JIHAD WATCH 03/23/2017

UK: Police raid address where London jihadi rented car, multiple arrests
By Robert Spencer on Mar 23, 2017 12:28 am

Apparently he was no “lone wolf,” but had considerable support within the community. “Dozens of armed police swoop on address in Birmingham ‘where car used in London terror attacks was rented from’ and ‘take a number of people into custody,'” by Rebecca Taylor, Mailonline, March 23, 2017: Armed police have been involved in a raid […]
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UK news sources withdraw claim that Abu Izzadeen was London jihad murderer
By Robert Spencer on Mar 22, 2017 04:39 pm

“The UK’s Channel 4 News and The Independent initially named Izaadeen as the suspect, but several sources told BBC News that the radical Muslim cleric is still in jail and not responsible for the attack.” “Radical Muslim cleric mistakenly named as London attacker,” by Danika Fears and Natalie Musumeci, New York Post, March 22, 2017: A […]
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UK’s Independent removes story identifying Abu Izzadeen as London jihadi
By Robert Spencer on Mar 22, 2017 03:36 pm

UPDATE: The Independent has taken down this story, suggesting that the attacker may not have been Abu Izzadeen. Apparently Abu Izzadeen’s solicitor is saying he is still in prison. More updates will come when the situation becomes clearer. ——- British authorities didn’t think he meant it, or if they did, they assumed that appeasement and […]
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UK Home Secretary: British people will work to defeat those who would harm “our shared values” of “tolerance”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 22, 2017 03:09 pm

To speak about “tolerance” with four dead at the hands of an Islamic jihadist in London is to signal that it will be business as usual in Theresa May’s Britain: nothing will be done to confront the ideology that incites its adherents to violence and hatred. This is clear because “tolerance” is never asked of […]
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UK jihad murderer at Parliament possibly identified as well-known jihad preacher Abu Izzadeen
By Robert Spencer on Mar 22, 2017 02:45 pm

“We are the Muslims. We drink the blood of the enemy…That is Islam and that is jihad,” Abu Izzadeen has said. And now, if he was the jihad attacker in London today, he has made good on those words. Britain has allowed Abu Izzadeen and others like him to preach freely for years, while hounding […]
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Death toll now four in Islamic jihad attack at UK Parliament
By Robert Spencer on Mar 22, 2017 02:20 pm

And others have suffered “catastrophic injuries,” so it could continue to rise. “FOUR people are dead – including police officer and terrorist – and 20 more injured – after killer mowed down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before killer is shot attacking police in Parliament grounds,” by Richard Spillett, Tim Sculthorpe, Martin Robinson, Alexander Robertson and […]
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First photo of London Parliament jihad attacker
By Robert Spencer on Mar 22, 2017 02:07 pm

Not many “right-wing extremists” have beards in that style.
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UK death toll now at least two, several “catastrophically injured” in jihad attack by “middle-aged” Muslim
By Robert Spencer on Mar 22, 2017 12:59 pm

“Asian” means “Muslim” in the British media. Watch for the forthcoming reports about his mental illness and the need to be vigilant against “Islamophobia.” “BREAKING NEWS: At least two dead and several ‘catastrophically injured’ after car mows down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before a knifeman is shot after attacking police officer in the grounds of […]
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Jihad in London: Scotland Yard says “we are treating this as a terrorist incident until we know otherwise”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 22, 2017 12:24 pm

A “terrorist” incident means jihad. It wasn’t the IRA. There are no other significant terrorist groups operating today in the UK. This statement from Scotland Yard makes it very likely that this was a jihad attack, and yet another repudiation of the British government’s policy of appeasing and accommodating Islamic supremacists and jihadists while hounding […]
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UK: “Asian” attacker crashed into pedestrians in his car before running into Parliament with knife
By Robert Spencer on Mar 22, 2017 12:02 pm

We have seen a spate of such attacks recently — and a billboard in Nazareth that actually called for them. “Moderate” Fatah called for such attacks. And the Islamic State issued this call in September 2014: So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, […]
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UK: Witness saw Muslim with 8-inch knife heading toward Parliament building
By Robert Spencer on Mar 22, 2017 11:36 am

“One witness said she saw an Asian man carrying an eight-inch knife heading towards the building.” “Asian” is British media Newspeak for “Muslim.” “A car on Westminster Bridge has just mowed down at least five people.” That, also, is a common modern method of jihad. “Parliament shooting: ‘I saw knifeman’ Witness reveals Westminster carnage,” by […]
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UK: Two shot outside Parliament, man with knife or machete stabs policeman inside Parliament, 12 injured
By Robert Spencer on Mar 22, 2017 11:18 am

This may not be a jihad terror attack. It could be anything: a madman, an outraged “Remainer,” the latest outbreak of violence between Lancaster and York. Yes, it has the jihadi modus operandi with the knife or machete, but let’s not be hasty or say anything “Islamophobic” that might annoy the poor dears. “Two people […]
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“Vicar of Baghdad” says Christianity in Iraq is finished
By Robert Spencer on Mar 22, 2017 11:01 am

Christians in the West continue to remain silent and indifferent to the Muslim persecution of Christians in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. Why? A significant percentage of the Christians in Iraq were Chaldean Catholics. Yet the Catholic Church’s supine and pollyannish stance in the face of the advancing jihad, and active campaign to […]
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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Meet Five Lethal American Converts to Islam
By Robert Spencer on Mar 22, 2017 10:45 am

Why don’t Christian converts find terror in their new religion? My latest in PJ Media: John Georgelas, the Texas-born son of a U.S. Air Force doctor and grandson of a World War II veteran, now calls himself Yahya Abu Hassan. He has reportedly just become one of the top leaders of the Islamic State (ISIS). […]
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Iran’s Supremo: “Gender equality” is a “Zionist plot”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 22, 2017 10:36 am

“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 guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and […]
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UN “Human Rights” top dog Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein: Nations have “legal obligation to stop hate speech”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 22, 2017 09:54 am

To censor what he considers to be “racism” and “xenophobia” is “not an attack on free speech or the silencing of controversial ideas or criticism.” Yeah, sure it isn’t. That’s exactly what it is, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein is likely well aware of that fact. This has been […]
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France: One-third of young Muslims hold “fundamentalist” religious views
By Christine Williams on Mar 22, 2017 09:16 am

A large survey of 7000 students, aged 14-16 by the National Centre for Scientific Research, has found that a third of French Muslim youth had “fundamental religious views.” To clarify what “fundamental religious views” mean: 32 percent of them did not fully condemn the jihadist bloodbath at the Charlie Hebdo offices for the sharia crime […]
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UK government to “instruct universities” to defend free speech as “legal duty”
By Christine Williams on Mar 22, 2017 08:37 am

In a move that could have wide-reaching implications on U.K. campuses, British universities will be instructed to uphold freedom of speech as a “legal duty.” That this instruction had to be issued at all is revealing. University censorship in the UK is at an alarming high as the thought police punish freedom of expression in […]
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Palestinian Authority’s Abbas blames Israeli “occupation” for “all the disasters in the world”
By Christine Williams on Mar 22, 2017 08:20 am

In a recent speech, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stated that the Israeli “occupation” is the reason for all disasters in the world. Can Israel expect to negotiate peace with an anti-Semite such as Mahmoud Abbas, whom the LA-based Simon Wiesenthal Center named the “#1 anti-Semite of the Year”? Again Abbas is showing that he […]
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