JIHAD WATCH 03/20/2016

Islamic Republic of Iran to build a statue of captured U.S. sailors By Robert Spencer on Mar 19, 2016 08:18 pm Peace in our time! “Iran to build a statue of captured US sailors,” by Ahmed Vahdat, Telegraph, March 18, 2016: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is planning to build a statue of the US sailors who were captured in Iranian waters earlier this year, a senior officer said. The provocative proposal is likely to cause outrage in […] Read in browser »   Turkey: Islamic State jihad suicide bombing murders 5, including 2 Americans By Robert Spencer on Mar 19, 2016 08:03 pm “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111) “Two Americans killed in suspected ISIS bombing in Turkey, U.S. official says,” by Hugh Naylor and Ruth Eglash, Washington Post, March 19, […] Read in browser » Hugh Fitzgerald: Apologists for Islam and History By Hugh Fitzgerald on Mar 19, 2016 07:46 pm Apologists for Islam are a varied bunch – some reveal ignorance, others deploy deliberate taqiyya – but all play fast and loose with history. Here are three examples: Karen Armstrong on the Expulsion of the Moors In 1492, the year that is often said to inaugurate the modern era, three very important events happened in Spain. […] Read in browser » Bosch Fawstin: Let Me Draw Muhammad For You For “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” By Robert Spencer on Mar 19, 2016 02:19 pm Here is an exciting new offer from the winner of our AFDI Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest, ace cartoonist Bosch Fawstin: I’ve already gotten the head’s up about the upcoming Everybody Draw Mohammad Day on May 20th from a few people on social media, and since there are those who often tell me that […] Read in browser » Hungarian PM: “Europe is not free. Because freedom begins with speaking the truth.” By Robert Spencer on Mar 19, 2016 12:29 pm This is a historic speech. Viktor Orban is a champion of freedom amid the enveloping darkness. “We must therefore drag the ancient virtue of courage out from under the silt of oblivion. First of all we must put steel in our spines.” Luminous and lapidary words shining like a spotlight out of the gloom. Here […] Read in browser » Sweden: Town cancels Earth Hour over fear of Muslim migrant sex attacks By Robert Spencer on Mar 19, 2016 12:11 pm Expel the Muslim migrant sex attackers? Inconceivable! “The terrified town which has even cancelled Earth Hour over migrant sex attack fears,” by Rob Virtue, Express, March 18, 2016: A TOWN hit by a spate of sex attacks blamed on newly-arriving migrants has cancelled a festival that will take place under the cover of darkness over […] Read in browser » Islamic State rocket attack kills US soldier in northern Iraq By Robert Spencer on Mar 19, 2016 11:59 am The half-measures that Obama is pursuing against the Islamic State will never destroy it. The lives being lost there are being lost in pursuit of the cosmetic appearance of doing something, not in pursuit of genuinely damaging the Islamic State. “American soldier killed in ISIS rocket attack in northern Iraq, official says,” by Lucas Tomlinson, […] Read in browser » Brown U: Trans rights activist cancels Hillel speech after anti-Israel protests By Robert Spencer on Mar 19, 2016 11:31 am Are Americans going to consent placidly to the takeover of our nation’s universities and the extinguishing of our freedom of speech by these neo-Nazis? The freedom of speech is only dimly understood and under attack everywhere. If Brown University were still a university in any genuine sense of the word, it would rebuke the anti-Israel […] Read in browser » Robert Spencer, PJM: Does Any Candidate Understand the Freedom of Speech? By Robert Spencer on Mar 19, 2016 08:54 am Over at PJ Media I discuss the prevailing Well, he had it coming surrender of the freedom of speech: The old axiom used to be taken as, well, axiomatic: “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Now that has been replaced by: “I disagree […] Read in browser » Belgium: Muslims riot, attack police after arrest of Paris jihad mass murderer By Robert Spencer on Mar 19, 2016 08:43 am Why weren’t they out applauding the cops and thanking them for apprehending the “extremist”? Europe has bet its future on the proposition that the huge and growing Muslim population it continues to bring into the continent will become loyal citizens of pluralistic societies. There is absolutely no foundation for this hope in Islamic theology or […] Read in browser »