JIHAD WATCH 04/13/2017

Italy: Muslim truck driver who posted jihad material to be “deradicalized”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 12, 2017 01:49 pm

Yeah, that’ll work. Deradicalization programs, upon which the West has placed so much hope, have long been an obvious failure. Such programs are based on the premise that the true teachings of Islam are peaceful, and so all that needs to be done is show the jihadis how they’re misunderstanding the Qur’an and overlooking its […]
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“Robert Spencer, Here’s to You”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 12, 2017 01:05 pm

Well, this is unusual: Cornelius Navaro, the longtime Jihad Watch reader who frequently writes in the comments fields under the name Cornelius, has put together this tribute song. If they get wind of this one at Truman State University, you’ll be able to open your window and hear the Left-fascists howling with rage and running […]
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Stockholm truck jihad murderer: “I’m pleased with what I’ve done…I drove towards the infidels”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 12, 2017 12:55 pm

Islamic jihadis usually couch their actions as retaliation for some supposed atrocity of the infidels, because defensive jihad in response to an attack by infidels is always allowed, and doesn’t require explicit orders or sanction from the caliph. “‘I’m pleased with what I’ve done’: Stockholm jihadi killer says he ‘achieved what he set out to […]
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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Marvel Withdraws Comic Containing Hidden Jihad References
By Robert Spencer on Apr 12, 2017 11:46 am

The messages were anti-Semitic and anti-Christian. My latest in PJ Media: Is there any sphere of life where one can be spared Leftist cultural indoctrination? Comic book website Bleeding Cool reported Saturday that Indonesian Muslim artist Ardian Syaf hid subtle anti-Jewish and anti-Christian messages in an X-Men comic. Marvel Comics has apologized and withdrawn the […]
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Swedish PM vows: Sweden will never go back to the days of mass immigration
By Christine Williams on Apr 12, 2017 10:45 am

SWEDEN’S prime minister vowed his country would “never go back” to the days of mass immigration after it emerged the Stockholm attacker was a failed asylum seeker. It’s a pity that it took an Islamic State jihadist perpetrating a carnage in Stockholm for the Swedish Prime Minister even to pay lip service to the idea […]
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UK: Muslim who claimed killing British soldiers was justified becomes leader of Muslim group with influence in government
By Christine Williams on Apr 12, 2017 10:30 am

An extremist who said he supported the killing of British soldiers has been appointed a director of a controversial Muslim pressure group with influence at Westminster…..Azad Ali, head of community development and engagement at Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend), said the Westminster Bridge attack last month was ‘not terrorism’. According to RT, MEND is a […]
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Germany: Muslim arrested for soccer team bus bombing, letters found saying attack carried out in name of Islam
By Robert Spencer on Apr 12, 2017 09:25 am

“According to Der Spiegel, that letter was written in German starts with the phrase ‘In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful’ and ends with two demands. First, ‘tornadoes’, a reference to German reconnaissance planes, must be withdrawn from Syria, and second the US base in Ramstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, should be closed….The letter also claims […]
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US embassy in Cairo warns its citizens to avoid “identifiable places of worship”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 12, 2017 09:22 am

Grow a spine, US embassy in Cairo. American citizens have no need to avoid mosques in Cairo. No one is going to set off a bomb in any of them. The threat is to churches, and to Egypt’s Christians, and you know that full well, but don’t dare to state it clearly, for fear of […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: A Few Scenes, Drawn from Life, of the Latest in Muslim Outreach (Part I)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Apr 12, 2017 08:36 am

1. “Islam Is Not A Monolith” You’ve just decided to attend a Meet-Your-Muslim-Neighbor gathering at a local mosque, the one that was built a few years ago to accommodate a swelling population of Believers. When the plans for the new mosque had first been announced, some people objected to its being built, but they were […]
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Erdogan: “Europe is collapsing…Europe will pay for what they have done” in humiliating and oppressing Turks
By Christine Williams on Apr 12, 2017 08:12 am

When Islamic supremacists get a whiff of weakness, they zero in with calculated determination. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated: “They said a century ago that we were the ‘sick man.’ Now they are the ‘sick man.’ Europe is collapsing.” Erdogan, a dangerous combination of ruthless and off-the-hinges, recently declared a clash between “the cross […]
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Graphic: Images and video of Palm Sunday’s Coptic church bombings
By Raymond Ibrahim on Apr 12, 2017 07:47 am

The number of dead from the Palm Sunday bombings of two Coptic churches in Egypt has climbed to 50: thirty Christians were killed at the St. George Church in Tanta, and 15 Christians and five police officials were killed in St. Mark in Alexandria. About 120 are seriously injured. Because Islamic suicide bombings are on the […]
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