JIHAD WATCH

 

Austria: Muslim migrant sets fire to apartment building and attacks fleeing residents with a knife You better forget about this whole incident and celebrate diversity enthusiastically, or you will be ruined as a “racist” and an “Islamophobe.” “Salzburg: Somali knife pyromaniac shot by police officers,” translated from “Salzburg: Somalischer Messer-Pyromane von Polizisten angeschossen,” Exxpress, January 17, 2022 (thanks to Medforth): In Salzburg’s Liefering district, police officers stopped a dangerous Somali […] Read more 2022-01-18  •  Robert Spencer Indonesia: Woman flogged 100 times for adultery, her male partner gets only 15 lashes “The adulterer and the adulteress, lash each one of them a hundred times. And do not let pity for the two prevent you from obedience to Allah, if you believe in Allah and the last day. And let a group of believers witness their punishment.” (Qur’an 24:2) But she confessed, you see, and he didn’t. […] Read more 2022-01-18  •  Robert Spencer Nigeria: “They asked ‘are you Muslim or Christian?’ I told them I was Christian, and they intensified the beating” This is reminiscent of other incidents, including when a Muslim in Minnesota asked mall shoppers if they were Muslim and then stabbed non-Muslims. In Burkina Faso in November 2021, Muslims asked villagers if they were Christian or Muslim, then killed the Christians. In the Philippines in February 2019, Muslims murdered a man for failing to recite Qur’an […] Read more 2022-01-18  •  Robert Spencer How did the Texas synagogue jihadi get a tourist visa to come to the U.S. despite having a criminal record? No one seems to know. That raises even more questions. “‘How was he allowed into the US to begin with?’ House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy demands answers from the Biden administration about how British synagogue gunman with criminal convictions was let into America,” by Elizabeth Elkind and Jennifer Smith, DailyMail.com, January 18, 2022: House Minority […] Read more 2022-01-18  •  Robert Spencer Nigeria: Muslims screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ murder 18 Christians The world yawns, as this kind of story, as common as it is, doesn’t fit the establishment media narrative. “Fulani Militants Kill 18 More Christians in Nigeria,” International Christian Concern, January 12, 2022: Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Fulani militants killed 18 Christians in Ancha village on Tuesday evening, January 11, marking the second […] Read more 2022-01-18  •  Robert Spencer Belgium: Residence permit of imam of nation’s largest mosque withdrawn, he’s a ‘serious danger to national security’ Why didn’t the Muslims who frequent the Al-Khalil Grand Mosque expel Mohamed Toujgani for his “extremism” and “hijacking” of the peaceful religion of Islam before the Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration had to act? “Molenbeek: withdrawal of the residence permit for the imam of the largest Belgian mosque,” translated from “Molenbeek: retrait du […] Read more 2022-01-18  •  Robert Spencer President of All India Imam Association: Each woman will be the chief of the 72 hoors her husband gets in paradise Actually the Qur’an says nothing about what paradise will be like for women, while for men it will be an endless brothel. “‘You will be chief of 72 hoors your husband gets’: Maulana to woman on what ‘reward’ she will get in jannat,” HinduPost, January 12, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Maulana Sajid […] Read more 2022-01-18  •  Robert Spencer US ambassador to Israel: ‘The Biden administration believes it must take care of the Palestinian people’ At his first interview with the Israeli media in early January the new American ambassador was asked If he would be visiting any of the settlements. No, he said, “I absolutely will not.” This went over well in the Muqata in Ramallah, but left most Israelis feeling a blend of amazement, chagrin, and fury. There […] Read more 2022-01-18  •  Hugh Fitzgerald After synagogue incident, Muslim spokesmen ignore Islamic antisemitism, focus on ‘Islamophobia’ and criticize Israel Wajahat Ali is a Daily Beast columnist whose writings have appeared in the New York Times and the Qatari government-funded Al Jazeera. He is now exploiting the “Islamophobia” subterfuge in the aftermath of the jihad terror hostage-taking incident at the Texas synagogue, as Jihad Watch noted here. Brett Taylor also wrote on Twitchy: Daily Beast […] Read more 2022-01-18  •  Christine Douglass-Williams Palestinians refer to Jesus in terms reserved for jihad terrorists A shahid, or martyr, in the Islamic context is one who kills for Allah and is killed in the process (cf. Qur’an 9:111). “Palestinians reinvent Jesus in their own image – as a terrorist,” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, January 14, 2022: The PA uses many euphemisms and terms to refer to terrorists, and […] Read more 2022-01-18  •  Robert Spencer Why Was Texas Synagogue Jihadi Allowed Into U.S. Two Weeks Ago Despite ‘Long Criminal Record’? My latest in PJ Media: The family of Malik Faisal Akram, the Islamic jihadi from Britain who took hostages in Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, Saturday, has “demanded to know how he was allowed into America despite a long criminal record,” says the UK’s Daily Mail. More than just his family should be asking […] Read more 2022-01-18  •  Robert Spencer In Wake of Texas Synagogue Hostage-Taking, Anti-Defamation League Warns Against ‘Islamophobia’ My latest in PJ Media: The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) claims that its mission is “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all …” So you might think that after an Islamic jihadi stormed a Texas synagogue and took hostages, the ADL would be drawing attention to Islamic anti-Semitism, as […] Read more 2022-01-18  •  Robert Spencer