JIHAD WATCH 01/19/2017

Sharia at The Hill: Robert Spencer article pulled after pressure from Leftists and Islamic supremacists
By Robert Spencer on Jan 18, 2017 09:20 pm

The Hill published my piece on Lindsay Lohan’s possible conversion to Islam yesterday; you can read it in its entirety here, but you can’t read it at The Hill. It was a minor piece about a minor celebrity, but it caused the foes of freedom major agitation. All day today, Leftists and Islamic supremacists have […]
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Egypt: Four Christians slaughtered over the course of 10 days
By Raymond Ibrahim on Jan 18, 2017 04:31 pm

That the Coptic Christian Church continues to voice its support for President Sisi should not be interpreted to mean that the situation of Egypt’s Christian minority has improved. One need only look to the substratum of news for confirmation. The current month of January alone has already witnessed three separate instances over the course of […]
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Brandeis hires anti-Semitic Muslim prof with al-Qaeda links
By Robert Spencer on Jan 18, 2017 03:22 pm

Suheil Laher will fit right in at Brandeis and virtually anywhere else in American academia today. University campuses are no longer centers of higher learning; they’re hard-Left indoctrination camps that tolerate no dissent and look favorably upon Islamic jihadists as supposed victims of American “Islamophobia” and the Israeli war machine. “Brandeis Hires Anti-Semitic Islamist With […]
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Fatah and Hamas agree to form unity “Palestinian” government
By Robert Spencer on Jan 18, 2017 02:15 pm

Although Fatah is reputed to be “moderate” and Hamas “extremist,” in reality, there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between them. “Fatah and Hamas agree to form unity Palestinian government to end election gridlock,” by Bethan McKernan, Independent, January 19, 2017: The governing bodies of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have agreed to bury […]
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Video: Robert Spencer on Rafsanjani and Iran’s “reform” movement
By Robert Spencer on Jan 18, 2017 01:19 pm

In this new video, I discuss the career of the late former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and the reality behind the New York Times’ reporting on Iran’s “reform” movement.
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Mali: Jihadists murder 42 at military camp in area France’s Hollande just visited
By Robert Spencer on Jan 18, 2017 12:35 pm

“French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux described the blast as a ‘major and highly symbolic attack’ in an area visited only days ago by French President François Hollande.” Indeed, that is highly symbolic, of the French (and general Western) inability to stop jihad activity. “Dozens killed in suicide attack on Gao military camp in northern […]
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Hamas-linked CAIR demands that Trump drop Franklin Graham from inauguration lineup
By Robert Spencer on Jan 18, 2017 11:32 am

CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its […]
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UK: Muslim who murdered Muslim for “disrespecting Islam” calls on followers to “eliminate” enemies of Islam
By Robert Spencer on Jan 18, 2017 11:19 am

“The interview attracted broadly positive reactions on social media.” Where is the vaunted Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims weighing in to call Tanveer Ahmed’s statements abhorrent? “British Islamist Killer Urges Cult Following to ‘Eliminate’ Enemies of Islam from Jail,” by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, January 17, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A British Islamist, […]
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Robert Spencer in The Hill: Lindsay Lohan may have made her worst life choice yet
By Robert Spencer on Jan 18, 2017 09:16 am

UPDATE: The Left-fascists at The Hill have caved in to pressure from Leftist and Islamic supremacist neo-brownshirts, and pulled this piece. However, it is reproduced in its entirety below. —– Over at The Hill, I explain why Lindsay Lohan’s rumored conversion to Islam could be a worse life choice than all the drugs and drinking […]
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Islamic State burns mother and four children for leaving the caliphate
By Robert Spencer on Jan 18, 2017 08:59 am

This proves that the Islamic State is un-Islamic, no? After all, there is this hadith, depicting Muhammad forbidding burning people to death (in the process of mandating death for those who leave Islam): “Narrated ‘Ikrima: Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to ‘Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn ‘Abbas who […]
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Austria: Teen Muslima invents story of being called “terrorist” and pushed onto train tracks
By Robert Spencer on Jan 18, 2017 08:42 am

Yet another faked “anti-Muslim hate crime.” Are there any that are real at all? Here are some of the latest inventions of the Muslim victimhood propaganda industry, which works assiduously to make non-Muslims think that life for Muslims in the U.S. and Europe is miserable, when it is actually quite pleasant. The goal is to […]
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