JIHAD WATCH 08/13/2015

Idaho: Muslim convicted of supporting jihad group, had explosives
By Robert Spencer on Aug 12, 2015 08:28 pm

“Kurbanov’s attorney countered that Kurbanov was just making empty boasts when he talked about planning an attack, and that the explosive materials in his apartment were for building fireworks.” Yeah, sure, that’s the ticket. Fireworks.   The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan: you know, that’s another one of those Islamic groups that have nothing to do […]
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Philadelphia: Unapologetic Muslim Prof Denounces ‘Dirty Jewish Zionist Thugs’
By Robert Spencer on Aug 12, 2015 08:16 pm

American academia has degenerated to an extremely low state these days. Most universities are centers of Leftist indoctrination rather than genuine centers of higher learning in any real sense anymore, and faculties are filled with Islamic supremacist ideologues like Omid Safi, Reza Aslan, and Kaukab Siddique, who have a free hand to inundate their hapless students with […]
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Egypt: Christian pastor arrested for preaching Christ to Muslims
By Raymond Ibrahim on Aug 12, 2015 07:23 pm

A Christian pastor was arrested in Egypt on the charge of preaching Christ to Muslims. On August 10, Arabic media reported that Islam Dayf, chief prosecutor in al-Minya governorate, ordered the imprisonment of Methat A., 37, who serves as a pastor of a church in the area. He is charged with preaching the Gospel and […]
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New York: Propagandist for lone wolf jihad attacks gets 22 years
By Robert Spencer on Aug 12, 2015 07:05 pm

“AQAP leaders trained Babafemi in the use of weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles, and taught him the importance of AQAP’s English-language media operations to its mission of inspiring “lone-wolf” style attacks abroad in the name of AQAP. Babafemi assisted in AQAP’s English-language media operations, which include the publication of the online Inspire Magazine, and worked […]
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Raymond Ibrahim: Christians Burn While Pope Worries about ‘Worldly’ Matters
By Raymond Ibrahim on Aug 12, 2015 02:28 pm

[Muslim Persecution of Christians, June 2015] Indifference to the plight of persecuted Christians around the world was highlighted in June when Pope Francis released his first independent encyclical. Although the Pope warned against things like global warming and issues dealing with the environment, he did not mention the plight of persecuted Christians—even though he is […]
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Spain: Muslim arrested for selling jihad beheading t-shirts
By Robert Spencer on Aug 12, 2015 02:16 pm

For supporters of the Islamic State such as this man, the Islamic State’s beheadings are not repulsive and barbaric; on the contrary, they’re evidence that the Islamic State is following the Qur’an’s directive: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (47:4). Note also that he assumed that there would be a ready market in […]
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Russia: Muslim gets four years prison for calling for jihad
By Robert Spencer on Aug 12, 2015 12:25 pm

“The man was also charged with making statements justifying the terrorist methods of fighting for Islam and the activities of illegal Islamist military groups in the Northern Caucasus and the Middle East.” Imagine if what all Western leaders tell us really were true: that all religions were equally likely to incite their adherents to violence. […]
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UK: Muslim teenager arrested twice in two months for alleged terror offenses
By Robert Spencer on Aug 12, 2015 11:27 am

True to form for the mainstream media, no information is given about who these people are or what kind of terrorism they were trying to perpetrate. Imagine a newspaper on December 8, 1941 running a story saying that random men in airplanes had attacked Pearl Harbor, and that police were searching for a motive. It’s […]
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The Islamic State’s Egypt affiliate says it has beheaded Croatian hostage
By Robert Spencer on Aug 12, 2015 11:14 am

Kidnapping infidels and releasing them for ransom or enslaving them, as well as killing them if that option is deemed most advantageous for the Muslims, is fully sanctioned in Islamic law: “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them […]
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Islamic State posts Australian hit list after hacking addresses, mobile numbers
By Robert Spencer on Aug 12, 2015 10:34 am

“None are believed to have served in the Middle East, or to have been particularly outspoken against Islamic State.” Those who cower in fear before the threat of the Islamic State should remember: there is no way to tell when or where they will strike. The proper response to them is not to live in […]
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Robert Spencer in FP: Obama “willfully” supporting al-Qaeda
By Robert Spencer on Aug 12, 2015 09:07 am

In FrontPage this morning, I discuss some explosive revelations that nobody noticed: Editor’s note: The following is the first article in the FrontPage series “Obama’s Betrayals,” which will explore the president’s record of perfidy, malfeasance and crimes against the American people. As the Obama presidency enters its final stages, examples of this treachery are only becoming more numerous and brazen. “Obama’s […]
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Mississippi Islamic State recruit praised Chattanooga jihad massacre
By Robert Spencer on Aug 12, 2015 08:51 am

Law enforcement officials and the mainstream media just can’t figure out a motive for the Chattanooga murder of five U.S. servicemen by a young Muslim who had spoken about seeking “martyrdom” and downloaded material by the slain jihadi imam Anwar al-Awlaki. Muslims inclined to jihad, however, are not so hesitant to see the Chattanooga massacre […]
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“Where do the loyalties of two current Muslim members of Congress lie?”
By Raymond Ibrahim on Aug 12, 2015 08:06 am

So asks the Daily Caller, and adds: “The Koran forbids allegiance to non-Muslim authority, preventing these congressmen from serving two masters at once. As the Koran dictates Islam is in a perpetual war against all infidels until a sharia-dominant world is established, which master do they then serve in this conflict?” “With Obama’s Help, Assembling Allah’s Domestic […]
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Obama’s failed Islam narrative
By Raymond Ibrahim on Aug 12, 2015 07:54 am

“However, when State Department spokeswoman Mary Harf appeared on live television and asserted that the best way to defeat the Islamic State was by offering its members better ‘job opportunities,’ the idea that the State Department is run by fools became increasingly plausible.” “Critic Blasts Obama Narrative on Islam,” by F. Michael Maloof  for WND, August 8, […]
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