JIHAD WATCH 04/01/2016 HOW MANY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE OWNED BY SAUDIS?

How many American politicians do the Saudis own?
By Robert Spencer on Mar 31, 2016 06:58 pm

This explains a great deal about U.S. foreign — and domestic — policy. In also wonder the same thing about mainstream media outlets, with their determination to ignore or downplay the jihad threat, and their fixation on “Islamophobia” and “anti-Muslim backlash.” Not to mention their unstinting habit of tarring foes of jihad terror as “anti-Muslim.” […]
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“The notion that Moroccan-Belgians suffer from widespread exclusion, discrimination, and suppression is ridiculous”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 31, 2016 06:37 pm

This article is an exceptionally well-reasoned antidote to the prevailing notion that Muslims in Europe are committing jihad murder because Europeans are so very, very mean to them. “Europe’s Muslims hate the West,” by Leon de Winter, Politico, March 29, 2016: The first reaction to the Brussels massacres among postmodern European intellectuals was predictable: What […]
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Why Pope Francis shouldn’t have washed and kissed the feet of Muslim migrants
By Robert Spencer on Mar 31, 2016 06:21 pm

“When the Pope kneels before a Muslim, these are the thoughts that will come into the minds of many followers of Islam. For them, the Pope’s gesture will serve as confirmation of the age-old Islamic conception of Christianity as a second-rate religion. Although some Muslims may be moved by the Pope’s gesture and some may […]
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Mississippi: Cheerleader converts to Islam, tries to join the Islamic State, pleads guilty to terror charge
By Robert Spencer on Mar 31, 2016 06:02 pm

Authorities remain completely and doggedly incurious about the phenomenon of conversion to Islam, and why so many converts to Islam get the idea that their new religion wants them to commit treason and murder. “Mississippi woman who attempted to join ISIS pleads guilty to terror charge,” Fox News, March 30, 2016: She tried to trade […]
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Belgium: Muslim terror hotline operator says of Israel: “It’s called Palestine, sir”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 31, 2016 05:53 pm

“The recording’s release follows at least four recorded cases in which people who either spoke Arabic or wore Muslim traditional garb, destroyed, concealed or removed Israeli flags at an impromptu memorial space set up for the attacks’ victims at Place de la Bourse in Brussels. It features many flags, including of Arab countries and the […]
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Video: Robert Spencer on CAIR’s ties to Hamas
By Robert Spencer on Mar 31, 2016 05:42 pm

This is the first in what will be a series of instructional videos about the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
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Muslim cleric: Jews are “enemies of mankind” and “the worst of beasts in the sight of Allah”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 31, 2016 05:35 pm

Yunis al-Astal must be an “extremist,” right? Actually, what he says comes straight out of the Qur’an: “Indeed, the worst of beasts in the sight of Allah are the deaf and dumb who do not use reason.” (Qur’an 8:22) “Indeed, the worst of beasts in the sight of Allah are those who have disbelieved, and […]
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The Islamic State forbids remaining Christians from leaving Raqqa
By Robert Spencer on Mar 31, 2016 03:40 pm

“Christians were contractually obliged to pay the jizya, or minority tax, which in Islamic Sharia law is the amount of money paid by non-Muslims or ‘dhimmis’ in exchange for protection.” That is straight from the Qur’an: “Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Fierce Hugs and Great Frittata Recipes
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Mar 31, 2016 11:06 am

Two Muslim comics – Negin Farsad and the egregious Dean Obeidallah — are apparently behind the campaign of Muslim propaganda posters, “Facts About Muslims,” that have been put up in 140 stations of the New York City subway system. “We wanted to do things that ranged from being informative—like ‘Muslims invented algebra’—to silly, playful, and […]
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France drops plan to strip jihadis of their passports
By Robert Spencer on Mar 31, 2016 10:35 am

The problem with dropping this plan is that Muslims who join the Islamic State or some other jihad group are demonstrating not only that they do not value the French passport, but that they hate France and want to destroy it. Their French passport is for them a tool aiding them in their efforts to […]
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