JIHAD WATCH 05/20/2016

German Christian leaders renew call for openness to migrants By Robert Spencer on May 19, 2016 03:18 pm “Migrants, they added, should be met ‘with openness, with the spirit of love of neighbor.'” How grand. Meanwhile, the migrants might meet these German Christian leaders with a somewhat different spirit. Doubt that could ever happen in Germany? Why? Ahmad al-Mohammed and one other of the jihadis who murdered 130 people in Paris in November […] Read in browser » French security chief: ISIS plans new wave of jihad attacks in France, uses migrant routes to get jihadis to Europe By Robert Spencer on May 19, 2016 03:06 pm Yet no one seems interested in stopping the migrant influx. To do so would be “Islamophobic.” “French security chief warns Islamic State plans wave of attacks in France,” by John Irish, Reuters, May 19, 2016 (thanks to Tara): Islamic State militants are gearing up for a campaign of bomb attacks on large crowds in France, […] Read in browser » Islamic State beheads Christian priest for praying at the altar of his church By Robert Spencer on May 19, 2016 02:49 pm “No state or leader had mentioned or condemned the horrific gesture of the terror group for punishing a man for offering prayer.” Why are Church leaders in the West so uniformly silent about the Muslim persecution of Christians? Jean-Clément Jeanbart, the Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo, gave a recent interview with a French reporter, […] Read in browser » Egypt’s Civil Aviation Minister: Possibility of terror attack in EgyptAir crash “higher than having a technical problem” By Robert Spencer on May 19, 2016 02:12 pm And “U.S. government officials are operating on an initial theory that the plane was taken down by a bomb.” “EgyptAir Flight 804: Wreckage found, airline official says,” by Michael Pearson, Faith Karimi and Ian Lee, CNN, May 19, 2016: Cairo (CNN)Searchers scouring the heavily traveled waters of the Mediterranean Sea for EgyptAir Flight 804 on […] Read in browser » John Kerry: Afghanistan one of the “proudest achievements of the Obama administration” By Robert Spencer on May 19, 2016 01:59 pm Ah, yes. Of course. Does Kerry mean Afghanistan the reliable ally of the United States? Well, no, it is not a reliable ally. Does Kerry mean Afghanistan the stable Western-style republic? No, it isn’t a republic in any genuine sense. Is Kerry referring to Afghanistan the economic powerhouse, raising the standard of living for its […] Read in browser » Pakistani Muslim arrested crossing Texas border, lied to FBI By Robert Spencer on May 19, 2016 01:32 pm “The FBI was in possession of records consisting of photographs and travel records, as well as written accounts from other government agencies, which show that the statements Muhammad made during his interviews by the USBP and the FBI were materially false, fictitious or fraudulent.” Why would Juvaid Muhammad be lying and trying to enter the […] Read in browser » Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Huffington Post Calls on Christians to Recognize Muhammad as a Prophet By Robert Spencer on May 19, 2016 01:18 pm When Leftists ally with Muslims, they begin to proselytize for Islam. My latest in FrontPage: Can you imagine the Huffington Post publishing a series of articles calling upon Muslims to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior? Neither can I. But the HuffPo seems intent on compelling Christians to accept Muhammad as a prophet. […] Read in browser » Dying GOP Senator spends his last days apologizing to Muslims for Trump By Robert Spencer on May 19, 2016 01:03 pm This story epitomizes how hysterical and thoughtless the public discourse is nowadays. Trump is presented by the late Bob Bennett and the Daily Beast as an “Islamophobe” — someone with an irrational hatred of or fear of Islam and Muslims. In reality, he hasn’t said anything about Islam at all except that clearly there is […] Read in browser » Hugh Fitzgerald: Pope Francis: Islam and Christianity Share “the Idea of Conquest” By Hugh Fitzgerald on May 19, 2016 12:45 pm Pope Francis continues to astonish. He has just said, in an interview with the French Catholic paper La Croix, that “the idea of conquest is inherent to the soul of Islam.” As far as his understanding of Islam goes, this is a marked improvement over his disturbing statement, back in November 2013, that the “Koran […] Read in browser » EgyptAir jet crash a “brutal event” and “almost certainly a terror attack” By Robert Spencer on May 19, 2016 09:16 am If it was “almost certainly a terror attack,” then it was almost certainly jihad. The IRA and the Tamil Tigers and American “right-wing extremists” aren’t taking down too many EgyptAir planes. “EgyptAir jet went into a ‘sharp spin’ and fell 22,000ft before vanishing from radar says Greek defence minister – as air safety chief says […] Read in browser »