JIHAD WATCH 03/27/2019

Erdogan: European politicians opposed to conversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque are “enemies of Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 26, 2019 05:00 pm

This paints a large target on their backs, and may ensure, since they are clueless and cowardly dhimmis, that they will fall into line with Erdogan’s plans. “Erdoğan calls some EU politicians ‘enemies of Islam,’” SCF, March 25, 2019: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused EU politicians Kati Piri, Federica Mogherini and Johannes Hahn […]
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UK Sharia courts: “I have heard stories of women made to go back to abusive husbands”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 26, 2019 04:00 pm

Of course. What else did anyone expect? “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them […]
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Canada rejects Israel’s needs to defend itself, does not recognize its control over Golan Heights
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Mar 26, 2019 03:00 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his visit to the White House witnessed President Trump sign a proclamation that the U.S. officially recognizes the Golan Heights as Israeli territory. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed it in 1981. This was no different from the situation of many […]
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Sharia in action: Brunei on April 3 to start stoning gay men to death, fining people for missing prayers
By Robert Spencer on Mar 26, 2019 02:00 pm

Islamic apologists in the West, if they say anything about this at all, will claim that Brunei is implementing a strict interpretation of Sharia, and that other interpretations are more humane. However, everywhere Sharia has been implemented, it looks pretty much the same: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan, the Islamic State, etc. There are so many […]
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Daughter of man killed after speaking with John Walker Lindh calls his early release “a slap in the face”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 26, 2019 01:20 pm

Indeed it is. John Walker Lindh has not reformed while in prison — how could he have done so, when prison officials wouldn’t have dared challenge the Islamic beliefs that led him to join the Taliban in the first place, and in fact did a great deal to encourage them? He should have been tried […]
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Pennsylvania: Muslim lawmaker says prayer in name of Jesus “represented Islamophobia”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 26, 2019 12:00 pm

Rep. Stephanie Borowicz’s prayer may have been inappropriate in a setting in which not everyone present was Christian. We have, however, seen many imams say prayers at various legislative bodies that are not non-sectarian, but manifestly Islamic and even condemning of Jews and Christians, while the non-Muslim lawmakers stand with oblivious heads bowed. But “Islamophobic”? […]
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Italy: Homes searched of 20 Muslim migrants suspected of funding jihad terror group
By Robert Spencer on Mar 26, 2019 11:00 am

Grateful “refugees” in action. Remember: anyone who opposes mass Muslim migration into the West is a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” “20 searches in al-Nusra terror funding probe,” ANSA, March 22, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): (ANSA) – Rome, March 22 – Italian police on Friday searched the homes of more than 20 Tunisian-Italians suspected […]
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In Cedar Rapids, “Nationally Recognized Expert” Todd Green Deplores “Epidemic of Islamophobia” (Part 2)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Mar 26, 2019 10:00 am

The Inter-Religious Council is working with Coe College, the Catherine McAuley Center, Temple Judah, Mount Mercy University, Cornell College, the Mother Mosque and others to sponsor an evening with Todd Green, associate professor of religion at Luther College and author. Green, a former Franklin Fellow at the U.S. State Department, is a nationally recognized expert […]
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Muslim cleric: “We will ask for Allah’s help and fight them until the entire world is subject to the rule of Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 26, 2019 09:00 am

“Thus, the rule of Islam will spread to the entire world, in one of three ways: Conversion to Islam, payment of the jizya poll-tax, or we will ask for Allah’s help and fight them, until the entire world is subject to the rule of Islam.” In the West, those who say that some Muslims have […]
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Philippines: “Good student” of Islamic jurisprudence becomes ISIS beheader, authorities baffled
By Robert Spencer on Mar 26, 2019 08:00 am

“’I feel regret whenever I think of him because he was such a good student,’ said Sheikh Mahir Gustaham, who taught Mr. Kiram Islamic jurisprudence and considered him his favorite pupil. ‘For me it’s a lesson learned: to watch closely and intently the good and quiet students because they may change.'” Or maybe he absorbed […]
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The Increasing Presence of Islam in the West Brings More Terror from Both Muslims and Non-Muslims
By Aynaz Anni Cyrus on Mar 26, 2019 07:59 am

British authorities are still following leads to track down the source of the cluster of four or five London and Glasgow package bombs that were discovered in the first week of March 2019. A mysterious group calling itself the “New IRA” is reportedly claiming responsibility. That internationally-designated terrorist group has used that “NIRA” name since […]
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