JIHAD WATCH 05/30/2015

Pakistan: Muslims open fire on Faisalabad church By Robert Spencer on May 29, 2015 05:51 pm “The motive behind the attack was personal enmity. It is not an act of terrorism,” claimed Station House Officer (SHO) Sadar police station Malik Muhammad Jahangir Khan. Faisalabad’s Mohallah Noorpur Chak cleric Dilawar Masih, however, disagreed, saying: “Though no human loss was reported in this incident, attackers gave a clear-cut message that Christians and their […] Read in browser »   Malaysia: For seeking answers on Islam, Muslim gets charged with blasphemy By Robert Spencer on May 29, 2015 09:56 am “O you who have believed, do not ask about things which, if they are shown to you, will distress you….A people asked such before you; then they became thereby disbelievers.” (Qur’an 5:101-102) Such a passage hardly inculcates a spirit of free inquiry and intellectual curiosity. And this is the wave of the future: since the […] Read in browser » These People Are Speaking a Strange Language By Michael Devolin on May 29, 2015 09:36 am “These people are speaking a strange language. It is strange to me And strange, I think, even to themselves.” -Louis Simpson I am a lover of words. I have a collection of dictionaries. I love the way words can articulate meaning in just a certain way. In my Penguin Dictionary I found the word pronoid, […] Read in browser » Islamic State demolishes Christian church in Syria By Raymond Ibrahim on May 29, 2015 09:32 am The Assyrian Network for Human Rights recently published the following photograph saying they are the demolished remains of the Church of Saint Mar Beesho‘a in Tel Shamiran, an Assyrian Christian village located in the countryside of the northern city of Hasakah—which was earlier occupied and ransacked by the Islamic State. Read in browser » Egypt: Explosive goes off next to church By Raymond Ibrahim on May 29, 2015 09:29 am A homemade explosive planted next to a Coptic Christian church was detonated around sunset on May 16. Although there were no human casualties at the St. George Church in Tamiya (Fayum governorate), as the church was mostly empty except for clergy, the church’s administrative offices and second floor glass was shattered, creating chaos and panic in the […] Read in browser » Freedom, Provocation and Targets By Ralph Sidway on May 29, 2015 09:25 am The Muslim predisposition towards jihad means “no cartoons required.” The recent Muslim jihad attack at a Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland Texas has generated strong reactions across the political spectrum. Four of us in my church recently had a fairly rigorous discussion of some of the issues involved, with two believing the cartoon […] Read in browser » Video: Minneapolis Muslims prefer Sharia, want blasphemy laws in US By Robert Spencer on May 29, 2015 04:40 am Note the unanimous opposition to the freedom of speech and support for criminalizing criticism of Islam — and even for murdering those who insult Muhammad. All freely and openly expressed on a sunny day in Minneapolis. Video thanks to Ami Horowitz. Read in browser » Islamic State has 30,000 foreign jihadis from over 100 countries By Robert Spencer on May 29, 2015 04:06 am 30,000: that’s an awful lot of Muslims who fell for this Nothing-To-Do-With-Islam form of Islam. How to explain so many misunderstanders? After all, none of them existed in a vacuum before they joined the Islamic State. They learned their Islam somewhere. Are we to believe that the slickness of the Islamic State’s video presentations alone […] Read in browser »