JIHAD WATCH 10/21/2019

Why no peace?
By Robert Spencer on Oct 20, 2019 06:00 pm

Preorder The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process here.
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UK: Illegal Islamic school guilty of failing to promote British values is still operating
By Robert Spencer on Oct 20, 2019 05:00 pm

No problem. Before anyone expects, the niqabbed Nadia Ali’s values will be British values. She is at the vanguard of Britain’s future. “Defiant Muslim head admits ILLEGAL £2,500-a-year Islamic school is still open despite her being found guilty of ‘wilfully neglecting’ pupils by failing to ‘promote British values,'” by Rory Tingle, Mailonline, October 17, 2019: […]
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Canada: Muslim hockey coach says he got anti-Muslim text from dad of one his players at rink where he doesn’t coach
By Robert Spencer on Oct 20, 2019 04:00 pm

There are so few instances of actual “Islamophobia” that the victimhood narrative and hysteria surrounding Muslims in the West has to be constantly shored up with fake hate crimes. And Javaid is apparently a veteran of this sort of thing: “The Post Millennial pointed out another instance, in September 2017, when Javaid allegedly received a […]
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India: Two Muslim clerics arrested for 2015 call for beheading of Hindu leader who was just murdered
By Robert Spencer on Oct 20, 2019 03:00 pm

Muslim clerics? What? Why, how can this be? How can these two men who have dedicated their lives to understanding Islam properly and living it out correctly have misunderstood the Religion of Peace so spectacularly as to think that it called for the murder of those who supposedly insulted its leading figure? Pope Francis, that […]
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Moderate Malaysia: 70% of women okay with other women’s husbands practicing polygamy
By Robert Spencer on Oct 20, 2019 02:00 pm

“Some 70 per cent of Muslim women in Malaysia are agreeable with men practising polygamy. However, only 32 per cent are agreeable to polygamy within their own marriage.” This indicates that they don’t really approve of it at all, but because it is sanctioned in the Qur’an (4:3), they don’t dare speak against it directly. […]
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The Golan-Gaza Comparison Importance for Peace
By Rami Dabbas on Oct 20, 2019 01:00 pm

Israeli wine has taken the world by storm. And some of the very best comes from the Golan Heights. Similarly, the Gaza Strip during the pre-Islamic era, when it was still mostly populated by Jews, produced wines to compete with the finest in the Byzantine Empire. But where is Gaza today? Sadly, it has become […]
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Michigan State Prof Claims Islam Is Not the Root of Islamic Terrorism
By Andrew Harrod on Oct 20, 2019 12:00 pm

“If you want to identify people who are okay with suicide bombing, I can give you a list,” including Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Michigan State University Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Muslim Studies Mohammad Hassan Khalil told me at a September Georgetown University lecture. Khalil theorized before an audience of some thirty people at the […]
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Canada: Four Green Party candidates accused of “Islamophobic” views, apologize and learn about Islam from NCCM
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 20, 2019 11:00 am

Canada’s Green party has said that “it recently learned of Islamophobic social-media posts by four of its Quebec candidates. The candidates will make public statements of apology and commit to learning more about Islam by working with the National Council of Canadian Muslims, the party said.” Recall Canada’s anti-Islamophobia motion M-103 — which most have […]
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France’s Latest Headscarf Row and Marie Laguerre’s Viral Slap
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Oct 20, 2019 10:00 am

The BBC reported Thursday, as Jihad Watch noted in the last hour, that “French President Emmanuel Macron has warned against ‘stigmatising’ Muslims or linking the Islamic religion with the fight against terrorism. ‘We have to stand together with all our fellow citizens,’ Mr Macron said during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel […]
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France: Macron warns about stigmatizing Muslims and linking Islam with jihad terror amid veil row
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 20, 2019 09:00 am

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned against “stigmatising” Muslims or making the link between Islam “with the fight against terrorism.” Macron also condemned what he called the “irresponsibility” of political commentators for the “fatal shortcut” of linking Islam with terrorism. It is disturbing that Emmanuel Macron’s views align with those of the Prime Minister of […]
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Algeria: police kick Christians out of churches days after protests over government crackdown on houses of worship
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Oct 20, 2019 08:00 am

Persecution of Christians is intensifying in Algeria, with increasing church closures and backlash by Muslim families against Christians who are open about their faith. In a recent incident, “Christians in north-central Algeria were kicked out of their churches by police just days after many faithful protested the government’s crackdown on houses of worship.” “The influence […]
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