JIHAD WATCH 12/09/2019

Pensacola: Muslims keeping children home “out of fear they will become targets of backlash aimed against Muslims”
By Robert Spencer on Dec 08, 2019 05:00 pm

“As news reports of the shooter’s background have come out, Ashmawi said parents who usually take their children to Sunday school at the mosque are planning to keep their children home this week out of fear they will become targets of backlash aimed against Muslims.” This was eminently predictable: after every jihad massacre and foiled […]
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Saudi Foreign Affairs Minister: “Iran cultivates terrorist cells and carries out sabotage in various countries”
By Robert Spencer on Dec 08, 2019 04:00 pm

Yeah, and what does Saudi Arabia do? What just happened in Pensacola, Florida? It may not have been a direct action of the Saudi state, because it certainly happened because of the beliefs and assumptions that Saudi authorities inculcate in their people. “Saudi minister says Iran ‘assassinates diplomats’ and ‘cultivates terrorist cells,’” Al Masdar News, […]
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Defense Secretary on Pensacola jihad massacre: “I can’t say it’s terrorism at this time”
By Robert Spencer on Dec 08, 2019 03:00 pm

And it isn’t even on the table that he could call it a jihad attack, although that appears to be exactly what it was. Why is Esper refraining from calling it terrorism? There needs to be a thorough investigation of Saudi influence in the U.S. government, but who would conduct it that isn’t tainted? Meanwhile, […]
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Mehdi Hasan claims flight attendant harassed his wife because she was a “brown woman with a headscarf”
By Robert Spencer on Dec 08, 2019 02:00 pm

Mehdi Hasan is a key “Islamophobia” propagandist; he has many times propagated the idea that Muslims are subjected to routine discrimination and harassment in the U.S. What a coincidence that his wife would become a victim of “Islamophobia”! This kind of coincidence has happened before. In 2016, Rashid Dar of the Qatar-funded Brookings Institution claimed […]
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Trump: “The King said that the Saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter”
By Robert Spencer on Dec 08, 2019 01:00 pm

….The King said that the Saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter, and that this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people who love the American people. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2019 Does Trump himself believe this? Does he actually […]
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Uncle of Pensacola jihad murderer: “He had his religion, his prayer”
By Robert Spencer on Dec 08, 2019 12:00 pm

“One of al-Shamrani’s uncles told CNN on Saturday that he was shocked by the attack, as his nephew was ‘likable and mannered towards his family and the community’. ‘He had his religion, his prayer, his honesty and commitments’, the uncle stated.” Might his religion, his prayer, have led him to wage jihad in the cause […]
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10 Saudi military students at Pensacola Naval Air Station now detained after jihad massacre
By Robert Spencer on Dec 08, 2019 11:00 am

And only one filmed the jihad massacre; earlier reports said that three had done so: “It has also been reported that one Saudi student allegedly videotaped al-Shamrani’s attack, while two others watched from a nearby car. It’s believed that those three Saudis are among the 10 who have been detained.” These grotesque videos serve as […]
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan: “One of Our Strengths Is Our Diversity”
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Dec 08, 2019 10:00 am

Sadiq Khan, the Muslim mayor of London, and a tireless apologist for Islam, had his usual reaction to the latest murders by Muslim terrorists in “the greatest city in the world.” For Sadiq Khan, the defense and promotion of “diversity” has become an obsession. Last summer Sadiq Khan earned the outrage of many Londoners for […]
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Military bases on high alert as FBI hunts for Saudi military students who vanished from Pensacola after jihad attack
By Robert Spencer on Dec 08, 2019 09:00 am

The program of training foreign military officers must be scrapped. Yet the most likely outcome is that nothing will be done to address the real root cause of the problem. “Military bases across the U.S are put on high alert as FBI hunts missing Saudi servicemen linked to Pensacola shooting and probes shooter’s trip to […]
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“Moderate” Malaysia: Six Muslims get jail, fine for going to picnic at waterfall instead of Friday prayers
By Robert Spencer on Dec 08, 2019 08:00 am

As with so many applications of Islamic law, we see here again that it is an empire of fear, with virtue enforced by draconian punishments that make people too afraid to step out of line. Behind the Islamic moral critique of the West is not genuine virtue, but people cringing in fear of getting arrested, […]
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