JIHAD WATCH 02/27/2017

“Can I criticize Islam without fearing for my life?”
By Robert Spencer on Feb 26, 2017 06:27 pm

The answer is, in fact, no. We may surmise this from how Islamic tradition records Muhammad himself dealing with criticism. Abu Afak was a poet who was over one hundred years old, and had mocked Muhammad in his verses. Muhammad asked the Sahaba: “Who will avenge me on this scoundrel?” One of the companions murdered […]
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Nigeria: Muslim leader warns that regulations on polygamy violate the Qur’an
By Robert Spencer on Feb 26, 2017 06:07 pm

Western leaders are staking the future of Europe and North America on the assumption, or hope, that Muslims don’t take the Qur’an literally, particularly passages exhorting believers to kill Infidels (2:191; 4:89; 9:5; 47:4). But again and again we see that the plain meaning of Qur’anic passages are dominant among Muslim exegetes. The Qur’an allows […]
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France: Muslim “human rights activist” to Le Pen: “I am going to slit your throat Muslim-style”
By Robert Spencer on Feb 26, 2017 05:49 pm

“I am going to slit your throat Muslim-style”? There is a Muslim style to slitting throats? Isn’t that quite “Islamophobic” of Mehdi Meklat? “‘Slit your throat’ Blogger who threatened to KILL Marine Le Pen under fire,” by Romina McGuinness, Express, February 22, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): AN ACCLAIMED French blogger has come […]
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UK: Oxford University protects lecturer on Islam from hard questions by ex-Muslim
By Robert Spencer on Feb 26, 2017 05:27 pm

This is reminiscent of all the Muslim academics, including Joseph Lumbard and Jonathan A. C. Brown, who have boasted that they would destroy me in debate but then ducked out of opportunities to do so. If what they’re saying is true, why are all Islamic spokesmen so unwilling to debate in a neutral setting or […]
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DNC’s Perez denounces Trump’s “racist executive action against Muslims”
By Robert Spencer on Feb 26, 2017 03:48 pm

As soon as Tom Perez was chosen as head of the DNC, he chose Keith Ellison as Deputy Chair, signaling that he would do the bidding of the Islamic supremacist groups with whom Ellison is affiliated. Of President Trump, he says: “He hasn’t proposed anything but chaos and carnage from day one. We’ve seen no […]
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Iran’s former President Ahmadinejad to Trump: “The contemporary U.S. belongs to all nations”
By Robert Spencer on Feb 26, 2017 01:16 pm

To whom does the Islamic Republic of Iran belong? “Ahmadinejad Writes Open Letter to Trump,” VOA News, February 26, 2017: Iran’s former hardline president Mahmud Ahmadinejad has published an open letter in both English and Farsi to U.S. President Donald Trump, lauding the American leader for what he said was “truthfully describing the U.S. political […]
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Indian doctor freed from Islamic State captivity saw jihad suicide bombers as young as 10
By Robert Spencer on Feb 26, 2017 08:51 am

“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (9:111) There is no age limit on that promise. “Saw child suicide bombers as young as 10, says Indian doctor freed from ISIS captivity,” […]
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Canada: Ontario unanimously passes “anti-islamophobia” motion
By Christine Williams on Feb 26, 2017 07:47 am

The Ontario legislature unanimously passed an anti-Islamophobia motion Thursday afternoon, a marked difference from the heated debate happening among Conservatives over a similar motion at the federal level…. …Des Rosiers introduced the motion Dec. 1 in response to incidents in her Ottawa-Vanier riding such as anti-Muslim graffiti, and young women wearing hijabs who were spat […]
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Germany: Muslim migrant who raped and murdered EU official’s daughter lied about being a minor
By Robert Spencer on Feb 26, 2017 07:33 am

Not only that, but he “had been sentenced to ten years in jail in Greece after he threw a 20-year-old student off a cliff on the island of Corfu in May 2013,” yet was inexplicably released long before his sentence was up. Clearly it isn’t just the Muslim migrants who are culpable, but the European […]
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View from Sweden: Donald Trump was Right
By Ronie Berggren on Feb 26, 2017 06:51 am

In a speech February 18, President Trump made an offhand remark about my home country of Sweden. He said: “We’ve got to keep our country safe. You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this. Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having […]
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