JIHAD WATCH 06/17/2016

Ramadan in France: Muslim planned knife and machete jihad attack on tourists
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 09:18 pm

Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani recently called on Muslims to use this Ramadan to “get prepared, be ready … to make it a month of calamity everywhere for nonbelievers…especially for the fighters and supporters of the caliphate in Europe and America.” “French suspected Islamist ‘planned knife and machete attack’ on English and American tourists,” […]
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NY Times: “Unlikely anything will ever explain why” Orlando jihad happened
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 08:14 pm

Establishment counterterror analyst Peter Bergen just can’t figure out why Omar Mateen committed mass murder in Orlando’s Pulse nightclub: “Why Do Terrorists Commit Terrorism?,” by Peter Bergen, New York Times, June 14, 2016: No doubt we will learn more in coming days. But it’s unlikely that anything will ever really explain why he did what […]
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Father of Orlando jihadi: “Club should have had good security”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 07:37 pm

For Islamic supremacists such as Seddique Mir Mateen, an open supporter of the Taliban, every evil that Muslims have ever done or may ever do is the fault not of the Muslims, but of the Infidel. If his son committed jihad mass murder, it must be the club’s fault for not having good enough security. […]
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Omar Mateen told police he’d strap bombs to hostages
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 07:15 pm

Many early reports said he had a suicide vest or an explosive vest. Now this report says he didn’t. It would be easier to believe authorities if they didn’t so often lie to the public. In any case, if he didn’t have explosives, then Mateen was probably attempting to “strike terror into the hearts of […]
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Orlando jihadi texted wife during attack; she responded that she loved him
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 06:47 pm

She told him she loved him while he was in the midst of jihad mass murder on a grand scale. How heartwarming. Obviously they shared the same values: that the mass murder of Infidels was a righteous act before Allah. Why hasn’t she been arrested yet? She was obviously complicit. “Orlando shooter texted wife during […]
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Muslim privilege killed 49 people in Orlando
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 06:21 pm

Check your Muslim privilege: Islamophobia kills. A brilliant article by the great Daniel Greenfield: “Muslim Privilege Killed 49 People in Orlando,” by Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage, June 16, 2016: The deadliest mass shooting in American history happened because of Islamophobia. Islamophobia killed 49 people in Orlando. It didn’t kill 49 Muslims. Instead it allowed Omar Mateen, […]
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Gun shop owner says he reported Omar Mateen before Orlando jihad massacre
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 05:53 pm

Whoever got this report did nothing with it. Did he or she fear that acting upon it would bring down charges of “Islamophobia”? “Gun shop owner claims he reported Omar Mateen BEFORE Orlando massacre and turned him away when he came to buy heavy duty armor and bulk ammo,” by Mia De Graaf, Dailymail.com, June […]
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Utica, NY imam: “Islam is the religion of peace…In this religion, there is no time, no space for any type of violence”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 03:05 pm

“If (the shooter) followed the true meaning of the religion, they would know they shouldn’t commit violence. They wouldn’t be able to. In this religion, there is no time, no space for any type of violence.” The Islam of Imam Ahmedin Mehmedovic is apparently a hustling, bustling faith that is just too busy for any […]
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Gay Muslim: Islam is no religion of peace
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 02:48 pm

Parvez Sharma engages in some fashionable moral equivalence here — neither Judaism nor Christianity are today calling for the killing of gays — and ignores the fact that Muhammad himself called for the killing of homosexuals, but his words here nonetheless represent a tremendous advance over the denial and deception that usually dominate the mainstream […]
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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: It Was John Brennan Himself Who Halted LEO Training on Islam, Jihad
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 02:22 pm

Over at PJ Media today I discuss John Brennan’s hypocrisy in lamenting the “global reach” of the Islamic State when he has done so much to enable it: While testifying in an open session of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CIA director John Brennan admitted Thursday: Despite all our progress against ISIL on the […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: When a Petulant President Presumes to Give Lessons in Language
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jun 16, 2016 01:50 pm

And let me make a final point. For a while now, the main contribution of some of my friends on the other side of the aisle have made in the fight against ISIL is to criticize the administration and me for not using the phrase “radical Islam.” That’s the key, they tell us. We cannot […]
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Ben Rhodes: “Will be more effective combating ideology” of Islamic State “if we don’t describe them as religious org”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 12:50 pm

This is so counterfactual that it boggles the mind — and it’s official U.S. government policy. Ben Rhodes is actually saying that we will be more effective in combating the Islamic State’s ideology if we pretend that it is other than what it is. Meanwhile, the Islamic State continues to win recruits among Muslims around […]
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Muslim who said 9/11 “changed the world for good” is on Homeland Security Advisory Council
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 08:02 am

How by any stretch of anyone’s imagination can Laila Alawa be seen as someone who cares in the slightest degree about “homeland security”? She is quite obviously on the other side, and if we had a sane political and media culture, her presence on the DHS Advisory Council would be a major scandal. “Syrian Immigrant […]
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UK Muslim police chief: “Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or tradition”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 07:49 am

That means that speaking out against jihad violence, or the Sharia oppression of women, non-Muslims, and gays, or the anti-Semitism that is so deeply ingrained in the Qur’an and Sunnah, is not, in Umer Khan’s view, speech that should be accorded protection, but should, rather, be forcibly silenced. Welcome to the New Britain, where people […]
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Non-Muslim Utah Lieutenant Governor Spencer Cox apologizes to LGBTs for Orlando jihad massacre
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 07:09 am

Bosch Fawstin, the winner of the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland, Texas last year, put it succinctly: “I had nothing to do with the atrocity in Orlando. You had nothing to do with it. America had nothing to do with it. Only a devout Muslim did.” Spencer Cox did not murder 49 […]
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DHS whistleblower: “Self-radicalization” is myth, “concept of operating alone is anathema to the Islamic worldview”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 06:34 am

Phil Haney on Orlando jihad mass murderer Omar Mateen and his mosque: “Imagine what it must have been like to be an active-duty subject matter expert in counter-terrorism. I had my own superiors making these kind of statements incessantly. When I was sitting there with evidence, for example, about the Ft. Pierce mosque – not […]
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Reading the Qur’an during Ramadan 12: Juz Wa ma min dabbah
By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2016 04:23 am

Then follow the stories of various prophets, all revolving around their rejection by perverse and obstinate unbelievers. Allah tells the story of Noah and the ark, with a significant difference from the Biblical story (11:25-49). In Genesis 6-9, Noah has nothing to do with the unbelievers at all; God tells him, “I have determined to […]
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