JIHAD WATCH 08/24/2017

Jihad in the Netherlands: Concert of “Allah-Las” rock band called off as cops find bus “packed with gas canisters”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 23, 2017 05:01 pm

Police in Spain tipped off police in the Netherlands, and the concert was called off. The Barcelona vehicular jihadis had a massive number of gas canisters, but they blew up their own house by mistake and opted for vehicular jihad instead. And the name of this band is “Islamophobic.” It is clear that this concert […]
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Video: Robert Spencer on the Tucker Carlson Show: The SPLC and the Left’s war on free speech
By Robert Spencer on Aug 23, 2017 02:22 pm

On August 22, 2017, I appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox to discuss Jihad Watch’s banning from PayPal, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s spurious “hate group” listing, and the Left’s war against the freedom of speech.
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Muslim boy from U.S. in Islamic State video calls Trump “puppet of the Jews,” vows jihad massacres in U.S.
By Robert Spencer on Aug 23, 2017 01:52 pm

Cute little lad. Imagine what will happen when young Yusuf meets up with the young Americans who have been trained to be enraged over public bathrooms and sensitive to microaggressions. “American boy in ISIS video warns Trump ‘puppet of the Jews,’” by Lisa Daftari, Foreign Desk, August 23, 2017: The Islamic State has released a […]
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Audio: Robert Spencer on Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News on PayPal and the Left’s war on the freedom of speech
By Robert Spencer on Aug 23, 2017 01:35 pm

I appeared on Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News on August 22, 2017 to discuss PayPal banning Jihad Watch under Leftist pressure, and the Left’s war against the freedom of speech.
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Uganda: Muslim clerics convicted of terrorism in connection with murders of rival Islamic group leaders
By Robert Spencer on Aug 23, 2017 01:22 pm

They probably thought that the other clerics were heretics or apostates from Islam. Both of these offenses carry the death penalty in Islamic law. “Ugandan Muslim clerics sentenced to life for terrorism,” Reuters, August 22, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Kampala – A Ugandan court on Tuesdaysentenced a Muslim group leader and […]
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France: Police find rocket launcher and other weapons in Paris No-Go Zone suburb
By Robert Spencer on Aug 23, 2017 12:50 pm

Gearing up for a war that the other side is determined not to admit is even being waged. “Police Find Rocket Launcher and Other Weapons in French No-Go Zone Suburb,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, August 22, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): French police discovered a cache of weapons over the weekend, including a […]
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Robert Spencer video: 6 ways Leftists are working to curtail the freedom of speech
By Robert Spencer on Aug 23, 2017 12:17 pm

In this new video, I discuss six recent collaborations between Leftists and Islamic supremacists to curtail the freedom of speech.
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Australia: Jihad plot to blow up plane with bomb hidden in Barbie doll
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Aug 23, 2017 12:12 pm

Lebanon’s interior minister has claimed a terror cell attempted to blow up a flight from Australia with bombs hidden in a Barbie doll and a meat grinder….Amer Khayyat planned to detonate an improvised explosive device 20 minutes into an Abu-Dhabi bound flight with 400 passengers onboard. The Islamic State is said to have been involved […]
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Kenya: Muslims hack Christians to death for refusing to recite the Islamic confession of faith
By Robert Spencer on Aug 23, 2017 12:05 pm

“The three men were held at machete point and ordered to recite the Shahada. When none of them did, the attackers began to tie them up. When the men resisted, they were hacked to death. Then the attackers went to the home of Joseph’s older brother, Charo, who was in his late forties, and killed […]
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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Free Speech: The Left Moves In for the Kill
By Robert Spencer on Aug 23, 2017 11:21 am

The campaign to label all disagreement as “hate speech” is taking victims. My latest in PJ Media: The Left is mounting an all-out assault against the freedom of speech, and is using Charlottesville as its Reichstag Fire moment to try to crush all dissent. Several days ago, I received an email that set in motion […]
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Egypt’s Grand Mufti: Even if someone is a member of ISIS, “this does not lead to his expulsion from the fold of Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 23, 2017 11:06 am

In the West, the intelligentsia takes it for granted that the Islamic State and al-Qaeda and the rest are not Muslims, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” Shawki Allam has a more accurate view. “Egypt’s Grand Mufti Shawki Allam: We Do Not Have the Authority to Pronounce ISIS Unbelievers,” MEMRI, […]
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UK: Muslim MP tells victims of Muslim rape gangs to shut up for the “good of diversity”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Aug 23, 2017 10:46 am

A PROMINENT Labour MP and key ally of Jeremy Corbyn shared a social media message telling victims of sickening sex abuse to shut up for “the good of diversity.” Labour MP, Naz Shah, retweeted and liked the post from “an account parodying left-wing writer Owen Jones which said: ‘Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere […]
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