JIHAD WATCH 04/29/2019

Australia: Jihad-linked group teaches rejection of national anthem, diversity and tolerance in conference
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Apr 28, 2019 05:49 pm

A community hall conference held in Sydney, Australia by Hizb ut-Tahrir, a well known jihadist  organization which has been “campaigning for Sharia law”, discouraged children from singing the national anthem and refused to condemn the Islamic State. The event was replete with: gender segregation, the declaration that the national anthem was oppressive to Muslims, support […]
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Sweden Can’t Deport Pro-ISIS Imam Because Iraq Would Execute Him
By Daniel Greenfield on Apr 28, 2019 03:00 pm

European opposition to the death penalty leads to peculiar paradoxes. Can a European country deport a pro-death penalty cleric, who supports killing infidels, gay people, and just about anybody else, to Iraq, which has a death penalty and might employ it on him? Is that poetic justice or a human rights violation? That’s the quandary […]
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Sri Lanka Muslim Majority Town Behind Christian Massacre Had Islamic Violence Dating Back to 2004
By Daniel Greenfield on Apr 28, 2019 02:00 pm

The familiar media narrative when reporting on serial killers is that, “No one suspected a thing”. When it comes to Islamic terrorists, it’s also usually, “No one suspected a thing”. But in reality, no one was paying attention. There was a history of violence. A slow process of building up to a horrific act of […]
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Rep. Tlaib Got Into Politics Out of “Fear” of Americans After 9/11
By Daniel Greenfield on Apr 28, 2019 01:00 pm

After the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, Americans became fearful of Islamic terrorists. And terrorists, and their supporters, became fearful of Americans. The media insists that we empathize, not with the fears of the former, but of the latter. Americans may be killed by the thousands, but we are never allowed to be victims. […]
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Italy: Salvini proposes security services do more to monitor Islamic cultural centers
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Apr 28, 2019 10:52 am

“Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has outlined proposals for the security services to do more to observe and root out extremism in the country’s Islamic cultural centres.” It is high time that a Western leader set such an example. The Muslim community should be eager to help and expose jihadist elements and hate preaching from […]
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Sri Lanka: authorities seek prominent chief Islamic cleric who justified Easter church bombings in internet broadcast
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Apr 28, 2019 10:35 am

Authorities in Sri Lanka are searching for a Chief Islamic Cleric “of Vavuniya and Chettikulam divisional mosques” who released an internet video “justifying the Easter bomb attacks”. The cleric reportedly “cited an example from the life of Muhammad to justify the attack”. The global war on terror is rooted in Islamic doctrine. It is a […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: In An Age of Terror, What Is The Responsibility of Glenn K. Beaton? (Part One)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Apr 28, 2019 10:00 am

Glenn K. Beaton delivers himself of some thoughts on terror and Islam  in his article “In An Age of Terror, What Is The Responsibility of Islam,” to be found here. I remember September 11, 2001. Terrorists hijacked civilian airlines and flew them into the two World Trade towers and the Pentagon. A fourth plane crashed […]
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