JIHAD WATCH 04/16/2017

Turkey: Muslim cleric says giving Erdogan dictatorial powers is Islamic obligation, “no” voters are foes of Islam
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2017 01:02 pm

You’d almost think that Hayrettin Karaman, leading theologian and issuer of fatwas, thought that democracy and Islam were incompatible, but that would be “Islamophobic.” “Erdoğan cleric says voting ‘yes’ in referendum is Islamic obligation,” Turkish Minute, April 13, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Hayrettin Karaman, a leading theologian and issuer of fatwas, or […]
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Pakistan: Imam refuses last rites to student Muslims lynched for “blasphemy”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2017 12:51 pm

“First they killed my son and now they are adding salt to our wounds.” Yes. And all to appease their bloodthirsty god. “Imam Refuses To Lead Last Rites Of Pak Student Lynched At University For Alleged Blasphemy,” by Bobins Abraham, India Times, April 15, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The hatred that led […]
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Sweden: Columnist suggests banning cars to stop future terrorist attacks
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2017 12:41 pm

Great idea. Sweden should also ban knives, since jihadis sometimes go on stabbing sprees. And banned should be ball bearings and nails, since jihadis sometimes pack them into bombs. Then there will be a beautiful multicultural era of peace! Counter the jihadis instead, speaking honestly about their motivating ideology and addressing how they exploit the […]
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Cairo: Muslims invoked Allah’s wrath on Christians over loudspeakers before Palm Sunday church jihad attacks
By Christine Williams on Apr 15, 2017 12:17 pm

Coptic Christians in Egypt, who’ve been targeted in a number of recent terror attacks, have said that for years Muslim imams were allowed to preach hatred and violence against Christians to the public over loudspeakers. It is all too common for imams to preach hatred and violence against Christians. Even on Western soil, the jihad doctrine […]
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Philippines: Saudi woman fleeing abuse returned to her abusers, could be killed
By Christine Williams on Apr 15, 2017 12:01 pm

The Saudi woman warned officials that if they sent her back to Saudi with her uncles, who had come to collect her, they would ‘kill’ her. Why are leftist so-called feminists not taking to the streets to help women who have no voice and of who suffer the worst abuses in the Islamic world? They’re […]
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Pakistan: Military foils “major terrorist attack” Muslims had planned against Christians for Easter Sunday
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2017 11:29 am

Will the Islamophobia never end? “Pakistan military: Officials foil ‘major terrorist attack’ on Easter Sunday,” Fox News, April 15, 2017: Pakistan’s military said on Saturday that security forces foiled a “major terrorist attack” on Christians after killing a militant and detaining his associate in the eastern city of Lahore. The military said in a statement […]
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Spain: Screams of “Allahu akbar” cause panic at Good Friday event, 17 injured
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2017 11:03 am

The young men screaming “Allahu akbar” don’t appear to have been Muslims: “Spanish media reported that some of those later detained shouted ‘Allah is great’ as well as slogans in favour of the Basque separatist group ETA. But Ricardo Gil-Toresano, the central government’s representative in Seville, said there was no link to extremism. ‘It’s got […]
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Top ten countries for persecution of Christians: North Korea and nine Muslim countries
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2017 10:33 am

Why is this the case, and why is it the case year after year? Might it have something to do with these teachings? “Fight those who do not believe in Allah or the Last Day, and do not forbid what has been forbidden by Allah and his messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, even […]
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Video: Jihad Threat or “Islamophobia”? Robert Spencer at Truman State University, April 13, 2017
By Robert Spencer on Apr 15, 2017 09:52 am

Here is the notorious exercise in “hate speech” that Left-fascists did their best to shut down. Will any of them find any actual “hate” in it? Of course not. Last Thursday evening, I spoke at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. When they heard that I had been invited, Left-fascists first called for me to […]
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Ghor province, Afghanistan: Three honor killings in the last three weeks
By Christine Williams on Apr 15, 2017 08:33 am

A 19-year-old shot by her husband’s family after he claimed she wasn’t a virgin. An 18-year-old was killed with her mother because of suspicion she had had an abortion. And a 17-year-old killed and burned when she tried to escape from a forced marriage. Our Observer in Ghor province, Afghanistan, brings us three stories of […]
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