JIHAD WATCH 09/24/2018

Kashmir: Muslims kidnap and murder three police officers after jihadis tell cops to “Resign or Die”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 23, 2018 04:45 pm

“And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know, whom Allah knows.” (Qur’an 8:60) In Kashmir, jihadis are apparently able to act upon this command with […]
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Trump: Bush going into Iraq and Afghanistan “worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 23, 2018 04:06 pm

It’s hard to rate and compare mistakes, but Trump is certainly correct that the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were immense mistakes. Bush and his team contended that we would be welcomed as liberators and that Western-style secular republics were going to be established that would become models for the rest of the Islamic world. […]
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Malaysia: Islamic Studies exam asks students about permissible ways to beat a disobedient wife
By Robert Spencer on Sep 23, 2018 03:30 pm

Why not? The mandate to beat one’s wife is in the Qur’an: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom […]
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Facebook flags post critical of Islam’s treatment of gays as “hate speech,” bans editor for 30 days
By Robert Spencer on Sep 23, 2018 03:20 pm

The Qur’an contains numerous condemnations of homosexual activity: “And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, ‘Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds? Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people.’…And We rained upon them a […]
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Newly discovered Byzantine-era cross shows Islamic intolerance
By Robert Spencer on Sep 23, 2018 02:17 pm

Much is made today of the early Islamic caliphates as being marvelously tolerant of their non-Muslim populations. But this is historical myth and revisionist history. This story shows the reality — a cross being concealed for fear of offending Muslims. For much more, documented from primary source material, about what Islamic rule was really like […]
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Fake miniatures depicting Islamic science are now found in the most august of libraries, museums, and history books
By Robert Spencer on Sep 23, 2018 11:04 am

The achievements of Islamic scientists are widely touted in the West today. Many people have pointed out that much of this is trumped-up, with the innovations of dhimmi Jews and Christians living in Islamic societies being touted as achievements of Islam, and with some supposed Islamic achievements simply being fabricated. This article reveals that this […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Jeremy Corbyn’s Jihad Against Israel (Part I)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Sep 23, 2018 11:00 am

In Great Britain, Jeremy Corbyn and his willing collaborators in the Labour Party continue their ferocious attacks on anyone in the party who still supports Israel. In the first week of September, a vote of no-confidence against Joan Ryan, the head of Labour Friends of Israel, passed 94-92 among local party members. Frank Field, another […]
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UN refugee chief denies migrant crisis, declares mass migration “source of progress and prosperity”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Sep 23, 2018 10:29 am

Debate in Europe framing illegal immigration from the third world as a problem is “dangerous”, the United Nations (UN) refugee chief has warned, insisting that the mass movement of peoples has been “a source of progress and prosperity since people first began to migrate”. Despite the chaos in Europe, including jihad attacks, Muslim rape gangs, […]
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Italy: Imam deported for spreading jihad ideology and “celebrating terror attacks in prison”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Sep 23, 2018 10:21 am

A Tunisian imam has been expelled from Italy after it was revealed that he had celebrated the Berlin Christmas Market terror attack in December of 2016 from his prison cell. Kudos to the Italian authorities. Every jihadist and jihad preacher should be immediately deported, for the safety of the citizens of Italy and other nations […]
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Turkey: document reveals Pastor Brunson’s real “crime” is “Christianization”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Sep 23, 2018 10:17 am

An American citizen, Pastor Andrew Brunson, is facing up to 35 years in a Turkish prison on fake “terrorism and espionage related charges.” Brunson’s witnesses were not even listened to, amid “wild conspiracies, tortured logic, and secret witnesses, but no real evidence to speak of.” Most recently, Mehmet Erdoğan, a deputy for the Turkish ruling party, […]
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