JIHAD WATCH 02/14/2019

“Are you serious? What’s wrong with you?”: Ilhan Omar yells at reporter who asked about her anti-Semitic tweets
By Robert Spencer on Feb 13, 2019 02:09 pm

The reporter was from CNN, so she was probably astounded that he wasn’t behaving as her adoring sycophant. “Omar Snaps at CNN Reporter for Asking More Questions About Anti-Semitic Tweet Controversy,” by David Rutz, Washington Free Beacon, February 13, 2019: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) grew angry with CNN reporter Manu Raju on Wednesday after […]
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Spain: Muslim recruited prisoners for jihad, offered them money for reading the Qur’an
By Robert Spencer on Feb 13, 2019 02:01 pm

One might almost get the idea that the Qur’an had something to do with jihad terrorism, if we didn’t have so many moral superiors assuring us otherwise. “One arrested in Spain for indoctrinating and recruiting young people to the so-called Islamic State,” Europol, February 12, 2019: Europol supported Policía Nacional (Spanish National Police) in arresting […]
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Muslim U.S. Air Force Intelligence Specialist tried to pass classified American information to Iran
By Robert Spencer on Feb 13, 2019 01:16 pm

But if anyone had questioned her loyalty, he or she would have been denounced as a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” “Iran Conducted Cyber Hacks on U.S., Recruited U.S. Air Force Officer to Steal Classified Info,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, February 13, 2019: WARSAW, Poland—The Trump administration announced a new package of sanctions on Iranian […]
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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker embraces Jew-hating Muslim cleric Yasir Fahmy
By Robert Spencer on Feb 13, 2019 01:06 pm

All over the West, politicians have no idea who they’re dealing with. “GOP Governor Embraces Radical Muslim Cleric Who Somehow Makes Westboro Baptist Look Acceptable,” by Ilya Feoktistov, The Federalist, February 13, 2019: “When God talks about the types of relationships that a person is allowed to have,” thundered the American preacher from his pulpit […]
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UAE Forum Promotes Dubious Islamic Peace (Part IV)
By Andrew Harrod on Feb 13, 2019 01:00 pm

“Westerners love this stuff, interfaith summits,” Brookings Institution political Islam scholar Shadi Hamid stated at a January 8 Washington, DC event about the 2018 Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies (FPPMS). While political motivations lead states including the FPPMS-sponsor United Arab Emirates (UAE) to support ever more of these dubious gatherings that sanitize Islam, […]
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Detroit: Muslim cleric says Jews “sanction killing of one another,” “allowed their women to engage in prostitution”
By Robert Spencer on Feb 13, 2019 12:00 pm

Did anyone seriously think this hatred would not come to America? The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim […]
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Delta pilot says “Islamophobia” propagandist Khaled Beydoun is lying in attack complaint, played the “race card”
By Robert Spencer on Feb 13, 2019 11:00 am

The police report states: “Timothy stated Khaled pulled the ‘race card.’…I asked Timothy if he touched Khaled which he stated no he is lying.” Also, “Khaled said he was waiting to speak to the pilot in the isle [sic] and the pilot pulled him by his jacket and told him to come here. Khaled stated […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: What Does the Pope Know About His “Friend and Dear Brother” El-Tayyeb? (Part Two)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Feb 13, 2019 10:00 am

Further, does the Pope agree with El-Tayyeb that Islam has shared 1,400 years of “peaceful coexistence with the Christians”? In no land that Muslims conquered has there been “peaceful coexistence” with Christians (or with any other subjugated non-Muslims), including Islamic Spain, which is so often held up as an inspiring example of “convivencia,” even though […]
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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Ilhan Omar’s Non-Apology for Her Anti-Semitism
By Robert Spencer on Feb 13, 2019 09:00 am

Will she make more anti-Semitic statements? Will the sun rise? My latest in FrontPage: The anti-Semitism of hijabbed Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has apparently gotten to be too much even for the inveterately anti-Israel Democrat Party leadership. “I unequivocally apologize,” Omar tweeted Monday, after party leaders including Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, James E. Clyburn […]
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PA minister ignores brutal murder of Israeli woman, condemns Israel for searching for jihadi in mosque
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Feb 13, 2019 08:00 am

Ori Ansbacher “was stabbed several times and brutally murdered in Jerusalem. DNA from the scene led Israel to the Palestinian, 29-year-old Arafat Arfiah, who was captured after soldiers entered a mosque.” Palestinian Authority Minister of Religious Affairs Yusuf Ida’is was quick to “‘condemn’ Israel’s entering the mosque to search for the terrorist.” Ida’is referred to […]
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