JIHAD WATCH 01/24/2019

Mali: Muslims murder 10 Chadian UN peacekeepers in revenge for Chad-Israel ties
By Robert Spencer on Jan 23, 2019 04:00 pm

The murdered Chadians had nothing to do with Chad’s ties with Israel, but that made no difference to these jihad murderers. While Muslim spokesmen in the West frequently whine about being held responsible for acts they did not commit (which rarely, if ever, happens in reality), jihadists frequently operate on the basis of the idea […]
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Microsoft using spurious Leftist “fact-checking” site to place warning label on Jihad Watch
By Robert Spencer on Jan 23, 2019 03:43 pm

Microsoft has now placed a warning label on Jihad Watch for those who use its Edge browser: This once again raises the question I keep asking again and again: quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen? According to the BBC, NewsGuard warnings have also appeared on the Daily Mail and Sputnik. But what about […]
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Iran spends $7,000,000,000 every year on jihad terror activities in the Middle East
By Robert Spencer on Jan 23, 2019 03:00 pm

The legacy of Barack Hussein Obama. “Israeli UN Envoy Reveals: Iran Spends $7 Billion Annually on Terror Activities in Middle East,” Algemeiner, January 22, 2019: Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon revealed to the Security Council on Tuesday details of Iran’s terror activities throughout the Middle East. “The Iranian regime’s obsession with Israel is not just […]
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Italy: Man converts to Islam, starts spreading jihad terror propaganda, instigating people to join jihad groups
By Robert Spencer on Jan 23, 2019 02:00 pm

This is a recurring phenomenon: some converts to Islam the world over have gotten the idea that their new religion requires them to commit treason and mass murder. Despite the fact that this contradicts their narrative about Islam being peaceful and completely compatible with Western secular democracy, authorities all over the West remain completely incurious […]
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India: Muslim throws Hindu statue out of temple, starts praying Islamic prayers, says Allah told him to do it
By Robert Spencer on Jan 23, 2019 01:00 pm

He is “mentally unstable,” we are told, but The History of Jihad shows from Islamic sources that Islamic jihadis have behaved this way in India for centuries. Numerous temples were destroyed, and Islamic rulers liked to break the Hindu statues into pieces and place the pieces at the entrance to mosques, so that the Muslims […]
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Indonesia: Muslim cleric linked to Bali jihad massacre to be released despite not renouncing “radicalism”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 23, 2019 12:00 pm

He can’t renounce “radicalism,” because he believes it to be simply Islam. Despite many claims to the contrary, “moderate” Muslim spokesmen in the West have never shown the beliefs of “radicals” such as Abu Bakar Bashir to be un-Islamic. “Cleric linked to Bali bombings ‘won’t renounce radicalism,'” Associated Press, January 19, 2019 (thanks to The […]
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Golden Globe-winning writer banned from awards circuit for “Islamophobic” tweet saying he saw Muslims cheering 9/11
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jan 23, 2019 11:00 am

Jihad Watch recently reported about Golden Globe-winning writer Nick Vallelonga apologizing for his “Islamophobic” tweet that revealed he saw New Jersey Muslims cheering 9/11. As absurd as it was to see Vallelonga lie to himself and to the world in order to appease dhimmi Leftists and Islamic supremacists, the situation escalated fast and shows how […]
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“Scholar of religions” Jack Miles says Allah is “more merciful” and “more moral” than God of the Bible
By Robert Spencer on Jan 23, 2019 10:05 am

The Western intelligentsia’s capacity for self-flagellation and self-hatred seems to be endless, and so now comes Jack Miles, a retired professor of religion, to tell us in a new book that Allah in the Qur’an is “more merciful” and “more moral” than the God of the Bible. Miles is, of course, being feted and celebrated […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Rahaf Mohammed, Linda Sarsour, and the Question of Apostasy (Part One)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jan 23, 2019 10:00 am

The saga of the 18-year-old Saudi girl, Rahaf Mohammed, has ended. She is now safe in Canada, where she was granted asylum, and was even greeted at Toronto’s airport on January 10 by Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. She had been on the run from her family who, she said, might well kill her. Her crime? […]
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France builds “Trump-style” wall to keep illegal Muslim migrants from breaking into Britain from Calais
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jan 23, 2019 09:00 am

France has speedily “built a ten-foot wall at a Total station in Calais used by migrants who attempt to storm lorries and break into Britain.” The wall is being compared by detractors to the “Trump wall,” and it is just as needed: “there are an estimated 600 mostly male migrants hailing from Afghanistan, Iran, and […]
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Pope Francis’s new Morocco logo implies submission to Islam
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jan 23, 2019 08:00 am

“Why Does Pope Francis’s New Morocco Logo Imply Submission To Islam?” Because he has submitted. Pope Francis has become a defender of Islam. “If this Vatican logo tells us anything, it is that Pope Francis is comfortable with Islam’s ascendency….This crescent does not appear alongside the cross, as if a companion to it. Rather, the […]
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