JIHAD WATCH 08/31/2020

What’s Wrong with Putting America First? My latest in the American Thinker: The overarching lesson of the triumphant Republican National Convention this week is that America is great, and that it is good and proper for an American president to put America first. In that, of course, the RNC is echoing President Trump’s consistent statements since he began running for president […] Read more 2020-08-30  •  Robert Spencer Texas: Muslim Who Honor-Murdered His Two Daughters is Finally Caught, and the Denial Begins My latest in PJ Media: Yaser Said, who brutally murdered his two teenage daughters in Texas on New Year’s Day 2008 in an apparent honor killing, has finally been caught after being on the run for twelve years. This horrifying case points up the reality that honor murder can happen even in Western countries. But […] Read more 2020-08-30  •  Robert Spencer UK: 15-year-old boy converts to Islam, tries to make bombs containing shrapnel for jihad massacre Where did this boy convert to Islam? From whom did he learn about it? British authorities show no sign of being troubled by the fact that this keeps happening among all too many converts to Islam. If their dogma of Islam being a religion of peace that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism is […] Read more 2020-08-30  •  Robert Spencer Minnesota: Muslima admits to setting fires at university, trying to join al-Qaeda At St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, Tnuza Jamal Hassan called upon Muslim students to “join the jihad in fighting” and to “join Al Qaeda, Taliban, or Al Shabaab.” She set a series of fires around the campus, and said she wanted to “hurt people.” In response, students at St. Catherine University said: “St. […] Read more 2020-08-30  •  Robert Spencer Norway: Muslims riot, attack police van after protester rips pages from Qur’an The DW headline says “clashes break out,” but as you can see from the article, what really happened was that a SIAN member ripped pages from the Qur’an and spat upon them, whereupon counter-protesters began throwing eggs and attacked a police van. People in the West who should know better will blame SIAN for this, […] Read more 2020-08-30  •  Robert Spencer Turkey grants citizenship to dozens of “most senior” Hamas jihadist operatives and their families In mid-August, Jihad Watch reported that Turkey had been accused of giving citizenship to Hamas members who were planning jihad terror attacks, which Turkey denied. Just over a week after that, Turkish President Erdogan hosted a large Hamas delegation, including wanted jihad terrorists who murdered Israelis. Now comes more: Turkey has granted citizenship to a […] Read more 2020-08-30  •  Christine Douglass-Williams UK: Illegal Muslim migrants go on hunger strike to protest a handful of deportations After much embarrassment and accusations that Boris Johnson has lost control of immigration amid UK government cash payouts to Muslim migrants, there are small steps being taken by the British Home Office to confront the illegal Muslim migrant invasion via the English Channel. The Home Office “has managed to deport a small group of illegal […] Read more 2020-08-30  •  Christine Douglass-Williams Australia: Uber passenger calls driver ‘Jewish scumbag,’ ends ride early, doesn’t want to ‘ride with a Jew’ The identity of this passenger is unclear. However, many of the commenters here note that the antisemitic passenger has a Lebanese accent, and is thus likely one of the many Muslim migrants from Lebanon who have settled in Australia. The rise in antisemitism in Western countries has accompanied the rise in Muslim migration. Islamic antisemitism […] Read more 2020-08-30  •  Christine Douglass-Williams Israel, the UAE, and Those Worrisome F-35s Israel objects – and has been firm in stating its objections – to an American sale of state-of-the-art F-35 Stealth fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates. And while the UAE has taken the Israeli objections with ill-grace, security cooperation between the two nations is in every other respect, going like gangbusters. Here’s the story […] Read more 2020-08-30  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Uganda: Muslim converts to Christianity, is beaten to death by his father and other relatives Those who beat Jalilu Kamutono to death aren’t “extremists.” Apostasy carries the death penalty in Islamic law. This is based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they […] Read more 2020-08-30  •  Robert Spencer