JIHAD WATCH 01/14/2018

San Diego: Muslim gets 10 years for illegal firearms cache, planned to join the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Jan 13, 2018 01:29 pm

His brother was killed waging jihad for the Islamic State. “Prosecutors said McCain not only helped his brother to get to Syria, he agreed to travel there and join him in violent jihadist activities.” Do prosecutors have any interest in discovering where these brothers learned their understanding of Islam? What mosque did they attend? Has […]
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Iraq: Islamic State executioner who threw gay men off buildings bribes his way out of prison in minutes
By Robert Spencer on Jan 13, 2018 01:12 pm

It wasn’t just that he paid a bribe. It was also that many, many people sympathize with what he did, and — secretly, perhaps — consider Abu Omer a hero. “Isis executioner who threw gay men off buildings bribed his way out of prison in ‘minutes,'” by Josh Robbins, International Business Times, January 9, 2018: […]
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Professor Claims Anti-Semitism and ‘Islamophobia’ Are Equal Threats
By Cinnamon Stillwell on Jan 13, 2018 01:00 pm

Are “Islamophobia” and anti-Semitism comparable? Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, senior lecturer in history at King’s College London, maintains that the answer is yes. Zia-Ebrahimi recently made this argument with a talk co-sponsored by Harvard University’s Saudi-funded Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and titled, “When the Elders of Zion Relocated to Eurabia: Conspiratorial Racialisation in Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.” Speaking […]
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France: 15-year-old Jewish girl’s face cut in antisemitic assault
By Robert Spencer on Jan 13, 2018 08:46 am

The massive influx of Muslim migrants into France has led to a sharp rise in attacks targeting Jews. There is a remote possibility that the perpetrator here is a “right-wing extremist,” but it is much, much more likely that he is someone who believes what the Qur’an tells him about Jews. The Qur’an depicts Jews […]
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Bruce Bawer reviews Confessions of an Islamophobe: “A jolt of truth from Robert Spencer”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 13, 2018 08:29 am

“If you haven’t read Spencer yet, this is a splendid place to start; if you’ve read all his books but have people in your life who need to be snapped out of complacency about Islam – and don’t all of us have people like that in our lives? Isn’t that the whole problem? – a […]
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Germany: Muslim migrant cops said was mentally ill admits stabbing spree was “contribution to the global jihad”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 13, 2018 07:44 am

How embarrassing: the jihad murderer himself has contradicted the German authorities’ politically correct narrative, and told the truth: he was trying to kill as many Christians as possible “as a contribution to the global jihad.” Will the German police and government begin a searching reconsideration of their migrant policies and stance on Islam? Of course […]
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UK: Police hunt down and issue warnings to people who made “offensive” comments about Muslim rape gangs
By Robert Spencer on Jan 13, 2018 07:35 am

What did they say that was offensive? They referred “to the race and religion of the perpetrators,” who were all Muslim. The British police are more concerned that no one notice that Muslim rape gangs are made up of Muslims acting upon Islamic principles (the permission to take non-Muslim women as sex slaves in Qur’an […]
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Vatican official decries “obsession with borders and national security to detriment of rights and dignity of refugees”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 13, 2018 07:09 am

The Catholic Church, which makes millions of dollars annually on refugee resettlement, is now saying that those who oppose the Muslim migrant influx are morally deficient. If you don’t want your land invaded by tens or hundreds of thousands of people with vastly different values, which they consider superior to yours, you are simply not […]
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Video: Christine Douglass-Williams on Rebel Media on being fired for writing for Jihad Watch
By Robert Spencer on Jan 13, 2018 06:54 am

Ezra Levant interviews Jihad Watch writer Christine Douglass-Williams over her recent firing from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, a Canadian government agency, for daring to call attention here at Jihad Watch to the threat of jihad terror.
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