JIHAD WATCH 05/14/2017

Pakistan: Muslims threaten to kill Christian lawyer for defending people against blasphemy charges
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2017 05:29 pm

“A Christian lawyer who has been defending people charged with blasphemy and helping victims of forced conversion and marriage has received a threatening letter wherein she has been warned that she will be killed if she did not stop her work.” No worries. The Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims will swiftly rise up, rebuke those […]
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McMaster: Trump will “call for Muslim leaders to promote a peaceful vision of Islam”
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2017 05:11 pm

Bush and Obama called for Muslim leaders to promote a peaceful vision of Islam. They also claimed that the jihadis’ version of Islam “uses a perverted interpretation of religion.” Where did it get them? The same place comforting falsehoods always take you: into a maze of blind alleys and failed policies based on incorrect analysis. […]
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Pakistani government sends text to millions warning against posting “blasphemous content”
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2017 04:56 pm

In the free West, we don’t prosecute those who are considered to have blasphemed Islam. We just brand them as “Islamophobes” and stigmatize and demonize them. It’s a much more enlightened way of doing things. “Millions of Pakistanis sent govt blasphemy warning by text (PHOTO),” RT, May 10, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): […]
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Portland State U: Student fired from paper for reporting about Muslim student’s statement
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2017 04:44 pm

Andy Ngo reported on a Muslim student admitting that his religion mandated death for those who leave it, and was summarily dismissed from his position at the Vanguard, the campus newspaper. No one at PSU seems particularly concerned with the plight of those who leave Islam in Muslim countries, but those who call attention to […]
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Portland State U: Muslim student says those who leave Islam will be killed in an Islamic state
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2017 04:35 pm

.@Portland_State Here is full clip that I recorded. An audience member asked about Quran 5:51 & “infidels.” He summarizes Quran 5:32 just before video starts pic.twitter.com/7FMgsPbFR6 — Andy C. Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) April 27, 2017 The Muslim student is right, and unusually honest. The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on […]
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Denmark: Teen Muslima charged in jihad plot to bomb Jewish school
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2017 04:18 pm

“Following a trip to Turkey, the teen became interested in Islam and converted to the religion upon returning to Denmark….The teen was arrested in 2016 for allegedly planning bombing attacks on the Jewish school in Copenhagen and another school in Denmark. She had acquired chemicals to create the explosives, according to Danish prosecutors.” Yet another […]
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Ohio: Muslim indicted for attempting to provide support to the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2017 09:27 am

“He was arrested in January for unlawful entry into the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C. He refused to say why he was on the property, but officials said Alebbini muttered, ‘You are going to regret this’ while he was escorted off the property.” Lovely guy. Where does he go to mosque? What do they teach […]
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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: University at Buffalo students shout down truth about jihad
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2017 08:13 am

Again, campus Left-fascists show they detest free speech. My latest in PJ Media: Last Monday, I appeared at the University of Buffalo at the invitation of the courageous students of Young Americans for Freedom. They have to put up with campus Left-fascist thuggery on a daily basis, while I was able to leave Buffalo the […]
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Muslim spokesman blames Christianity for Islamic blasphemy laws
By Christine Williams on May 13, 2017 06:08 am

It is characteristic of Islamic supremacists to blame the Christian, the Jew, colonialism, imperialism and/or the West for any Muslim failure, misdeed and misfortune. Qasim Rashid, in his column below, claims that his tiny Ahmadi sect supports the freedom of speech, but he blames Christianity for Islamic blasphemy laws, while exonerating Islam from any responsibility for […]
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Parents of Hamas jihad attack victim sue American Muslims for Palestine
By Robert Spencer on May 13, 2017 05:50 am

“Although the Boim complaint makes no allegations about religion, AMP Chairman Hatem Bazian dismissed it and the allegations it makes as ‘frivolous and highly Islamophobic.'” Hatem (“Hate ’em”) Bazian is a key propagandist of the “Islamophobia” myth: he is the founder of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the University of California at Berkeley. […]
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