JIHAD WATCH 01/29/2018

UK: May government rejects petition for Free Speech Act and end to “hate speech” laws
By Robert Spencer on Jan 28, 2018 04:50 pm

“Hate speech” laws are a tool of the powerful to silence dissenters. The person or group empowered with determining what is and is not “hate speech” has total power over the public discourse, and can criminalize any perspectives that the government does not favor. “Hate speech” laws are, in short, a tool for tyranny, and […]
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Swedish clothing brand H&M apologizes for pattern resembling word “Allah” on children’s socks
By Robert Spencer on Jan 28, 2018 01:09 pm

This is so ridiculous. The way “Allah” is written in Arabic, one can see it in almost any up-and-down pattern. Some years ago, a Muslim in the UK flew into a rage and started issuing threats because he thought the swirl design on Burger King’s ice cream looked like “Allah.” And in the 1990s, Muslim […]
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Turkey Parliament Speaker calls offensive against Syria Kurds “jihad”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 28, 2018 12:57 pm

Last week, 90,000 mosques across Turkey prayed the 48th chapter of the Qur’an for victory over the Kurds. Surah al-Fath, the 48th chapter of the Qur’an, promises Muslims who wage jihad much material reward: “Allah has promised you much booty that you will take and has hastened for you this and withheld the hands of […]
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Bangladesh: Four Muslims arrested with “three bombs and four books on jihad”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 28, 2018 12:51 pm

Bombs and books on jihad? Don’t they know that jihad is a peaceful interior struggle, an entirely benign effort, such as going to the gym or getting the kids to school on time? One hopes that Hamas-linked CAIR is sending a rep over to Paikpara village immediately in order to explain to Abu Dawood Sheikh, […]
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Pope denounces “terrible terrorist massacre” in Kabul: “How long must the Afghan people bear this inhuman violence?”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 28, 2018 12:41 pm

How long? Well, sir, considering that you deny the existence of the motivating ideology behind such attacks and oversee the shunning in Catholic circles of those who identify it, I’d say indefinitely, insofar as you’re actively hindering proper analysis of this threat. Besides all that is below, Pope Francis has claimed fancifully that “authentic Islam […]
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Mueller worked with Hamas-linked groups to purge counterterror training of material offensive to Muslims
By Robert Spencer on Jan 28, 2018 11:56 am

As I noted here, this purge was several years in the making, and I was – inadvertently – the one who touched it off. In August 2010, when I gave a talk on Islam and jihad to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force — one of many such talks I gave to government agencies and […]
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German children’s television channel features migrant teens learning how to remove a girl’s bra
By Robert Spencer on Jan 28, 2018 10:35 am

What could possibly go wrong? The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring […]
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Los Angeles: Man pleads no contest to disparaging Muslims on Islamic Center’s Facebook page
By Robert Spencer on Jan 28, 2018 10:02 am

Disparaging Muslims is a crime? Would Feigin have been prosecuted for disparaging Christians? Jews? Hindus? Look how this man was railroaded: the charge that Feigin had threatened the Islamic Center was dropped, but California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra implied that Feigin was convicted for threats, saying “We will not turn a blind eye to violent […]
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Kansas City: Muslim migrant who was investigated for terrorism gets four years for passport fraud
By Robert Spencer on Jan 28, 2018 09:50 am

“The FBI began investigating Mohamud in April 2017 after his family in Kansas City reported him missing and said they were worried he had gone overseas to take part in jihadi [sic]. Egyptian authorities detained Mohamud before voluntarily returning him to the United States. Mohamud said on his passport application that he planned to visit […]
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Philadelphia: Muslim who shot cop refuses to enter plea, saying “I don’t plead to anyone but Allah”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 28, 2018 09:20 am

Edward Archer said he shot Philadelphia Police Officer Jesse Hartnett because “police bend laws that are contrary to the teachings of the Quran.” But Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, who is one of the bigger fools on this planet, immediately announced that the shooting had “nothing to do with being a Muslim or following the Islamic […]
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