JIHAD WATCH 04/09/2018

We’re Not the Thought Police. That being said, what are you thinking?
By Robert Spencer on Apr 09, 2018 01:34 am

Another chilling example of the rapid destruction of the freedom of speech, and hence of free society, in Europe. Here once again is the audio to which Bawer is referring: “We’re Not the Thought Police,” by Bruce Bawer, FrontPage, April 9, 2018: To read Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch website regularly is to get an unsettling […]
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Facebook censors, suspends and threatens Voice of Europe for criticizing migration
By Robert Spencer on Apr 09, 2018 01:22 am

The freedom of speech is not only threatened; it is despised. Those who are working to destroy it have the support of massive numbers of young people who have been indoctrinated into believing that dissent from the Leftist agenda constitutes “hate speech” and must be forcibly silenced. And so it is happening, quickly. The freedom […]
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Hours after vehicular attack in Germany, Erdogan says “the same thing will happen in France”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 08, 2018 06:56 pm

“You are seeing what is happening in Germany right? The same will happen in France. The West will not able to free itself from terror. The West will sink as it feeds these terrorists.” He is actually right about that, unless leadership and policies undergo a drastic change in many Western European countries, as well […]
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Facebook bans historian for saying “Islam is not part of German history, but the defense against Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 08, 2018 06:44 pm

Facebook’s Vice President Joel Kaplan traveled to Pakistan last July to assure the Pakistani government that it would remove “anti-Islam” material. That endeavor had already started before Kaplan’s trip. In mid-February, traffic to Jihad Watch from Facebook dropped suddenly by 90% and has never recovered. We do not post any hateful or provocative material and […]
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Abbas adviser says Hamas is telling “Palestinians” in Gaza to “go and die” for favorable media coverage
By Robert Spencer on Apr 08, 2018 06:28 pm

The “Palestinian” victimhood propaganda machine partially exposed by a rival “Palestinian.” “Hamas is sending civilians in Gaza to die for media coverage, says Abbas’ advisor,” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, April 8, 2018: Mahmoud Abbas’ senior advisor has accused Hamas of intentionally sending Palestinians in Gaza to “go and die,” for the sole purpose […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Laurie Goodstein and the New York Times: Weighed, and found wanting
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Apr 08, 2018 06:21 pm

[Editor’s note: This article was first published at Jihad Watch on September 24, 2010. In light of Laurie Goodstein’s recent attack on Mike Pompeo and John Bolton, it merits revisiting.] Laurie Goodstein, who reports for The New York Times on Islam in America without, apparently, ever thinking she has a responsibility to study the texts […]
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Germany: Muslims plot to attack spectators and participants with knives at Berlin half-marathon
By Robert Spencer on Apr 08, 2018 02:13 pm

Danke, Merkel! “German police foil alleged plot to attack Berlin half-marathon,” Associated Press, April 8, 2018: Six people have been detained in connection with what police and prosecutors allege was a plan to carry out an extremist attack on Berlin’s half-marathon. “There were isolated indications that those arrested, aged between 18 and 21 years, were […]
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Germany: Münster vehicular attacker was Muslim, Romanian TV reports that he was German citizen of Kurdish origin
By Robert Spencer on Apr 08, 2018 01:12 pm

In this post yesterday, I explained some of the problems with the German police’s explanation of this event: the man had “psychological problems” but apparently also explosives and accomplices, which mentally ill people who just snap one day don’t usually have. And note how the police misleadingly said that the attacker was a German, when […]
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Czech Republic: Muslim migrants gang-rape Irish tourist in Prague hotel
By Robert Spencer on Apr 08, 2018 12:54 pm

Sexual assault occurs in all cultures, but only in Islam does it have divine sanction. 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 […]
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Iranian scholar: “There is a huge industry of so-called ‘moderate’ Muslim scholars, who are actually apologists for Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 08, 2018 10:30 am

Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a board member of Harvard International Review and president of the International American Council on the Middle East; he is also the author of the extraordinary book A God Who Hates Women: A woman’s journey through oppression and another, Peaceful Reformation in Iran’s Islam: A life story of struggle and poverty, […]
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UK: Social workers and police knew about plight of Muslim rape gang victim, but did nothing
By Robert Spencer on Apr 08, 2018 09:55 am

“Police insisted there was nothing they could do.” For them to have said otherwise would have been “racist” and “Islamophobic.” British officials sacrificed their nation’s girls, and hence their nation’s future, for fear of professional difficulties coming from the nation’s Left. The British Left has destroyed Britain, and will likely be rewarded with the Prime […]
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Cyprus: 20 Muslim migrants go to church, start screaming, cursing, and beating the attendees
By Robert Spencer on Apr 08, 2018 08:21 am

A glimpse into the future of Europe, as well as that of North America, if the Left gets its way. “Night of terror for Christians in Cyprus after attack of Muslim migrants,” Voice of Europe, April 7, 2018 (thanks to David):Wednesday night, about 20 Muslim migrants attacked a Christian congregation outside St. Mary’s church […]
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