JIHAD WATCH 11/17/2018

Historian Efraim Karsh on Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad: “A tour de force…a must-read”
By Robert Spencer on Nov 16, 2018 06:00 pm

Efraim Karsh, the author of the acclaimed book Islamic Imperialism: A History, read an advance copy of my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS and had this to say: From the first Arab-Islamic empire of the mid-seventh century to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the story of Islam has been the […]
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Iran executes currency trader for Qur’anic crime of “spreading corruption on earth”
By Robert Spencer on Nov 16, 2018 05:00 pm

“Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and spread corruption on earth is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this […]
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Canada becoming a base for Islamic State and other jihadis preparing to attack the US
By Robert Spencer on Nov 16, 2018 04:00 pm

Stand up and take a bow, Justin! “Canada Becoming a Potential Base for Terrorists to Attack the US,” by Dale Hurd, CBN News, November 12, 2018: OTTAWA and TORONTO – The US and Canada share the longest undefended border in the world. There hasn’t been a reason to defend it because there hasn’t been a […]
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Australia: Islamic center attended by several jihad murderers and plotters plans expansion
By Robert Spencer on Nov 16, 2018 03:00 pm

Mohammed Omran and his cohorts know they’re untouchable. To investigate the mosque, even with its numerous unsavory ties, much less to stop its expansion, would be “Islamophobic.” “Islamic centre connected to terror plots plans expansion,” by Liam Mannix, Brisbane Times, November 15, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): An Islamic centre in Melbourne’s north […]
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Italy: Muslim gets four years prison for aiding truck jihad mass murderer Anis Amri
By Robert Spencer on Nov 16, 2018 02:00 pm

On December 19, 2016, Anis Amri drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, murdering 12 people and injuring 56. When he emerges from prison in less than four years, will Abdel Salem Napulsi become a loyal, stable, productive member of Italian society? Nothing will be done in prison to disabuse him of his […]
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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: “Islamophobia” Outbreak in California
By Robert Spencer on Nov 16, 2018 01:00 pm

A Muslim was found with a Qur’an, a book on terrorism, and a sawed-off rifle. What else could this be but “Islamophobia”? My latest in FrontPage: The San Francisco Chronicle has discovered a case of “Islamophobia,” and their intrepid reporters are on the job: “An Alameda County prosecutor,” we’re told, “recently held up an unusual […]
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Paris: Muslims beat 60-year-old man, tell him “This is what we do to disbelievers”
By Robert Spencer on Nov 16, 2018 12:00 pm

Celebrate diversity! Diversity is our strength! “Elderly man attacked for carrying Christmas presents in Paris: ‘This is what we do to disbelievers,’” Voice of Europe, November 15, 2018: A 60-year-old man has been beaten in Paris in what seems to be a religious hate crime, newspaper Le Parisien reports. The man had gone shopping for […]
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Hamas TV airs “Death to Israel” music video, station is destroyed a half hour later
By Robert Spencer on Nov 16, 2018 11:00 am

Things didn’t work out quite the way Hamas planned, but justice was done. “‘Death to Israel’ song on Hamas TV half-hour before station destroyed,” by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, November 14, 2018: About a half hour before Hamas’ TV station in the Gaza Strip was bombed by Israel, the station […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Robert Azzi, Still With His “Ask-A-Muslim Anything” Shtick (Part Five)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Nov 16, 2018 10:00 am

Question #8C: “You said that Islam as practiced in Saudi Arabia provided inner peace and a sense of security? Where apostates and homosexuals can be decapitated? Where the school textbooks preach hatred of Jews and Christians, where the Shi’a are denounced as Infidels? Where women can’t drive, or work alongside men, and are constantly under […]
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Egypt: Muslim with Qur’an and “sharp tool” attacks Christians while screaming “Allahu akbar”
By Robert Spencer on Nov 16, 2018 09:00 am

Nothing that a little “interfaith dialogue” won’t fix, no? “Christianity crackdown: Horror as ‘man with sharp tool’ attacks prayer service – ‘Awful,’” by Tom Nellist, Express, November 15, 2018: CHRISTIANS in Egypt were attacked during a prayer service by a man wielding a “sharp tool” and shouting Islamic slogans. According to Egyptian Sunday newspaper Watani, […]
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Twitter user writes that Robert Spencer “should be killed,” Twitter leaves threat online
By Robert Spencer on Nov 16, 2018 08:00 am

The threat was made seven days ago but is still online: This Islamophobe @jihadwatchRS should be killed for spreading lies and propaganda around like no joke is he such a waste of air and space. — lil'boi (@LilThnxM8) November 8, 2018 jihadwatchrs is my Twitter username. The threat was not removed. Twitter doesn’t care – […]
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