JIHAD WATCH 07/22/2018

Video: Robert Spencer and Gad Saad discuss The History of Jihad
By Robert Spencer on Jul 21, 2018 02:32 pm

A few days I got together Internetically with the peerless Gad Saad to discuss my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS (which you can preorder by clicking here now) and a wide range of related issues.
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German prosecutor on Muslim migrant stabbing rampage: “We have no indication of political radicalisation”
By Robert Spencer on Jul 21, 2018 02:25 pm

By this, German authorities mean that they did not find an ISIS or al-Qaeda membership card in his wallet, and above all, Please don’t think that there is anything wrong with Merkel’s filling the country with Muslim migrants because of this. But in reality, when Hingst said this, it was only hours after the attack. […]
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Texas: Prosecutors recommend 20-year sentence for Muslim who tried to join ISIS, he gets 18 months
By Robert Spencer on Jul 21, 2018 02:05 pm

What could possibly go wrong? After all, he apologized! “UH engineering student who tried to join ISIS in Syria sentenced to 18 months in federal prison,” by Gabrielle Banks, Houston Chronicle, June 25, 2018 (thanks to Creeping Sharia): A college student from Spring who got cold feet en route to joining ISIS fighters in Syria […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Thin-Skinned Muslims In Malaysia
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jul 21, 2018 01:27 pm

Here is the story in all its preposterousness: Malaysian police said a popular ethnic Chinese rapper was detained Thursday [Feb.15] over complaints that his latest music video featuring dancers wearing dog masks and performing “obscene” moves insulted Islam and could hurt racial harmony. It was the second time in two years that Wee Meng Chee, […]
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Presbyterian Church USA condemns all “religiously inspired violence,” ignores jihad violence
By Mateen Elass on Jul 21, 2018 01:12 pm

The 223rd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA met last month in St. Louis. As I reported in a previous blog, one of the overtures of particular interest to me on their agenda dealt with interfaith relations. Known as Overture 7-1, it was approved as amended by the General Assembly on Wednesday, June 20th. […]
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Video from UK: Muslim says Western society superior to Sharia
By Joshua Winston on Jul 21, 2018 12:51 pm

I interview a Muslim who grew up in the UAE and who has been to Mecca, etc. He discusses the status of women under Sharia, the activities of the Islamic police, and more.
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UK: Franklin Graham Festival of Hope ads banned over Graham’s “islamophobic” comments
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jul 21, 2018 10:12 am

Church leaders in Blackpool have criticised what they describe as an “astonishing” decision to ban bus adverts promoting an evangelistic event which will see Franklin Graham preach a gospel message……In an open letter, the church leaders said: “Because the Christian community is also a customer, we hope Blackpool Transport will listen to our public feedback […]
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Former UK PM David Cameron lectures Donald Trump: It is “wrong to project terrorism as Christianity-Islam clash”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jul 21, 2018 10:02 am

Former British prime minister David Cameron said today it was wrong to project terrorism as a clash between Christianity and Islam and called for a strategy to wipe out the extremist forces. Cameron was pontificating to Donald Trump, since it “appeared to him from US President Donald Trump’s comments that he viewed terrorism as a […]
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Moroccan police to patrol Paris streets to tackle Muslim migrant gangs in no-go zones
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jul 21, 2018 09:29 am

An odd arrangement that bodes ill for the future: Following an agreement between France and Morocco, several Moroccan police officers are scheduled to be sent to Paris to help deal with young delinquent migrants. A total of four officers from the North African country are set to patrol the Goutte d’Or neighbourhood of Paris — […]
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Cairo conference to address “impartial critics of Islam in the West” and present Islam as “religion of love”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jul 21, 2018 09:14 am

The attacks are from all sides: the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Muslim Brotherhood, and needless to say, groups such as al-Qaeda. What do they continue to insist in unison? That the freedom of speech insults Islam. Why? Because Islam is supremacist in nature, and Islamic law stipulates that it must not be criticized or […]
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New Book Validates Israel’s Just Cause
By Andrew Harrod on Jul 21, 2018 09:06 am

American policymakers “fail properly to recognize Israel’s virtue, its singular character as a free society amid a hellscape of dictatorships, theocracies and rampaging jihadists,” writes Ayn Rand Institute scholar Elan Journo in his new book. What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict provides a crystal-clear case for why right justifies might in supporting Israel’s […]
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