JIHAD WATCH 10/13/2017

Swedish researcher claims Viking burial clothes bear the name “Allah” in Arabic
By Robert Spencer on Oct 12, 2017 08:42 pm

How far will the academic Islamopandering go? Apparently there is no limit, no matter how ridiculous it gets. This latest outbreak is receiving adoring international publicity, and has been uncritically accepted, such that immediately the Vikings have all become Muslim, and all their exploits are to be attributed to Islam. The big story here is […]
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Sweden: Multiple people shot at several locations, gunman opened fire in busy market
By Robert Spencer on Oct 12, 2017 06:18 pm

“Right-wing extremists”? “Islamophobes”? It may not be jihadis, but it certainly is, once again, one of the ways they operate. “Multiple people shot at ‘several locations’ in Swedish town of Trelleborg as police declare major incident,” by Jamie Bullen, Mirror, October 12, 2017: Multiple people have been shot after a gunman opened fire at several […]
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H.R. McMaster calls 9/11 a “mass murder attack,” makes no mention of Islamic jihad terrorism
By Robert Spencer on Oct 12, 2017 03:19 pm

The issue is this: is the U.S. going to confront, and formulate ways to blunt the influence of, the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism, or is it going to continue to ignore and deny that ideology, and pretend that jihad terrorism comes from something else? The answer to that question could well determine whether the […]
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Erdogan to US: “We don’t need you”
By Robert Spencer on Oct 12, 2017 02:23 pm

Hey buddy, it’s mutual. We don’t need Erdogan’s rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey, and it is not a genuine ally of the U.S. in any case. It is long past time for our old Cold War alliances to be adjusted in light of new realities. We need an international alliance of states that are threatened by jihad […]
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Pakistan: Senate body rejects ban on child marriage as “un-Islamic”
By Robert Spencer on Oct 12, 2017 11:16 am

Islamic spokesmen in the West routinely insist that child marriage has no basis in Islam, and that Muhammad’s child bride, Aisha, was not actually a child when he married her. In reality, child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law. “Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for […]
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US withdraws from UNESCO over its anti-Israel bias
By Robert Spencer on Oct 12, 2017 10:49 am

This is most welcome and long overdue. Next step: withdraw from the UN entirely and kick it out of New York. UNESCO (like the UN as a whole) is simply a tool of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Last year it passed a resolution declaring the Temple Mount Muslim, not Jewish. It renamed the […]
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Gavin McInnes on Robert Spencer’s Confessions of an Islamophobe: “Postjudice, not prejudice”
By Robert Spencer on Oct 12, 2017 10:35 am

Here is Gavin McInnes on my forthcoming book, Confessions of an Islamophobe, which you can preorder here: “This book proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that Islamophobia is not based on an irrational fear of Islam, but a rational concern. Robert Spencer eloquently and definitively proves that concern about Islam is based on postjudice, […]
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Amherst College: Muslim students claim they’re “afraid,” demand apology after anti-jihad speaker appears
By Robert Spencer on Oct 12, 2017 10:04 am

The letter from the Muslim Students Association, the South Asian Students Association, and others says: “No student should ever have to feel afraid for their safety or have to wake up in the morning knowing that there are other students on this campus who hate them for an integral part of their identity and are […]
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Russia: Real estate agent converts to Islam, kidnaps son, joins ISIS, poses son with Kalashnikov
By Robert Spencer on Oct 12, 2017 09:31 am

So many converts to Islam get involved in jihad terror. Why? Because they read the Qur’an, and take its exhortations to wage war against unbelievers to heart. Yet authorities the world over have evinced no interest whatsoever in studying this phenomenon, and trying to prevent converts to Islam from becoming jihadis. “From estate agent to […]
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Egypt: Muslim blocks priest’s car and asks him to get out, then murders him
By Robert Spencer on Oct 12, 2017 09:10 am

Daily life for Coptic Christians in Egypt is always precarious. Something like this can always happen, and often does. “Breaking: Coptic priest killed in stabbing incident in Cairo outskirts,” by Taha Sakr, Egypt Independent, October 12, 2017: A Coptic priest affiliated with a church in Upper Egypt’s governorate of Beni Suef was killed on Thursday […]
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UK: Convicted London Tube jihad bomber’s accomplice hired as Labour Council “Poster Girl”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 12, 2017 08:57 am

Mulumebet Girma rose through housing department ranks after London’s Southwark Council failed to uncover her criminal past, despite her being in one of the UK’s highest-profile terror trials. Girma’s colleagues “failed to realise she was linked to one of the country’s most notorious attacks.” In other words, despite the fact that “details of her convictions […]
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UK: Muslim migrant sexually assaults 6 women; claims PTSD
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 12, 2017 08:51 am

A Syrian refugee who sexually assaulted six women in London underpasses just one month after being granted asylum in the UK has had his sentencing delayed pending a claimed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) diagnosis. Some symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder include flashbacks, nightmares, difficulty sleeping, jumpiness, and avoiding people and places that remind […]
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