JIHAD WATCH 01/05/2020

Iran’s Supreme Leader vows jihad for Qassem Soleimani’s killing
By Vijeta Uniyal on Jan 04, 2020 05:00 pm

Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has threatened the United States with ‘jihad’ after an American drone strike killed Qassem Soleimani, the chief of Iran’s elite Quds Force. “All Enemies should know that the jihad of resistance will continue with a doubled motivation, and a definite victory awaits the fighters in the holy war,” Khamenei said […]
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Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of over 600 U.S. soldiers
By Robert Spencer on Jan 04, 2020 04:00 pm

Now the Left will mourn him all the more. “Pentagon says Qassem Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers,” by Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, January 3, 2020: Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian military general who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq on Thursday, was responsible for the deaths of over […]
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Iran “expert” Trita Parsi and Democrats blame Trump for “escalating the situation” with Iran
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jan 04, 2020 03:00 pm

Iran analyst Trita Parsi reacted this way to the U.S. airstrike that killed the leader of the Iranian regime’s elite Quds Force, Major General Qassem Soleimani: “’Everything the Trump administration has done has escalated the situation,’” tracing it back to President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018.” The Iran […]
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Sweden: Professor warns that mass Muslim migration could unravel the country’s “democratic welfare society”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jan 04, 2020 02:00 pm

“Swedish political science professor Tommy Möller has warned that the unprecedented mass migration into Sweden in the last decade could unravel the country’s ‘democratic welfare society.’” Möller echoes the concerns of the so-called “populist,” anti-mass migration Sweden Democrats. He further stated: “No matter what happens, no one can deny that our society has undergone significant […]
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UK: Muslim migrants crossing English Channel up 400%
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jan 04, 2020 01:00 pm

“The number of migrants attempting to cross the English Channel rose by nearly 400 per cent in 2019.” These migrants are coming from Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Many are Iraqi, Iranian and Afghan nationals. Last year, most were identified as Iranian. And as to why so many Iranians would risk the dangerous […]
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Religion News Service: “Growth of Islam” in the US creates the “need for religious scholars”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Jan 04, 2020 12:00 pm

In an article from the Religion News Service, brought to you from increasingly Islamized Dearborn, Jeff Karoub and Noreen Nasir assert that the “US growth of Islam creates” the “need for religious scholars.” No, it doesn’t. What it does create is more need to protect free societies from Islamization, not any need for unregulated religious […]
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UK: Psychologist behind “deradicalization” scheme says there’s no guarantee jihadis can ever be “cured”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 04, 2020 11:00 am

No kidding, really? I’ve been pointing out for years that deradicalization programs are an abysmal failure everywhere they have been implemented. From the Jihad Watch archives: UK: London jihadi stabbed man at deradicalization event, victim’s father hopes killing won’t be used as a “pretext” Gitmo prisoner reveals: Saudi “deradicalization program” is really a jihad training […]
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Saudi Contempt for American Justice
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jan 04, 2020 10:00 am

It has now been nearly a month since we learned that the FBI was hunting for Saudi military students who vanished from Pensacola after the jihad attack there. We have heard nothing since then about these students having been captured, and they have likely been spirited back to Saudi Arabia. There are many precedents. In […]
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When the US-Taliban peace deal is signed, 5,000 Taliban jihadis will be freed from prison
By Robert Spencer on Jan 04, 2020 09:00 am

What could possibly go wrong? Surely they will become loyal, stable, productive Afghan citizens now, won’t they? “Taliban’s 5,000 prisoners will be released as US, Taliban peace deal is signed,” Khaama Press, December 30, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The release of 5,000 prisoners of Taliban has been written in to the peace […]
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India: Army Chief says Pakistan is “trying to use terrorism as a tool of state policy”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 04, 2020 08:00 am

Yes, indeed. This is obvious. Pakistan is no friend or ally of the United States, and official recognition of that fact is long overdue. “Pakistan uses terrorism as tool of state policy: Army Chief Naravane,” ANI, December 31, 2019: In an apparent reference to Pakistan, Army Chief General MM Naravane on Tuesday said that the […]
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Greenfield Video: Thank You, President Trump, for Eradicating Suleymani
By Jamie Glazov on Jan 04, 2020 07:59 am

This new special edition of The Glazov Gang presents the Daniel Greenfield Moment with Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Fellow at the Freedom Center and editor of The Point at Frontpagemag.com. Daniel affirms: Thank You President Trump For Eradicating Suleymani, stating: You have taken out a vile mass murderer and terror master – and sent a […]
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