JIHAD WATCH 05/03/2021

 

Al-Qaeda: ‘The Americans are now defeated. The US war in Afghanistan played key role in hitting US economy.’ There is no doubt that whenever we leave Afghanistan, if we ever actually do, al-Qaeda and the Taliban will claim victory. So we could stay there forever in order to try to prevent that, or we could reconfigure our strategy with a focus on containment and making sure they can’t export their jihad out of […] Read more 2021-05-02  •  Robert Spencer Miami imam: ‘Palestine is land of Islam, we’ll take it back.’ ‘If you love Jesus,’ Islam ‘is the religion for you.’ Kablawi is not remotely the first supporter of the “Palestinian” jihad to state the conflict in Islamic terms. “Palestinian” spokesmen themselves do this on a routine basis, as do Iranians and others. Yet Islam is the one aspect of the conflict that is routinely ignored or even openly denied by mainstream “Middle East experts” in […] Read more 2021-05-02  •  Robert Spencer France: Interior Minister says ‘French Muslims are the first to fall victim to Islamists’ It would be interesting to see how Darmanin distinguishes Islamism from Islam, and explains how the latter has ever existed without its political and supremacist manifestations, but it is unlikely that he does so, or will be asked to do so. Jihadis justify violence and make recruits among peaceful Muslims by claiming to be the […] Read more 2021-05-02  •  Robert Spencer Fatah: ‘We are Allah’s hand that will restore ‎Jerusalem’s status’ “Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and give you victory over them and satisfy the breasts of a believing people, and remove the fury in the believers’ hearts.” (9:14-15) Fatah Movement Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi  says “that the ‎resistance of the residents of Jerusalem to the occupation is […] Read more 2021-05-02  •  Robert Spencer Italy: Bishop denounces ‘shameful’ migrant deaths, calls for ‘open society’ to leave ‘a legacy of a good life’ The deaths of these migrants were indeed tragic. Antonio Staglianò’s conclusions from those deaths, however, are unwarranted. Might Europeans who “want to stay human and hand over a legacy of a good life to their children” opt not to see their lands inundate with migrants, many of whom bring with them a model of society […] Read more 2021-05-02  •  Robert Spencer France: Pakistani flag painted on wall of 11th-century chapel The wave of the future in France, unless the French government gets serious about combatting jihad violence and Sharia oppression. In five or ten years, or maybe a bit longer, the chapel could well be a mosque. “Hérault: an 11th century chapel tagged in Fabrègues,” translated from “Hérault : une chapelle du XIe siècle taguée […] Read more 2021-05-02  •  Robert Spencer The Exhausted Defender of Islam The attempt to be a thoughtful Muslim must be exhausting. There are so many mental landmines to avoid and crumbling foundations to shore up when trying to build a consistent and coherent Muslim worldview. This is seen clearly though not by any means exclusively in the schizophrenic mindset that on the one hand boasts of […] Read more 2021-05-02  •  Mateen Elass U.S. to Israeli Delegation: Come If You Must, But Our Minds Are Made Up While Robert Malley sends, via intermediaries, his billets-doux to Iran’s negotiator Mohammed Javad Zarif in Vienna, Israel is sending a high-level delegation of security personnel, headed by Yossi Cohen, the director of Mossad, to Washington, hoping to make the case for American caution, rather than insensate haste, in returning to the JCPOA and lifting sanctions […] Read more 2021-05-02  •  Hugh Fitzgerald

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