JIHAD WATCH 10/04/2016

Iranians claim Islamic State caliph seriously ill from “severe poisoning”
By Robert Spencer on Oct 03, 2016 09:35 pm

Al-Baghdadi has not even been seen in public since June 2014. In July 2014, he was reportedly seriously injured, and was said to have fled to Syria. In April 2015, he was reportedly seriously injured in an airstrike. The Iranians even said that he was dead. And now they’re claiming he was poisoned. Perhaps they, […]
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Malaysian pol: “Islam has to be the leader and ruler”
By Robert Spencer on Oct 03, 2016 08:57 pm

“Islam has to be the leader and ruler, those who are not of Islam must be followers (pak turut).” Abdul Hadi Awang is the President of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, an pro-Sharia party. No doubt John Kerry and Pope Francis are on their way to Kuala Lumpur tonight to explain to Abdul Hadi Awang how […]
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Pentagon spent hundreds of millions of dollars for fake al-Qaeda videos
By Robert Spencer on Oct 03, 2016 08:36 pm

There weren’t enough real ones? The Pentagon could think of no better strategy to track al-Qaeda jihadis than to produce propaganda for the enemy? The Obama Pentagon has lied repeatedly to the American people to give them the impression that U.S. efforts against the Islamic State have been more effective than they really have been. […]
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Turkey: 5 jihadists who tortured and murdered Christians finally sentenced to jail — but walk out of court free men
By Christine Williams on Oct 03, 2016 04:41 pm

Despite the conviction and sentencing, however, all five walked out of court free men while their case awaits higher legal review, infuriating Turkish Christians. Gokhan Talas, close friend of the three slain Christians and witness at the murder scene, said……They need to be in jail right now…This process is unjust. There’s no justice for Christians […]
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Majority of Paris jihad attackers used Muslim migration routes to enter Europe
By Christine Williams on Oct 03, 2016 02:53 pm

The majority of the Isil extremists who carried out the November 13 Paris attacks entered Europe while posing as migrants, Hungarian security officials have disclosed. It is now revealed that seven of the jihadists who murdered 130 innocents and injured 360 more in Paris last November traveled through Hungary while posing as Muslim refugees. The disclosure comes amid […]
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Germany’s finance minister calls for a “German Islam” based on liberalism and tolerance
By Robert Spencer on Oct 03, 2016 01:58 pm

How does he propose to bring about this “German Islam”? Will there be a new, German Qur’an shorn of the verses calling for warfare against and subjugation of unbelievers? Will Schaeuble write a biography of Muhammad that rivals Karen Armstrong’s in whitewashing the old warlord? If he isn’t going to challenge the Qur’an or Muhammad, […]
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Girl Power: all-female Islamic State cell dismantled in Morocco
By Blain Tamarin on Oct 03, 2016 01:47 pm

Feminism in 2016. “Morocco says arrests 10 suspected female Islamic State militants,” Reuters, October 3, 2016: “Morocco has dismantled a suspected Islamic State militant cell and arrested 10 women believed to be planning attacks in the North African kingdom, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. It was the latest in a series of militant cells […]
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India: Six Muslims arrested for plotting Islamic State jihad massacres during Diwali
By Robert Spencer on Oct 03, 2016 01:43 pm

Every day, all over the globe, plotting murder and mayhem to appease their bloodthirsty god. “India Arrests ISIS Cell Suspected of Plotting Attacks During Diwali,” by Jack Moore, Newsweek, October 3, 2016 (thanks to Lookmann): Indian authorities have dismantled what they called Monday a “terror module” inspired by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) that […]
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New Zealand Muslim who assaulted wife fears deportation: “it could affect my whole family, my five little kids, my wives”
By Robert Spencer on Oct 03, 2016 11:25 am

“Yasir Mohib denies a hammer was involved but admits assaulting his wife….But he fears his family will be punished too if it means he is deported to Pakistan. His family do not want to be split up and deportation would mean his two New Zealand-born wives and their five Kiwi children would go with him.” […]
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Maryland imam openly endorses the Islamic State, finances jihad terror plots, calls concerns about him “McCarthyism”
By Robert Spencer on Oct 03, 2016 11:05 am

The idea that the relentlessly clueless, willfully ignorant Obamoid FBI would be persecuting this man out of “Islamophobia” is ludicrous. We can only hope that the feds don’t decide that it is too “Islamophobic” to continue watching him closely. “Extremist Imam Tests F.B.I. and the Limits of the Law,” by Scott Shane and Adam Goldman, […]
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