JIHAD WATCH 03/15/2017

Iranian official boasts of “guerrilla movement” in US from Iran and “all Islamic countries”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 14, 2017 07:59 pm

This might be a good reason for, say, a moratorium on immigration from Iran and other Islamic countries. But I know I know, Trump is a “racist”! “Iranian official boasts of ‘guerilla [sic] movement’ within the U.S.,” by Candice Malcolm, Toronto Sun, March 8, 2017: New video footage appears to lend credibility to President Donald […]
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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: CNN’s Reza Aslan Losing Fight to Make ‘Islamophobia’ Happen
By Robert Spencer on Mar 14, 2017 07:12 pm

The Islam (and cannibalism!) apologist slams me, but avoids debate. My latest in PJ Media: Rather than feeling invigorated by his recent meal of human brain, Leftist media darling Reza Aslan appears to be a bit down in the dumps. Recently he spoke at the University of Pennsylvania, where he railed against a handful of […]
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Pakistan PM: Blasphemy “unpardonable sin,” international orgs should eliminate all blasphemous content
By Robert Spencer on Mar 14, 2017 06:59 pm

The Express Tribune reported on March 8 that blasphemous “pages were being removed with the help of the Facebook officials.” That may be one reason why referrals from Facebook to Jihad Watch are down upwards of 10,000 a day since February 10. But Facebook isn’t enough: Sharif wants “international organizations” to work to eliminate “all […]
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University of Wisconsin-Madison students support religious freedom for Muslims, not for Christians
By Christine Williams on Mar 14, 2017 06:13 pm

These interviews at the University of Wisconsin-Madison illustrate the stark double standard in American society — and likely in other Western countries as well: Muslims get preferential treatment, are judged by a different standard, and held to different expectations. Beyond the special treatment, Muslim migrants in Europe often get away with sex assaults, imams are […]
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Tennessee files constitutional challenge to refugee settlement program
By Christine Williams on Mar 14, 2017 05:43 pm

In April 2016, the Tennessee General Assembly passed SJR 467 by overwhelming majorities authorizing the filing of a lawsuit to address the federal government’s commandeering of state funds to continue the refugee resettlement program in Tennessee. The federal government is prohibited from forcing states to support federal programs with state revenues. Yet this is exactly […]
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Canadians want immigrants screened for “anti-Canadian values,” are scolded by establishment media
By Christine Williams on Mar 14, 2017 05:31 pm

Monday’s headlines proclaimed “disappointment” and “concern” over a new CROP poll of Canadians’ attitudes toward immigration. Despite the extraordinarily painstaking efforts by leftist leaders, the media and Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups such as the National Council of Canadian Muslims (former CAIR-CAN), all serving as thought police, Canadians are not quite that naive. Given the voluminous liberal […]
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Zuhdi Jasser endorses pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist, says “no greater jihadists” than foes of jihad terror
By Robert Spencer on Mar 14, 2017 03:42 pm

There has for many years been a difference of opinion among those who are aware of the reality of the jihad threat. There are those who believe it very important, indeed, crucial to the success of our efforts to resist the global jihad and Sharia supremacism, to include reformist Muslims in them, and to support […]
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Robert Spencer Video: Parents of People Killed by Muslim Hit Trump for Calling Murders Terrorism
By Robert Spencer on Mar 14, 2017 12:50 pm

In this new video, I discuss two parents’ strange anger at Donald Trump for classifying as terrorism the murders of their children by a Muslim who was screaming “Allahu akbar.”
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New Book Fails to Convince that Islam Made America Great
By Andrew Harrod on Mar 14, 2017 11:38 am

“Muslims have helped us to be more American, to be better Americans,” writes Loyola Marymount University theology professor Amir Hussain in his new book Muslims and the Making of America.  Yet his volume offers little support for this multicultural, politically correct thesis. “There has never been an America without Muslims,” Hussain states while noting Muslims […]
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Egypt: All art is “immoral,” says top cleric, known as a “moderate” around the world
By Raymond Ibrahim on Mar 14, 2017 10:32 am

Art has a largely negative impact on human morality. So says Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Egypt’s Al Azhar madrassa and arguably the “most influetial Muslim in the world.” In a recent televised interview, Tayeb was asked “To what degree does art influence the morals of the youth.” The sheikh responded that art […]
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