JIHAD WATCH 12/13/2019

Nike introduces first-ever hijab for female Muslim swimmers
By Robert Spencer on Dec 12, 2019 05:00 pm

Celebrating and enabling misogyny and the oppression of women. “Nike launches first ever hijab for female swimmers,” by Sophie Gallagher, Independent, December 10, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Nike has launched its first ever modest swimwear collection, which includes a hijab that is suitable for wearing in the water. Following the huge success […]
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UK councillor condemned as “racist,” suspended for criticizing burqa, backing burqa ban
By Robert Spencer on Dec 12, 2019 04:00 pm

“People don’t enter public areas wearing biking helmets or balaclavas, so why should burkas be allowed? Not to mention the loose style of the whole outfit Muslim women wear… Think how easy it would be to conceal large weapons underneath, assuming it wasn’t a man in ‘complete’ disguise.” We have seen criminals wearing niqabs and […]
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Denmark: Twenty Muslims arrested as jihad massacre plot is foiled
By Robert Spencer on Dec 12, 2019 03:00 pm

But…but…white supremacism! “Denmark police say terror attack plans foiled, 20 arrested,” AP, December 11, 2019: COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish police have arrested “some 20 people” suspected of involvement in Islamist terrorism in a series of raids across the country, authorities said Wednesday. Flemming Drejer, the operative head of the Denmark’s Security and Intelligence Service, said […]
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Niger: Muslims attack army base, kill 71 soldiers
By Robert Spencer on Dec 12, 2019 02:00 pm

The world will take little, if any, notice of this. The international media would only be interested if the attackers were non-Muslim and the victims Muslim. “Niger army base attack leaves at least 71 soldiers dead,” BBC, December 12, 2019: Militants have killed at least 71 soldiers in an attack on a military base in […]
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Kenya: Muslims murder at least nine Christians for failing to recite the Islamic profession of faith
By Robert Spencer on Dec 12, 2019 01:00 pm

This is reminiscent of other incidents, including when a Muslim in Minnesota in September 2016 asked mall shoppers if they were Muslim and then stabbed non-Muslims. In the Philippines in February 2019, Muslims murdered a man for failing to recite Qur’an verses, while releasing six others who could recite them. In Mali in November 2015, […]
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Germany: Muslim migrant teen leads gang of seven that brutally beats fireman to death outside Christmas market
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Dec 12, 2019 12:00 pm

A gang of seven was arrested in the German city of Augsburg outside the Christmas market, for the brutal beating death of an off-duty firefighter. He was beaten so violently that he died in the ambulance on the way to hospital. The main perpetrator was a teen who has Turkish and Lebanese citizenship. The character […]
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Sweden shuts down Islamic school over “radicalization” concerns
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Dec 12, 2019 11:00 am

There may be a glimmer of hope for Sweden after all… The Swedish School Inspectorate has revoked a Gothenburg Islamic school’s licence due to concerns that pupils may be exposed to radical Islamic ideology. The Swedish government has been infamously succumbing to dhimmitude. Only days ago, when a Muslim posted a video threat, saying “We […]
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Thin-Skinned Erdogan Enraged at Women’s Day Marchers
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Dec 12, 2019 10:00 am

Erdogan’s rage at Nobel laureate Peter Handke, discussed in the last hour, is not singular. All over the world women celebrated International Woman’s Day on Friday, March 8. Large crowds of women, by the thousands and tens of thousands, marched through the center of cities in dozens of countries, holding signs aloft and chanting feminist […]
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Turkey’s Erdogan slams Nobel laureate Peter Handke for “encouraging enemies of Islam”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Dec 12, 2019 09:00 am

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has angrily lashed out against awarding Austrian writer Peter Handke with a Nobel Prize. Handke is accused of denying the 1995 Bosnian genocide and of being a “great admirer of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.” In a Jihad Watch article, Hugh Fitzgerald stated this about Handke: Peter Handke, a writer, […]
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US Defense Intelligence Agency says Turkey, Qatar supported al-Qaeda’s al-Nusra Front
By Robert Spencer on Dec 12, 2019 08:30 am

These countries are not allies of the United States and should not be treated as such. “US Defense Intelligence Agency says Turkey, Qatar supported al-Nusra Front,” by Abdullah Bozkurt, Nordic Monitor, December 10, 2019: Turkey and Qatar likely provided support to Syrian al-Qaeda group Jabhat al-Nusra, or the al-Nusra Front, the US Defense Intelligence Agency […]
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Sweden: Statue of the Virgin Mary stolen and found chopped into pieces
By Robert Spencer on Dec 12, 2019 08:00 am

“The statue was later found on Thursday afternoon in a storage room next to a transformer, cut up into six different parts. Doris Wennerberg, the parish assistant at the Mary Magdalene Catholic Parish, said that she hoped the statue could be put back together and placed back where it had been stolen from….According to criminal […]
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