JIHAD WATCH 06/17/2015

Muslim student arrested for Islamic State NYC jihad mass murder plot By Robert Spencer on Jun 17, 2015 03:21 am Saleh “denied sympathizing with Islamic State and granted them permission to examine his computer, authorities said. Investigators found the computer contained Islamic State propaganda, according to court filings.” War is deceit, as Muhammad said. In any case, the glib dismissal by Western authorities of the Islamic State as having nothing to do with Islam fails […] Read in browser »   Kurdistan: A Summary By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jun 17, 2015 01:56 am How strange it is that the American government continues to regard as a desideratum the survival of the state of Iraq. Why? Modern Iraq, it needs to be repeated, was concocted out of the three Ottoman vilayets of Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra. Kurds and Arabs and Assyrians were in the vilayet of Mosul, the Sunni […] Read in browser » UK Muslim family believed to have fled to Syria very devout, held Qur’an classes By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2015 08:09 pm This is a strange story. The husbands have appealed to their wives to come home, but the wives and children appear to be headed for the Islamic State. They were known for their devoutness in Islam while in Britain, holding Qur’an classes and spreading Islamic material on the Internet — not that this has anything […] Read in browser » UK: Word “Muslim” associated more with terrorism than anything else By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2015 06:43 pm People in Britain associate Muslims with terrorism because of Islamic terrorism, and not for any other reason, but predictably, the results of this survey are already being spun as the result of “Islamophobia.” Islamic Relief’s Jehangir Malik whined: “The results of this poll are extremely worrying because they show that public attitudes towards Muslims are […] Read in browser » Third Muslim arrested in jihad attack on AFDI Garland free speech event By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2015 11:18 am “The indictment indicates that Kareem took the shooters — Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi — to practice shooting and gave them assault rifles.” Clearly this was planned for a considerable time, and these jihad murderers are likely to have chosen a soft target. “Third Man Arrested in Garland ‘Draw Muhammad’ Shooting: Authorities,” by Todd L. […] Read in browser » Islamic Jihad member arrested on suspicion of running over 3 Israelis By Robert Spencer on Jun 16, 2015 10:18 am There has been a spate of such attacks in Jerusalem and elsewhere lately — and a billboard in Nazareth calling for them, but of course only AFDI billboards and advertisements are offensive. Last October the Islamic State issued this call to Muslims in the West: “If you are not able to find an IED [improvised […] Read in browser » Iran: Pastor “viciously beaten” in prison, told only way out is to deny Christ By Ralph Sidway on Jun 16, 2015 05:37 am Prison dawah, Islamic style. Now imagine if a Muslim imam were incarcerated in Greece, an Orthodox Christian nation, and Christian inmates were savagely beating him in order to force him to convert to Christianity. Wouldn’t the Western media take notice then? Pastor Saeed is one of the great Christian confessors of our time. His wife, Naghmeh […] Read in browser » Iran sentences 18 Christians to prison in new crackdown on Christianity By Ralph Sidway on Jun 16, 2015 05:28 am “Charges include evangelism, propaganda against the regime, and creating house churches to practice their faith,”  with prison sentences up to 24 years. Iran’s persecution of Christians is so harsh and relentless that it’s hard to keep up with it, as a quick search here on Jihad Watch proves. And to think that the Obama administration had […] Read in browser » Imprisoned Sudanese pastors facing death penalty barred from seeing lawyers, family By Ralph Sidway on Jun 16, 2015 05:23 am The two pastors were recently moved to a notorious high-security facility in North Khartoum, Sudan, where they have been isolated since at least early June. Update on this story. “Imprisoned Sudanese Pastors Facing Death Penalty Barred From Seeing Lawyers, Family Following Visit by American Pastor,” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post via Pravoslavie, June 10, 2015: […] Read in browser » Jihad on Churches: Muslim Persecution of Christians, March 2015 By Raymond Ibrahim on Jun 16, 2015 05:19 am On Sunday, March 15, as Christian churches around the world were celebrating morning mass, two churches in Pakistan—one Catholic, one Protestant—were attacked by Islamic suicide bombers. At least 17 people were killed and over 70 wounded. The Taliban claimed responsibility. It is believed that the group had hoped for much greater death tolls, as there were almost […] Read in browser » Denmark: Police flee, leaving non-Muslim couple under fire in Muslim area By Nicolai Sennels on Jun 16, 2015 05:16 am I do not know what is most shocking: that the police are shot at with automatic weapons; that the police flee and leave an innocent couple in an area filled with armed and shooting criminals; that non-Muslims are cleansed from the area; or that the police do not just drive down to the burning houses […] Read in browser » Raymond Ibrahim: Islam’s ‘Baby Jihad’ By Raymond Ibrahim on Jun 16, 2015 05:09 am Islamic aspirations to dominate the world are set to happen—if not through might of arms, then apparently through sheer numbers. In 1900, the Muslim population of the world was less than 200 million.  Conversely, the Christian population of the world was almost 560 million—almost three times the number of Muslims. Times have changed.  According to […] Read in browser » UK Sharia courts “main aim” to “restrict and deny rights” of women and children By Robert Spencer on Jun 15, 2015 10:57 pm What a surprise. “Britain must ban sharia ‘kangaroo courts’, say activists,” by Emma Batha, Reuters, June 15, 2015: LONDON, June 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Britain’s new government must abolish Islamic sharia courts, campaigners said on Monday, describing them as “kangaroo courts” that deliver second-rate justice and trample over the rights of women and children. […] Read in browser » Mother of UK convert to Islam slain in jihad says he had “warped ideas of Islam” By Robert Spencer on Jun 15, 2015 08:41 pm Sally Evans, like all good non-Muslims who aren’t greasy Islamophobes, knows that the view of Islam held by jihad terror groups such as al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. The only people not convinced of this, aside from those wicked Islamophobes, are the Muslims who convinced young Thomas […] Read in browser » New Islamic State video: Child jihadis vow to kill Obama, defeat “Crusaders” By Robert Spencer on Jun 15, 2015 06:51 pm Imagine their astonishment when they discover that there are no “Crusaders,” and that the West is in general ashamed of the Crusaders who once were, and that Obama has done a great deal to aid them in the attainment of their ultimate goal, the imposition of Sharia over the world. “Child Fighters in IS Video […] Read in browser » One UK town linked to over 12 Islamic jihadis By Robert Spencer on Jun 15, 2015 06:35 pm Many more towns and cities in proud new multicultural Britannia will soon be breaking this record. “How former mill town Dewsbury in West Yorkshire is linked to more than a dozen Islamist extremists and terrorists including Britain’s youngest suicide bomber,” by Ollie Gillman, MailOnline, June 15, 2015: Set in a quiet corner of West Yorkshire, […] Read in browser » 17-year-old boy ran influential Islamic State Twitter account from Virginia By Robert Spencer on Jun 15, 2015 06:04 pm And he received at least one parcel sent from the Islamic State. How many more young men like Ali Shukri Amin are still operating in the U.S.? More on this story. “The Story Behind ‘AmreekiWitness,’ The 17-Year-Old Tech-Savvy Virginian Who Ran An ISIS Twitter Account,” by Erica Wenig, Daily Caller, June 15, 2015: Recently, news […] Read in browser » Gaza jihadi: “Our goal is to bring Islam, to bring Sharia all around the world” By Robert Spencer on Jun 15, 2015 05:37 pm And he threatened Pamela Geller yet again. When will Obama declare that Pamela Geller will be protected by his government, as part of the U.S. commitment to the freedom of speech? And when will he recognize the declaration of war against the U.S. and the rest of the world that al-Ansari and the Islamic State […] Read in browser » The Islamic State has displaced 100,000 Christians from Mosul By Robert Spencer on Jun 15, 2015 02:49 pm Meanwhile, the craven and feckless U.S. bishops stand by and say nothing and do nothing about this, because they’re afraid to harm their chimerical and self-defeating charade of “dialogue” with Muslim leaders in the West, whose “dialogue” consists of slyly packaged dawah that the bishops are too addled by politically correct willful blindness to notice. […] Read in browser » Jihadis say 500-pound U.S. bombs missed one-eyed jihad leader By Robert Spencer on Jun 15, 2015 01:40 pm Maybe if it had been a one-eyed bomb targeting a 500-pound jihad leader, it would have been successful. But these one-eyed guys are not so easy to strike down. Keystone Kops Alert: “Militant says 500-pound U.S. bombs missed one-eyed terrorist leader with a history of dodging death,” by Sarah El Deeb and Lolita C. Baldor, […] Read in browser »