JIHAD WATCH 08/19/2017

No place is truly safe from jihad attacks — and why is that?
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2017 05:41 pm

“No place in Western Europe is truly safe from the warriors of Islam.” And why is that? Because of the Muslim migrant policies that Western European leaders have pursued with indefatigable single-mindedness, while smearing all opponents of these suicidal policies as “racists” and “Islamophobes.” Theresa May, David Cameron, Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and François Hollande, […]
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CNN, MSNBC, The Atlantic publicize SPLC’s Left-biased and defamatory “hate group” map
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2017 05:10 pm

The Left-fascists are moving in for the kill. “CNN, MSNBC Air Misleading Liberal ‘Hate Map,’” by Trey Elmore, ChurchMilitant.com, August 17, 2017: DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) – In the aftermath of the Charlottesville clashes between white supremacists and Antifa resulting in the death of 32-year-old Heather Hayer, mainstream news media has taken to referencing the far Left […]
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Leftist “journalist” Lauren Kirchner of ProPublica threatens Jihad Watch
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2017 04:07 pm

The Left is mounting an all-out assault against the freedom of speech, and using Charlottesville to try to crush all dissent. I received this email today. I know also that Lauren Kirchner has sent it to other counter-jihad sites as well. Hello JihadWatch.org, I am a reporter at ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative newsroom in New […]
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Southern Poverty Law Center demonizes respectable opponents as “hate groups”—and keeps its coffers bulging
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2017 03:47 pm

This article was written before Charlottesville, but it takes on a new urgency now, as the SPLC’s spurious and defamatory list of “hate groups” is being used to target and destroy those groups. The freedom of speech is rapidly being denied to all those who are deemed to be propagating “hate,” and given the SPLC’s […]
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H.R. McMaster-endorsed book calls jihad peaceful, al-Qaeda terrorism “resistance”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2017 03:10 pm

As I said, Obama’s third term. “H.R. McMaster-Endorsed Book Calls Jihad Peaceful, Al-Qaida Terrorism ‘Resistance,’” by Aaron Klein, Breitbart, August 18, 2017: TEL AVIV — A book on terrorism endorsed and touted by H.R. McMaster, the embattled White House National Security Adviser, calls Hamas an “Islamist political group” while failing to categorize the deadly organization […]
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Robert Spencer files ethics complaint against Hjalti Már Björnsson, Leftist Icelandic doctor who treated him for poisoning
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2017 02:16 pm

Was the Icelandic doctor Hjalti Már Björnsson’s curious downplaying of my poisoning in Iceland politically motivated? He has written for the hard-Left Icelandic publication Stundin. Does the Hippocratic Oath’s promise to heal not apply to those who are defamed by the Southern Poverty Law Center? “Robert Spencer files charges against physician at the hospital’s emergency […]
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Obama wins third term, Bannon out at Trump White House
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2017 01:15 pm

In: McMaster, “Islam Is A Religion of Peace,” the Iran nuke deal is a great idea, Israel is an occupier and oppressor. Out: Bannon, realistic analysis of the global jihad threat, confrontation of Iranian aggression, strengthened alliances with Israel and other states on the front lines of the global jihad. Trump has reneged on the […]
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Finland: Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” go on stabbing spree, woman and baby among victims
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2017 10:34 am

Yet another battle in the war that only one side admits is being waged. “Finland incident: Police shoot man ‘who stabbed several people’ in city of Turku,” by Stephen Jones, Mirror, August 18, 2017: Finland ‘terror attack’: Several people injured after ‘knifeman screaming Allahu Akbar’ goes on rampage in city Armed police have opened fire […]
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Muslim cleric: “The Prophet Muhammad foretold that we would kill the Jews”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2017 10:10 am

It’s true. Here is the statement attributed to Muhammad to which al-Harbi is referring: “Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone […]
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Robert Spencer: Vehicular Jihad Comes to Barcelona
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2017 09:30 am

Meanwhile, on CNN, the denial and willful ignorance continue. My latest in FrontPage: In Spain Thursday, a man drove a truck into a crowd at Barcelona’s popular Costa Dorada area, killing at least 13 and injuring 100. On CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked, “There will be questions about copycats. Questions, if what happened in Barcelona, was […]
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