JIHAD WATCH 02/24/2017

Robert Spencer: Champagne Time! It’s a “Bloodbath” at the State Department
By Robert Spencer on Feb 23, 2017 06:41 pm

At least one swamp appears to be being drained. My latest over at The Geller Report: “It’s a bloodbath at the State Department,” the New York Post hyperventilated last Friday: “Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is cleaning house at the State Department, according to a report.” In Donald Trump’s America, so much has happened so […]
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Germany: 100 “radical Islamists” in 2013 and 1,600 today
By Robert Spencer on Feb 23, 2017 06:32 pm

What a surprise! To what could this skyrocketing number of “radical Islamists” be attributed? Might it have something to do with Merkel’s disastrous immigration policies? No, it would be bigoted, racist and “Islamophobic” to think that. “German intel agency notes dramatic increase in Islamic extremism,” DW, February 22, 2017: The domestic intelligence service has announced […]
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Virginia: Sudanese Muslim migrant wanted to start sleeper cell for the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Feb 23, 2017 06:12 pm

Sudan was one of the seven countries on Trump’s ban list. But no, it is very very important that the U.S. show that it wasn’t “racist” and “Islamophobic” by bringing in Mahmoud Elhassan. Note also that :as soon as he came to the United States” he began looking for fellow jihadis. Impressive vetting process! “Sudanese […]
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Brookings’ Will McCants thrilled that McMaster in denial about jihadis’ motivating ideology
By Robert Spencer on Feb 23, 2017 05:49 pm

Who is applauding the appointment of H. R. McMaster as national security adviser? Leading the applause are mainstream counterterror analysts whose policy recommendations are based on false premises and have failed time and time again. But even as the world is in flames because of their wrongheadedness, they still keep pushing the same failed analyses […]
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Denmark: Man who burned Qur’an charged with blasphemy
By Robert Spencer on Feb 23, 2017 02:52 pm

Is Denmark a Sharia state now? Apparently. “It is the prosecution’s view that circumstances involving the burning of holy books such as the Bible and the Quran can in certain cases be a violation of the blasphemy clause, which covers public scorn or mockery of religion.” Yet public scorn or mockery of Christianity has gone […]
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Muslim House Democrat IT staffers owed $100,000 to Hizballah-linked fugitive
By Robert Spencer on Feb 23, 2017 12:04 pm

These are the Muslim IT staffers who compromised the computers of the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committee. Who screened these men? Did anyone? Or were they hired because House Democrats wanted to show that they weren’t “Islamophobic”? “House Dem IT Staffers Owed Money To Hezbollah-Connected Fugitive,” by Luke Rosiak, Daily Caller, February 21, 2017: […]
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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The McMaster Pick: Score One for the Swamp?
By Robert Spencer on Feb 23, 2017 11:39 am

NSA pick McMaster told the National Defense University that “the Islamic State is not Islamic.” My latest in FrontPage: President Trump has confirmed that retired Lt. General H.R. McMaster is his new choice to be his National Security Adviser. There have been indications that the Republican establishment has been trying to co-opt Trump and keep […]
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Swedish politicians: Trump is right, Sweden’s embrace of Muslim migrants isn’t working
By Robert Spencer on Feb 23, 2017 10:19 am

Jimmie Åkesson is party chairman of the Sweden Democrats; Mattias Karlsson is the party’s group leader in Parliament. They know the reality of what is happening in Sweden, as opposed to what the establishment propaganda media want you to know. “Trump Is Right: Sweden’s Embrace of Refugees Isn’t Working,” by Jimmie Åkesson and Mattias Karlsson, […]
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Glazov Gang: Muslim Free Thinker Calls Out Linda Sarsour and the Women’s March
By Jamie Glazov on Feb 23, 2017 10:10 am

Subscribe to the Glazov Gang‘s YouTube Channel. This new special edition of The Glazov Gang was joined by Shireen Qudosi, a Muslim Free Thinker who is the Director of Muslim Matters at America Matters.  Shireen calls out Linda Sarsour and the Women’s March, exposing the impulses of a Sharia-supporter who wants to take Hirsi Ali’s “vagina away.” […]
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Australia: Muslim leader admits that Qur’an allows for wife-beating
By Robert Spencer on Feb 23, 2017 10:02 am

Why would anyone expect him to say anything different? The mandate to beat one’s wife is in the Qur’an: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has […]
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