JIHAD WATCH 04/23/2019

UK: “Crisis analyst” says Sri Lanka jihad massacres could lead to violence against Muslims
By Robert Spencer on Apr 22, 2019 05:03 pm

There is no justification for attacks against innocent Muslims, anywhere at any time, or attacks on any innocent people. The concern after a massacre of Christians by Muslims, however, should be on how the victims can be protected against further such attacks. Alan Keenan’s analysis here reflects the establishment media’s ironclad rule: whenever non-Muslims attack […]
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Canada: Taxpayer-funded CBC puts jihad murderer Omar Khadr on its Easter Sunday show
By Robert Spencer on Apr 22, 2019 04:44 pm

Canadian pundit Spencer Fernando calls this “disgusting,” and it is, but it is no surprise. It has been clear for years which side the establishment media is on. It is not on the side of the people in the nations where it operates. It is not on the side of the victims or foes of […]
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Muslim prof: “Israelites are our enemies until the Day of Judgment. Two state solution? What are you talking about?”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 22, 2019 12:00 pm

Would Rashida Tlaib or Ilhan Omar care to comment? In any case, every mainstream analyst in the West still maintains that the “two-state solution” will bring peace between Israel and the “Palestinians.” It will not. Find out why, and the roots of Ahmad Nofal’s vehemence, in my forthcoming book, The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History […]
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Mali: Prime minister and entire government resign as Islamic jihad violence surges
By Robert Spencer on Apr 22, 2019 11:00 am

A glimpse into the future of Europe and North America. “Prime minister and entire government of Mali resign as Islamist violence surges,” Agence France-Presse, April 19, 2019: Mali’s prime minister resigned along with his entire government on Thursday following criticism over their handling of an upsurge of violence in the centre of the country and […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Netanyahu vs. Lieberman on Gaza (Part Two)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Apr 22, 2019 10:00 am

A report from the Jewish Institute for National Security of America’s (JINSA) Hybrid Warfare Task force, which is headed by several retired senior U.S. military officials, outlined this striking strategic threat that Israel will face in its next war with Hezbollah. According to the report, the next conflict with Hezbollah will “bear little resemblance to […]
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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Sri Lanka Jihad Massacre and the Decline of the West
By Robert Spencer on Apr 22, 2019 09:00 am

How many times is the charade of denial going to play out? (Note that this article was written before the BBC carried a report saying that Sri Lankan authorities were identifying the attackers as part of a “radical Islamist extremist group.”) My latest in FrontPage: Well over two hundred people are dead, and hundreds more […]
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Germany: Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” who threw stones at Christians in church is mentally ill, not terrorist
By Robert Spencer on Apr 22, 2019 08:00 am

According to the German-language TZ, he is Somali, and clearly he is grateful to the Germans for giving him refuge. TZ and PolitikStube, another German-language source, say it happened at St. Paul’s Church, not St. Peter’s. PolitikStube says that the jihadi threw firecrackers, which is explicitly denied here. In any case, nothing to see here, […]
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Sri Lanka: Police find 87 detonators at Colombo’s main bus station
By Robert Spencer on Apr 22, 2019 06:27 am

Apparently more jihad carnage was in the offing, and even more still could be coming. “87 detonators found at the Fort bus station,” by Lahiru Fernando, News 1st, April 22, 2019: COLOMBO (News 1st): Police HQ has issued a press release announcing that Police STF Officers of the Pettah police station have discovered 87 detonators […]
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Sri Lanka government says local Islamic group behind Easter jihad massacres, may have “international support”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 22, 2019 06:21 am

The National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ), that is, the National Tauhid Organization. Tauhid is Islam’s absolute monotheism that sees virtually every other religion as idolatrous. “Sri Lanka government says local Islamist group behind blasts,” AFP, April 22, 2019: The Sri Lankan government suspects that a local Islamist extremist group called National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) was behind […]
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Sri Lankan authorities: Jihadis part of “radical extremist Islamist group,” 24 Muslims arrested, death toll now 290
By Robert Spencer on Apr 22, 2019 03:20 am

This is the first sign in the Western establishment media that this was a jihad attack; the media in India reported this all day yesterday. “Sri Lanka attacks: Death toll soars to 290,” BBC, April 22, 2019: The death toll in Sri Lanka has soared to 290 after a wave of blasts hit churches and […]
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