JIHAD WATCH 08/10/2017

Indonesian suicide bomb plotter: “The blessing from jihad could help my parents enter heaven”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 09, 2017 07:29 pm

Can anyone refute on Islamic grounds the proposition that waging violent jihad can bring blessings from Allah that could help the jihadi’s parents enter Paradise? The claim is always made that jihadis are hijacking Islam, but it is never substantiated. “Jakarta woman defends suicide terror plot,” by Lauren Farrow and Heru Rahadi, Australian Associated Press, […]
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Vehicular jihad in France: Muslim arrested in Paris car ramming of soldiers
By Robert Spencer on Aug 09, 2017 01:35 pm

Hamou is a name found in Algeria among Berbers. It is derived from the name Muhammad. And so yet again we have a case of vehicular jihad, as I detailed earlier, although French authorities are no doubt still searching for a motive. “Car rams into soldiers in Paris suburb, suspect arrested after manhunt,” by Richard […]
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Snopes says claim NJ town forbade criticism of Islam “false,” then quotes: “No commentary regarding Islam permitted”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 09, 2017 09:55 am

The self-appointed “fact-checker” Snopes is just another corrupt hard-Left mouthpiece, as I demonstrated here. And here they go again. In this case, Snopes sets up a straw man, claiming that the stories about this court implied that the New Jersey town had imposed Sharia blasphemy laws outright, and issued a blanket ban on criticism of […]
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“Nowadays, to be a non-Muslim in Indonesia implies the inevitability of a troublesome and unjust daily life”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 09, 2017 09:39 am

“In May 2016, Zulfa Nur Rohman, a vocational secondary school student in Semarang Central Java, failed the 11th grade for a religious reason. He could not continue to 12th grade since he refused to reading the Quran and perform prayers in the mandatory Islamic studies classes.” To listen to the self-appointed “Islamophobia” watchdogs in the […]
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Robert Spencer: Do Islamic Jihadis Really Lack A Basic Understanding of Islam?
By Robert Spencer on Aug 09, 2017 09:19 am

My latest over at the Geller Report: Pope Francis and H. R. McMaster and John Kerry and so many other learned imams have assured us over the years that Islamic terrorism has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, and now there is proof, or what purports to be proof, in the form of a study […]
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Paris: Man deliberately rams car into soldiers, injuring six — “motive unclear”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 09, 2017 08:54 am

No information has yet been released about the man who was arrested, but as recently as June, the Islamic State published a poster depicting an SUV driving over a heap of skulls and bearing the legend “Run Over Them Without Mercy.” And the Islamic State issued this call in September 2014: So O muwahhid, do not […]
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UK police warn man to stop criticizing Islam on Facebook
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Aug 09, 2017 08:42 am

A man in Britain was visited by police and told to take down his material that was critical to Islam from Facebook. He states: The officers themselves were polite and reasonable enough, however their message was somewhat chilling: it was insinuated that if I continued to post material which could be considered critical of Islam […]
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Poland tells EU: We’ll take immigrants from Europe – but not North Africa and the Middle East
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Aug 09, 2017 08:26 am

Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski has said his country is welcoming migrants from its poor and conflict-stricken European neighbours, but will resist the European Union’s efforts to impose a compulsory quota of migrants from North Africa and the Middle East. Waszczykowski’s words echo those of the President of the Czech Republic…Miloš Zeman said he had […]
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Southern Methodist University bans 9/11 memorial because of new “triggering” policy
By Robert Spencer on Aug 09, 2017 08:17 am

Universities today are radioactive wastelands of Leftist indoctrination, including a pronounced hostility to America and sympathy for jihad terrorism. “9/11 memorial banned from campus venue because of new ‘triggering’ policy,” by Kayla Schierbecker, The College Fix, August 2, 2017: A private Texas university has united student opinion across the ideological spectrum in opposition to a […]
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Muslim leaders tied to CAIR and Iran advised Muslims who called for “No Go Zones” book to be banned
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Aug 09, 2017 08:09 am

Dawud Walid, Syed Abbas Ayleya, Zafar Bangash, and Sayed Asad Jafri are all hard-line figures, with links and sympathies to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Nation of Islam, and — perhaps most dangerously — the Islamic revolutionary theocracy which governs Iran. Until Western authorities clamp down firmly on Islamic supremacists and outlaw Muslim […]
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