JIHAD WATCH 07/11/2015

Georgetown’s Elliott Colla Misses Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood
By Andrew Harrod on Jul 10, 2015 07:02 pm

Egypt’s Arab Spring “revolutionary period is over,” lamented Georgetown University Arabic literature professor Elliott Colla on June 25 at the anti-Israel Washington, DC, Jerusalem Fund before about twenty listeners.  With stereotypical academic bias, his presentation, “The Poetry of Dissent,” ignored the political dangers of an “Egyptian revolution” celebrated, in his leftist view, for “many, many accomplishments” […]
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Muslim threatens to behead Florida talk show host “in the name of Allah”
By Robert Spencer on Jul 10, 2015 06:32 pm

So often jihad is falsely ascribed to “mental illness,” but this time Alvin Hart could be just a madman. Even so, however, he found a ready frame of reference to dress his impulse to kill in the vesture of sanctity. “Local talk show host says man stalked, threatened to kill her,” WFTV, July 7, 2015 […]
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UK: Editor fired after defending fellow writer who wrote about spread of Islam
By Robert Spencer on Jul 10, 2015 06:09 pm

The freedom of speech is very nearly dead in Britain, and so also is free society there. No one dares write anything that might possibly offend the new Muslim overlords, who are ever so easily offended. “Founding editor of award-winning paper sacked in freedom of speech row,” by Auslan Cramb, Telegraph, July 10, 2015 (thanks […]
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“Beat the dirty Jew”: Muslims in Paris beat 13-year-old boy wearing kippah
By Robert Spencer on Jul 10, 2015 05:44 pm

“You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers to be the Jews…” — Qur’an 5:82 In practice, that verse usually works out in the opposite way: Muslims are the most intense of the people in animosity toward the Jews. “13-year-old Jewish boy wearing kippah attacked in Paris,” by […]
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Somali jihad group Al Shabaab could pledge allegiance to the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on Jul 10, 2015 05:10 pm

The concept of the caliphate is at the core of the Islamic State’s appeal. Western analysts are too busy constructing fantasies about how the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam to take much notice, but if Al Shabaab does pledge allegiance to the Islamic State, it will have groups in West Africa (Boko […]
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Iranians chant “Death to America” as nuclear negotiators meet
By Robert Spencer on Jul 10, 2015 04:31 pm

The Iranian mullahs know that there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that they can do or say to prevent Barack Obama from giving them everything they want — and they gleefully publicize their knowledge of this fact at every opportunity. Why should they stop chanting “Death to America” when the Obama Administration has already announced that […]
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Muslim who praised Islamic State main witness against pastor charged with insulting Islam
By Robert Spencer on Jul 10, 2015 04:04 pm

As if this weren’t bad enough, Britain’s hate speech laws are being selectively applied, and hateful speech by Muslim clerics ignored. A sampling: UK: Muslim cleric praises Charlie Hebdo jihad, says UK “enemy of Islam” — January 10, 2015 UK: Father of a teen who joined jihad in Syria believes his son was “radicalized” by […]
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Denmark: After numerous assaults, ice cream company hires off-duty policemen to deliver in Muslim areas
By Nicolai Sennels on Jul 10, 2015 07:57 am

Hjem-IS (“Home Ice”) drives trucks around selling ice cream. Some might criticise me for calling the below-mentioned ghettos no-go zones, but if you cannot sell ice cream there without being either experienced in handling violence (that is, being a police officer) or a Muslim, then I think that “no-go zone” is a fitting description. Alternatively, […]
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UK: On 10th anniversary of 7/7 jihad attacks, Muslim leaders complained about “Islamophobia”
By Robert Spencer on Jul 10, 2015 07:43 am

“Muslims here have described how the atrocities have caused some communities to feel demonised.” That feeling is exacerbated by the widespread and not unjustified impression that Muslim communities are doing very little, outside of pro forma condemnations, to combat the spread of the jihadist understanding of Islam. There are no programs within mosques in Britain […]
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Iran-flagged ship targets U.S. Navy with laser
By Robert Spencer on Jul 10, 2015 07:29 am

The Iranians continue to show in numerous ways that their hostility to the U.S. has not dimmed to the slightest degree, and that any nuclear agreement with them would be foolhardy in the extreme. For Obama and Kerry, however, it is full speed ahead. “Iran-flagged ship targets U.S. Navy with laser,” by Barbara Starr, CNN, […]
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