JIHAD WATCH 08/18/2017

Spain: Four jihadis killed as police foil second jihad mass murder plot
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 09:14 pm

Just imagine what Spain, and all of Europe, will look like in five years, thanks to the mass Muslim migration into Europe, actively encouraged and brought about by Europe’s political elites. “Barcelona attack: police shoot dead four terror suspects in Cambrils after van crashes into crowd at Las Ramblas, killing 13,” by Barney Henderson, James […]
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Spain: Massive explosion at house linked to Barcelona jihad massacre
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 06:44 pm

“Inside the house, which police believe was occupied for a few months, they found around 20 canisters of butane and propane gas.” That suggests that more jihad violence was being plotted. “Massive explosion at Alcanar house on Wednesday night linked to Barcelona terror attack,” by Harriet Alexander, Telegraph, August 17, 2017: A huge explosion at […]
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Virginia: Muslim screamed “Allahu akbar” at news he’d helped buy rocket-propelled grenade for ISIS
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 06:21 pm

“In 2016, Williams also shared plans of a martyrdom operation with a woman outside the U.S. and requested more information about specific types of AK-47 ammunition from an FBI confidential source. He told the FBI employee that the information was for a ‘local’ operation.” So he was evidently plotting a jihad massacre inside the U.S. […]
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Barcelona jihad murderer posted Jew-hating video on Facebook
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 04:45 pm

The video is still on YouTube. Apparently the social media giants are interested only in taking down material that opposes jihad terror.
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CNN: Wolf Blitzer speculates Barcelona is “copycat” of Charlottesville
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 04:13 pm

Of course Wolf Blitzer immediately reaches for this, because he doesn’t believe that there are Islamic jihadis at all. It doesn’t fit his network’s narrative. And vehicular jihad? Wolf has never heard of such a thing. “Wolf Blitzer Speculates Barcelona Attack May Be ‘Copycat’ Of Charlottesville [VIDEO],” by Anders Hagstrom, Daily Caller, August 17, 2017: […]
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Barcelona: Two cops run over at jihad attack roadblock, driver shot dead
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 03:59 pm

More vehicular jihad, as the jihad battles continue in Barcelona. “BREAKING: Two police officers are run over at Barcelona terror attack roadblock as driver is shot dead,” by Dave Burke, Mailonline, August 17, 2017: Two police officers have been run over at a roadblock in Barcelona just hours after a terror attack left at least […]
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Barcelona: Muslim who rented van used in jihad massacre identified, arrested
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 03:46 pm

He’s from Morocco. But remember: if you oppose the mass migration of Muslims into Europe, you’re a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” “Barcelona terror: 13 dead as van rams pedestrians,” by Art Moore, World Net Daily, August 17, 2017: A van plowed into pedestrians in a busy tourist area of Barcelona, killing at least 13 people and […]
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Islamic State jihadis celebrate Barcelona vehicular jihad attack
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 03:39 pm

Self-professed lovers of death celebrate mass murder. “Van swerves into crowds in Barcelona’s popular Las Ramblas district; 13 reported dead and more than 50 injured,” by William Booth, Karla Adam and Brian Murphy, Washington Post, August 17, 2017 (thanks to Darcy): LONDON — A driver swerved a van onto a pedestrian area Thursday in Barcelona’s […]
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Barcelona: 13 dead in vehicular jihad, “Spanish identity card with Arabic name” found inside attack van
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 01:10 pm

“Local police say they still do not know the motivation for the attack, but are treating it as terrorism.” December 7, 1941: “Local police in Honolulu say they still do not know the motivation for the attack, but are treating it as a possible provocation from the Japanese Empire.” “Barcelona van attack: multiple deaths reported […]
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Georgia judge resigns under pressure: said “nut cases tearing down monuments equivalent to ISIS destroying history”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 01:01 pm

“In her statement, Blum made clear the suspension came because the posts jeopardized Hinkle’s position as an unbiased arbiter of the law.” This is laughable. There are Leftist activist judges all over the United States. Federal judges ignore the clear law regarding the President’s power to restrict immigration, claim that Trump is an “Islamophobe” because […]
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Video: Robert Spencer on Facebook’s censorship of criticism of Islam
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 12:40 pm

In this new video, I discuss Facebook’s willing compliance with Sharia blasphemy laws, as indicated by Facebook’s Vice President Joel Kaplan traveling to Pakistan to assure the Pakistani government that material critical of Islam would be removed from Facebook.
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Barcelona: Hostages held at restaurant near site of vehicular jihad attack
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 12:20 pm

This is all according to Islamic law. Here is a salient passage on this issue from a Shafi’i manual of Islamic law: When an adult male is taken captive, the caliph considers the interests … (of Islam and the Muslims) and decides between the prisoner’s death, slavery, release without paying anything, or ransoming himself in […]
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Spain: Police say Barcelona truck crash is “terrorist attack”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 12:10 pm

Last 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 let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, […]
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Barcelona: Many injured after truck plows into pedestrians at tourist hotspot
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 11:47 am

Could be an accident. Could be jihad. Could be something else altogether. But that there is immediate suspicion that it is jihad, and not just an accident, is a sign of how much Europe has changed: even ten or twenty years ago, everyone would have assumed it was an accident. #Barcelona van into the crowd […]
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McCain: Attacks on McMaster from “same purveyors of hatred and ignorance” as at Charlottesville
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 11:16 am

McCain, who defended Huma Abedin from legitimate questions about her Muslim Brotherhood ties by defaming those who were raising the questions as hatemongering “Islamophobes,” is now claiming that critics of NSA H.R. McMaster are all racists and neo-Nazis. Someone should inform Senator McCain, but no one will, that there are plenty of critics of McMaster […]
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India: Muslim clerics sleep with divorced women so they can return to their husbands under Islamic law
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 10:21 am

“This is lust. It’s not permissible in Islam. This is a criminal offence committed in the name of religion,” said Maulana Maqsood-ul-Hasan Qasmi, the head of the Imam Council of India. “These people should be thrown out of the mosques. They should be booked.” The problem with that is that this practice is Islamic. Allah’s […]
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Malaysia: Police top dog warns atheists not to upset “Muslims who oppose those who have no religion”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 17, 2017 09:37 am

Life is getting more precarious for atheists in “moderate” Malaysia. But in the West we are much more enlightened. Atheists who criticize Islam aren’t threatened with arrest; they’re just denounced as “Islamophobes” and have their events canceled. Land of the free and home of the brave! “IGP warns atheists against upsetting Muslims,” The Malaysian Insight, […]
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