JIHAD WATCH 01/15/2018

Israel: Muslim becomes more religious, joins the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Jan 14, 2018 05:00 pm

“The findings of the investigation indicated that between the years 2014 – 2015 Yusuf’s religious convictions have become stronger, as did his support for the Islamic state.” What a coincidence! Surely Pope Francis and H.R. McMaster are on their way to Israel now to explain to Hassan Khaled Taher Shih Yusuf how he is misunderstanding […]
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UK: Army recruitment video features Muslim soldier praying
By Robert Spencer on Jan 14, 2018 04:00 pm

The British Army desperately wants to recruit Muslims so as to prove that it is not “Islamophobic.” Great. Will it make any effort to determine whether or not its Muslim recruits harbor jihadist sympathies and will attack their fellow British soldiers before fighting other Muslims? No, that itself would be “Islamophobic.” And so Britain hastens […]
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Yemen: Bahai sentenced to death for “insulting Islam” and “apostasy”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 14, 2018 03:00 pm

The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them […]
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Bangladesh: Man arrested for posting images criticizing Qur’an on Facebook
By Robert Spencer on Jan 14, 2018 02:00 pm

We are much more enlightened in the West. We believe in the freedom of speech. Those who criticize the Qur’an aren’t arrested. They’re just smeared as racist, bigoted Islamophobes, and shunned by all decent people. “Narayanganj man held for posting images defaming Quran on Facebook,” Dhaka Tribune, January 13, 2018: A man has been detained […]
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Netherlands: 13-year-old Muslim tries to kill his mother because “women are not allowed to divorce”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 14, 2018 01:00 pm

A divorced woman “dishonors the family.” Killing a divorced woman honors the family. That’s Islamic morality. Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped […]
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Catholic ex-Muslims to Pope Francis: “Naiveté in the face of Islam is suicidal and very dangerous”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 14, 2018 12:00 pm

“Many ex-Muslims, such as Magdi Allam, are even leaving the Church, disgusted by her cowardice, wounded by equivocal gestures, confused by the lack of evangelization, scandalized by the praise given to Islam.” Yes, and not just ex-Muslims. It has become a superdogma in the Catholic Church: if you don’t believe that Islam is a Religion of […]
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New Stanford speaker series will feature “provocative thinkers,” not “inflammatory performers” like Robert Spencer
By Robert Spencer on Jan 14, 2018 10:00 am

Stanford University (and other universities and colleges all across the U.S.) has a problem, and it isn’t that they’ve been inviting “crass or demogogic” speakers instead of “challenging and thought-provoking” ones. The problem is that university administrators and students carry out wildly counter-factual smear campaigns against speakers they dislike, painting them as “crass or demogogic” […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Hoekstra, Hoekstra, Read All About It
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jan 14, 2018 09:00 am

By now we have all heard about Peter Hoekstra, the new American ambassador to the Netherlands, who was repeatedly questioned by Dutch journalists on January 10 about a statement he had made in 2015: “There are cars being burned. There are politicians that are being burned,” he said then, at a conference hosted by a […]
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German school survey: 33% of Muslim students willing to fight and die for Islam
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jan 14, 2018 08:00 am

Speculation is circulating in Germany that “Muslim youth are a ‘ticking timebomb’ of radicalism,” and for good reason: A survey of schools in the German region of Lower Saxony has shown that close to 10 per cent of Muslim students have direct sympathies for radical Islamic groups like Islamic State and some even support acts […]
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UN chief unveils plan to promote global mass migration
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jan 14, 2018 07:00 am

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has unveiled his plan to promote global mass migration in the left-liberal Guardian newspaper…His article, titled ‘Migration can benefit the world. This is how we at the UN plan to help’, makes the bold claim that mass migration “powers economic growth, reduces inequalities and connects diverse societies” His plan will be accepted unquestioningly […]
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