JIHAD WATCH 05/08/2018

Islamic State quotes Qur’an in threatening mass murder at World Cup
By Robert Spencer on May 07, 2018 06:00 pm

The poster says: “‘So strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip’ Al Anfal Verse 12” Al Anfal Verse 12 is Qur’an 8:12. The Islamic State is saying that if it does carry out a jihad massacre at the World Cup, it will be fulfilling a Qur’anic command. Can any moderate Muslim […]
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Video from Germany: Muslim enters supermarket, begins smashing bottles of alcohol
By Robert Spencer on May 07, 2018 04:30 pm

“O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, stone altars, and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.” (Qur’an 5:90) “The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Every intoxicant is khamr (wine) and every intoxicant is forbidden. If anyone drinks wine, Allah will not accept […]
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Turkey: Those calling for Qur’an reform “worship bigotry and violence,” are the “same as ISIS”
By Robert Spencer on May 07, 2018 02:30 pm

Al-Azhar didn’t react positively, either. Yet neither Al-Azhar nor Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister Ömer Çelik acknowledged that anything in the Qur’an could be used to incite Muslims to violence, and that is the core of the problem. Pretending it doesn’t exist won’t make it go away, or obviate any need to deal with it. “Turkey […]
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The Armenian and Greek Genocides: What the Turkish government is covering up
By Robert Spencer on May 07, 2018 01:00 pm

Recently three organizations, Human Rights Association (İHD) İstanbul Branch, Commission Against Racism and Discrimination, and the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement (EGAM) planned to hold a commemoration in Istanbul, honoring the victims of the Armenian Genocide of April 1915. The Turkish government, however, first demanded that the word “genocide” be removed from the statement that was […]
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Sweden: Police refuse to publish description of three men who raped ten-year-old girl
By Robert Spencer on May 07, 2018 12:00 pm

This is likely because 92% of the rapes in Sweden are committed by migrants, and the Swedish government and media are intent upon concealing such information and keeping people ignorant and complacent regarding what is happening to their country because of the Muslim migrant influx. But now this determination to keep people from thinking negative […]
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U.S. Embassy road signs go up in Jerusalem
By Robert Spencer on May 07, 2018 10:00 am

Recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moving the U.S. Embassy is the most important move a U.S. President has made since Ronald Reagan called on Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. In both cases, the Presidents were warned against doing what they ultimately did, for fear of heightening tensions and provoking […]
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YouTube: Robert Spencer video “Is Islam A Religion of Peace?” “isn’t suitable for all advertisers”
By Robert Spencer on May 07, 2018 09:00 am

I got this message this morning from YouTube about the video above, which dates from 2016: Now, I’ve never had ads run on any of my YouTube videos, and have never received a penny from YouTube for them. They were demonetized collectively from the beginning. In light of that fact, I found it curious that […]
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Facebook accused of introducing jihadis to one another via ‘suggested friends’ feature
By Robert Spencer on May 07, 2018 07:00 am

Facebook’s Vice President Joel Kaplan traveled to Pakistan in July 2017 to assure the Pakistani government that it would remove “anti-Islam” material. That endeavor had already started before Kaplan’s trip. In mid-February 2017, traffic to Jihad Watch from Facebook dropped suddenly by 90% and has never recovered. And there are so many other sites that […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl, Scholar of the House
By Hugh Fitzgerald on May 07, 2018 06:00 am

[Note from Hugh Fitzgerald: After referring to this piece about Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl in the recent article, “Khaled Abou El Fadl, Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law,” I am reprinting it here, by popular demand, with some small revisions.] Devotees of the genre know the […]
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