JIHAD WATCH 09/22/2019

Miami: Muslim migrant who sabotaged plane says he acted “out of my evil side,” wished Allah would hurt non-Muslims
By Robert Spencer on Sep 21, 2019 05:00 pm

Alani said: “Out of my evil side, I wanted to do something.” Alani also made statements “about wishing Allah would use ‘divine powers’ to harm on non-Muslims.” Does that mean that Alani thinks that the god of the Qur’an and Sunnah is evil? In any case, his wish that Allah would use “divine powers” against […]
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Egypt: Al-Azhar to hold international conference on “Islam’s invitation to human brotherhood for reaching peace”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 21, 2019 04:00 pm

Interesting! Human brotherhood, eh? Will they renounce these Qur’an verses and others like them? “Indeed, they who disbelieved among the People of the Book and the polytheists will be in the fire of Hell, abiding eternally therein. Those are the most vile of created beings.” (Qur’an 98:6) “Indeed, the worst of living creatures in the […]
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Interpol says it “detected more than a dozen suspected foreign terrorist fighters traveling across Mediterranean”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 21, 2019 03:00 pm

These aren’t “right-wing extremists,” either, although Reuters and/or Interpol is too fastidious and wary of portraying Islam in a negative light to tell us who they are. In any case, they are by no means the only jihadis to enter Europe through the refugee stream. But remember: anyone who notes this fact is a racist, […]
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Russia: Leftist journalist convicted of inciting terrorism for the Chechen jihad is freed from prison
By Robert Spencer on Sep 21, 2019 02:00 pm

If all the Western journalists who have written articles justifying and enabling the global jihad in various ways were imprisoned, the prisons would burst from overcrowding. “Journalist convicted of inciting terrorism, extremism freed from Russian prison,” RAPSI, September 19, 2019: MOSCOW, September 19 (RAPSI) – Journalist Boris Stomakhin, who had been convicted of inciting terrorism, […]
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Texas: Teen converts to Islam, says he hates America and “it was Allah’s will to turn him into a killing machine”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 21, 2019 01:00 pm

Still another example of a convert to Islam getting the crazy idea that his new religion required him to commit treason and mass murder. If Michael Kyle Sewell were a convert to Christianity who was caught trying to join a Christian terror group, his story would be all over the New York Times and CNN, […]
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Pakistan: Muslim cleric who led rioting mob also notorious for abduction and forced conversion of Hindu girls
By Robert Spencer on Sep 21, 2019 12:00 pm

Imagine the international outcry if a Jewish, Christian, Hindu or Buddhist cleric were involved in riots against adherents of other religions, and the abduction and forced conversion of girls of other religions. But no one will take any particular notice of this. “Pakistan’s Mian Mithoo: Muslim Cleric Behind Ghotki Riots Is Notorious For Abduction, Forced […]
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Muslim from Minneapolis who joined ISIS wants to return, says he should be forgiven
By Robert Spencer on Sep 21, 2019 11:00 am

“Fifteen years is a very long time for mistakes you made coming to Syria.” U.S. officials would be foolish to believe him. He is akin to the Nazis after World War II who claimed that they knew nothing of the genocide of the Jews, and were only following orders. But the fact that believing him […]
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Helping Protect Itself Against Iran, Israel Helps Protect Many Others
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Sep 21, 2019 10:00 am

Not long before tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran reached an unprecedented high point, with the possibility looming of a war that could engulf many other countries besides those two, Israel located a secret Iranian site in Beirut, right near the airport, in the midst of a heavily-populated area (surrounded by thousands of civilians, as […]
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UK: Counter-terrorism top dog says that the fastest-growing terror threat is from “far right”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 21, 2019 09:00 am

This would be a lot easier to take seriously were it not for the fact that UK authorities routinely smear completely peaceful and accurate analyses of the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism as “far right extremism.” The situation is further complicated by the fact that so much of police time, attention and resources in Britain […]
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Associated Press: “Suicide bomb kills at least 20 people in Southern Afghanistan”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 21, 2019 08:00 am

This is akin to the New York Times’ September 11 tweet saying that “18 years have passed since airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center.” In this case, the Taliban even claimed responsibility, but AP would rather we think a rogue suicide bomb got it in its head to cause some trouble, […]
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