JIHAD WATCH 10/19/2018

Turkish claim that Khashoggi recorded his torture inside Saudi consulate almost certainly impossible
By Robert Spencer on Oct 18, 2018 01:50 pm

The Saudis have admitted killing him. But the Turks claims’ about the circumstances of the killing cannot be taken at face value. The Turks and the Saudis are rivals for leadership of the Sunni Islamic world, and so both have an interest in dissembling about what happened here and exploiting Khashoggi’s death for their own […]
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Italian authorities monitoring schools for jihad recruitment
By Robert Spencer on Oct 18, 2018 01:36 pm

This is a wise move, but is certain to be condemned as “Islamophobic.” “Schools monitored for jihad recruitment,” ANSA, October 18, 2018: (ANSA) – Rome, October 18 – Italian authorities said Thursday that they had started monitoring schools for the risk of jihadi recruitment. According to anti-terror investigators, the young are among the “vulnerable individuals […]
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Cologne: Muslim migrant doused hostage with gas and strapped homemade bomb to her
By Robert Spencer on Oct 18, 2018 01:29 pm

But it’s not terrorism, as far as German authorities are concerned, because the hostage-taker “appeared disheveled.” “Horror of Cologne hostage situation revealed: ‘Syrian’ had pledged allegiance to ISIS, doused captive woman with petrol and strapped home-made BOMB to her when police shot him,” by Sara Malm, MailOnline, October 16, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report): […]
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“Palestinian” Sharia judge: “The war is not only over this strip of land”
By Robert Spencer on Oct 18, 2018 01:01 pm

“Palestinian” leaders keep telling the world that their jihad against Israel is based on Islam and is not over land. Western policymakers continue to refuse to listen. Note also Muhannad Abu Runi’s projection: “They want to subjugate us.” Actually it’s Islam that has an imperative to subjugate nonbelievers: “Fight those who do not believe in […]
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Salvini: “The next European elections will start epochal changes for the future of Europe”
By Robert Spencer on Oct 18, 2018 12:04 pm

Will these elections spell the end of EU tyranny and the mass Muslim migrant influx, such that free societies in Europe can be preserved? We can only hope. “We’re no longer puppets manipulated by Brussels – Italian Interior Minister,” Voice of Europe, October 17,2018: Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini predicts a massive change after next […]
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Officials hesitate to call Cologne hostage-taking “terrorism” because migrant jihadi “appeared disheveled”
By Robert Spencer on Oct 18, 2018 11:32 am

He told people he was with the Islamic State, but Cologne officials are discounting that because he “may have been suffering from psychological problems, appeared dishevelled with unkempt long hair and a three-day beard, and was under the influence of alcohol.” That only clean-shaven people with neatly combed hair can be jihadis is actually unproven. […]
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Germany: Woman converts to Islam, tries to recruit women to marry ISIS jihadis so they can enter the country
By Robert Spencer on Oct 18, 2018 11:06 am

Marcia M. is one of the steady stream of converts to Islam who somehow get the idea that their new religion calls them to commit treason and mass murder. Authorities remain, as always, resolutely uninterested in this recurring phenomenon. “German intelligence foiled 2016 Islamic State terror attack,” DW, October 18, 2018 (thanks to The Religion […]
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Hungarian Parliament: EU “attacks Hungary on the grounds that it didn’t take in migrants”
By Robert Spencer on Oct 18, 2018 09:30 am

Indeed. For the EU, it’s commit civilizational suicide or face economic and other pressure for not doing so. “Hungary passes resolution: EU report attacks us because we didn’t take migrants and criminalised the organisation of illegal migration,” Voice of Europe, October 17, 2018: Hungarian lawmakers passed a resolution which urges the government “not to give […]
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Our Saver-In-Chief
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Oct 18, 2018 09:00 am

Yesterday the White House tweeted: “In today’s Cabinet meeting, President @realDonaldTrump directed each member of his Cabinet to streamline their agency’s budget by 5 percent this fiscal year.” In a similar vein, Donald Trump finds outrageous the amounts of money the American government spends for defense while other countries, our supposed allies, persist in not […]
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Netherlands: Islamic State jihadi on trial after posing next to beheaded body
By Robert Spencer on Oct 18, 2018 08:30 am

Why was he allowed back into the Netherlands in the first place? Although Breitbart identifies him here as “Dutch,” Oussama A. almost certainly doesn’t think of himself as Dutch, and almost certainly has nothing but contempt for the Dutch as unbelievers, “the most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6). Oussama A. almost certainly thinks of […]
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