JIHAD WATCH 12/19/2020

 

Mufti of Jerusalem: Temple Mount ‘is Islamic and only for Muslims, there is no place for non-Muslims’ Imagine the outcry if a non-Muslim leader said Muslims were not welcome at the site of an ancient Muslim holy place. But no one will take any particular notice of this. “PA mufti: No room for non-Muslims on Temple Mount,” by Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2020 (thanks to Henry): The Palestinian Authority […] Read more 2020-12-18  •  Robert Spencer ADL smears foes of jihad violence against Israel as ‘Islamophobes,’ gets canceled as ‘anti-Muslim’ anyway Jonathan Greenblatt is discovering that any dissent, no matter how small and qualified, from the far-Left agenda — which is increasingly open in its hostility to Israel — will get you defamed as an “Islamophobe,” no matter how much you pander, no matter how much you desperately try to stay in the good graces of […] Read more 2020-12-18  •  Robert Spencer Hamas-linked CAIR applauds Rep. Dingell’s letter to Facebook demanding removal of ‘anti-Muslim content’ Hamas-linked CAIR’s Ibrahim “Honest Ibe” Hooper writes proudly that “CAIR was one of several organizations named by Rep. Dingell in her press release announcing the letter.” Dingell apparently doesn’t care that 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 […] Read more 2020-12-18  •  Robert Spencer UK: Publisher Little, Brown cancels book decrying cancel culture because the author criticized Islam It is hard to tell what the fuss is all about regarding Julie Burchill’s tweets with Ash Sarkar. Some may have been removed. Those that remain as of this writing feature some rude exchanges. This was the only one I could find of any actual substance: @AyoCaesar Can you please remind me of the age […] Read more 2020-12-18  •  Robert Spencer Manchester jihad mass murderer trained with jihad group in Libya, traveled in and out of UK with no problem Salman Abedi should have been stopped from reentering the UK after he trained with the February 17th Brigade, but he wasn’t, no doubt for fears of accusations of “Islamophobia.” The Home Office some time ago banned Martin Sellner, Brittany Pettibone, Lauren Southern and Lutz Bachmann from entering, all for the crime of opposing jihad terror […] Read more 2020-12-18  •  Robert Spencer UK: Manchester jihad murderer gave cab driver Qur’an and said ‘Please pray for me, brother’ just before his massacre Western counterror “experts” and all sorts of non-Muslim imams, including Pope Francis, John Kerry, Emmanuel Macron and many, many others, would have you believe that if Salman Abedi had only read the Qur’an, he wouldn’t have killed anyone. Yet it strains credulity that Abedi would have been handing it out as a gift without ever […] Read more 2020-12-18  •  Robert Spencer Rice University Sacrifices Academic Standards on the Altar of Fantasy Islam …the United States created the foundation on which great research universities could be built. Those core values included…organized skepticism (the willingness to entertain the most radical of ideas, but subject the claims to truth and fact to the most rigorous scrutiny)… Jonathan R. Cole, John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University at Columbia University[1] The […] Read more 2020-12-18  •  Stephen M. Kirby Can the Egypt-Israel Peace Warm Up? Until now, Israel has been satisfied with its “cold peace” with Egypt. This is a peace not between peoples, but between the security establishments of both countries, that cooperate in fighting the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Hamas is the Palestinian avatar, and other Jihadis in the Sinai, including remnants of ISIS. But with the normalization […] Read more 2020-12-18  •  Hugh Fitzgerald

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