JIHAD WATCH 02/29/2016

Kuwaiti businessman: “ISIS has always been here”
By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2016 10:28 pm

Ahmad Sarraf doesn’t mean that the Islamic State has a presence in Kuwait. He means something much more sweeping: that throughout Islamic history, there have been armed movements committing atrocities in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings. He is decrying the Islamic world’s failure to acknowledge those atrocities, and is right: […]
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UK imam’s killer turns out to be Muslim
By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2016 10:11 pm

Another instance in which what was assumed to be “Islamophobia” turned out not to be. But the “Islamophobia” victimhood industry will keep chugging along. In the U.S., the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) wants and needs hate crimes against Muslims, because they’re the currency they use to buy power and influence in our victimhood-oriented society, […]
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Canada: Senior imam mocks the Western idea of “marital rape”
By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2016 09:56 pm

A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning” (Bukhari 4.54.460). And: “By him in Whose Hand lies my life, a woman can not carry out the right […]
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Islamic State murders 31 in Shia district of Baghdad
By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2016 09:40 pm

Which gets more publicity: “Islamophobia” or the Sunni-Shi’ite jihad? Which kills more people: “Islamophobia” or the Sunni-Shi’ite jihad? “Isis suicide bombers blow up dozens of shoppers in Baghdad market,” by Matt Broomfield, Independent, February 28, 2016: Isis jihadists have killed at least 31 people in a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad. The two bombs were […]
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“We’ve got jihad” in Australia: Islamic State supporter arrested for knife assault
By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2016 06:31 pm

“Mr Alkiswani was also responsible for setting fire to a Christian street preacher, Paul Sheehan, in Queensland in 2002 in a violent outburst where he doused Mr Sheehan in flammable liquid and threw a match at him while chanting ‘Allah.'” That would seem to be attempted murder. Why was he still running around loose after […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Boston Police Commissioner William Evans: “We’re All Muslims Deep Down”
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Feb 28, 2016 05:30 pm

“Veterans, troubled by rhetoric, rally support of Muslims” reads the headline to a story in the print edition of today’s Boston Sunday Globe (online yesterday it was “Local veterans hold rally in support of Muslims.”) It described a group, Veterans for Peace, that felt it simply had to stand up on behalf of Muslims in […]
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Quebec: Muslima who attacked her “disrespectful” daughter with meat cleaver gets three-year sentence
By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2016 04:59 pm

Three years for attempted murder. Now that’s multicultural! Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without […]
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Pope Francis wants “dialogue” with Muslim leader who broke off ties after Benedict XVI condemned jihad mass murder attack
By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2016 04:41 pm

“el-Tayeb has been imam of the al-Azhar Mosque since his 2010 election. He was elected rector of the university in 2003. He is considered a moderate Sunni who has worked to prevent Islamic radicalization.” This moderate Sunni blames the unrest in the Middle East on “world Zionism” and refuses to denounce the Islamic State as […]
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Muslim scholar tells Vatican conference that mercy is “the core of Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2016 01:33 pm

For those in the audience who might have thought this claim risible in light of current events — although there may not have been any skeptics at all, since the room was full of Catholic theologians — Khan did say: that although mercy is “the core of Islam,” “Islam as an ideal and Islam as […]
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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Are Muslims the New Jews?
By Robert Spencer on Feb 28, 2016 07:42 am

Over at FrontPage I discuss the latest canard from Hamas-linked CAIR: ​Jacob Bender, the non-Muslim Useful Idiot who heads up Hamas-linked CAIR’s Philadelphia chapter, boasted Wednesday on the organization’s website: “What CAIR can do, however, and what it has been doing superbly for 10 years now, is to oppose the anti-Muslim ideology of the Trumps, […]
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