JIHAD WATCH 12/17/2017

Pakistan: Muslims forcing Sikhs to convert to Islam
By Robert Spencer on Dec 16, 2017 05:14 pm

The  Qur’an famously says that “there is no compulsion in religion,” (2:256), but what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. The institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. Remember Steve […]
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Enraged at Trump, Nazareth’s Muslim mayor bans traditional Christmas celebrations
By Robert Spencer on Dec 16, 2017 05:07 pm

Now that President Trump has shown that he will not submit to intimidation over Jerusalem, Islamic supremacists are trying a new tactic to bring him to heel: intimidation. “Christmas Is Canceled: Nazareth’s Muslim Mayor Bans Traditional Christmas Celebrations in Christ’s Childhood Home,” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, December 16, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): […]
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Malaysia: Muslims stall reform of child marriage laws
By Robert Spencer on Dec 16, 2017 04:56 pm

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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Former chief of UK Border Force says Britain admitted “child migrants” who “had a beard and were balding”
By Robert Spencer on Dec 16, 2017 08:35 am

Why was the UK Home Office so eager to be fooled? Why were British officials so naive and credulous when it came to these bearded, balding Muslim migrants claiming to be children? Why were they so eager to admit them into the country? Did they want to prove to their growing and restive Muslim population […]
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UK: Muslims punch gay men, tell them “you are not welcome” in heavily Muslim East London
By Robert Spencer on Dec 16, 2017 08:19 am

Welcome to the new London, courtesy of Tony Blair, David Cameron and Theresa May. The attackers did not kill this gay couple; they must be moderates. For a hadith depicts Muhammad specifying the death penalty for homosexuals: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever you find doing the […]
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Germany: “Palestinian” protesters disrupt Christmas market with loud Arabic music
By Robert Spencer on Dec 16, 2017 08:05 am

“These people know that those cowardly Germans will do nothing about it.” Of course. To do anything would be “Islamophobic.” In any case, with the Islamic State threatening to commit jihad mass murder at Christmas markets in Europe, a little Arabic music is a reprieve. These protesters must be “moderates.” “German Christmas market disrupted by […]
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Gaza video: Elementary school student calls for liberation of Jerusalem from “the plundering Jews”
By Robert Spencer on Dec 16, 2017 07:53 am

And he calls upon the congregation to adhere to their religion in order to attain final victory. “Palestinian” leaders have for decades been quite clear about the fact that their jihad against Israel is a religious war, based on the Qur’an’s command to “drive them out from where they drove you out” (2:191). But for […]
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New York City: Muslim protester screams genocidal anti-Semitic jihad battle cry in Times Square
By Robert Spencer on Dec 16, 2017 07:33 am

(Video thanks to Pamela Hall and the Geller Report.) This is a call for genocide of the Jews. As I explain in my book The Truth About Muhammad, Muhammad led a Muslim force against the Khaybar oasis, which was inhabited by Jews — many of whom he had previously exiled from Medina. When he did […]
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Riots in Gaza, Hamas fires rockets into Israel over Trump’s Jerusalem decision
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Dec 16, 2017 07:24 am

Israeli troops shot over 40 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza during violent riots in response to “Trump’s move to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel…During the violent riots IDF soldiers fired selectively towards main instigators the military said…..2,500 Palestinians participated in violent riots in the West Bank and 3,500 Palestinians demonstrated near the […]
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Mike Pence meets 12-year-old Iraqi Christian boy whose house was burned down by the Islamic State
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Dec 16, 2017 07:06 am

A 12-year-old Iraqi Christian boy whose home was destroyed by the Islamic State met with Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday and presented him with a gift. Photo-ops and stories in the mass media of anyone reaching out to the vast population of forgotten, innocent Christians who have been violently persecuted by Muslims are scarce. […]
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