JIHAD WATCH 10/10/2018

Professor claims that “to argue that Islam is an inherently violent religion is both utterly false and ahistorical”
By Robert Spencer on Oct 09, 2018 01:39 pm

Establishment academic Juan Cole claims here that “the Islamophobes like to argue that Islam is an inherently violent religion, that its adherents are quite literally commanded to such violence by its holy scriptures, the Qur’an. It’s a position that, as I explain in my new book, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires, […]
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LA: Hamas-linked CAIR enraged over pastor saying Muslim city council candidate “will not say no to Sharia”
By Robert Spencer on Oct 09, 2018 01:24 pm

Amid all the self-righteous posturing and rage from Fauzia Rizvi, the sinister Hussam Ayloush, and Eugene Montanez recounted in this article, the central question is never answered or even addressed: was Randy Fox right or wrong? Will Fauzia Rizvi say no to Sharia or not? Ayloush, as disingenuous as ever, says that Fox’s “intent was […]
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Islam’s Code of Conduct
By Amil Imani on Oct 09, 2018 11:35 am

All human groups live by codes of conduct and beliefs. The codes are far from uniform, either in context or formality. Yet they all serve the critical function of being a prescription of behaviors that enhance the welfare of the group and proscribe those that undermine it. In tandem with the emergence of the code […]
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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Wisconsin Student Outraged Because Terrorism Course Discusses Jihad
By Robert Spencer on Oct 09, 2018 10:44 am

Dissent from the dogma that Islam is a religion of peace will not be tolerated. My latest in PJ Media: How divorced from reality are our nation’s college and university campuses today? This divorced from reality: a terrorism class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has become the focus of controversy for daring to discuss Islamic […]
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Detroit: Catholic college offers segregated Muslims-only classes
By Robert Spencer on Oct 09, 2018 10:31 am

Celebrate diversity! When is an Islamic college going to offer Christians-only classes? Right, never. As always, “outreach” goes only one way, and the foolish dhimmi Christians involved in it never seem to notice that fact. “Catholic College in Detroit is Offering Classes to an All-Muslim Group,” WDET, October 9, 2018 (thanks to Paul): Steve Mustapha […]
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“London is more Islamic than many Muslim countries put together”: 423 mosques, 100 Sharia courts
By Robert Spencer on Oct 09, 2018 10:07 am

And the police in many areas are enforcing Sharia blasphemy laws, hunting for people who insult Islam. The end of Britain as a free society is at hand. “Muslim London: 423 new mosques, 100 Shariah courts,” Saudi Gazette, October 7, 2018: London —Britain has been acquiring an increasingly Islamic face, with hundreds of official Shariah […]
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NY: Owner of limo company involved in lethal crash is Muslim ex-FBI informant once arrested for murder in Pakistan
By Robert Spencer on Oct 09, 2018 09:51 am

The terrible limousine accident that killed 20 people in Schoharie, New York on Saturday came about because of a limousine that was “modified unofficially,” apparently by a company owned by a Muslim who was once arrested for murder in Pakistan, was nonetheless granted asylum in the U.S., and became an FBI informant, stopping one jihad […]
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Muhammad Speaks – and It’s Not Pretty
By Robert Spencer on Oct 09, 2018 09:46 am

Over seventeen years after the September 11 attacks, it is still commonplace to hear Islam called a religion of peace. Muslims and non-Muslim Islamic apologists in the West routinely characterize the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, as a champion of human rights. The Muslim writer Farida Khanam portrays him as meek, mild, and full of love […]
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Meet the Tamimis: Ahed, Ahlam, Nariman, Nizar (Part Two)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Oct 09, 2018 09:00 am

Also freed  in the exchange was her relative Nizar Tamimi. He was proud of her for her major role in the Sbarro Pizzeria bombing, and she proud of him, too, for though he had only one cold-blooded murder of Jews to his credit, what he lacked in quantity he made up for in gruesome quality. It […]
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Fear of “infuriating Trump” caused Britain to drop opposition to death penalty for UK Islamic State jihadis
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 09, 2018 08:30 am

Sajid Javid “gave up” on attempts to ensure the US did not execute two British Isis militants because he feared sparking outrage in Donald Trump’s administration UK Prime Minister Theresa May — who was formerly Home Secretary — had sought to defend the two accused Islamic State jihadists against the death penalty even in the […]
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Canada: Islamic State jihadist caught, but police “struggle” to lay charges
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 09, 2018 08:00 am

A high-profile Canadian member of the so-called Islamic State has been caught while attempting to return to Canada…he is being held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. Muhammad Ali, formerly Abu Turaab Al-Kanadi, served as a sniper and “used social media to encourage others to join ISIS and conduct terrorist attacks.” But how will Canada […]
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