JIHAD WATCH 08/20/2018

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force commander posts image of White House exploding
By Robert Spencer on Aug 19, 2018 02:48 pm

None of this would be happening if Trump had kept the nuclear deal, you say? Wrong. While Obama was still President, Iran was harassing American ships in the Gulf and issuing bellicose rhetoric. Now they’re issuing bellicose rhetoric. “IRGC Qods Force Commander Qassem Soleimani, Designated By U.S. Treasury Dept., Is Active On Instagram; Posts Include […]
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Massachusetts: Taxpayers sue over anti-Semitic, pro-Islam public school lessons
By Robert Spencer on Aug 19, 2018 01:13 pm

At last, some pushback against what is a nationwide problem. “Massachusetts Taxpayers Sue Over Anti-Semitic, Pro-Islam School Lessons,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, August 17, 2018: A group of Massachusetts-based taxpayers are suing the school committee in the city of Newton, a wealthy, liberal enclave, over what they claim is the leadership’s ongoing promotion […]
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Islamic Republic of Iran: “Cosmic consciousness” movement founder imprisoned for “insulting Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 19, 2018 01:01 pm

We are much more enlightened in the West. We don’t jail people for insulting Islam. We simply excoriate them as “racists” and “Islamophobes,” ostracize them from polite society, and rejoice when they’re deplatformed by the social media giants. We are much more advanced in the West. “Iranian spiritual leader sentenced for ‘insulting Islam,’” Middle East […]
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Illinois: Muslim leader says Muslims are “being coerced into accepting liberal values, into accepting feminism”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 19, 2018 12:37 pm

“We’re being coerced, we’re being coerced into accepting liberal values, into accepting feminism, and undermining Islamic injunctions on homosexuality and marriage itself.” That is, he believes Muslims are being coerced into rejecting the ideas of the inferiority of women, the death penalty for homosexuals, and polygamy. At a certain point, the U.S. and other Western […]
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Iran imprisons Christians for “propaganda activities against the system and in favor of Zionist Christianity”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 19, 2018 12:24 pm

Why “Zionist” Christianity? Because the Qur’an designates the Jews as the worst enemies of the Muslims (5:82), always scheming against the Muslims, so if there is something that the mullahs think threatens the Islamic Republic, well, then, the Jews must be behind it. “House-Church Members in Iran Reportedly Sentenced to Year in Prison,” Morning Star […]
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Pakistan: Muslims brutally beat Christian teen and leave him for dead after he beat a Muslim in arm-wrestling match
By Robert Spencer on Aug 19, 2018 12:06 pm

“A Choora (a derogatory word used for Christians) defeats a Muslim is unbearable, I will teach him a lesson.” “The Christian community is already living in a constant fear.” But not a peep from the international human rights organizations. After all, nothing serious such as “Islamophobia” is being committed. “Sheikhupura’s Christian teen relentlessly beaten over […]
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Islamic Republic of Mauritania: Anti-slavery activist arrested
By Robert Spencer on Aug 19, 2018 11:49 am

Why does Mauritania continually drag its feet about eradicating slavery, and persecute anti-slavery activists? Because slavery is sanctioned in Islam. The Qur’an has Allah telling Muhammad that he has given him girls as sex slaves: “Prophet, We have made lawful to you the wives to whom you have granted dowries and the slave girls whom […]
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Indonesia: Woman complains about mosque loudspeakers, gets blasphemy charge, Muslims burn Buddhist temples
By Robert Spencer on Aug 19, 2018 11:25 am

Moderate Indonesia. “Woman on trial for blasphemy in Indonesia after her complaints about noisy mosque sparked riots,” Associated Press, August 14, 2018: Indonesian prosecutors have demanded an 18-month prison term for a woman who was charged with blasphemy after she complained about the volume of a mosque’s loudspeakers. The ethnic Chinese defendant, Meiliana, 44, was […]
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Muslim cleric: The Jews’ “abominations…merited their transformation into apes and pigs”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 19, 2018 11:04 am

What al-Astal says here is straight from the Qur’an. “The Jews engaged in great corruption to the point that Allah said, ‘The Jews said that the hands of Allah are shackled. May their hands be shackled, and may they be cursed for what they said.’ [Allah] also said: ‘Whenever they kindle fire for war, Allah […]
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Video from UK: When a man covers his face and enters a bank
By Joshua Winston on Aug 19, 2018 10:07 am

Michael lives in a northeastern town that is nowhere near as bad as London, but already he feels the need to speak up against sharia and the niqab. In a bid to prove equality, he entered a bank (Lloyd’s, notorious for giving out sharia mortgages and loans) and he attempted to make a deposit. He […]
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