it was losing. The Washington Post published some terrific news last Saturday: The Islamic State’s recent defeats on the battlefield signal that its once-vaunted militia […] Read in browser » NBC makes a point of identifying killer of Robert Kennedy as “Christian” By Robert Spencer on Feb 10, 2016 01:35 pm Sirhan Sirhan is indeed, or was, a Christian, but contrast this prominent identification of him as a “Christian-born Palestinian” with the mainstream media’s reticence about identifying jihad killers as Muslim. Sirhan didn’t murder RFK because Christianity teaches “Slay the Kennedys wherever you find them”; he killed him because he, like many Arab Christians, had imbibed […] Read in browser » Video: Muslim NHL player threatens to slit the throat of opposing player By Robert Spencer on Feb 10, 2016 01:01 pm Read his lips. Nazem Kadri is threatening to murder Mark Giordano. Certainly he was caught up in the heat of the moment and isn’t really going to kill him, but as a Muslim, his cultural frame of reference is interesting. When you grow up hearing “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4) […] Read in browser » Australian convert to Islam: “I want to do an Islamic Bonnie and Clyde on the kaffir” By Robert Spencer on Feb 10, 2016 09:05 am Auburn Uniting Church Reverend Veitinia Waqabaca said: “I am surprised (she converted) but…our people can take on another religion but we have to ask them what it is that they find attractive. We can only sit them down, these kids are very clever and help them see all the terrorism in the world and point […] Read in browser » Robert Spencer in FP: Syrian Archbishop to West: “Why Are Your Bishops Silent?” By Robert Spencer on Feb 10, 2016 08:39 am Silent about a threat that is theirs today as well. My column in FrontPage today: Jean-Clément Jeanbart, the Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo, gave a recent interview with a French reporter, in which he was highly critical of the mainstream media and even of his fellow bishops for ignoring the Muslim persecution of Middle […] Read in browser » Uganda: Imam arrested in murder of convert from Islam to Christianity By Robert Spencer on Feb 10, 2016 07:36 am A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence. This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned […] Read in browser »