JIHAD WATCH 09/23/2019

Dallas: Two Muslims taken off plane, Hamas-linked CAIR top dog claims “Airports are a scary place for Muslims”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 22, 2019 05:00 pm

Imagine how scary air travel was for the passengers on American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 77, and United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. Imagine how scary air travel was for the passengers on the American Airlines flight that was sabotaged just last week by a Muslim mechanic […]
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Australia: Muslim brothers plotted to blow up packed plane with bomb hidden in meat grinder
By Robert Spencer on Sep 22, 2019 04:00 pm

The family that slays together, stays together. “Australian brothers are found guilty of plotting to blow up a packed Etihad plane with a bomb hidden in a meat grinder in ISIS-inspired attack,” Australian Associated Press, September 19, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Two Sydney brothers have now been found guilty of plotting to […]
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Sharia France: Islamocritic Eric Zemmour guilty of “Islamophobia” for saying France “colonized” by Muslims
By Robert Spencer on Sep 22, 2019 03:00 pm

Iran’s state-controlled Press TV here says that Zemmour “was convicted for saying that France has been ‘colonized’ by Muslims, even though colonization is done by a group with power, whereas France’s Muslims are on the bottom of the nation’s social ladder.” Yes, of course. This is indeed a historically unprecedented type of colonization. But the […]
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Alabama: Muslim Auburn University student says he would execute US soldier if ISIS ordered him to do so
By Robert Spencer on Sep 22, 2019 02:00 pm

Yet no one at Auburn, or at Southern Union Community College, would have dared ask Nayef Qashou what he thought of jihad and the Islamic State. That would have been “Islamophobic.” “Terror suspect living in Auburn attended Opelika’s Southern Union Community College,” by Elizabeth White, WRBL, September 19, 2019: LEE COUNTY, Ala. (WRBL) – Startling […]
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Indonesia: Three couples publicly flogged for un-Islamic public affection
By Robert Spencer on Sep 22, 2019 01:00 pm

What fun the Sharia enforcers are going to have in Europe. “Couples flogged for public affection in Indonesia’s Aceh,” AFP, September 19, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A trio of canoodling couples were publicly flogged in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday, charged with breaking local Islamic law that outlaws public displays of affection. […]
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American Jewish Committee: “Jews and Muslims are natural allies in the US to fight bigotry against both groups”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Sep 22, 2019 12:00 pm

An American Jewish Committee (AJC) “leadership delegation met with key Muslim organizations and individuals in Chicago.” The aim was to deepen “engagement with American Muslim community institutions and leaders.” AJC’s U.S. Director of Muslim-Jewish Relations, Ari Gordon, said that “Jews and Muslims are natural allies in the United States to fight bigotry against both groups and protect […]
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Hungary’s Foreign Minister denounces new Italian government, says Europe was safer with Salvini
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Sep 22, 2019 11:00 am

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó “has now come out against the new Italian leftist coalition government, stating that the borders of Europe were safer when Matteo Salvini was in office.” Szijjártó is right. Two months ago, Libyan leader Fayez al-Sarraj threatened the EU with 800,000 more migrants; Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also vowed to flood Europe with […]
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Iran, Saudi Arabia, Oil, and Water
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Sep 22, 2019 10:00 am

A piece by the well-known journalist Abdulrahman al-Rashed, published a year ago in Al-Arabiya (a Saudi-backed paper), provides useful background to the present crisis. Al-Rashed discusses Iranian complaints that Iran’s share of the oil market is being “stolen” by the Saudis. These are the signs of a long crisis when Iran accuses Russia and Saudi […]
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Indonesia: Millions risk jail as sex outside of marriage is criminalized
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Sep 22, 2019 09:00 am

There has an Islamic revival sweeping Indonesia. So-called “born-again” Muslims are driving social change, as well as the economy. Sharia is fast becoming the center of every aspect of Indonesian life, featuring Muslim-targeted housing, Sharia banking and a soaring demand for halal food. Invariably, with Islamic revival come the abuses that go hand-in-hand with it. […]
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Ilhan Omar Discovers the Real Victim of 9/11: Ilhan Omar
By Robert Spencer on Sep 22, 2019 08:00 am

Of course. Who else could it possibly be? My latest in FrontPage: The controversy began on the eighteenth anniversary of 9/11. Responding to Omar’s notorious statement that on 9/11, “some people did something” (which phrase was emblazoned on his t-shirt), Nicholas Haros Jr., the son of a woman who was killed in the World Trade Center bombing, declared: “Madam, objectively speaking, we […]
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Glazov Gang: Why Trump Must Openly Declare Support for the Iranian People
By Jamie Glazov on Sep 22, 2019 07:59 am

In this new Glazov Gang episode, Jamie speaks with Clare M. Lopez, the Vice President for Research & Analysis at the Center for Security Policy. Clare discusses: Why Trump Must Openly Declare Support for the Iranian People, revealing why it is time for the U.S. president to officially announce: “Mr. Mullahs, tear down this Sharia […]
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