JIHAD WATCH 04/03/2020

Trump’s Travel Ban is Right: Coronavirus Won’t Harm Muslims, Say Many Muslim Clerics My latest in PJ Media: Many Muslims around the world aren’t worried at all about the coronavirus. While much of the Western world is in quarantine and many fear that the worst is still yet to come, some Muslim clerics and lay believers are sure that Allah will protect them from the plague. As a […] Read more 2020-04-02  •  Robert Spencer Pakistan: Mosques sound Islamic call to prayer in order to ward off coronavirus When it doesn’t work, will they question their assumptions? Of course not. They will question their own level of commitment to the Islamic faith. This never-ending cycle leads some Muslims to wage violent jihad as well. They see something wrong in their life and see that Muhammad praised jihad as the highest human endeavor, so […] Read more 2020-04-02  •  Robert Spencer India: “You are asking us to close the house of Allah…What if we close his house and he closes our house?” Lethal piety. “Viral video shows Maulvi refusing to close mosque in coronavirus lockdown, says ‘house of Allah’ can’t be closed,” OpIndia, March 30, 2020: While a large number of Indians are complying with the government strictures of lockdown in the wake of coronavirus outbreak, there are many individuals who have disregarded the government order even […] Read more 2020-04-02  •  Robert Spencer Muslim researcher: Coronavirus produced in US labs as part of “biological war” against “the Islamic nations” Ginning up more hatred for the Great Satan with paranoid fantasies. This sort of talk is the basis and justification for jihad activity. “Iraqi Researcher Jomaa Al-Atwani: COVID-19 Pandemic Is American Biological Warfare against the Arab, Islamic World; America Was Founded Thanks to Such Wars,” MEMRI, March 12, 2020: Iraqi researcher Jomaa Al-Atwani said in […] Read more 2020-04-02  •  Robert Spencer Morocco: “Allah is great! Allah is great and alone is able to help us defeat the coronavirus!” “Salafists tried to paint the closing of mosques, which was among measures taken by Moroccan authorities to contain the coronavirus outbreak, as an assault on faith and not as a precaution aimed at saving lives.” This tendency has appeared in other countries as well, and places more people at risk than the true believers who […] Read more 2020-04-02  •  Robert Spencer India: Dozens of coronavirus cases traced to single mosque, 2000 quarantined, area sealed off “Earlier this month, several hundred people from across India and abroad had attended the Islamic religious conference by the ‘Tableeghi Jamaat’ preachers at the Banglewali Masjid, the Mosque near the Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah. Many cases of coronavirus deaths have now been traced to the Muslim event at the Banglewali Mosque which had seen a large […] Read more 2020-04-02  •  Robert Spencer Muslim cleric says coronavirus is a blessing, an agent of Allah The veracity of this claim would depend on only non-Muslims getting infected, but if Muslims are infected, Farrokh Sekaleshfar will just say they weren’t sufficiently submissive to Allah. In any case, the idea that unbelievers should suffer in this world is a basic underlying assumption of jihad activity. “Iran-Based Scholar Sheikh Farrokh Sekaleshfar: COVID-19 Is […] Read more 2020-04-02  •  Robert Spencer What explains the Saudi success so far in combating the coronavirus outbreak in the Kingdom Saudi Arabia is an authoritarian state, an absolute monarchy, which requires a curtailment of human rights, as enshrined in Western democracies, but also, at a time of crisis, this authoritarianism allows the government to act swiftly and relentlessly, as it has in its efforts to combat the coronavirus outbreak. So far it has performed admirably, […] Read more 2020-04-02  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Palestinian Authority PM accuses Israeli troops of deliberately spreading coronavirus among “Palestinians” No surprise. This was inevitable. Mohammed Shtayyeh’s paranoia is rooted in the Qur’an. The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); […] Read more 2020-04-02  •  Robert Spencer France Not Enforcing Lockdowns in Muslim No-Go Zones They do call them no-go zones for a reason. But let’s not kid ourselves. There are neighborhoods in New York City and LA where the police won’t be asking crowds to go indoors and that the media would never dream of shaming and which won’t go viral on social media. This is the same thing except […] Read more 2020-04-02  •  Daniel Greenfield