JIHAD WATCH 09/19/2017

Canada: Parliament begins study on how to combat “Islamophobia”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 18, 2017 05:56 pm

This study will likely result in more restrictions upon the freedom of speech in Canada, for note that the “anti-Islamophobia” motion M-103 states “that extremist individuals do not represent the religion of Islam,” a claim that is often made in order to foreclose upon any honest analysis of the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism. This […]
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Minnesota Muslim moms charged for driving their girls to Detroit for FGM
By Robert Spencer on Sep 18, 2017 05:44 pm

FGM is sanctioned by Islamic law: “Circumcision is obligatory (for every male and female) (by cutting off the piece of skin on the glans of the penis of the male, but circumcision of the female is by cutting out the bazr ‘clitoris’ [this is called khufaadh ‘female circumcision’]).” — ‘Umdat al-Salik e4.3, translated by Mark […]
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Hillary: Kathy Griffin with Trump head was “play on Perseus holding the head of Medusa”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 18, 2017 12:13 pm

Hillary Clinton and her ghostwriter may be the only two people in America today, outside of the last few besieged university classics departments, to have any idea who Perseus and Medusa are. It is safe to say that when the overwhelming majority of people saw Kathy Griffin’s grotesque image, they thought not of Perseus and […]
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Egypt: Muslim cleric says fathers can marry off their newborn daughters
By Robert Spencer on Sep 18, 2017 11:58 am

Why? Because child marriage is Islamic. “Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this” — Ishaq Akintola, professor of Islamic Eschatology and Director of Muslim Rights Concern, Nigeria “There is no minimum marriage age for either men or women in Islamic law. The law […]
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Myanmar: Imam blessed jihadis before they struck police post
By Robert Spencer on Sep 18, 2017 11:33 am

The New York Times, like all the establishment media, takes the jihadis’ side, portraying the conflict in Myanmar as “Buddhist terrorists” raging out of control. And so here the Times quotes the imam Nazir Hossain: “As imam, I encouraged them never to step back from their mission. I told them that if they did not […]
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Islamic State jihadis from Malaysia waging jihad against Myanmar government
By Robert Spencer on Sep 18, 2017 09:12 am

The international media is only interested in one side of the story in Myanmar. But there is another side. “Malaysian IS members carrying out ‘holy war’ against Myanmar government,” Bernama, September 18, 2017: MELAKA: A number of Malaysians backed by the Islamic State (IS) militant group is engaging the Myanmar government in a “holy war” […]
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Linda Sarsour Appears on the Glazov Gang!
By Jamie Glazov on Sep 18, 2017 05:28 am

This special edition of The Glazov Gang presents: Linda Sarsour Appears on the Glazov Gang! In a bit of a strange twist, our show is joined by Robert Spencer, the Director of JihadWatch.org, who demonstrates, with chilling mystery and nail-biting suspense, that if Linda Sarsour can claim to be black, then Robert Spencer can claim […]
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London Tube jihad bomber “was spoken to by police several times”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 18, 2017 05:08 am

Yesterday it was revealed that he was held by police two weeks ago, but freed. Now we learn that police spoke with him a number of times. He was obviously a source of great concern. Yet no one was watching him closely enough to prevent his planting an IED on the London Tube. Police just […]
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London Tube jihad bomber is Muslim “refugee” Yahyah Farroukh
By Robert Spencer on Sep 18, 2017 04:58 am

But remember: if you oppose the Muslim migrant influx, you’re a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” “First pictures of arrested Tube bomb suspect,” by Philip Whiteside, Sky News, September 18, 2017: These are the first pictures of a suspect being held by police investigating the Parsons Green bombing. Yahyah Farroukh, 21, is listed as living at an […]
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Zanzibar: “We rounded them up because we suspect they were engaged in homosexuality”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 18, 2017 04:48 am

The Qur’an contains numerous condemnations of homosexual activity: “And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, ‘Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds? Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people.’…And We rained upon them a […]
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