JIHAD WATCH 04/11/2020

The Worst Part of Nixon’s Legacy Isn’t Watergate. It’s China. My latest in PJ Media: On July 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon shocked the world by announcing that he, who had built his political reputation on fighting Communism (and earned the incandescent hatred of the American Left in doing so), would become the first president to visit Communist China. And that, my friend, is where […] Read more 2020-04-10  •  Robert Spencer Khamenei: “Fighting over toilet paper is the logical outcome of the philosophy that governs Western civilization” He is, of course, recommending Sharia as the alternative. And we can all see by how well-run and prosperous Sharia states are. But the advantage that Khamenei has is that when someone in the West points out that Sharia states are human rights basket cases and economic disasters, the one who notices is excoriated as […] Read more 2020-04-10  •  Robert Spencer UAE: Non-Muslim fired, faces prison for insulting Islam on social media Where is Stuart Harrison from? From his name, he doesn’t appear to be a UAE native. He may be a convert to Islam, but is unlikely to have been born into a Muslim family and named “Stuart.” But note how eagerly he is complying with Sharia blasphemy provisions: “Harrison said they are trying to find […] Read more 2020-04-10  •  Robert Spencer UK: Former soldier charged with three terror offenses, held in prison for fighting AGAINST the Islamic State (ISIS) How far gone is shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain? This far gone. The Theresa May government admitted in February 2018 that a “significant portion” of returned Islamic State jihadis were free, as they were considered no longer to be a security concern. But Daniel Burke languishes behind bars for fighting against the Islamic State. This persecution […] Read more 2020-04-10  •  Robert Spencer India: Muslim cleric who asked Allah to send virus to kill 500 million Indians now says he was quoted out of context “Recently I have got the news that mosques are being set on fire, mosques are being burnt for the last two days. I think something is going to happen within a month. May Allah accept our prayers. May Allah send such a terrible virus to India that ten to twenty to fifty crore people die […] Read more 2020-04-10  •  Robert Spencer Muslim cleric says “hatred and hostility” toward Jews is “part of our faith” Abdallah Hassan Jiballah can make a strong case to support his words, based on 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 […] Read more 2020-04-10  •  Robert Spencer Tennessee: Man who stabbed and killed three women was “practicing Muslim,” no indication of mental illness Could Idris Abdus-Salaam have been motivated by the Qur’an’s commands to “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5)? Possibly, but we may never know for sure, because that possibility doesn’t fit the narrative that the political and media elites want very much for you to accept. “Truck stop stabbing spree suspect’s mother: […] Read more 2020-04-10  •  Robert Spencer In Turkey, Religious Authorities Get in the Way of Science (Part 2) Throughout most of March, President Erdogan continued to misinform the Turkish public as to the severity, and likely duration, of the disease. When he assured the nation that the spread of the virus would end in two to three weeks, he was overlooking the conclusions of his own medical experts that, far from ending, the […] Read more 2020-04-10  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Taliban say coronavirus is “sent by Allah because of the sins of mankind,” demand medicine and aid from sinners The Taliban in March declared that coronavirus was a disease “sent by Allah because of the disobedience and sins of mankind.” Yet they’re demanding “international relief, health and humanitarian organizations should execute their obligation of sending necessary equipment, medicine and aid to areas under our control and we shall lay the groundwork for their secure […] Read more 2020-04-10  •  Christine Douglass-Williams Notre Dame prof hails Islamic law, asks international law judges to consider “referring to parts of Sharia” “Notre Dame’s Emilia Justyna Powell, an associate professor of political science and concurrent associate professor of law, an expert in both international law and the Islamic legal tradition, traveled to many Muslim-majority nations to research how the two systems work together in practice.” Now Powell is on a mission to teach Westerners that Sharia is […] Read more 2020-04-10  •  Christine Douglass-Williams