JIHAD WATCH 02/09/2019

Pakistan: Muslim cleric defends blasphemy laws, says they have saved thousands of people from vigilante violence
By Robert Spencer on Feb 08, 2019 12:38 pm

“Because of the blasphemy laws, thousands of people have been saved. If the law weren’t there, I tell you, it’s possible that I speak blasphemy you’ll kill me, or if you do it I’ll kill you.” The concept of the freedom of speech, or tolerating peacefully people with differing views and values, doesn’t even come […]
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New Jersey: Imam says Muslims should reject “freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press”
By Robert Spencer on Feb 08, 2019 12:26 pm

Mateen Khan also explains how the “clever” Jews fooled the Europeans into thinking they were “one of them.” Does Mateen Khan believe in violent jihad, and that non-Muslims should be subjugated under Islamic law as dhimmis, and that Sharia should ultimately replace the U.S. Constitution? What do you think? “NJ-Based Imam Mateen Khan: Liberals Are […]
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Muslim who stabbed man, screamed “I’m going to kill you, Allah Allah” pleads not guilty on grounds of mental illness
By Robert Spencer on Feb 08, 2019 11:45 am

Of course Ihsas Khan is no jihadi. Of course he is mentally ill, as is so often the case that jihad ought to make the next edition of the DSM, the repository of psychological diagnoses. What else could possibly be going on here? Pay no attention to the fact that the Islamic State issued this call […]
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UK: Muslims convert homeless man to Islam, try to recruit him for jihad, threaten and assault him when he refuses
By Joshua Winston on Feb 08, 2019 11:24 am

Muslims in the UK are preying on the homeless in order to radicalize them. This isn’t a new tactic. We already know that in Speakers’ Corner, gangs of Muslim males and females scour the park looking for lone individuals to befriend and gather into their fold. One young man I spoke to was approached, while […]
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Khamenei: “Death to America” means “Death to Trump, Bolton, and Pompeo,” not “Death to the American nation”
By Robert Spencer on Feb 08, 2019 11:03 am

They chanted “Death to America” during the presidencies of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. But now it only means “Death to Trump.” It’s worth remembering in this context that deception of unbelievers is an Islamic concept based on the Qur’an (3:28), but its theological […]
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American envoy Richard Grenell compares Iran’s “anti-gay brutality” to that of the Islamic State
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Feb 08, 2019 11:00 am

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell “has drawn a parallel between the brutal violence perpetrated by the Islamic State terror group and that of Iran.” Grenell (who is gay) indicated that Iran’s ongoing policy of executing its citizens for the “crime” of being gay is similar to the atrocities committed by the Islamic State. The recent […]
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India: Five Muslims arrested for murder of Hindu who opposed Muslim proselytizing, one is member of jihad group
By Robert Spencer on Feb 08, 2019 10:43 am

The Popular Front of India has been linked to jihad terror activities. An update on this story. “#JusticeForRamalingam: 5 Muslim suspects arrested in connection to Ramalingam’s murder, One PFI member,” by Savio Rodrigues, Goa Chronicle, February 7, 2019: Chennai: Police investigating the case of Thiru Ramalingam – a 42 year old man from Kumbakonam – […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Hamid Dabashi on All the Terrible Things Being Done to Muslims (Part Five)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Feb 08, 2019 10:00 am

But Muslims killing Muslims is not any less evident on the global scene. Saudi Arabia and its sidekick, the United Arab Emirates, have led a coalition of Muslim states to slaughter tens of thousands of Yemenis and drive millions more to starvation. Yes, the US and Europe are chiefly responsible for arming these Arab countries, […]
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Sweden admits “it can’t control its own borders”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Feb 08, 2019 09:00 am

“The chief of Sweden’s National Border Police has sounded the alarm on the ability of his force to do its job — even to the low standard required by the European Union under its Schengen zone open borders agreement.” Sweden has long been in crisis, while trying in vain to cover it up (much like […]
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India: Family forces woman to sleep with father-in-law to fulfill Islamic law
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Feb 08, 2019 08:00 am

A Muslim woman from the Bareilly district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh was forced to sleep with her father-in-law for nikah halala, after her husband gave her instant triple talaq (“I divorce you, I divorce you, I divorce you” said thrice, and the wife is out in the cold). The Bareilly woman, as if not […]
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