JIHAD WATCH 08/19/2019

Ilhan Omar says she planned to meet Israeli officials on trip, but her planned itinerary shows no such meetings
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2019 05:00 pm

“I planned to hold meetings with members of the Knesset (both Jewish and Arab) along with Israeli security officials. The claims of @IsraeliPM otherwise are not true….” No Israeli officials of any government agency or political party were listed in an itinerary for the trip posted online by reporters Thursday, which showed an itinerary beginning […]
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Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib set up their Israel trip so as to maximize likelihood that they’d be banned
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2019 04:00 pm

The whole thing was a setup from the start. Only the terminally naive will be surprised. “Don’t Be Fooled, Omar and Tlaib Maliciously Set Up Israel Ban,” by Katie Pavlich, Townhall, August 16, 2019: On July 17, 2019, Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar introduced a pro-BDS movement resolution on Capitol Hill. Her colleague, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, […]
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The Muslim’s Inner Struggles (Part 2)
By Anjuli Pandavar on Aug 18, 2019 03:00 pm

Never before in the history of Islam has it faced a danger such as this. For the first time, Muslims en masse are reclaiming their place in humanity and rejoining history. Islam has always relied on Muslims being unequivocally Muslim in clear contradistinction to the kafir, the unbeliever, treating the values and mores of the […]
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Iranian official: “Shiites must take on the jihad of childbearing to counter the goals of the enemies”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2019 02:00 pm

This idea is not held only by Shi’ites. “One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give […]
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Malaysia: Islamic Development Department official says non-Muslims “are acting like cattle for slaughter”
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2019 01:00 pm

“And We have certainly created for Hell many of the jinn and mankind. They have hearts with which they do not understand, they have eyes with which they do not see, and they have ears with which they do not hear. Those are like cattle; rather, they are more astray.” (Qur’an 7:179) “Jakim probes officer’s […]
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Pope Francis appoints promoter of “Islamo-Christian dialogue” as Archbishop of Marseille
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2019 12:00 pm

Has this “Islamo-Christian dialogue” led to one Christian being saved from Muslim persecution? No. Has it saved one church from being destroyed by jihadists? No. All it has led to is the Qur’an being treated by some Christians as if it were a holy text, as you can see below. Has this been reciprocated by […]
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AFDI Applauds the Banning of Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from Israel
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2019 11:00 am

NEW YORK, August 15, 2019: The American Freedom of Defense Initiative (AFDI), one of the leading human rights organizations in the United States, on Thursday applauded the Israeli government’s decision to ban Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) from entering the country. The Israeli government announced that Tlaib and Omar would be […]
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Pete Buttigieg on the Golan Heights and “the Occupation [that] Must End” (Part 1)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Aug 18, 2019 10:00 am

Pete Buttigieg doesn’t think President Trump was right to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. The disturbing story is here: Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 election, denounced Tuesday US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, as […]
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Guardian Trots Out 8-Year-Old Big Lie to Defame Geller, Spencer, and Other Foes of Jihad Terror
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2019 09:00 am

My latest in the Geller Report: Is the Goebbels wing of the establishment media running out of ideas? It certainly seems so: rather than concoct a fresh Big Lie, the Guardian’s Andrew Brown on Friday published a hysterical screed about what he calls “the myth of Eurabia” that relies on eight-year-old, multiply discredited smears to […]
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Philadelphia: Muslim migrant Uber driver rapes drunk passenger, then charges her $150
By Robert Spencer on Aug 18, 2019 08:00 am

Sexual assault occurs in all cultures, but only in Islam does it have divine sanction. One survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK said that her rapists would quote Quran to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam. The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. […]
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