JIHAD WATCH 09/24/2016

Obama vetoes bill allowing families to sue foreign governments linked to terror attacks
By Robert Spencer on Sep 23, 2016 07:23 pm

Always ready to go to bat for the Saudis. “Obama Vetoes Terrorism Bill as Override Votes Loom,” by John T. Bennett, Roll Call, September 23, 2016: President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed a bill that would allow families of the victims of terrorist attacks in the United States to sue foreign governments believed to be […]
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India: Blogger arrested for criticizing Islam on social media
By Robert Spencer on Sep 23, 2016 07:17 pm

If the OIC and Hillary Clinton get their way, this is a glimpse of America’s future, as criticism of Islam will be labeled “hate speech,” as Leftists and Islamic supremacists so label it now, and “hate speech” will be ruled unworthy of First Amendment protection. “West Bengal: Blogger arrested for criticising Islam on social media,” […]
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Child in the Islamic State: “Oh black-eyed virgins, we will meet in Paradise…We implement the sharia”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 23, 2016 07:05 pm

“And fair women with large eyes, the likenesses of pearls well-protected, as reward for what they used to do.” (Qur’an 56:22-24) What does one have to do to get them? The Qur’an offers one guarantee of Paradise: to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111). For adolescent boys, this can be a powerful […]
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Netanyahu: “The UN, begun as a moral force, has become a moral farce”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 23, 2016 06:47 pm

This is a magnificent speech, one of the few times in recent years that the truth has been told at the UN about the jihad against Israel, and about the UN’s obsessive OIC-driven hatred of the Jewish State. His saying “I remain committed to a vision of peace based on two states for two peoples” […]
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Muslim angry at being accused of joining ISIS hacks US military personnel data, sends it to ISIS
By Robert Spencer on Sep 23, 2016 06:27 pm

It’s a Leftist/Islamic supremacist talking point these days that if we talk about how jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence, or discuss ways to stop jihad activity, we will alienate peaceful Muslims and drive them into the arms of ISIS. The poor dears will feel alienated, you see, and will […]
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Maryland imam allegedly helped finance arsenal for Islamic State jihadi in Detroit
By Robert Spencer on Sep 23, 2016 06:13 pm

The imam says he doesn’t support the Islamic State, but “it might appear that way. I am an advocate of the United States and the West getting the hell out of the Middle East and the Muslim world.” As for the weapons accusations, he says: “It’s ridiculous. All I can say is it’s ridiculous. If […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: The Re-Education of Reverend Daisy Obi
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Sep 23, 2016 05:54 pm

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has just upheld a lower court’s ruling that the Rev. Daisy Obi, a 73-year-old pastor originally from Nigeria, and a Somerville landlord, must not only serve six months in jail for pushing a Muslim tenant, but must “enroll and attend an introductory course on Islam.” The original story was […]
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Muslim cleric calls Jews “brothers of apes and pigs,” prays, “O Allah, destroy America”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 23, 2016 05:27 pm

The Qur’an says in three places that Allah transformed the Sabbath-breaking Jews into apes and pigs (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166). “Sheikh Ahmad Mana’i in Jordan Eid Al-Adha Sermon Refers to Jews as ‘Brothers of Apes and Pigs,’ Prays: Oh Allah, Destroy America, Russia, and the ‘Rabbis’ of Tehran,” MEMRI, September 12, 2016: In a sermon marking […]
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Pakistan: Muslim mob beats Christians with metal rods, calls them “ritually impure”
By Robert Spencer on Sep 23, 2016 04:59 pm

“O you who have believed, indeed the polytheists are unclean…” (Qur’an 9:28). Muslim spokesmen often accuse Christians of polytheism because of their worship of Jesus as the Son of God. “The Jews say, ‘Ezra is the son of Allah’; and the Christians say, ‘The Messiah is the son of Allah.’ That is their statement from […]
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UK: Muslim who murdered Muslim for disrespecting Islam calls for beheadings in prison videos
By Robert Spencer on Sep 23, 2016 09:52 am

He was able to make “a series of YouTube speeches” from prison. Sometimes people ask me why I have written, repeatedly, that Britain is finished. Here is why. “‘CUT OFF THEIR HEADS’ Islamic extremist who murdered Muslim shopkeeper for ‘disrespecting Islam’ calls for beheadings in YouTube video from behind bars,” by Felix Allen, The Sun, […]
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Egypt: “Christians are original inhabitants of the nation,” says Coptic bishop
By Raymond Ibrahim on Sep 23, 2016 09:29 am

Coptic Christian Bishop Daniel met with the Swiss Minister of exterior at the St. Mark Cathedral in Cairo, the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Church, during the minister’s recent visit. The bishop said that, formally, the Church enjoys good relations with the state and Al Azhar, which represents Islam in Egypt, but less formally, on […]
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The Last Supper: The Plight of Christians in Arab Lands
By Raymond Ibrahim on Sep 23, 2016 09:26 am

Note: The following review by Raymond Ibrahim is for the book, The Last Supper: The Plight of Christians in Arab Lands, by Klaus Wivel. A shorter version of it first appeared in the Middle East Quarterly (Fall, 2016, vol. 23, no. 4). Danish journalist Klaus Wivel is to be commended for shedding light on an important but ignored […]
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