JIHAD WATCH 12/22/2018

Islamic State sent images of beheaded girl to her mother
By Robert Spencer on Dec 21, 2018 03:42 pm

“And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know, whom Allah knows.” (Qur’an 8:60) “ISIS beheading image was sent to victim’s MOTHER: Fanatics ‘gloated about filming […]
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Rod Dreher: No need for “anxiety” about Islam in US, for “America will turn Islam into Moralistic Therapeutic Deism”
By Robert Spencer on Dec 21, 2018 01:39 pm

Rod Dreher of The American Conservative predicts: “This is why I don’t share the anxiety many conservatives have about Islam in America (Islam in Europe is a different matter, for particularly European reasons). For better or for worse, post-Christian America is going to turn Islam into Moralistic Therapeutic Deism too.” Are there secular Muslims in […]
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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Trump is Right to Withdraw from Syria
By Robert Spencer on Dec 21, 2018 11:46 am

But James Mattis and other failed analysts are still pushing their failed policies and demanding we stay there. My latest in FrontPage: President Trump has ordered a rapid withdrawal of the 2,000 remaining U.S. troops in Syria, prompting the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis and arousing the ire of CNN – both excellent indications […]
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The opposition to Shahid Shafi is not because of bigotry or hysteria over Sharia
By Robert Spencer on Dec 21, 2018 11:10 am

There is an ongoing controversy over Shahid Shafi, vice chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party, about which Hugh Fitzgerald has written here and here over the last few days. And now, Jim Geraghty sums up what Shafi’s defenders have maintained all along: that opposition to Shafi is all about anti-Muslim bigotry, from beginning to […]
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How Canada protects Sharia
By Robert Spencer on Dec 21, 2018 11:09 am

All too often concerns about Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others are denounced as “bigotry” without any examination of the substantive issues involved. Here is an excellent review of Fired by the Canadian Government for Criticizing Islam, Jihad Watch writer Christine Douglass-Williams’ account of how she was…fired by the Canadian government for criticizing Islam. […]
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UN appeals to the world to fund the Palestinian Authority’s ‘Pay for Slay’ policy
By Robert Spencer on Dec 21, 2018 11:00 am

“Critical humanitarian needs of Palestinians.” Why not sell off Abbas’ 50-million-dollar private jet? “UN appeals to the world to fund the PA’s ‘Pay for Slay’ policy,” by Maurice Hirsch and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, December 19, 2018: Yesterday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) and the Palestinian Authority […]
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Just in Time for Hanukkah, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Remembers Her Jewish Roots (Part Three)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Dec 21, 2018 10:00 am

Asked to explain what she meant by her use of the word “occupation,” Ocasio-Cortez said, “Oh, I think what I meant is that the settlements that are increasing in some of these areas and places where Palestinians are experiencing difficulty in access to their housing and homes.” “I think what I meant”? You mean you […]
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Canada: 76-year-old woman who was victim of vicious, unprovoked attack by a Muslim dies in the hospital
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Dec 21, 2018 09:00 am

Sara Anne Widholm, the 76-year-old Windsor woman who was the victim of a vicious, unprovoked attack on the Ganatchio Trail in October 2017, has passed away in hospital. The mystery surrounding Habibullah Ahmadi, the perpetrator of this barbaric murder, is astounding. Given the brutality and random nature of his attack, it is noteworthy that so little […]
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Muslim from Canada convicted of jihad mass murder plot in New York City, sentenced to 40 years in prison
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Dec 21, 2018 08:00 am

“A Canadian man was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison….for plotting to attack Times Square in New York and the city’s subway. U.S. prosecutors had asked for life in prison, while the defence argued Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy should only receive four or five years and get treatment for mental health and drug addiction problems.” […]
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Glazov Gang: Airport Security is Racist and White Supremacist!
By Jamie Glazov on Dec 21, 2018 07:58 am

This new edition of The Glazov Gang features Will Johnson, the founder and president of UniteAmericaFirst.com. Will and Jamie announce: Airport Security is Racist and White Supremacist! Both of them state that it is time to end the right-wing fascism of expecting tickets and monitoring carry-on items. The patriarchy and bigotry must end now! Don’t […]
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