JIHAD WATCH 03/17/2018

Turkey’s Religious Affairs chief: “Not correct to put the words of Islam and reform next to each other”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2018 07:18 pm

There are those in the West who are so confident in the prospects for reform in Islam that they take that confidence as an index of the reliability of various analysts: if one is not as sanguine as they are about the prospects for Islamic reform, they’re branded as “racist,” “bigoted” and “Islamophobic.” Those who […]
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Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad already #1 bestseller in “Muhammad in Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2018 02:10 pm

My forthcoming book, The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS is already inspiring tremendous interest, and has zoomed to the top of Amazon’s “Muhammad in Islam” list, months before publication. You can pre-order your copy here. This is the first and only book of its kind. Other treatments of the history of jihad deal […]
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Austria: Muslim stabs soldier, security official says he “clearly had sympathy for political Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2018 01:56 pm

“Meanwhile, the Defense Ministry said that during his Austrian military service in 2012 the man was registered as a devout Muslim.” But to have kept him under surveillance would have been “Islamophobic,” and so he was free to carry out this stabbing. “Vienna Knife Attacker ‘Had Sympathy For Political Islam,’” RFERL, March 13, 2018 (thanks […]
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Video from Germany: Muslim migrant screaming “Allahu akbar” rushes at Angela Merkel
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2018 01:36 pm

What are you getting so excited about, you greasy Islamophobe? He probably just wanted to thank her for making Germany so welcoming to Muslims. Didn’t he? After all, it’s a religion of peace! And all our moral superiors want us to believe that screams of “Allahu akbar” are nothing to be concerned about, so why […]
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Trump pick under fire from “CNN’s resident smear merchant” Andrew Kaczynski for retweeting Jihad Watch
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2018 01:17 pm

Melanie Morgan exposes Andrew Kaczynski, whom she calls “CNN’s resident smear merchant,” here and here. And he has previously libeled me, so this is no surprise. Kaczynski is here trying to smear Ken Isaacs by association with me, because Isaacs retweeted some things I wrote. Does Kaczynski explain how and why they are false? No, […]
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Foreign Policy, in touting Saudi Arabia’s reforms, shows how little has really been done
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2018 12:38 pm

“War is deceit,” said Muhammad (Bukhari 4.52.268), and Mohammed bin Salman is a knowledgeable and devout believer, but of course even to raise the question of whether Saudi Arabia is trying to deceive the West in order to gain its support against Iran would be “Islamophobic.” Deceive us? Inconceivable! Nonetheless, in enthusiastically cheerleading for Mohammed […]
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Merkel: ‘Islam belongs to Germany’
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2018 12:09 pm

Yes, “Islam belongs to Germany,” and given Islam’s political, authoritarian and supremacist character, before too long Germany will belong to Islam. No one would have been more pleased than Adolf Hitler, who once said: “Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers — already, you see, the world had fallen into the hands of the […]
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Colombia: Non-Muslim aids Islamic State in plotting jihad massacre of U.S. citizens
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2018 11:48 am

Gutierrez said: ““I’m not Muslim. I fight against the new world order, especially against Americans.” Fighting against the new world order is not something that actually involves allying with and aiding the Islamic State. “Colombia detains Cuban accused of planning attack on U.S. citizens,” Reuters, March 15, 2018: (Reuters) – A Colombian judge on Thursday […]
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Florida: Man converts to Islam, tries to bomb Miami mall for ISIS
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2018 11:24 am

Once again we see it: the convert to Islam turning to plots of mass murder. Authorities steadfastly remain uninterested in this phenomenon, despite is common recurrence. “Honduran man pleads guilty after attempting to bomb Miami mall in support of ISIS,” by Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, March 15, 2018: A Honduran man living in Miami has […]
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UK: Tube jihad bomber was engaging with counterterror program while planning his jihad attack
By Robert Spencer on Mar 16, 2018 11:12 am

Commander Dean Haydon, head of Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command, said: “On the one hand he was appearing to engage with the (Prevent) programme but he kept secret what he was planning and plotting. We describe him as a lone actor.” The “Prevent” program is the UK’s counterterror program, and it’s just as willfully ignorant […]
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