JIHAD WATCH 06/09/2018

“Young men were bound hand and foot, laid out in a row, had brushwood piled on them, and were burned alive”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 08, 2018 02:02 pm

Ramadan Day 23 thought for the day from my new book The History of Jihad: on August 18, 1894, the Ottoman authorities began a massacre of Armenians in the Sassoun region of eastern Asia Minor that lasted a full twenty-four days, until September 10. British vice consul Cecil M. Hallward investigated the massacre and reported […]
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Indicted Muslim Congressional IT aide had two wives, kept one “like a slave”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 08, 2018 01:52 pm

The establishment media has steadfastly ignored this story, but it just keeps getting bigger. Imran Awan and his family had access to all the emails and files of twenty percent of the Democrats in the House of Representatives. His treatment of that data is highly suspicious. And from the looks of this story and others, […]
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Australia: Muslim who joined the Islamic State says head of Australian charity pushed him to do so
By Robert Spencer on Jun 08, 2018 01:42 pm

The article doesn’t say so, but it is likely given the context that this was an Islamic charity. In Islam, zakat — the alms required of every Muslim — can and should be given to further the jihad. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that there are so many jihad-linked charities. “Australian teen encouraged to join […]
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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Ramadan 2018 Death Toll So Far: 532
By Robert Spencer on Jun 08, 2018 01:22 pm

The actual title of this piece at PJ Media is “Ramadan 2018 Death Toll So Far: 355.” That’s because there have been 177 more jihad murders in just the several days since I wrote it. As of the eighteenth day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan this year, the jihad death toll is 355 […]
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Austria to close 7 mosques, expel imams in crackdown on “political Islam” and foreign financing of mosques
By Robert Spencer on Jun 08, 2018 01:15 pm

Choosing national security over socialist internationalism and politically correct posturing. Bravo. “Austria to close 7 mosques, expel imams in crackdown,” Associated Press, June 8, 2018: BERLIN – Austria’s government is closing seven mosques and plans to expel imams in a crackdown on “political Islam” and foreign financing of mosques. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Friday that […]
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Germany: International arrest warrant for Muslim migrant accused of rape and murder of 14-year-old girl
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jun 08, 2018 01:08 pm

UPDATE: He has been arrested. ———- “German police have issued an international arrest warrant” for 20-year-old asylum seeker Ali Bashar, “suspected of the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in western Germany…A second suspect, a 35-year-old Turkish citizen, is in custody.” Although murders are committed by people every creed and race, what makes this […]
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Swiss senate rejects ban on foreign funding of mosques
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jun 08, 2018 01:04 pm

The Swiss senate has voted 29 to 7 against a motion calling for a ban of foreign funding of mosques. The proposal, modelled on rules already in place in Austria, would also have seen imams required to preach in a Swiss national language while compelling Islamic centres to disclose the origin of any funding. The […]
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Iftar 2018: Get Me Rewrite
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jun 08, 2018 09:49 am

For some reason Donald Trump thought  he should hold an Iftar dinner this year. He didn’t hold one last year, and contrary to some predictions at the time, the sky did not fall. No doubt his advisers thought this would be a suitable way to show goodwill toward Muslims. But some American Muslim groups  — […]
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Islamicize Me 23: Dawah to Jews!
By David Wood on Jun 08, 2018 05:23 am

On Day 23 of “Islamicize Me,” the Halal Heroes set out to confront the group that’s been poisoning them. When they find the realest Jews in Phoenix preaching on a corner, the heroes decide to do some preaching of their own! If you can’t see the video in this post, click here to watch it.
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YouTube removes episode 23 of David Wood’s “Islamicize Me” as “hate speech”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 08, 2018 04:33 am

Every day during this Ramadan, David Wood has been posting episodes of the video series he has produced in collaboration with Vocab Malone and Jon McCray, “Islamicize Me.” The idea is that three young men decide to live exactly as Muhammad directed for a month. It’s a biting satire based on the genuinely strange, dangerous, […]
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Hungarian Foreign Minister: “Migration should not be managed, it must be stopped”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jun 08, 2018 03:17 am

International efforts should focus on helping people living peacefully in their homelands rather than trying to legalise illegal migration, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a United Nations intergovernmental meeting in New York Given the Muslim migrant chaos that has rocked Europe, Szijjarto’s words make good sense, for the migrants and for Western host societies, for […]
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