JIHAD WATCH 07/20/2019

Vice President Pence demands U.S. ally Saudi Arabia release Raif Badawi, imprisoned for insulting Islam
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jul 19, 2019 05:00 pm

Vice President Mike Pence has called on U.S. ally Saudi Arabia to “release Raif Badawi, a blogger imprisoned for reportedly insulting Islam.” In the midst of Saudi Arabia telling the world that it is modernizing, Raif Badawi remains in jail, and in August of last year, Raif Badawi’s sister Samar — among other women’s rights […]
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Pakistan: “There are 200 more Asia Bibis”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jul 19, 2019 04:00 pm

“The son of a Pakistani governor who was assassinated in 2011 because of his support for imprisoned Christian mother Asia Bibi told religious freedom advocates that there are over 200 people jailed in Pakistan for blasphemy. Shaan Taseer, the son of late Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, delivered a powerful address at the State Department’s second […]
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Trump steps in to save Christians and Yazidis from extinction by jihadists
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jul 19, 2019 03:37 pm

To acknowledge the levels of Christian persecution and Yazidis means to acknowledge a major problem within Islamic countries which are governed by the sharia; therefore, Christians have been left virtually ignored. That is, until Donald Trump decided to step in. “U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is helping bring Christians and Yazidis in Iraq back from […]
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Top Norwegian politician says on Facebook that Norway should give Tommy Robinson asylum, Facebook removes post
By Robert Spencer on Jul 19, 2019 02:00 pm

Facebook and the other social media giants are increasingly dangerous enemies of freedom. If they aren’t broken up, the freedom of speech, and free societies, will not survive. “Facebook removes Norwegian top politician’s post about Tommy Robinson,” Voice of Europe, July 18, 2019: “It’s deeply, deeply problematic”, says Per-Willy Amundsen, former Justice Minister in Norway. […]
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Turkey: Pro-government daily says Islam must “stop Western civilization” and “Zionists want to take the world”
By Robert Spencer on Jul 19, 2019 01:00 pm

Erdogan is likely in complete agreement with this, but as Leonard Cohen might have said, you won’t like what comes after Western civilization. “Column In Turkish Pro-Government Daily: Islam Must Stop Western Civilization, Zionists May Be Erased From History, MEMRI, July 17, 2019: In a July 8, 2019 column titled “Stopping Western Civilization”[1] published in […]
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Syria: Muslims repeatedly rape 60-year-old Christian woman, then stone her to death
By Robert Spencer on Jul 19, 2019 12:00 pm

“It is widely reported among locals that Suzan’s attackers were members of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group.” Jabhat al-Nusra has received American weaponry. “Jihadists rape, stone Christian woman to death in Syria,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, July 17, 2019: Islamic terrorists from the Jihadist organization Jabhat al-Nusra stoned to death an Armenian Christian woman […]
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Canada: Muslim Gangs Threaten Coptic Christian Refugee with Death
By Rami Dabbas on Jul 19, 2019 11:00 am

In May 2019, Jihad Watch published a story about an Egyptian Coptic Christian, Hani Morris, who has been given asylum in Canada because of persecution at his workplace in Kuwait. More information has been revealed concerning this case. In late April, Canadian police surrounded Morris’ home in Mississauga for several hours after he was threatened with […]
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Boris Johnson Wrote Something Unflattering About Islam 12 Years Ago — Was He Right?
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jul 19, 2019 10:00 am

Here is the story: Boris Johnson has been accused of “promoting hatred” after penning an essay arguing Islam caused the Muslim world to be “literally centuries behind” the West. “After penning an essay” sounds as if Johnson just wrote it. It is only at the very end of the third paragraph that we learn he […]
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Islamic State jihadis engaged in “temporary marriage” with non-Muslim sex slaves
By Robert Spencer on Jul 19, 2019 09:00 am

Temporary marriage or pleasure marriage, i.e. prostitution behind the hypocritical fig leaf of a “marriage” with a time limit, is an established Shi’ite concept that is also prevalent among some Sunnis. It has been practiced among Sunnis in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, although Sunnis ostensibly reject it. Shi’ites justify temporary marriage, mutah, by their reading […]
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UK: Muslim crashed car outside Parliament, tried to “kill as many people as possible,” had “terrorist motive”
By Robert Spencer on Jul 19, 2019 08:00 am

British authorities, however, never dare to discuss or examine, much less confront, the actual nature of that “terrorist motive.” The Islamic State issued this call in September 2014: So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their […]
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