JIHAD WATCH 02/25/2017

Muslim Reform Group Reached Out to 3,000 US Mosques, Got Only 40 Responses
By Stephen M. Kirby on Feb 24, 2017 03:16 pm

In December 2015, a small group of Muslims met in Washington, DC to discuss the reform of Islam. With media fanfare, they named themselves the Muslim Reform Movement (MRM), issued a Declaration for Muslim Reform, and became the new face of “Muslim reformers.” There was just one fundamental problem: the MRM never had support from […]
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Bangladesh: Thousands of Muslims march to demand removal of Lady Justice statue as un-Islamic
By Robert Spencer on Feb 24, 2017 01:50 pm

A Lady Justice statue is un-Islamic. But we have never seen comparable numbers marching in Bangladesh against, say, jihad terrorism. “Bangladeshi Muslim hardliners seek removal of Justice statue,” Associated Press, February 24, 2017: Thousands of people marched in Bangladesh’s capital on Friday to demand a Lady Justice statue be removed from the Supreme Court complex. […]
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Egypt: Thousands screaming “Allahu akbar” mourn Blind Sheikh, mastermind of 1993 WTC jihad bombing
By Robert Spencer on Feb 24, 2017 12:56 pm

Those who favor jihad and Sharia are just a tiny minority of extremists, right? “If he were a bad man, people from all over the country wouldn’t have came to attend his funeral.” Exactly so. “Thousands mourn ‘blind sheikh’ convicted in 1993 World Trade Center bombing,” by Amina Ismail and Arwa Gaballa, Reuters, February 22, […]
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“Palestinian” kids at EU-funded festival: “Jihad is needed, pull the trigger”
By Robert Spencer on Feb 24, 2017 12:42 pm

While the UN rains down condemnations upon Israel and the international establishment propaganda media treats the “Palestinians” as if they were an oppressed victim class, this is the reality. And the EU cash will keep coming. “Palestinian Kids at EU-Funded Festival: ‘Jihad is Needed, Pull the Trigger,’” TheTower.org, February 23, 2017: The winning performance at […]
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General McMaster and That “Perverted Interpretation of Religion Used To Justify Violence”
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Feb 24, 2017 12:30 pm

President Trump has chosen Lt. General William McMaster as his new National Security Adviser. As a three-star general, McMaster’s appointment will require Senate confirmation, and one hopes that whatever else the Senators ask him, they make sure to examine his understanding of Islamic terrorism. For surely this is the greatest threat not only to American […]
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UK: Man who renounced Islam forced to move after harassment from Muslims
By Robert Spencer on Feb 24, 2017 12:12 pm

Farouk Ismail said: “There is no compulsion in Islam. It’s up to the individual if they want to be a Muslim or not and each individual’s faith is a matter between them and God, no one else.” This is outstandingly disingenuous. In reality, the death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based […]
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Keith Ellison: “Blacks don’t have an obligation” to obey government
By Christine Williams on Feb 24, 2017 11:45 am

The Muslim Brotherhood-linked Keith Ellison, the first Muslim to be elected to Congress, also has past ties to the Nation of Islam — a black Islamic supremacist, anti-white, anti-gay, anti-Catholic and virulently anti-Semitic group. He conveniently denounced his involvement with the group when it suited him in 2006, after it became an issue during his […]
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Video: Inside a devastated Orthodox Church in Mosul
By Robert Spencer on Feb 24, 2017 11:22 am

See the extent of what Christians in the Middle East have had to endure, while their fellow Christians in the West largely remain silent in pursuit of a futile and chimerical “dialogue.” This is an Orthodox church, but all Christians should have stood up and spoken out about what happened here. The Catholic Church in […]
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Trump phones Trinidad PM to stem Islamic State recruitment
By Christine Williams on Feb 24, 2017 09:11 am

Trinidad has the highest Islamic State recruitment in the Western hemisphere. The Islamic State’s latest Rumiya magazine issue featured an interview with a jihadi called Abu Sa’d at-Trinidadi, in which he “urged Muslims in his homeland to attack fellow citizens” and to “terrify the disbelievers in their own homes and make their streets run with […]
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Canada: Fredericton, NB aiming to become a “sanctuary city”
By Christine Williams on Feb 24, 2017 09:05 am

Fredericton was also the location where a Muslim migrant was reported to have sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl at her first high school dance. Concern about this is not motivated by some personal animus against Muslims, as advocates for the indiscriminate welcome of refugees have long suggested. The crisis in Europe should be a lesson […]
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