JIHAD WATCH 01/01/2018

Iran: Freedom protests continue into fourth night despite killings and threats from the Islamic regime
By Robert Spencer on Dec 31, 2017 05:28 pm

If the Islamic Republic were to pass into history with 2017, it would be the greatest gift the Iranian people could possibly receive. “Protests in Iran cities resume on fourth day, social media footage shows,” Al Arabiya, December 31, 2017: On fourth day of Iran protests, in the northeastern city of Mashhad, protesters chanted: “Khamenei, […]
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Rouhani: Trump “now trying to sympathise” with Iran, has “forgotten that he called the Iranian nation terrorists”
By Robert Spencer on Dec 31, 2017 05:02 pm

No, sir. He was referring to your regime, not to the people of Iran. If you’re having trouble grasping the distinction between the two, there are millions of Iranians right now who would be happy to explain it to you. “Iran protests: Citizens have right to criticise, not destroy – Rouhani,” BBC, December 31, 2017: […]
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Israel sends formal notice that it’s withdrawing from UNESCO
By Robert Spencer on Dec 31, 2017 01:47 pm

This is good, and it is even better that the US is leaving UNESCO as well. The idea that the Temple Mount is a Muslim holy place with no connection to the Jews is just jihadi propaganda, not sound history or sound anything else. That it would have been certified by a UN agency is […]
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Iran: Photo shows Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps badge, note “I won’t accept brutal orders anymore”
By Robert Spencer on Dec 31, 2017 12:03 pm

If this is authentic, and I have no reason to believe it isn’t, it is an immense sign of hope. Thanks to Jack Posobiec.
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Virginia: Muslim arrested, talked of joining the Islamic State and building homemade bombs
By Robert Spencer on Dec 31, 2017 09:31 am

Yet another convert to Islam gets the idea that his new religion, which we are always told is peaceful on pain of charges of “Islamophobia,” commands him to commit treason and mass murder. Yet again, authorities don’t care about this recurring phenomenon in any way whatsoever. “Sterling man arrested in FBI investigation of possible ISIS […]
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Iran: Leading Muslim cleric announces support for protests
By Robert Spencer on Dec 31, 2017 09:23 am

He is only voicing support for the protests against economic injustices, not the calls for the downfall of the Islamic Republic, but still, it is significant that a major figure of the Iranian clerical establishment would break ranks. “Qom’s top legal, religious cleric announces support for Iran protests,” Al Arabiya, December 30, 2017: A prominent […]
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Iran protests: Mullahs block access to social media as pro-freedom rallies continue
By Robert Spencer on Dec 31, 2017 09:16 am

The Iranian authorities are genuinely afraid, which is all to the good. The thing is that this is a truly spontaneous popular uprising. There is as of yet no leader, or even a spokesman. So if the mullahs flee, what will follow? They should flee; I just hope a stable and peaceful government will emerge […]
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Iranian official blames murder of protesters on “foreign agents” and Sunnis
By Robert Spencer on Dec 31, 2017 07:45 am

Of course. For jihadis, it’s always someone else’s fault. “Iran’s government warns protesters they will ‘pay the price’ for mass unrest,” by Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, December 31, 2017: ISTANBUL — Iran’s government on Sunday warned protesters they would pay a heavy price for breaking the law after three days of unrest spread across the […]
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India: Muslims threaten Muslim theologian for her “progressive stance in teaching Quran”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Dec 31, 2017 07:32 am

Jamithabeevi, general secretary of Quran Sunnath Society, has alleged that she was being threatened by extremist forces in the Muslim community for her progressive stance in teaching Quran. Note the word “bigots” in the article below. Such words are usually reserved for those Westerners who oppose Islamic supremacism, instead of for Islamic supremacists themselves, who […]
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Germany: Jihadi women radicalizing next generation of Muslim youth
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Dec 31, 2017 07:28 am

German domestic intelligence has warned of a growing number of Islamic extremist women who are taking over the Salafist scene, as their men head to prison, and are radicalising the next generation of young jihadis. Last month, a “jihadist plan to use women to launch the next incarnation of ISIS” was revealed. “Female immigrants to […]
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