JIHAD WATCH 01/05/2018

Hugh Fitzgerald: A Question for the Pope, and Waiting for an Answer
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jan 04, 2018 03:37 pm

In Church Militant, some new Catholics have put a question for Pope Francis that we devoutly hope he will answer: A group of ex-Muslim converts to Catholicism are criticizing Pope Francis’ approach to Islam. In an open letter to the Holy Father recently published online, the former Muslims say the pope’s teaching on Islam as […]
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US puts Pakistan on watch list for religious freedom violations, Iran & Saudi Arabia countries of “particular concern”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 04, 2018 11:33 am

In 2012, the Obama State Department scrubbed the section on religious freedom from its human rights report, so this is a step in the right direction. “U.S. places Pakistan on watch list for religious freedom violations,” Reuters, January 4, 2018: WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has placed Pakistan on a special […]
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Muslim Brotherhood Congressman Keith Ellison endorses violent Leftist Antifa group
By Robert Spencer on Jan 04, 2018 11:09 am

Interesting choice of words, in light of this from Ellison’s holy book: “And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know, whom Allah knows” (Qur’an 8:60) In […]
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From Banned For Good From Twitter for “Hateful Conduct” to a “Mistake”
By Bosch Fawstin on Jan 04, 2018 10:23 am

As some of you may know, I was suspended from Twitter on New Years Day. I was taken aback because I really like Twitter as a platform and I’ve built up a good following of like-minded individuals, and it’s a really good place to promote my comic book work. I read their email and they […]
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New York City to spend $50,000,000 on “security infrastructure,” including 1,500 steel street barriers
By Robert Spencer on Jan 04, 2018 09:06 am

“But we knew we needed long-term solutions, we needed permanent barriers.” This is the man who ended a program of mosque surveillance that included mosques attended by the last two jihad attackers in New York City, and he is talking about “long-term solutions”? His entire administration is about long-term vulnerability. “New York to install 1,500 […]
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Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs says that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry
By Robert Spencer on Jan 04, 2018 08:45 am

Islamic apologists in the West routinely deny that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and go through all sorts of contortions to deny the evidence of the texts, but the fact that child marriage is accepted in wide swaths of the Islamic world, even by the directorate of religious […]
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Israel: Muslim teens beat two orthodox Jews, force them to utter testimony of faith in Islam and praise Hamas
By Robert Spencer on Jan 04, 2018 08:24 am

There is “no compulsion in religion” (Qur’an 2:256), right? Well, not really. 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 Centanni […]
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Iran: General says “sedition” defeated, but fresh protests begin after nightfall Wednesday
By Robert Spencer on Jan 04, 2018 08:05 am

Totalitarian regimes are always at war against the human spirit, and so their life span is always limited, but on the other hand there are always slaves wanting slavery, and so they can live prolonged lives. We can only hope that the Iranian people will be able to throw off the shackles of this monstrous […]
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Iran writes to UN, accusing US of “grotesque” interference in its internal affairs via “numerous absurd tweets”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 04, 2018 07:55 am

How interesting that the Islamic Republic of Iran is offering exactly the same view of this as that offered by the American Left and the chief architects and defenders of the disastrous Iranian nuclear deal: Ben Rhodes, Susan Rice, et al. “Iran protests: US accused of ‘grotesque’ interference,” BBC, January 4, 2018: Iran has accused […]
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Italy: “Jesus” replaced with “Peru” in Christmas carol so as not to offend Muslims
By Robert Spencer on Jan 04, 2018 07:33 am

Every way one thinks of this comes out absurd. Of course they were singing Italian carols and not English ones, but the effect is no doubt the same: “Peru, Lord, at thy birth”? “Peru, the light of the world”? Anyway, it’s worse than absurd. It creates a cultural vacuum, and you know what they say […]
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