JIHAD WATCH 06/29/2016

Death toll in Istanbul jihad massacre now nearing 50, the Islamic State “is behind the attack”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 28, 2016 06:59 pm

Ramadan in Istanbul. “Nearly 50 dead, more than 100 reported injured in terror attack at Istanbul airport,” FoxNews.com, June 28, 2016 (thanks to Kenneth): BREAKING: Close to 50 people were killed and over 100 more were injured when three suicide bombers attacked Istanbul’s main international airport Tuesday night, a senior official said. The Associated Press, […]
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At least 28 murdered in jihad-martyrdom suicide bombings at Istanbul airport
By Robert Spencer on Jun 28, 2016 04:49 pm

UPDATE: Death toll now 28. Whether it’s the Kurds or the Islamic State, the motivating ideology for this kind of attack is the same: the guarantee of Islamic Paradise. “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 […]
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Islamic State throws four gay men off rooftop, taunts gays with photos of murders bearing #LoveWins hashtag
By Christine Williams on Jun 28, 2016 02:56 pm

While some members of the LGBT community still do not recognize the murderous hatred jihadists have for gay people, the Islamic State demonstrated that hatred by throwing four gay men off of a high rooftop head first in front of thousands of onlookers who had gathered to watch the execution. It was an act so […]
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Gay Pride celebrators ignore the threat of jihadists and blame Republicans
By Christine Williams on Jun 28, 2016 02:45 pm

A shocking display of the dangerous and foolish blame game in the wake of the Pulse massacre turned up at the New York City LGBT Pride parade this past weekend, with a group carrying the rainbow banner featuring the large black-emboldened text: “REPUBLICAN HATE KILLS”. Aside from the facts that jihadists hate gays and that […]
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Al Qaeda urges lone wolves to target whites in America to clarify its message of jihad
By Christine Williams on Jun 28, 2016 02:42 pm

Obama’s mulish resolve to steer clear of terms that identify America’s worst enemy, Islamic jihad, has been unexpectedly challenged by al Qaeda, of all groups. Since the Pulse massacre, Obama and his leftist comrades have erratically shifted blame to targets such as Republicans, national attitudes toward LGBT people, and gun owners. In the face of […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: “Civilizational Jihad” at the Urth Caffé
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jun 28, 2016 02:29 pm

On April 22, at the Urth Caffé in Laguna Beach, California, seated at one of the most desirable tables – that is, those on the outside patio, in the very front, with the unobstructed view of the beach — seven Muslim women, all wearing hijabs, talked and dallied. On their table, as on all the […]
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Raymond Ibrahim: Seven Myths of the Crusades
By Raymond Ibrahim on Jun 28, 2016 02:27 pm

Seven Myths of the Crusades by Alfred J. Andrea and Andrew Holt, eds. Cambridge, Mass.: Hackett Publishing, 2015. 248 pp. $54 ($19, paper). As the editors make clear in their preface, Seven Myths of the Crusades is presented as an antidote to the “outpouring of exaggerations, misperceptions, errors, misrepresentations, and fabrications” that proliferate in popular discourse about […]
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Benghazi: Hillary’s “inaction on numerous requests for additional security…reveals a serious lack of competence”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 28, 2016 11:20 am

“Placing trust in the various militia factions to set aside their longstanding differences and establish a governing body in the war torn country illustrates another amateur mistake.” This was no amateur mistake. This was an implementation of the policy called for by foreign policy professionals: to ignore whatever a study of Islamic doctrine and law […]
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Video: Robert Spencer on Hudud, the punishments mandated in Islamic law
By Robert Spencer on Jun 28, 2016 10:23 am

In this twelfth segment of my Basics of Islam series, I explain hudud punishments, the punishments for that are mandated by Islamic law and considered to have been commanded by Allah.
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“Modern Islam Is Already Impossible”
By Michael Devolin on Jun 28, 2016 10:16 am

“You can not reform a religion. If they are reformed, [the original meaning] is separated from it. Therefore, modern Muslims and a modern Islam is already impossible. If there is no separation between religion and state, there will be no democracy especially without equality for women. Then we will keep a theocratic system. So it […]
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Mark Christian Moment: Can Any LGBT Individual Survive a Day Under Sharia Law?
By Jamie Glazov on Jun 28, 2016 10:05 am

Subscribe to the Glazov Gang‘s YouTube Channel. This special edition of The Glazov Gang presents the Mark Christian Moment with Dr. Mark Christian, the President and Executive Director of the Global Faith Institute. He is the son and nephew of high ranking leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in his home country of Egypt. After his […]
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Reading the Qur’an during Ramadan 24: Juz Fa-man azlamu
By Robert Spencer on Jun 28, 2016 04:52 am

Allah then again warns about the Day of Judgment (39:30-52). The unbelievers threaten Muhammad with punishment by their false idols — and here again Allah repeats that “he whom Allah sends astray, for him there is no guide” (39:36). The unbelievers are perverse and self-contradictory, acknowledging that Allah created all things but still calling on […]
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Ramadan in Baghdad: Muslim murders 12 in jihad attack on mosque
By Robert Spencer on Jun 28, 2016 02:25 am

“The mosque was located in a predominantly Sunni area.” And so it may be that the perpetrator was Shia. Or it may be that he was Sunni, but considered the Muslims in the mosque to be, for whatever reason, insufficiently Muslim. For that, as for so many other things in Islamic law, the penalty is […]
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