JIHAD WATCH 06/10/2020

USA Today names Hamas-linked CAIR’s Nihad Awad one of “the most influential civil rights leaders of today” Civil rights: CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as […] Read more 2020-06-09  •  Robert Spencer Palestinian Authority: “Call out Allahu akbar and restore the glory of Khaibar,” site of massacre of Jews As I explain in my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can order here, Muhammad led a Muslim force against the Khaybar oasis, which was inhabited by Jews — many of whom he had previously exiled from Medina. When he did so, he was not responding to any provocation. One […] Read more 2020-06-09  •  Robert Spencer The Evils of Islamic Law: the Death Penalty for Apostasy Islamic Sharia law contains many inhumane legal verdicts related to the treatment of non-Muslims and Muslims alike. Without delving into the subtle differences that exist between the various schools of Sharia law, which is beyond the scope of this article, it should be noted that all of the inhumane legal pronouncements made in the Sharia […] Read more 2020-06-09  •  Saleem Smith Iran: Muslim cleric says father who beheaded daughter can’t be executed “because it’s against Islamic law” Mousa Ghazanfarabadi is not an “Islamophobe.” He is a Muslim cleric, a man who has dedicated his life to studying Islam and understanding it properly. Given the sanction honor killing has in Islamic law, it’s not all that surprising. According to Islamic law, “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally […] Read more 2020-06-09  •  Robert Spencer Indonesia: Coronavirus restrictions eased so couple could be lashed in Sharia state of Aceh for premarital sex As with so many applications of Islamic law, we see here again that Sharia is an empire of fear, with virtue enforced by draconian punishments that make people too afraid to step out of line. Behind the Islamic moral critique of the West is not genuine virtue, but people cringing in fear of getting arrested, […] Read more 2020-06-09  •  Robert Spencer Austria: Muslim migrant recorded himself torturing a dog and posted video on social networks Islam hates dogs: “Once Gabriel promised the Prophet (that he would visit him, but Gabriel did not come) and later on he said, ‘We, angels, do not enter a house which contains a picture or a dog.’” — Sahih Bukhari 4.54.50 “Abdullah (b. Umar) (Allah be pleased with them) reported: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be […] Read more 2020-06-09  •  Robert Spencer Iran: MPs scream ‘death to America’ to show ‘respect’ for US George Floyd protests This is fitting, since “death to America” is the goal of the rioters in the US as well. “Iran MPs chant ‘death to America’ to show ‘respect’ for US George Floyd protests,” by Yaghoub Fazeli, Al Arabiya, June 8, 2020: Iranian lawmakers chanted “death to America” during a parliamentary session on Sunday, claiming they were […] Read more 2020-06-09  •  Robert Spencer Nancy Pelosi Claims Israeli “Annexation” Will Harm American Security Interests The story of her astonishing claim is at the Jerusalem Post here: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday that she is “concerned” about a possible Israeli move to annex parts of the West Bank. “Unilateral annexation puts the future at risk and undermines US national security interests,” she said in a webinar […] Read more 2020-06-09  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Jihading the Holocaust: Auschwitz and the Knesset (Part 4) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 are here. In Part 3 of Jihading the Holocaust, we looked at the identity of Muslim Arabs in Israel against the background of Jewish delusions and wishful thinking concerning “Israeli Arab” allegiances. Some of the ideological and cultural aspects of Islam were situated within its barbarous political economy. We […] Read more 2020-06-09  •  Anjuli Pandavar Obama Used National Security to Spy on Americans Opposed to Islamic Terrorists Obamagate redefined opposition to Islamic terrorism as a national security threat. We know when Obamagate ended, but we don’t know when the policy of spying on Americans began. The tangled roots of the domestic surveillance of political opponents by the NSA predate the alarmism about Russia. Tracing them back into the fetid swamp takes us […] Read more 2020-06-09  •  Daniel Greenfield