JIHAD WATCH 03/17/2016

Nigeria: Muslims murder 500 Christians over the last month
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2016 05:53 pm

Will the Islamophobia never end? “Radical Islamist Herdsmen Kill 500 Nigerian Christians Over Month; Villagers Afraid to Bury Their Dead,” by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post, March 16, 2016: Radical Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria have killed close to 500 predominantly Christian farmers in Benue state in central Nigeria in a series of attacks over the […]
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France battling jihadis in police force, military
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2016 05:36 pm

French authorities, like authorities all over the West, were sure that Islam was a Religion of Peace, and so there would be absolutely no problem with Muslims in the police force and the military, and only greasy Islamophobes thought otherwise. Now they are, sacre bleu, dealing with jihadis and Islamic supremacists among the police and […]
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UK: Muslim care home staff stopped residents from having bacon sandwiches
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2016 05:19 pm

In Muslim countries, non-Muslims must conform their behavior to Muslim sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, non-Muslims must conform their behavior to Muslim sensibilities. Sharia UK Update: “Muslim care home staff stopped elderly residents having bacon sandwiches, report finds,” by Nicola Harley, Telegraph, March 16, 2016: A council-run care service has been told to improve after […]
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Police foil “imminent” jihad mass murder attack in Paris
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2016 02:33 pm

The Islamic State has issued this call in September 2014: If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, […]
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Nigeria: Islamic State murders 22 in jihad suicide bombings at mosque
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2016 01:10 pm

Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and changed its name to the Islamic State in West Africa last year. It targeted this mosque most likely because it did not accept the authority of the Islamic State, and thus opened itself to charges of heresy and apostasy. “Mosque bombing in Nigeria kills 22,” IANS, […]
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Convicted jihadi Babar Ahmad pulling the wool over Leftist media’s eyes
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2016 01:03 pm

What a surprise. They’re so very eager to be fooled. “Babar Ahmad – a convicted terrorist – is pulling the wool over the liberal media’s eyes,” by Andrew Gilligan, Telegraph, March 14, 2016: From Tony Blair over the Iraq dossier, to the parliamentary expenses cheats who ended in jail, the last resort of any scoundrel […]
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Belgium: Islamic State flag and jihad manual found by gunman’s body
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2016 12:52 pm

The Islamic State is waging an all-out war against the free world. The free world is in response conducting a limited police action. “Brussels raid: ‘ISIS flag and jihadist manual found by gunman’s body’, say Belgian prosecutors,” by Siobhan Fenton, The Independent, March 16, 2016: An ISIS flag and jihadist manual were found next to […]
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Canada: Muslim says “Allah told” him to stab soldiers; top cop worries about “Islamophobia”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2016 12:43 pm

“While at the scene, the accused stated: ‘Allah told me to do this. Allah told me to come here and kill people,’ Saunders said at a press conference Tuesday morning….’I want to be very, very careful, when it comes to the national security piece, that we don’t through that Islamophobia nonsense,’ Saunders said. ‘I don’t […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Jonathan Power, and “Why Islam Is Not Violent” Yet Again
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Mar 16, 2016 10:26 am

“Yet most Muslims do not commit acts of violence. If Islam is intrinsically violent then roughly a billion believers either do not understand their own religion, or are too cowardly or unfaithful to follow its precepts. That is my sarcasm but, indeed, this is what violent Islamists say.” — From this article As is his […]
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Raymond Ibrahim: How U.S. Foreign Policy Made 2015 “Worst Year in Modern History for Christian Persecution”
By Raymond Ibrahim on Mar 16, 2016 09:43 am

2015 was the “worst year in modern history for Christian persecution,” according to Open Doors, a human rights organization that has been documenting the persecution of Christians since 1955. According to its latest data, more than 7,000 Christians were killed for their faith in 2015 — almost twice as many as in 2014. In addition, […]
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