JIHAD WATCH 08/25/2017

Venice mayor: “If someone shouts Allahu Akbar while running through St Mark’s Square, we’ll shoot them”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 24, 2017 05:29 pm

Jihadis often scream this as they commit mass murder in the name of Islam, but Muslims shout it in other contexts as well, and so there has been the predictable reaction to Brugnaro’s words: “The mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella, a center-leftist politician, shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ at Brugnaro after his speech to mock him.” And […]
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Poland: Muslim stabs policeman in face near venue where Allah-Las are set to perform
By Robert Spencer on Aug 24, 2017 04:41 pm

Yesterday a planned Allah-Las concert in Rotterdam was canceled and the venue was evacuated after a jihad plot was discovered there — and a truck full of gas canisters near the venue. And now this today in Warsaw. It appears that Muslims dislike the name of this band. “Warsaw TERROR: Policeman injured by knifeman near […]
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Video: Robert Spencer on Fox’s Varney & Co. on PayPal and Leftist censorship
By Robert Spencer on Aug 24, 2017 01:40 pm

Today I appeared on Fox’s Varney & Co. to discuss the Leftist initiative to close off all means of communication to those who dissent from the hard-Left agenda, and PayPal’s brief blocking of the Jihad Watch account (it was reinstated after an outcry).
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UK: Government-funded Channel 4 creates “recruitment video” glorifying the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Aug 24, 2017 11:30 am

The apotheosis of the Left’s infatuation with Islamic jihad: a propaganda video for the Islamic State, courtesy of the British government. “Pure poison… it’s like a Nazi recruiting film from the 1930s: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The State,” by Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, August 20, 2017: A really super-cool club. That’s how a young black British […]
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YouTube removes “Robert Spencer” playlist as “inappropriate”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 24, 2017 11:15 am

This is not the Jihad Watch YouTube channel, which still remains (so far); nor was it an account I had any association with. This was simply a collection of some of videos featuring me that this man had made for his own reference. YouTube user “NoNo Boddy” sent me this screenshot, and explained: As far […]
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Maryland imam bankrolled purchase of weapons for jihad massacre inside U.S.
By Robert Spencer on Aug 24, 2017 10:05 am

“The imam said he frequently gives money to needy people, particularly former members of his mosque.” Yes, the jihadi for whom he was buying the weapons was very needy. He needed to kill some Infidels. “Feds link Detroit terror suspect to ISIS supporter,” by Robert Snell, Detroit News, August 22, 2017: Detroit — Federal prosecutors […]
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UK: Muslim who tried to carry pipe bomb onto flight gets 18 years prison dawah
By Robert Spencer on Aug 24, 2017 09:51 am

Look at the lax way he was treated: he was allowed to retrieve his cell phone and board another flight a few days later, despite having tried to carry a bomb onto one. British authorities might have assumed that tougher treatment would have been “Islamophobic”; they only reserve their real toughness for foes of jihad […]
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Video: Robert Spencer on Fox and Friends on PayPal’s jihad against foes of jihad
By Robert Spencer on Aug 24, 2017 09:36 am

This morning I appeared on Fox and Friends to discuss how PayPal dropped Jihad Watch at the behest of a Leftist journalist spreading smear propaganda from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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PayPal blocks German counterjihad site PI News
By Robert Spencer on Aug 24, 2017 09:18 am

This is why I didn’t restore the PayPal button on the sidebar when they unblocked the Jihad Watch account. Clearly this was a concerted, organized effort to choke off funding for counterjihad sites not just in the U.S., but all over the world, and many of these groups have not had their accounts restored. Moreover, […]
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Switzerland: Muslim preacher who called for deaths of non-Muslims got $620,000 in welfare payments
By Robert Spencer on Aug 24, 2017 08:49 am

“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29). UK […]
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Video: Robert Spencer on Google changing its search results to spike criticism of Islam
By Robert Spencer on Aug 24, 2017 08:39 am

In this new video, I discuss how Google has changed its first page results for searches of terms such as “jihad,” “sharia” and “taqiyya” to display only positive explanations of Islamic concepts.
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Robert Azzi and Another of Those “Ask-A-Muslim” Events
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Aug 24, 2017 08:24 am

“With ‘Ask A Muslim Anything’ Events, N.H. Man Hopes To Tackle Misunderstandings Around His Faith” is the title of a recent report at WBUR, which you can find here. So here we are again, with one more of those Ask-a-Muslim-Anything Defenders of the Faith. There is a piquant aspect to this, in that the defender […]
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Sweden prepares to deport Christian convert to Iran, Hungary offers asylum
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Aug 24, 2017 07:50 am

Hungary has offered asylum to Christian convert Aideen Strandsson because the Swedish government plans to deport her to Iran where she could face prison or even the death penalty for apostasy. Even worse, Strandsson states that she was told by Swedish authorities that “it’s not our problem if you decided to become a Christian.” It […]
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