JIHAD WATCH 06/01/2016

Denmark says it will punish Islamic preachers advocating criminal acts
By Robert Spencer on May 31, 2016 11:52 am

This is the real “hate speech” that the EU, Twitter and Facebook should be targeting: “The documentary showed hidden camera footage of imams in Danish mosques advocating the corporal punishment of children, stoning and whipping unfaithful spouses and requiring women to have sex with violent spouses.” Instead, however, it is much more likely that they […]
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Not Blessed are Pax Christi’s Radical “Peacemakers”
By Andrew Harrod on May 31, 2016 11:10 am

Author’s note: Yesterday Jihad Watch posted an AP article about how Pope Francis is considering dropping the Catholic Church’s Just War doctrine. The article’s author, Maria J. Stephan, attended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy with me, where she was a noted advocate of nonviolence. She sent an email to the school community in […]
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Robert Spencer, FP: Brandeis Denies Muslim Prof. Tenure – He Blames ‘Islamophobia’
By Robert Spencer on May 31, 2016 10:57 am

What else could it possibly be? Incompetence? My latest in FrontPage: May 31, 2016: An article in The Islamic Monthly explains at wrist-slitting length how Muslim professor Joseph Lumbard was denied tenure at Brandeis University because of “Islamophobia” among administrators there. I can’t imagine that anyone beyond Lumbard’s mom would care to read in such […]
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Twitter, Facebook team up with EU to stamp out “hate speech”
By Robert Spencer on May 31, 2016 10:49 am

The problem with both Jourova’s and White’s statements below, and with this whole initiative, is that they assume that “hate speech” is an entity that can be identified objectively, when actually it is a subjective judgment based on one’s own political preconceptions. And given the years-long insistence from Leftists and Islamic supremacists that any honest […]
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