JIHAD WATCH 10/14/2018

Muslim leader says Islam in its pure form can be catalyst to achieve global peace and justice
By Robert Spencer on Oct 13, 2018 02:50 pm

The claims that Dr. Iftikar Ahmed Ayaz makes here are commonplace, but they raise a question: where in Islamic history has Islam ever been a catalyst that brought about peace and justice? In my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I show that the only peace that ever prevailed in lands conquered […]
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Video: UK veteran comments on soldier being dismissed for photo with Tommy Robinson
By Joshua Winston on Oct 13, 2018 01:03 pm

I speak with a veteran of the UK Armed Forces on the recent dismissal of a soldier for posing in a photo with Tommy Robinson.
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UK: Marks & Spencer sells hijabs for girls as young as four years old
By Robert Spencer on Oct 13, 2018 12:31 pm

The idea of the hijab in Islamic theology is to prevent men from being tempted to sin by the appearance of women. So putting a hijab on a four-year-old is tantamount to saying that she is a legitimate object of sexual desire. Celebrate diversity! All who oppose this are racist, bigoted “Islamophobes”! “M&S is accused […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: The Saudi-UAE Coalition Has Cut Deals with Al-Qaeda in Yemen (Part Two)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Oct 13, 2018 12:30 pm

Meanwhile, AQAP (Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) continues to operate in Yemen, and its ranks are replenished, both from local converts and from AQAP members who have flocked to the country from outside. AQAP, whose member are uber-Sunnis, have been fighting the Shi’a Houthis, even as they continue to denounce and threaten their most important […]
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The Grotesque Immorality of Mainstream Islamic Ethics (Part 5)
By Saleem Smith on Oct 13, 2018 12:20 pm

I am a Canadian ex-Muslim living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy. In Part 5 of this series of articles, I will address the impermissibility of homosexuality in Islamic theology and law. Here are links to Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this series of articles. Same-gender sex […]
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Democrat Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema: “I don’t care” if Muslims go fight for Taliban against US
By Robert Spencer on Oct 13, 2018 12:06 pm

The Left hates America, and considers “right-wing extremists,” a term all too often applied to American patriots, far more of a threat than jihad terrorists. It used to be that this fact was dismissed as hysterical hyperbole. Now it is becoming increasingly clear. “Senate Dem hopeful Kyrsten Sinema said ‘I don’t care’ if people go […]
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Robert Spencer Video: Banned Books Week Features Only Leftist Books
By Robert Spencer on Oct 13, 2018 11:49 am

In this new video, I discuss Banned Books Week, and how it features only books that reflect the Left’s pet causes of the day, not genuinely banned books, which are by conservative authors.
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Media source for Jamal Khashoggi “scoops” is protege of imprisoned al-Qaeda financier
By Robert Spencer on Oct 13, 2018 09:11 am

It still isn’t clear what exactly happened to Jamal Khashoggi, or who is responsible. The Turkish government insists that he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where Saudi government operatives murdered him. The Saudis deny this. There is no doubt that they could have done it, and that the Saudi government is capable of that […]
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European Parliament removes election ad after Muslim politician calls it “Islamophobic”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 13, 2018 08:45 am

The “Islamophobia” canard once again at work in Europe, and the brazenness of those who wield it knows no bounds: The European parliament is to remove one of its election adverts after it was branded “Islamophobic” by a British politician. Conservative MEP Sajjad Karim raised concerns over a giant banner that was recently put up […]
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Pakistan: Muslims warn of “terrible consequences” if Christian “blasphemer” is shown any “softness”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 13, 2018 08:42 am

Asia Bibi is back in the news. The “mother of four, in 2010 became the first woman to be sentenced to death under Pakistan’s draconian blasphemy laws.” Her recent appeal hearing was postponed. Now, a so-called “hard-line Islamist group” has warned of “terrible consequences” if she is shown any mercy: The ultra-religious Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) […]
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Trinidad and Tobago is now a jihad hotspot
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 13, 2018 08:38 am

According to the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Tourism: “The islands offer rich history, culture, biodiversity, and lodging with views ‘to die for,’” but there are other unappealing features that have come to characterize the nation. It has the highest Islamic State recruitment in the Western Hemisphere, was the site of the only jihadist uprising […]
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