JIHAD WATCH 05/07/2017

Video from Bolivia: Machete-wielding Muslims strike and threaten Bolivians, claiming to own their land
By Robert Spencer on May 06, 2017 06:42 pm

“Residents of La Esperanza neighborhood, in the district of Remanzo, complain that they were struck and threatened by Muslims who claim to be the owners of their lands.” Spanish-language video from Bolivisión Al Día Santa Cruz, April 27, 2017.
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Video from Italy: Muslim migrants assault female reporter live on the air
By Robert Spencer on May 06, 2017 05:52 pm

The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their […]
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Smith College professor: “The U.S. creates terrorism”
By Christine Williams on May 06, 2017 05:40 pm

Smith College professor Suleiman A. Mourad writes: With the fall of the USSR and its constellation of Communist governments, US elites no longer had a ready rationale to maintain the country’s war machine….The US brags about its commitment to democracy. But its interventions have yielded death and despotism for the Middle East. Professor Mourad would […]
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Finnish minister says new grand mosque plans could pose “security risk”
By Christine Williams on May 06, 2017 05:10 pm

Helsinki city council is deciding whether to green light plans for a large mosque complex in the Finnish capital which have led to fierce political debate. The new grand mosque could pose a security threat for two reasons, according to Tarja Mankkinen, the interior minister responsible for Finland’s anti-radicalisation policy. The first reason is that […]
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New Hamas top dog praised bin Laden as “holy warrior,” BBC calls him “pragmatic”
By Robert Spencer on May 06, 2017 02:09 pm

The BBC: clueless or complicit? At this point, what difference does it make? “Hamas chooses Ismail Haniya as new leader,” BBC, May 6, 2017 (thanks to Fjordman): The Palestinian militant group Hamas has announced that Ismail Haniya has been chosen as its new overall leader. He succeeds Khaled Meshaal, who has served the maximum two […]
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Pakistan: Lawmakers reject bill to raise marriage age for girls as “un-Islamic”
By Robert Spencer on May 06, 2017 01:40 pm

Few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage: “The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with […]
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Switzerland: Qur’an distribution campaign is “front for incitement of radical activities including jihadist involvement”
By Robert Spencer on May 06, 2017 01:30 pm

Swiss authorities, and authorities all over Europe and North America, are eventually going to realize that the problem is not that one group is using Qur’an distribution as a front for jihad recruitment, but that the Qur’an can perform jihad recruitment all by itself. “Zurich recommends ban on ‘radicalized’ Koran distribution campaign,” by Brenna Hughes […]
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Washington, DC: Islamic State supporter wanted to start race war, tried to buy AK-47
By Robert Spencer on May 06, 2017 01:15 pm

He supported the Islamic State and wanted to start a race war. Note the close congruence here between the Islamic State’s jihad imperative and the race hatred of the Nation of Islam — something we also saw recently in the jihad attack of Kori Ali Muhammad in Fresno. “‘Let’s put bullets in them’; Ex-Marine, who […]
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Quilliam’s Julia Ebner says Robert Spencer is Alt-Right: Where’s the evidence?
By Robert Spencer on May 06, 2017 12:49 pm

I don’t know Simon Harris, but this video is well done, and I thank him for it. The article of mine from which Harris reads in this video is here; sometimes it’s a bit difficult to tell whether he is quoting Ebner or me, so you can refer to that for reference. Meanwhile, I have […]
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17-year-old gay teen pushed off 9th floor balcony by uncle after he was outed by Chechen family
By Robert Spencer on May 06, 2017 12:34 pm

The Qur’an contains numerous condemnations of homosexual activity: “And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, ‘Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds? Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people.’…And We rained upon them a […]
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Gettysburg College prof Dave Powell claims Robert Spencer lecture “weak logic,” gives no examples, refuses to debate
By Robert Spencer on May 06, 2017 11:43 am

The Leftist establishment, and particularly Leftist academics, have exalted the argument from authority, which logically is the weakest of all arguments, to the status of the only argument they deign to employ in support of their views. They don’t bother to offer evidence or substantiation for what they say. (The obverse of this is also […]
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Trump’s pick for Army secretary drops out: objected to Islamic indoctrination in public schools
By Robert Spencer on May 06, 2017 10:52 am

Green should not have dropped out. His doing so only validates the Left’s claim that his statements are beyond the pale. But are they really? “Also in September, he said a stand needed to be taken against ‘the indoctrination of Islam’ in public schools.” Hysterical, paranoid Islamophobia, right? Wrong. Some headlines from the last few […]
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Islamic State: Use Craigslist ads to lure non-Muslims, kill hostages to “plant terror into hearts of disbelievers”
By Robert Spencer on May 06, 2017 09:59 am

We all know, of course, that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam, but one can’t help but notice: the Islamic State gives Muslims strategies to “more effectively plant terror into the hearts of the disbelievers.” Where could they have gotten the idea to do that? Could it be from these verses? “And […]
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New Jersey: Muslim plotted pressure cooker bomb jihad massacre in NYC, wanted to join the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on May 06, 2017 08:43 am

Yet another convert to Islam turns to treason and mass murder. Authorities remain uninterested in this phenomenon. “Both Lepsky and the dog were wounded when police initially responded on Feb. 21, and Lepsky allegedly told police while being treated at a hospital he planned to carry out his attack in New York City. The complaint […]
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