JIHAD WATCH 04/15/2018

Austria: Lawyer for Muslim who plotted jihad massacre tells court “the deradicalization process is underway”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 14, 2018 04:43 pm

That’s hardly reassuring. Deradicalization programs, upon which the West has placed so much hope, have long been an obvious failure. Such programs are based on the premise that the true teachings of Islam are peaceful, and so all that needs to be done is show the jihadis how they’re misunderstanding the Qur’an and overlooking its […]
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Germany: Muslim migrant teen attacks man, smashes windows, throws stones at police, who say his motive is unknown
By Robert Spencer on Apr 14, 2018 04:04 pm

“His motives, as well as the circumstances of the attack were as yet unclear, added authorities. A spokesman for the prosecution service told AFP that there were currently no indications that the attack was due to political reasons.” What’s that you say? Islam teaches warfare against unbelievers, and that might have been a motivating factor? […]
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Netherlands: Christian refugees from Syria say Assad is OK; priest calls him ‘a gift from heaven’
By Robert Spencer on Apr 14, 2018 02:39 pm

The Muslim Brotherhood and other Sharia groups stand to gain the most from the fall of Assad. “Christian refugees in the Netherlands say Assad is OK; priest calls him ‘a gift from heaven,’” Voice of Europe, April 14, 2018: The Arameans are a well-integrated Christian minority in the Netherlands. Originally they came from Syria, Iraq, […]
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UK: Police refuse to investigate death threats to Islam critic because they claim she is “inciting hatred”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 14, 2018 12:43 pm

Yet more disquieting evidence that the first priority of police in Britain is now enforcing Sharia blasphemy laws. Jonaya Fenessa English explains in this video that she never speaks about Muslims, only about Islam, and never calls for violence. But that is not enough: that is also true of Pamela Geller and me, and we […]
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Washington state: Muslim migrant stabs his wife 23 times in front of their children
By Robert Spencer on Apr 14, 2018 12:26 pm

Deputy Prosecutor Brian Hultgrenn “alleges that in the days leading up to the attack, Sweidan threatened to kill his wife before she could divorce him or leave him….Alhafeth, 40, filed for divorce in late October. Her petition states the couple married May 23, 1996, in Homs, Syria, but the marriage was ‘irretrievably broken’ on Aug. […]
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Taqiyya about taqiyya in BuzzFeed
By Robert Spencer on Apr 14, 2018 10:58 am

Taqiyya in BuzzFeed: “Mohammad Fadel, an expert on Islamic law at the University of Toronto, described taqiyya (and its many alternative spellings) as ‘a doctrine of prudential dissimulation’ that arose from a time when Muslims were minorities in hostile societies. It instructed Muslims that hiding one’s faith could be permissible to escape persecution. It’s more […]
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Antifa and SPLC intimidation and threats get Wisconsin and Minnesota counter-jihad conferences canceled
By Robert Spencer on Apr 14, 2018 09:57 am

In The Coming of the Third Reich, historian Richard J. Evans explains how, in the early days of National Socialist Germany, Stormtroopers (Brownshirts) “organized campaigns against unwanted professors in the local newspapers [and] staged mass disruptions of their lectures.” To express dissent from Nazi positions became a matter of taking one’s life into one’s hands. […]
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Indonesia’s Aceh province takes Sharia caning indoors to hide its abuses after backlash
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Apr 14, 2018 09:32 am

The Indonesian province of Aceh has become increasingly brutal in its application of Sharia. Several weeks ago, a group of Muslims dumped sewage on the heads of couple for violating the Sharia. Their “crime” was being alone together in a room. From the raid of university campuses in search of gays to floggings for playing […]
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Pompeo: Iranian proxy Hizballah “threatens us right here in the homeland”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Apr 14, 2018 09:23 am

Hezbollah, Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy, “threatens” Americans in the U.S. homeland, Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of State….The U.S. military has repeatedly warned against the growing presence of Iran and Hezbollah in Latin America, stressing that operations linked to the Shiite entities present a menace to the United States. With the […]
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Iran proxy war with Israel may begin in the near future
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Apr 14, 2018 09:16 am

“The prospects for an Israel-Iran proxy confrontation in the near future seem significant,” which is not surprising. Iran has been working through its proxies for years with the goal of regional hegemony and the destruction of Israel. Currently: Iran is entrenched in Syria in a clear campaign aimed at extending its fundamentalist tentacles to Israel’s […]
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Raymond Ibrahim: Jizya, “Military Exemption,” and Murdered Christian Soldiers
By Raymond Ibrahim on Apr 14, 2018 08:33 am

One of the staples of the Islamic whitewashing industry is the claim that jizya — the extortion money subjugated Jews and Christians were required to pay (a la Koran 9:29) — actually “entitled them to Muslim protection from outside aggression and exempted them from military service,” to quote Georgetown University’s John Esposito. By this widely held logic, […]
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