JIHAD WATCH 09/06/2018

Obama said “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.” But does it really?
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2018 03:54 pm

In his famous outreach speech to the Islamic world from Cairo on June 4, 2009, Barack Obama said: Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly […]
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Hamas leader admits “Marches of Return” were staged to avert internal crisis
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2018 03:44 pm

Will this get the lavish international establishment media coverage that the Marches themselves received? No? Now, why is that? “Hamas leader admits Marches of Return were staged to avert internal crisis,” by Elior Levy, Ynet News, September 4, 2018 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur): Gaza’s Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar openly admitted on Tuesday that the […]
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Saudi Arabia to punish “content that ridicules, mocks and disrupts religious values” with 5 years, $800,000 fine
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2018 03:24 pm

“Producing and distributing content that ridicules, mocks, provokes and disrupts public order, religious values and public morals through social media … will be considered a cybercrime punishable by a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of three million riyals ($800,000).” Remember this one the next time you hear about how the Kingdom […]
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Iraq: 80-year-old man prays, starts to walk out of mosque, is murdered by the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2018 11:31 am

This proves that the Islamic State (ISIS) isn’t Muslim, right? Otherwise, why would they kill Muslims praying in mosques? The Qur’an forbids Muslims to kill other Muslims (4:92), but the Islamic State considers Muslims who don’t accept its authority to be apostates, and hence lawfully to be killed under Islamic law. “Iraq: IS attack on […]
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India: Five Muslims plotted jihad murder of Hindu leader
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2018 11:07 am

They were imitating the Assassins of old in targeting a non-Muslim leader for assassination. You can read the strange story of the Assassins in my new book, The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can order here now. “Tamil Nadu: Five held in Coimbatore for plotting to murder Hindu Makkal Katchi leader […]
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Australia: Leftist MP lobbies for Islamic scholar who called for execution of gays to be granted visa
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2018 10:50 am

Leftist/jihadist alliance: Mohammed Rateb Abdalah Ali al-Nabulsi was denied entry into Australia, but Labor MP Tony Burke wanted him in. “The Islamic scholar has called for the execution and homosexuals and the subjugation of women, whom he labels the ‘devil’s temptation.'” How he would have enriched Australia with his diversity! “Burke lobbied for hate preacher: […]
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UK: Two Muslims, one a migrant, one a convert, try to build a bomb involving a driverless car
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2018 10:03 am

“My only attempt is to find a way to carry out martyrdom operation with cars without driver.” A “martyrdom operation” is a jihad strike in which the jihadi is killed along with Infidels, in hopes of attaining the Qur’an’s promise of Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111). “Two men accused […]
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Germany: Case dropped against Muslim migrant rapist because he is “too young to prosecute”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Sep 05, 2018 08:57 am

German authorities have dropped a case in which a 10-year-old Afghan boy raped a classmate during a school trip while Syrian and Afghan accomplices held him down, as the perpetrators are apparently not old enough to be tried. An update on this story: another “cultural” situation that the West is ill-equipped to deal with. Take, […]
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Hungary asks concerning immigration: “What’s wrong with the Swedes?”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Sep 05, 2018 08:49 am

The Hungarian government is openly asking “What’s wrong with the Swedes?”…. while the leader of Poland’s governing Law and Justice Party has said his country must avoid Western Europe’s “social diseases”…. Hungarian government spokesman Zoltán Kovács posed the question: “Why are these senior Swedish figures portraying Hungary as Europe’s bogeyman, spreading falsehoods and distorting facts […]
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Malaysian leader: Disagree with public caning and you risk being accused of being anti-Islam
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Sep 05, 2018 06:44 am

The Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) president-elect of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, has said: The issue of public caning needs to be handled with care, as one could easily find themselves accused of being anti-Islam for disagreeing with it. In other words, “Islamophobic.” Ibrahim, who is set to become Prime Minister in two years, is absolutely right. […]
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Quaker Event Promotes Blood Libels Against Israel
By Andrew Harrod on Sep 05, 2018 06:28 am

“This is not prison; this is a genocide,” stated an audience member following August 29 movie screenings concerning the Gaza Strip at the Washington, DC office of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL). Typifying the Israel-hating audience of about 25 that filled FCNL’s small Capitol Hill presentation room, this woman’s comments demonstrated how Quakers […]
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