JIHAD WATCH 08/02/2018

Sweden: Muslim migrant whose deportation was thwarted by “hero” student was actually sentenced for assault
By Robert Spencer on Aug 02, 2018 02:53 am

“I’m trying to change my country’s rules. I don’t like them. It’s not right to send people to hell.” Except, apparently, one’s own countrymen. “Despite lacking information about the man who was being deported, most media organizations jumped on the story, with the Washington Post calling Ersson’s stunt a ‘dramatic act of civil disobedience’ while […]
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Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad: “The best available book now on the Islamic jihad”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 01, 2018 08:05 pm

Loren Rosson has written an extraordinarily detailed, nearly 12,000-word review of my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can preorder here now. This is one of the most remarkably informative book reviews I’ve ever seen — and Rosson doesn’t hesitate to note where he disagrees with me, as well […]
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Netherlands: Muslim building owner evicts Jewish community from synagogue to open a restaurant
By Robert Spencer on Aug 01, 2018 07:24 pm

“It’s a very heavy feeling that this thing can happen here in 2018.” This is the new, multicultural Europe. Celebrate diversity! “Restaurant owner evicts Dutch Jewish community from synagogue,” by Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA, July 30, 2018: DEVENTER, Netherlands (JTA) — The Jewish community of this Dutch city was evicted Monday from its former synagogue in […]
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UK: Muslim immigration lawyer says “no harm” in 15-year-old girls getting married
By Robert Spencer on Aug 01, 2018 07:10 pm

What did anyone expect Asama Javed to say? Islamic tradition records that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and the resultant fact that child marriage is accepted in wide swaths of the Islamic world. Child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law. Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs […]
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29 fires erupt as “Palestinian” arson jihad ‎continues to scorch southern Israel
By Robert Spencer on Aug 01, 2018 06:56 pm

Arson has long been a weapon of the jihad: “‘Unleash Hell’: New Al Qaeda magazine describes in detail how to start huge forest fires across the U.S..with instructions on how to make ’ember bombs’” — Daily Mail, May 3, 2012 “29 fires erupt as Palestinian arson terrorism ‎continues to scorch western Negev,” by Nikki Guttman […]
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Hamas-linked CAIR enraged over TSA passenger tracking program
By Robert Spencer on Aug 01, 2018 06:35 pm

This is a strange program, to be sure. However, when Hamas-linked CAIR’s Dawud Walid claims that “we’re not going to be looking at or targeting ordinary Americans, we’re going to be looking at people like Dawud Walid, [or] like someone else who has an Arabic or Muslim background,” he is almost certainly wrong. The TSA […]
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India: Lawyer argues that female genital mutilation “is an essential aspect of Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 01, 2018 06:02 pm

This is routinely denied in establishment media treatments of female genital mutilation, but actually FGM is mandated in Islamic law: “Circumcision is obligatory (for every male and female) (by cutting off the piece of skin on the glans of the penis of the male, but circumcision of the female is by cutting out the bazr […]
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Video: UK MEP Janice Atkinson — Tommy Robinson has struck fear in UK politicians
By Joshua Winston on Aug 01, 2018 01:54 pm

I interview UK MEP Janice Atkinson. She discusses how the Free Tommy demos didn’t have much impact on parliament, but that Tommy Robinson has sparked fear into the politicians and has created a rapidly growing street movement in defense of freedom and human rights.
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Thilo Sarrazin and Censorship in Germany
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Aug 01, 2018 01:50 pm

Thilo Sarrazin is a former German central banker, soft-spoken and thoughtful, who has for years been observing the effect on German society of the millions of Muslim migrants it has welcomed into its midst. Though he is now inevitably connected in the Western media with the anti-Islam Alternative for Germany party, he is in fact […]
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Tommy Robinson freed on bail
By Robert Spencer on Aug 01, 2018 10:54 am

“On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal ordered his release, pending a new hearing in his case. The court questioned the speed with which he had been tried and convicted, noting that it took five hours from the time of his arrest to a conviction.” It was only just to free Tommy Robinson, and lessens the […]
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Afghanistan: Muslim husband kills his nine-year-old wife
By Robert Spencer on Aug 01, 2018 10:34 am

This man’s murder of his wife is a product of the culture of violence that arises from the divine sanction given to wife-beating (Qur’an 4:34). And as for her being nine, Islamic tradition records that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and the resultant fact that child marriage is […]
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Saudi Arabia: Man arrested for kissing his girlfriend
By Robert Spencer on Aug 01, 2018 08:29 am

“Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. […]
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