JIHAD WATCH

 

Why Aren’t Our Generals Learning? Winning battles while losing the war has taught them nothing. [Check out Frontpage’s Disloyal Military series: HERE.] Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. A third of the way into his article, “Afghanistan Did Not Have to Turn Out This Way”, David […] Read more 2022-08-14  •  Daniel Greenfield Islamists Violently Targeted These Turkish Authors Because of Salman Rushdie’s Work Sir Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck, arm, and abdomen on August 12 by a man who stormed onto the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. The knife attack against Rushdie took place more than 33 years after a fatwa was decreed against him by Iran’s […] Read more 2022-08-14  •  Uzay Bulut Bolton warned before Rushdie attack that Iran wasn’t targeting only him, called on Biden to end negotiations Bolton, who is quite spectacularly wrong about so very much, cannot be wrong all the time. “Bolton calls Iran assassination plot an ‘act of war,’ calls on Biden admin to ‘terminate’ nuclear talks,” by Brooke Singman, Fox News, August 11, 2022: EXCLUSIVE: Former White House national security adviser Amb. John Bolton said the assassination plot against him […] Read more 2022-08-14  •  Robert Spencer Hamas-linked CAIR loses appeal on suit aimed at silencing prof accused of criticizing Islam This was a ridiculous suit to begin with, aimed at bringing Sharia blasphemy laws forbidding criticism of Islam into U.S. law, and so it’s good that Hamas-linked CAIR lost its appeal. However, the protracted suit likely accomplished at least one of its intended purposes: intimidating into silence any academics who might be considering saying something […] Read more 2022-08-14  •  Robert Spencer Biden Administration Stonewalls Inspector General on Afghanistan on Terror Cash Samantha Power ordered staff not to answer questions without a lawyer. Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. In June, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s office (SIGAR), dispatched letters to Secretary of State Blinken and Samantha […] Read more 2022-08-14  •  Daniel Greenfield After Rushdie stabbing, Muslim tells J.K. Rowling ‘Don’t worry you are next’ But why? Rowling isn’t known for her “Islamophobia,” but has been accused of it. And jihadi memories are very long. “Scotland’s police investigate threat made to JK Rowling after Rushdie tweet,” Reuters, August 14, 2022: LONDON, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Scotland’s police said on Sunday they are investigating a report of an “online threat” made […] Read more 2022-08-14  •  Robert Spencer France: Muslim migrant screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ beheads his father, walks around with severed head His father must have said or done something he considered un-Islamic. “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) “Lyon: a 60-year-old man beheaded, his son arrested,” translated from “Lyon : un homme de 60 ans décapité, son fils arrêté,” La Provence, August 14, 2022 (thanks to Medforth): A 60-year-old was beheaded with […] Read more 2022-08-14  •  Robert Spencer Saudi Arabia, UAE Criticize Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Mock Iran  In both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the press is not free, but expresses the party line of their respective governments. And both in their press, and in the opinions of Emirati and Saudi individuals on social media, there is no sympathy for the PIJ, that was so devastated during the 66-hour war […] Read more 2022-08-14  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Rushdie attacker had ‘strong indicators of support for Iranian regime,’ cops won’t say if he was motivated by fatwa Nothing could be plainer than that Hadi Matar was motivated by Khomeini’s fatwa. Are investigators trying to protect Old Joe Biden’s relentless quest to appease the Iranian regime? “Salman Rushdie attack suspect: What investigators are saying,” by Josh Margolin, Nadine El-Bawab, and Aaron Katersky, ABC News, August 13, 2022: Law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation into Salman […] Read more 2022-08-14  •  Robert Spencer

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