JIHAD WATCH 10/25/2018

Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Caravan Jihad?
By Robert Spencer on Oct 24, 2018 03:14 pm

Jihadis among the migrant caravan is not as ridiculous as CNN would have you believe. My latest in FrontPage: CNN on Monday once again posed as the intrepid and impartial fact checker, correcting the falsehoods spread by our ridiculous and hateful President, with the headline: “Trump seizes on right-wing media reports to suggest migrant caravan […]
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Explosive devices sent to Hillary, Obama, Brennan, CNN — at least one bears ISIS flag UPDATE: Parody of ISIS flag
By Robert Spencer on Oct 24, 2018 03:03 pm

UPDATE: The flag on the device actually looks more like this parody of the ISIS flag: So this isn’t ISIS. Who it is, however, remains a mystery. ——– No one seems to have noticed at CNN, which is running strongly with the idea that some “right-wing extremist” sent these. However, the Islamic State flag is […]
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India: Woman marries man so she can remarry first husband per Sharia, but new husband refuses to “release” her
By Robert Spencer on Oct 24, 2018 01:15 pm

Nikah halala is one of the most bizarre aspects of Islamic law. It is a temporary marriage that allows a woman to return to her previous husband after a divorce. If her husband says “I divorce you” to her three times, she can’t return to him unless and until she marries another man, consummates the […]
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Robert Spencer video: Hyatt Hotels ban opponents of jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression
By Robert Spencer on Oct 24, 2018 12:46 pm

In this new video, I discuss the Hyatt Hotel chain’s recent decision to ban “hate groups,” i.e., foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others.
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UN Human Rights Committee says France violated human rights of two Muslimas by fining them for wearing niqab
By Robert Spencer on Oct 24, 2018 10:21 am

“The decisions are not directed against the notion of secularity (laïcité), nor are they an endorsement of a custom which many on the Committee, including myself, regard as a form of oppression of women,” said Yuval Shany, Chair of the Committee. Yes, the decisions most certainly are an endorsement of the oppression of women, insofar […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Ceuta, Where Less Would Be More (Part One)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Oct 24, 2018 09:28 am

From  Morocco, thousands of undocumented migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been flooding into Spain: some twenty-three thousand in the first six months of this year. And they have done it without leaving the continent of Africa. Their preferred point of entry into Europe is Ceuta, one of two Spanish enclaves — the other is Melilla […]
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Petition: Allow American author Robert Spencer to enter the UK and speak freely
By Robert Spencer on Oct 24, 2018 09:12 am

I’m grateful to Anne Marie Waters of For Britain for starting this petition. As you can see here, I was banned from entering the UK for saying: “[Islam] is a religion and is a belief system that mandates warfare against unbelievers for the purpose for establishing a societal model that is absolutely incompatible with Western […]
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Afghanistan: Muslim cleric engineered assassination of top General
By Robert Spencer on Oct 24, 2018 08:34 am

A Muslim cleric? A man who has dedicated his life to understanding correctly and communicating properly the peaceful teachings of Islam? How could he have misunderstood his religion so drastically? Surely Pope Francis is on his way to Afghanistan now, in order to explain to Mullah Sherin that authentic Islam and the proper understanding of […]
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Italy: Deported jihadi returns on migrant boat, is deported again
By Robert Spencer on Oct 24, 2018 08:11 am

What’s that you were saying about how anyone who thinks that there might be jihadis among migrants is a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe”? “Tunisian deported for terror reasons,” ANSA, October 19, 2018 (thanks to Insubria): (ANSA) – Rome, October 19 – A 37-year-old Tunisian expelled in February who returned on a migrant boat and was intercepted […]
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Arizona Democrat Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema refuses to retract saying it’s OK for Americans to join the Taliban
By Robert Spencer on Oct 24, 2018 07:58 am

Fox News reported recently that in a February 2003 radio interview, Green Party activist Ernest Hancock said to Kyrsten Sinema, who is now Arizona’s Democrat candidate for Senate: “As an individual, if I want to go fight in the Taliban army, I go over there, and I’m fighting for the Taliban, I’m saying that’s a […]
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