JIHAD WATCH 01/22/2020

Audio: Robert Spencer on Iran in context On the Keith Hanson show, January 10 Read more 2020-01-21  •  Robert Spencer Britain Commits Suicide to Avoid Being Called Racist A case study in how “Islamophobia” charges destroy lives. My latest in FrontPage: The UK’s Mailonline reported Friday that according to a “damning” new report, “sex attacks on young girls by Asian grooming gangs were ignored by police fear of stoking racial tensions, a damning report has ruled.” “Asian” is British media code for “Muslim.” […] Read more 2020-01-21  •  Robert Spencer Yemen: Shi’ite jihadists target Sunni mosque in missile attack, murder at least 73 Articles, government commissions, etc., devoted to the evils of “Islamophobia”: countless. Casualties from “Islamophobia”: zero. Articles, government commissions, etc., devoted to the evils of the Sunni-Shi’ite jihad: zero. Casualties from the Sunni-Shi’ite jihad: countless. “At least 73 soldiers killed in missile attack ‘on mosque’ in Yemen,” by Samuel Osborne,” Independent, January 19, 2020 (thanks to […] Read more 2020-01-21  •  Robert Spencer Khamenei says Islamic Republic of Iran is “religious democracy” that is “image of resistance” to “highway bully” US “Millions of propaganda instruments are operating against the Islamic Republic.” Really? Then the Islamic Republic must have tens of millions of propaganda instruments of its own, including the entire American Left. “Bully’ U.S. Is Targeting Country Because It’s a Symbol of Resistance,” by David Brennan, Newsweek, January 20, 2020: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei […] Read more 2020-01-21  •  Robert Spencer Islamic Republic of Iran: MP offers “$3 million reward in cash to whoever kills Trump” “U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood dismissed the reward as ‘ridiculous’, telling reporters in Geneva it showed the ‘terrorist underpinnings’ of Iran’s establishment.” Indeed. And if anyone succeeds in doing this, there will be great rejoicing in Washington and mourning all over Iran. It’s a topsy-turvy world. “Iran MP offers reward for killing Trump, U.S. calls […] Read more 2020-01-21  •  Robert Spencer Florida: Cop suspended for liking his wife’s social media posts criticizing Tlaib and Omar Lost in the fracas here is the fact that what Annabelle Lima-Taub wrote is largely true. Tlaib really is demonstrably an anti-Semite who is friendly with several open supporters of jihad terror. See, for example, all the evidence here and here. That she might “blow up Capitol Hill” is hyperbole, but of course J. C. […] Read more 2020-01-21  •  Robert Spencer Muslim cleric says Jerusalem will soon become the capital of a global caliphate Meanwhile, Ahmad Shihabi, a commander in the Obama-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), is ready to sacrifice his life for the Ottoman caliphate. How will the restored Ottoman caliphate coexist with this Jerusalem-based caliphate? It won’t. Pull up a chair, this will be something to watch. More on this story. “Al-Aqsa preacher: Jerusalem will soon be […] Read more 2020-01-21  •  Robert Spencer “Palestinian” Author Warns: Watch Your Language, MEMRI is Listening  The MEMRI report posted an hour ago recalls the warning issued on December 23, 2018 by the “Palestinian” author Mushir Al-Farra on Baladna TV (Gaza). He wanted to alert his fellow “Palestinians” to a great danger of which some of them were insufficiently aware. That danger was that the Western world now had the […] Read more 2020-01-21  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Obama-backed Free Syrian Army top dog: “Inshallah, we will go wherever there is Jihad” for “the Ottoman Caliphate” “We have a Free Syrian Army and a moderate opposition that we have steadily been working with that we have vetted.” — Barack Obama, September 2014 “Commander in the Turkish-Backed Free Syrian Army: We Will Go to Libya, China, and Wherever There Is Jihad; We Are Willing to Sacrifice Our Lives and Our Children for […] Read more 2020-01-21  •  Robert Spencer UK: Cops pull “outrageous” document that said that thinking Muslims were persecuted in UK was sign of “extremism” The document was entirely reasonable. It’s clear from the treatment of Muslim rape gangs that Muslims are a protected class in the UK. So believing, in the teeth of all available evidence, that Muslims are persecuted in a sign that one is imbibing jihadi grievance propaganda that is used to justify jihad violence. But the […] Read more 2020-01-21  •  Robert Spencer