JIHAD WATCH 06/27/2019

Facebook to give data on “hate speech” suspects to French courts: “on the same level as terrorism”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 26, 2019 03:48 pm

“’It is a strong signal in terms of regulation,’ said Sonia Cisse, a counsel at law firm Linklaters, adding that it was a world first. ‘Hate speech is no longer considered part of freedom of speech, it’s now on the same level as terrorism.’” This heralds the end of France as a free society and, […]
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Virginia: jailed “rock star” jihadist may be released early over “vague” crime law
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jun 26, 2019 03:43 pm

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema has given prosecutors a month to explain “why she shouldn’t overturn three of the 10 counts” on which Islamic scholar Ali Al-Timimi of Fairfax was convicted at his 2005 trial. “The review in the case….comes after the Supreme Court….struck down part of a federal law regulating crimes of violence as […]
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Apple still won’t drop Muslim Brotherhood “Euro Fatwa” App, deemed “disaster waiting to happen”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jun 26, 2019 02:47 pm

Apple’s App Store continues to host an app that is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, and is being called “a tool for radicalisation.” The Euro Fatwa App “claims to help the community ‘fulfil their duties as Muslim citizens.'” According to The Times, the App “was created by the European Council for Fatwa and Research, an […]
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Video: The truth about the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S.
By Robert Spencer on Jun 26, 2019 02:34 pm

Ami Horowitz interviews Muslim Brotherhood operatives in the United States and elsewhere, and they are surprisingly candid with him, exploding the narrative of the establishment media and Islamic advocacy groups in the U.S., who claim that the Brotherhood has no presence here and is benign anyway. Be sure to watch the whole thing.
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New Jersey school lets Muslims interrupt classes to “convert students”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jun 26, 2019 12:27 pm

“A U.S. school that allowed Muslim students to interrupt classes to ‘convert’ students to Islam now faces a grilling from a constitutional legal team.” Memorial High School in New Jersey has an Islamization issue that is keeping it in the news. First, its actions prompted a “cease and desist” letter to be sent out by […]
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Muslim cleric: “Why does the Quran focus on the Jews? Because they are our sworn enemy.”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 26, 2019 12:00 pm

“You shall find the people strongest in enmity towards the believers to be the Jews.” That’s Qur’an 5:82. “You must know that this is not a temporary enemy with whom we can sign a peace agreement – the Oslo Accords, or whatever… No!” This has been abundantly proven throughout the lifetime of the State of […]
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Mexican officials confirm U.S. warned them about suspected Islamic State jihadis headed to border
By Robert Spencer on Jun 26, 2019 11:00 am

This is one of the things that all the hysterical rhetoric about “concentration camps” holding migrants is enabling: the collapse of all border enforcement and the entry of jihad terrorists into the United States. “Exclusive: Mexican Officials Confirm U.S. Warned Them About Suspected ISIS Terrorists Headed to Border,” by Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby, Breitbart, […]
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on American “Concentration Camps” for Migrants (Part 1)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jun 26, 2019 10:00 am

In a recent Instagram message to her followers, the controversial Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez likened the American government’s treatment of migrants at the Texas border to Nazi “concentration camps.” Questioned about this in an interview in Mother Jones, she was unapologetic: That is exactly what they are: They are concentration camps. I want to talk to […]
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Robert Spencer in Human Events: Trump Didn’t Start the Fire: Iran Has Craved War for Decades.
By Robert Spencer on Jun 26, 2019 09:00 am

It is good to be back in Human Events, where I wrote a weekly column for ten years. That venerable publication had fallen into desuetude, but now the estimable Raheem Kassam has revived it, and it has quickly become one of the most important voices of sanity on the web. Here is my latest: Ben […]
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Islamic Republic of Iran’s persecution of Christians “shocks the conscience”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 26, 2019 08:05 am

The Islamic Republic of Iran scrupulously bases all of its laws upon Islamic law. If the fantasy version of Islam that we are increasingly compelled to accept in the West were remotely true, an Islamic Republic would be a paradise of tolerance for non-Muslims. Instead, this, which forces the fantasists to deny that the Islamic […]
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