JIHAD WATCH 01/16/2017

Minneapolis: Video of Muslima fighting boy who tried to pull off her hijab was hoax
By Robert Spencer on Jan 15, 2017 10:15 pm

“The video, titled ‘Welcome to Washburn,’ has gone viral since it was posted to Facebook, with more than 6.5 million views, more than 161,000 shares and more than 29,000 comments — many supporting the girl, who appears to be defending herself.” There’s just one problem: this is yet another “anti-Muslim hate crime” that didn’t really […]
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Paris peace conference: No “acceptable” solution for Israel and “Palestinians” except two states
By Robert Spencer on Jan 15, 2017 04:05 pm

“The participants also stressed the need for the final peace deal that would give full statehood to Palestinians while satisfying Israel’s security needs.” Is that possible? No, given the Qur’anic imperative to “drive them out from where they drove you out” (2:191). Any “Palestinian” state would simply become a new base for jihad attacks against […]
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French pol: “Islam is a religion of peace and solidarity”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 15, 2017 03:32 pm

Authorities the world over, from Pope Francis to John Kerry to Ilham Aliyev and Jean-Francois Mancel, have to keep reminding us of this precisely because it is so contrary to what we see in every day’s headlines: jihad terror attacks and plots engineered by people who point to the texts and teachings of Islam to […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: The Insubmissive Infidel, Or, Just A Jot About Jerusalem
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jan 15, 2017 02:53 pm

“Palestinian” leader Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor on religion, one Mahmoud Al-Habbash, has declared that a move of the American embassy to Jerusalem by the Trump administration would constitute “a declaration of war on all Muslims,” and then threatened: “This will not pass in silence.” He was not alone. A half-dozen other “Palestinian” leaders chimed in with […]
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Scotland: Provost of cathedral where Qur’an was read denounces “appeasement” of “those who are Islamophobic”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 15, 2017 02:22 pm

Aside from what is in the BBC article below, Fr. Kelvin Holdsworth wrote: Those who came heard a confident Christian community proclaim their faith in Christ in no uncertain terms. We say the Nicene Creed at St Mary’s and we believe it. Indeed, I sometimes have to tell people that I say it without my […]
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An exchange on Israel and the “Palestinians” between Fr. Samir Khalil Samir, S.J. and Robert Spencer
By Robert Spencer on Jan 15, 2017 12:55 pm

Father Samir Khalil Samir, SJ is Professor of Islamology and Middle East Christianity at the Pontifical Oriental Institute. He recently sent me a lengthy letter in which he wrote: “J’apprécie beaucoup ce que vous écrivez sur l’Islam” (I appreciate very much what you write about Islam). He does not, however, appreciate very much what I […]
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Washington state: Mosque arsonist arrested, cops say “we haven’t seen any evidence that this is a hate crime”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 15, 2017 11:54 am

“The suspect at the heart of the Islamic Center of the Eastside arson reportedly has a history of contentious interactions at the mosque — including a conviction for malicious mischief — but law enforcement officials are shying away from calling it a hate crime.” That’s odd. If Isaac Wayne Wilson has “a history of contentious […]
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Florida: Iraqi skater claims she was banned from rink for being Iraqi; rink owner says “it’s extortion”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 15, 2017 11:38 am

The skater claims that the rink owner subjected her to numerous “racist and obscene taunts,” and yet “Ranis said the Aldahwis’ suit does not spell out where, when and to whom those alleged comments were made.” Why not? Meanwhile, “Hyaat Aldahwi said her friends in the tight-knit skating community felt they had a choice: Lori […]
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Austria: Muslim migrant “Sharia patrol” breaks girl’s jaw after false claim she pulled off Muslima’s hijab
By Robert Spencer on Jan 15, 2017 11:06 am

“To all those I offended, insulted or beaten. I do not give a s***. Next year I will do it better.” Yes, there will certainly be much, much more of this, in Austria and all over Europe. “Sick Muslim migrant gang that broke girl’s jaw accused of REGULAR ‘Sharia patrol’ attacks,” by Oli Smith, Express, […]
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Washington state: Man charged with threats at mosque is…Muslim
By Robert Spencer on Jan 15, 2017 10:39 am

This mosque recently burned down, which was also touted as an anti-Muslim hate crime. Meanwhile, the Seattle Times treats these threats as a clear incidence of an anti-Muslim hate crime, only off-handedly noting that the perpetrator, Kamal Samater, “self-identifies as a Muslim,” and making no attempt to explain why a man who “self-identifies as a […]
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Islam’s Litigious Paranoia
By Michael Devolin on Jan 15, 2017 10:12 am

“Though anti-Zionism formed a core principle of pan-Arab solidarity since the 1920s — it is easier, after all, to unite people through a common hatred than through a shared loyalty — its invocation has almost always served as an instrument for achieving the self-interested ends of those who proclaim it.” — Efraim Karsh, from ‘Justice […]
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