JIHAD WATCH 07/21/2016

Iran’s Parliament Speaker: Iran left with no choice but to confront US
By Robert Spencer on Jul 20, 2016 05:17 pm

The U.S. ignores and/or denies the fact, but the Islamic Republic of Iran is on a war footing with the United States, and is aggressively pursuing that war in all sorts of ways. Get the details in my new book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran. “Iran left with no choice but to confront the […]
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Saudi Arabia revives a 15-year-old anti-Pokemon fatwa
By Christine Williams on Jul 20, 2016 05:07 pm

Jihad Watch recently reported on the Muslim cleric who condemned Pokemon Go as un-Islamic. Abbas Shuman, deputy head of the Al-Azhar Islamic institution, referred to the game as “a ‘harmful mania’ which was similar to drinking alcohol.” Now, Saudi Arabia has revived a 15-year-old fatwa to prohibit Pokeman “in response to public calls for guidance on […]
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Germany: Sikh temple blown up by Islamic State jihadis “not terrorism”
By Robert Spencer on Jul 20, 2016 04:37 pm

Not terrorism, say the German authorities. They persist in the same myopia that afflicts leaders in all Western countries: they refuse to acknowledge that we are in a war. Each jihad terror attack is carried out by people who hope to weaken and ultimately bring down the free world, so that they can impose Islamic […]
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Europe waking up, now turning to Israeli technology for ways to stop lone-wolf jihadis
By Christine Williams on Jul 20, 2016 04:16 pm

Last week’s truck rampage in France and Monday’s axe attack aboard a train in Germany finally have raised enough concerns in Europe about jihadist lone wolf attacks that now counter-terrorism intelligence specialists are looking to Israel to learn about technologies that might preempt such attacks. Israel has been afflicted by violent Palestinian lone-wolf street attacks, often by young jihadists […]
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‘Deradicalized’ Islamic State jihadists producing terror propaganda videos in Germany
By Christine Williams on Jul 20, 2016 03:27 pm

Can “deradicalization” programs logically be expected to be successful while the West remains collectively clueless in its understanding of the jihadist mindset? Western “dialogue” experts are still partnering with unindicted co-conspirators (aka stealth jihadists) in diversity projects; Western authorities still do not grasp the nature of the violent enemies who are striving against them in […]
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US-backed Syrian “rebels” screaming “Allahu akbar” behead small boy as “spy”
By Robert Spencer on Jul 20, 2016 03:20 pm

These are the “vetted moderates” to whom Obama has given US taxpayer money and weapons bought with taxpayer funds. The Obama administration can’t possibly distinguish “moderates” from “extremists,” as it claims to be able to do, because it doesn’t even recognize the reality of the Islamic jihad. How can it possibly vet for the presence […]
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Saudi government funded jihad teaching in US mosques
By Robert Spencer on Jul 20, 2016 02:54 pm

Four separate studies since 1999 all found that 80% of U.S. mosques were teaching jihad, Islamic supremacism, and hatred and contempt for Jews and Christians. There are no countervailing studies that challenge these results. In 1998, Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, a Sufi leader, visited 114 mosques in the United States. Then he gave testimony before […]
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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Not Just the Saudis: Iran’s Huge Role in 9/11 Also Covered Up
By Robert Spencer on Jul 20, 2016 02:42 pm

Over at PJ Media, I explain how Iran, rewarded with a nuke deal and U.S. cash, paid no price for helping plan 9/11. The 28-page section of the 9/11 report detailing Saudi involvement in the terror attack has finally been released (although with substantial portions still redacted). We now know why one president who held […]
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Morocco: Muslims publishing photos of women in bikinis, threatening them
By Robert Spencer on Jul 20, 2016 07:54 am

Enforcing virtue through threats and fear — a very common practice of Sharia supremacists. “Online photo campaign against Moroccan women in bikinis,” ANSAmed, July 18, 2016: (ANSAmed) – RABAT, JULY 18 – Moroccan police have undertaken an investigation to determine those responsible for posting photos online of Moroccan women in bikinis on beaches throughout the […]
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Mali: Jihadis attack army base, murder 17 soldiers, wound 35
By Robert Spencer on Jul 20, 2016 07:42 am

Jihadis worldwide growing more aggressive. “Islamist militants kill 17 soldiers in attack on Mali army base,” by Adama Diarra and Tiamoko Dialo, Reuters, July 19, 2016: Islamist militants killed 17 Malian soldiers and wounded 35 when they attacked an army base in the center of the country, firing on troop positions, burning buildings and pillaging […]
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