JIHAD WATCH 12/14/2017

Robert Spencer in FrontPage: ISIS: The Caliphate Dream Is Over
By Robert Spencer on Dec 13, 2017 02:28 pm

But the killing isn’t. My latest in FrontPage: The caliphate is dead. Last Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced that the Islamic State (ISIS) had been driven out of Iraq: Today, our troops were able to purge islands of Nineveh and Anbar in full, and they (the forces) are now fully controlling the Iraqi-Syrian […]
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Germany: Muslim migrant who raped and murdered EU official’s daughter is 33, not a teenager as he claims
By Robert Spencer on Dec 13, 2017 02:06 pm

Hussein Khavari was “arrested and sentenced to ten years for attempted murder in Corfu in 2013 before coming to Germany seeking refuge in 2015.” He entered Germany as an unaccompanied minor. He was 31 years old. He is a symbol of the abject indifference of German officials to the protection of their own citizens. “Defendant […]
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UK: Muslim dentistry student had bomb-making material and video on tactics for stabbing and beheading
By Robert Spencer on Dec 13, 2017 01:42 pm

Where did Mohammed Awan learn his understanding of Islam? Has his mosque been investigated? Almost certainly not. Doing so be “Islamophobic.” “First picture of Sheffield dentistry student found guilty of terrorism offences,” by Sarah Marshall, The Star, December 13, 2017: This is the Sheffield student who was this afternoon found guilty of three terrorism offences […]
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Robert Spencer Video: Why Has ISIS Threatened to Behead “the Pope of Islam”?
By Robert Spencer on Dec 13, 2017 01:25 pm

In this new video, I discuss the recent threat from the Islamic State (ISIS) to behead Pope Francis, explaining how anomalous it is in light of his many statements downplaying and denying the reality of jihad terrorism.
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Al-Shabaab kept women as sex slaves, subjected them to gang rapes and forced abortions
By Robert Spencer on Dec 13, 2017 01:09 pm

Why have we seen not just the Islamic State, but also Boko Haram and now al-Shabaab take sex slaves? Because it is sanctioned in Islamic law. The seizure of Infidel girls and their use as sex slaves is sanctioned in the Qur’an. According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” […]
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NYC subway jihad bomber wrote “O America, die in your rage” in his passport
By Robert Spencer on Dec 13, 2017 12:52 pm

But as everyone knows, it would have been racist, bigoted and “Islamophobic” to prevent him from coming here. “Port Authority Subway Bombing Suspect Faces Court Hearing,” CBS New York, December 13, 2017: NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The man accused of setting off an explosion in a subway passageway under the Port Authority Bus Terminal is […]
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Russia arrests three Muslims plotting jihad massacre targeting the holiday season
By Robert Spencer on Dec 13, 2017 12:37 pm

Hitting the Infidels over the holiday season seems to be an international initiative for the Islamic State this year. “ISIS Cell Preparing Holiday Attacks Using Bombs, Guns and Grenades Arrested, Moscow Police Say,” by Damien Sharkov, Newsweek, December 12, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Russia has arrested what it said were three members […]
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New York City subway jihad bomber is follower of Bangladeshi Muslim cleric linked to murders of atheists
By Robert Spencer on Dec 13, 2017 12:24 pm

A Muslim cleric who leads an Islamic group linked to the murders of atheists. How strange! How did this man who has dedicated his life to understanding his religion properly somehow get the idea that it mandated violence against unbelievers? We can only hope that Pope Francis is on his way top Dhaka now to […]
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Ex-Muslim Says: Ban the Niqab
By Shazia Hobbs on Dec 13, 2017 12:10 pm

Life today for Muslim women in the UK is very different from when I was growing up as a Muslim girl in a Muslim household. You know you are getting old when you start talking about ‘the good old days’ in relation to your past, but life in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 70s and 80s […]
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“We believed our cleric”: Kids contract polio after Muslim clerics say vaccination is un-Islamic
By Robert Spencer on Dec 13, 2017 07:48 am

A Pakistani Muslim cleric has said that polio vaccinations are un-Islamic. And such “extremist” clerics are not just in Pakistan: in Nigeria, a Muslim cleric was arrested for playing a role in sparking the murders of polio workers. “‘We Believed Our Cleric’: Pakistani Polio Victim’s Regretful Father Urges Others To Use Vaccine,” by Ron Synovitz […]
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