JIHAD WATCH 09/06/2019

Salon Endorses the Bloody Seizure of the Hagia Sophia by Jihadis
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2019 05:00 pm

My latest in PJ Media: That inexhaustible fountain of Leftist propaganda, Salon on Saturday published a bubbly piece by Ashima Krishna, “an architect and historic preservation planner,” enthusing about how “churches in neighborhoods that aren’t doing well [in] areas that are less attractive to developers looking to turn a profit” have recently been converted into houses […]
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Arizona: Muslim who threw rocks at cop and threatened him with knife asks to be released from jail
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2019 04:00 pm

“During his incarceration he has endured many difficulties being away from his family, including isolation, stress/anxiety, and harassment from others in the jail.” Did he consider that before going jihad on the cop? “Islamic State follower seeks lower bond in officer assault case,” Associated Press, September 3, 2019: An 18-year-old Islamic State follower, who was […]
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Palestinian school curriculum “more radical” than before, “suffused with ideas of martyrdom and Jihad”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Sep 05, 2019 03:00 pm

“The Palestinian Authority’s current school curriculum ‘is more radical than the curriculum that came before’ and ‘is suffused with ideas of martyrdom [and] Jihad,’ according to an international monitoring organization.” It isn’t news that Palestinian children have for a long time been trained for jihad against Israel, as part of the jihad against Israel that […]
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UK: Boris Johnson still refuses to apologize for comparing burqa-wearing women to letter boxes and bank robbers
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Sep 05, 2019 02:00 pm

“British Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to apologize for Islamophobic comments he wrote in 2018 comparing Muslim women in burqas to letterboxes and bank robbers.” Johnson has stood firm on this issue. He was once threatened to be sent by his party to “diversity training” over his face veil comments, and right after he made […]
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Australia: Man converts to Islam, says of Christians “I’ve bought a scimitar and intend to cut their heads off”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2019 01:00 pm

This article says that Waugh had “extreme religious beliefs” and threatened to behead Christians, whom he called “polytheists,” but even though this makes it obvious that Waugh is a Muslim, the article never says that. As always, the establishment media considers its primary responsibility to be that no one think ill of Islam. “Former Canberra […]
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Islamic State rigs cows with explosives in jihad attack on Iraqi forces
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2019 12:00 pm

It looks as if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal plan to commit a mass murder of cows in order to save the planet was right all along. How could we ever have doubted her? (Yes, you subliterate SPLC fools, that’s sarcasm. I do not actually favor a mass killing of cows, however many are pressed […]
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Pakistan: Sikhs burn effigies of Prime Minister Imran Khan over forced conversions
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Sep 05, 2019 11:00 am

“Sikhs in Delhi, India, held a large protest rally outside the Pakistani embassy on Monday to protest the forced conversion of minorities to Islam. The angry demonstrators overwhelmed police barricades and burned effigies of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.” Peculiarly, in Western societies, the voices of minorities who oppose barbaric practices and abuses committed in […]
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What the West Owes to Islam (Part 1)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Sep 05, 2019 10:00 am

Last Saturday at the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America, presidential candidate Julián Castro said: “Muslim Americans for generations have been part of the fabric of our American family. They have helped make America the great nation it is.” Every other day, it seems, someone takes it upon himself to instruct the […]
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Julián Castro at Hamas-linked ISNA convention: Muslims “have helped make America the great nation it is”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2019 09:00 am

At the Hamas-linked Islamic Society of North America annual convention, Julián Castro said: “Muslim Americans for generations have been part of the fabric of our American family. They have helped make America the great nation it is.” He did not, apparently, provide even a single example of how Muslims “have helped make America the great […]
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Turkey’s Defense Minister: “We are at the same point in Cyprus that we were in 1974…we will do what we did then”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 05, 2019 08:00 am

Turkey has occupied northern Cyprus since 1974, ostensibly to protect the Turkish Muslims there from attacks from the Greek Orthodox Christians. Those attacks were not, of course, really happening. And now Turkey’s Defense Minister, Hulusi Akar, has threatened that Turkey may renew its jihad in Cyprus: “We are at the same point in Cyprus that […]
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