JIHAD WATCH 06/23/2019

UK: Police finally arrest 44 rape gang members 17 years after their crimes
By Robert Spencer on Jun 22, 2019 04:00 pm

What took them so long? They were probably paralyzed by fear of charges of “Islamophobia.” Remember: in Rotherham, British officials “described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.” Note also that the Daily Mail gives no […]
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Germany: Authorities classify incidents of Islamic Jew-hatred as “far-right antisemitism”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 22, 2019 03:00 pm

Top priority of the political and media elites seems to be to do everything they can to make sure no one thinks ill of Islam, and to push the chimera of a “far-right” threat. “Germany is accused of downplaying antisemitic attacks by Muslims,” by Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA, June 15, 2019: The annual al-Quds Day march […]
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Virginia: Police officer converts to Islam, sends money to the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Jun 22, 2019 02:00 pm

Have authorities investigated who taught Nicholas Young about Islam? Have they looked into what is being taught at the mosque he attended? Why not? “Ex-police officer again gets 15 years on terror conviction,” Associated Press, June 21, 2019 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur): ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — UPDATE (12:52 p.m. June 21): A former police […]
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Todd Green, “Islamophobia” expert, claims Christianity is “an oppressive political system bent on discrimination”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 22, 2019 01:00 pm

Todd Green is “associate professor of religion at Luther College and a former advisor on Islamophobia at the U.S. State Department.” Imagine wasting your life being an expert on “Islamophobia,” a propaganda term coined to intimidate people into thinking it wrong to oppose jihad terror. Here he calls me an “anti-Muslim hate speaker” for opposing […]
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Indiana: Muslim had “kill list” of US service members, tried to join the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Jun 22, 2019 12:00 pm

Where did Akram Musleh learn about Islam? Has his local mosque been investigated? Why not? “Brownsburg man who tried to join Islamic State group is sentenced to federal prison,” by Crystal Hill, Indianapolis Star, June 21, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A Brownsburg man who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and […]
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Egyptian reformist: “Caliphates through the ages” were “terrorist caliphates, perpetrated the same things ISIS does”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 22, 2019 11:28 am

Islam Behery says: “The caliphates throughout the ages, starting with Yazid Ibn Mu’awiya – let’s not get into an argument about all those who preceded him – and all the way to the end of the Ottoman state, had been terrorist caliphates. Terrorist states ruled the people and perpetrated all the same things ISIS does. […]
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Washington Post laments that jihad murders of Scandinavian hikers were “seized on by the far right to attack Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 22, 2019 10:15 am

What is wrong with these people? Have they lost all moral compass, all human compassion, all sense of decency? If this were a sane world, the Washington Post would close its doors in shame for publishing this, and Greg Miller and Souad Mekhennet would be looking for work at the local 7-Eleven (no offense intended […]
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Tory Candidates All Agree That “Islamophobia” In Their Party Must Be Investigated (Part One)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jun 22, 2019 10:00 am

On June 17, the five Tory candidates then in  the running for prime minister — Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Savid Javid, Rory Stewart, and Michael Gove — appeared for a debate on the BBC. (The field has now been narrowed to two: Johnson and Hunt.) The format included questions from pre-vetted callers. Abdullah Patel, an […]
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George Mason University Professor Noura Erekat Lies About Israel, Offers De Facto Legal Brief for Jihad Terrorists
By Andrew Harrod on Jun 22, 2019 08:54 am

Israel must undergo “settler-decolonization” in which Jewish “settler-colonists … could leave as the French left Algeria, or they could stay as they did in South Africa,” declared George Mason University Professor Noura Erekat last month. Her presentation at Washington’s Middle East Institute (MEI) revealed that nothing is beneath such an Israel-hater, who masks her lies […]
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New York Times smears Jihad Watch, covers for Minneapolis Muslim migrant community, US jihad recruitment capital
By Ralph Sidway on Jun 22, 2019 08:33 am

“More men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined – or attempted to join – a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the country.” The New York Times just featured an article by Astead W. Herndon, titled, “‘These People Aren’t Coming From Norway’: Refugees […]
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