JIHAD WATCH 03/10/2017

Dusseldorf axe attacker arrested, from “former Yugoslavia,” cops say mental illness, no terror motive
By Robert Spencer on Mar 09, 2017 07:35 pm

“Former Yugoslavia”? Yugoslavia ceased to exist in 1992. That was 25 years ago. Why is that still a point of reference? Why don’t they say he is from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire? Can’t the police be a bit more specific? Is this axe attacker a Catholic from Croatia? Orthodox from Serbia? Or…a Muslim from Bosnia […]
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Reza Aslan’s agenda: showing Hinduism and Christianity as violent, Islam as peaceful
By Robert Spencer on Mar 09, 2017 07:07 pm

David Wood several years ago pointed out a feature of Reza Aslan’s work that, as time goes by, increasingly appears to be the central feature of all his work: he downplays or denies the violent aspects of Islamic teaching, while exaggerating or inventing violent elements in other religions. In No god but God, Aslan portrayed […]
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Germany: Axe-wielding attackers wound five in Dusseldorf train station
By Robert Spencer on Mar 09, 2017 05:12 pm

The Daily Mail has this: “Passenger has tweeted that a ‘crazy man’ with an axe has been attacking people.” But below we see: “Police said two suspected attackers have been arrested following the attack but more are thought to be on the run.” A whole gang of “crazy men”? Or could this be another jihad […]
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Robert Spencer video: What if the media had covered World War II the way it covers jihad?
By Robert Spencer on Mar 09, 2017 01:05 pm

In this new video, I sketch out how history might be very different if the establishment media had reported on attempts to counter Hitler and the Nazis the way it reports on the jihad threat.
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Raymond Ibrahim: The Islamic State Revives Islam’s Original Terror Tactic — Cannibalism
By Raymond Ibrahim on Mar 09, 2017 01:03 pm

In light of recent revelations that the Islamic State is teaching its followers to eat non-Muslims, surely we can now all agree that, at least in this, ISIS is truly not Islamic? Alas, no. Even the eating of “infidels” has precedents throughout Islamic history, especially as a terror tactic. Two well-documented anecdotes come to mind: […]
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Trinidad: Imam arrested as part of Islamic State gang, threatens to murder police
By Robert Spencer on Mar 09, 2017 12:24 pm

An imam? A man who has dedicated his life to understanding and communicating Islam properly somehow gets the idea that his religion commands violence against unbelievers? Why, how can this be? We can only hope that George W. Bush and Pope Francis are on their way to Enterprise Chaguanas now to explain the true, peaceful […]
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A week before 2016 election, Obama administration spiked arrest of jihadi who lied to enter US
By Robert Spencer on Mar 09, 2017 09:52 am

Which side were they on? This Fox News story is willfully misleading: “extreme vetting” is a term Trump has used to describe the procedures he hopes to implement. There was nothing “extreme” about Obama’s vetting process, and all this happened during the Obama administration. So why is Fox trying to use it to discredit Trump? […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Good News From France: “Hate Speech” Charges Dropped Against Georges Bensoussan
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Mar 09, 2017 09:38 am

Professor Georges Bensoussan of the University of Strasbourg is a celebrated French historian of the Holocaust. He is currently the lead editor at the Shoah Memorial in Paris, and author of, among many books, Europe, Une Passion Génocidaire (Europe: A Genocidal Passion), a work he defined as “an intellectual archeology of the Shoah” and an attempt […]
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Hawaii issues first challenge to Trump’s new travel ban
By Robert Spencer on Mar 09, 2017 09:10 am

“The new executive order is resulting in the establishment of religion in the state of Hawaii contrary to its state constitution; it is inflicting immediate damage to Hawaii’s economy, educational institutions, and tourism industry; and it is subjecting a portion of the state’s citizens to second-class treatment and discrimination, while denying all Hawaii residents the […]
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Khizr Khan’s claim that his “travel privileges are being reviewed” by US authorities is unraveling
By Robert Spencer on Mar 09, 2017 08:59 am

According to a hadith, Muhammad said, “War is deceit.” (Bukhari 4.52.268) And the production of fake hate crimes, supposedly committed by “Islamophobes” and Trump supporters, and “Islamophobic” Trump supporters, is a growth industry. So it is no surprise at all that this victimhood propagandist would fabricate a claim that he was being illegally prevented from […]
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