JIHAD WATCH 09/25/2018

Support Banned Books Week: get Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad
By Robert Spencer on Sep 24, 2018 05:00 pm

This week is Banned Books Week. The Banned Books Week website says: “Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. Typically held during the last week […]
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Max Abrahms, “one of the world’s leading experts on terrorism,” claims jihadis are “ignorant about Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 24, 2018 04:00 pm

Establishment counterterror analyst Max Abrahms once agreed to debate me on the question of whether or not the Islamic State is Islamic, but then lost his nerve and backed out, leaving behind a smokescreen of ad hominem attacks to mask his cowardice. And here we see how he would have fared if that debate had […]
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“If any law contradicts the Quran, then our scripture will prevail and not the law”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 24, 2018 03:00 pm

Siddiqullah Chowdhury said: “For us, our holy scripture, the Quran Sharif, is supreme and if any constitutional provision or any law contradicts the Quran, then our scripture will prevail and not the law or Constitution.” He was referring to India’s new law forbidding Islamic instant divorce. “No one will adhere to it, but will follow […]
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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Marine Le Pen Ordered to Take Psychiatric Tests for Opposing Jihad Terror
By Robert Spencer on Sep 24, 2018 02:00 pm

She does not yet love Big Brother enough. My latest in FrontPage: You thought it would stop with the defaming and deplatforming of foes of jihad terror? No. Soviet-style judgments of insanity are next. And what will come after that? The answer is clear enough. The Local reported Thursday that French “far right” (i.e., opposed […]
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Iran accuses UK, Netherlands, Denmark of harboring members of jihad group that killed 23
By Robert Spencer on Sep 24, 2018 01:00 pm

“It is not acceptable that the European Union does not blacklist members of these terrorist groups as long as they do not perpetrate a crime on … European soil.” They’re right about this. The EU has become an exporter of international jihadis. “Iran summons UK, Dutch and Danish envoys over attack on military parade,” Guardian, […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Jeremy Corbyn’s Jihad Against Israel (Part II)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Sep 24, 2018 12:00 pm

Jeremy Corbyn, the self-described “friend” of Hamas and Hezbollah whose representatives he invited to speak in Parliament, who at a graveyard in Tunisia stood right beside one convicted terrorist and a few feet away from a second terrorist (a leader of Black September), while intoning an Islamic prayer over the gravesite of still a third […]
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Prague: Muslim planning jihad massacre frequented mosques, says spiritual role model was imam
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Sep 24, 2018 11:00 am

Despite the stated view that “there are more Jedi Knights than Muslims in the Czech Republic,” a convert to Islam who was planning a jihad terror attack has been arrested. The radicalised Slovak, who frequented mosques in Prague and appeared under the adopted name of Abdul Rahman, wasn’t a member of an organised group and […]
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California: Muslim pulled over in routine traffic stop, two IEDs discovered in his car
By Robert Spencer on Sep 24, 2018 10:00 am

Will Hamas-linked CAIR now denounce traffic stops as “Islamophobic”? “Man Who Allegedly Had 2 IEDs in His Car in Brea Is Charged With 4 Felony Counts,” by Angela Rose Bickmann, KTLA, September 21, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report): A Salinas man was charged with four felony counts after being found with two homemade bombs […]
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Switzerland: Second region votes to ban burqa
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Sep 24, 2018 09:00 am

Although the Swiss government caved to political correctness and rejected a burqa ban in early August, “the majority of voters in Switzerland’s canton of St. Gallen have supported the prohibition of face-covering garments in public spaces, making it the second region in the country to introduce such a ban.” St. Gallen is the fifth-most populous […]
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Chechens say they fear their own sons after jihad attack by 11-year-old
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Sep 24, 2018 08:00 am

Child jihadists are multiplying, to the professed horror of parents in Chechnya. “We promise fear and death in the hearts of unbelievers. Victory or jihad!” the boys vow, as the youngest brandishes a knife and an iPhone displaying Isil’s black flag. The children are being taught in accordance with a doctrine that has been proliferating […]
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Nazareth: Signs outside Church of the Annunciation feature anti-Christian Qur’an verses
By Robert Spencer on Sep 24, 2018 07:00 am

Islamic tolerance alert: a Jihad Watch reader took these pictures in Nazareth in 2014, on the road that leads to the Church of the Annunciation. Theses signs were placed right in the faces of the people who walk to this church. In one of the pics you can see the top of the church. These […]
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