JIHAD WATCH 02/22/2016

Syria: Islamic State blasts near Shia shrine murder at least 127 By Robert Spencer on Feb 21, 2016 08:54 pm Not to worry. John Kerry is on the case. And once he has secured peace in our time, he should travel to Raqqa to explain to the Islamic State’s caliph how he is misunderstanding Islam. “As Kerry, Lavrov grope to secure Syria truce, Islamic State blasts claim at least 127,” Japan Times, February 22, 2016: […] Read in browser »   UK pupils ordered to “convert to Islam” for homework assignment By Robert Spencer on Feb 21, 2016 08:24 pm Preparing Britain’s children for the future David Cameron, Theresa May and their cohorts have made well-nigh inevitable. “British pupils ordered to ‘CONVERT TO ISLAM’ for bizarre homework assignment,” by Jonathan Bucks, Express, February 21, 2016: CHILDREN were told to write to their parents explaining why they had converted to Islam as part of a bizarre […] Read in browser » Saudi jihadi rehab program seeks less to give jihadis different view of Islam than to reinforce primacy of Saudi state By Robert Spencer on Feb 21, 2016 07:58 pm This much-touted program is actually a dismal failure:”These programs may also fail to keep determined extremists from re-engaging in terrorism following their release. When IS claimed credit for a suicide bombing last October at an Ismaili mosque in the southern Saudi city of Najran that killed two and injured 25, the bomber was described in […] Read in browser » Sweden: Muslim migrants repeatedly rape 12-year-old boy, film the whole thing By Robert Spencer on Feb 21, 2016 07:26 pm In Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Islamic world, this kind of behavior is broadly tolerated. Women are so devalued, men look to other men and boys for sexual pleasure. Also, the Qur’an promises not just virgins to the blessed, but boys like “scattered pearls”: “Those are the ones brought near in the Gardens of Pleasure, […] Read in browser » Southern Poverty Law Center expands its hit list of foes of jihad terror By Robert Spencer on Feb 21, 2016 06:29 pm The new SPLC list of hate groups, which is really a hate list designed to defame pro-freedom groups, adds the David Horowitz Freedom Center, with which I am affiliated, to its hit list. Of course I have been on it for years. And it really is a hit list, as Fred Fleitz notes below: “These […] Read in browser » India’s dark secret: Female genital mutilation is common among Shi’ite Bohra Muslims there By Robert Spencer on Feb 21, 2016 03:48 pm FGM is sanctioned by Islamic law: “Circumcision is obligatory (for every male and female) (by cutting off the piece of skin on the glans of the penis of the male, but circumcision of the female is by cutting out the bazr ‘clitoris’ [this is called khufaadh ‘female circumcision’]).” — ‘Umdat al-Salik e4.3, translated by Mark […] Read in browser » Bangladesh: Muslims with pistols and meat cleavers behead leading Hindu priest inside Hindu temple By Robert Spencer on Feb 21, 2016 02:57 pm A glimpse into the future of the United States. “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) “Leading Hindu priest decapitated in Bangladesh,” AFP, February 21, 2016: A top Hindu priest was decapitated by attackers in northern Bangladesh Sunday and two worshippers wounded, police said, in the latest assault targeting minorities in the […] Read in browser » Haroon Moghul: Trump’s spat with Pope shows us that the Islamic State is not Islamic By Robert Spencer on Feb 21, 2016 02:28 pm Here comes Haroon Moghul, the comic relief of the “Islamophobia” victimhood propaganda industry, again. In life poor little Haroon so cowers in fear of “Islamophobic” coffee servers that his Starbucks name is not Haroon but “Dwayne,” but he is a paper lion behind the keyboard, trafficking in defamation and dishonesty and taking advantage of his […] Read in browser » Why you should side with Apple, not the FBI, in the San Bernardino iPhone case By Robert Spencer on Feb 21, 2016 07:47 am “What the FBI wants to do would make us less secure, even though it’s in the name of keeping us safe from harm. Powerful governments, democratic and totalitarian alike, want access to user data for both law enforcement and social control. We cannot build a backdoor that only works for a particular type of government, […] Read in browser » San Bernardino jihad murderer’s iCloud password changed while iPhone was in government possession By Robert Spencer on Feb 21, 2016 07:15 am “The FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on [the shooter’s] iPhone,” Cook added. “In the wrong hands, this software — which does not exist today — would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone’s physical possession.” It appears […] Read in browser »