JIHAD WATCH 04/17/2018

US response to 1979 Iran hostage crisis was hampered by an “American inability to understand” Khomeini
By Robert Spencer on Apr 16, 2018 04:03 pm

One of the biggest ongoing problems of U.S. foreign policy is a failure to understand what we’re really up against. This problem goes back decades. In Theodore H. White’s America In Search of Itself, there is this telling passage about the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979: Of the negotiating effort, the most biting summary was […]
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Spain: Man converts to Islam, plots to behead an “infidel” on video, commit jihad massacres
By Robert Spencer on Apr 16, 2018 03:13 pm

“In March 2015, the main leader of the cell, a Spaniard who had converted to Islam, proposed to kidnap and decapitate an ‘infidel’ whom he had already identified, film the killing and then broadcast the video online before fleeing to Syria….Members of the cell had also gone on a recce in Barcelona, the Catalonian capital, […]
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745 known jihadis now in Germany, since 2017 regional governments have deported only 10
By Robert Spencer on Apr 16, 2018 02:54 pm

“There were no plots in Germany in 2014, and only two in 2015. In 2016, this increased eightfold. There is a straightforward reason for this: In 2015, Germany took in over 1 million refugees and 2016 saw a surge in plots involving refugees.” Yet there is still no reconsideration of the plan to bring in even […]
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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Taqiyya About Taqiyya in BuzzFeed
By Robert Spencer on Apr 16, 2018 02:47 pm

Deception is Islamic, despite attempts to deceive you into believing otherwise. My latest in PJ Media: The establishment media is always ready to explain to us how, despite the ever-mounting body count of jihad warfare, Islam is entirely benign and teaches peace and tolerance. To pull off this legerdemain requires advanced skill in the art […]
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Australia: Sleeping man feels “sharp pain in his neck,” wakes to see knife-wielding Muslima screaming “Allahu akbar”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 16, 2018 02:21 pm

“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) Not that this has anything to do with… An update on this story. “Father recounts the terrifying moment a burqa-clad Bangladeshi student staying at his house and ‘inspired by ISIS screamed “Allahu Akbar” as she stabbed him in the neck’ while he slept and his […]
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Video: Q and A with Robert Spencer on “Whaddo You Meme??”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 16, 2018 12:10 pm

Over the last few days I’ve been busy filming scenes for David Wood’s boffo “Islamicize Me” project. Late last night Jon McCray from the “Whaddo You Meme??” YouTube channel and I, although a bit tired, took some time out to do a spontaneous livestream Q and A. It was fun.
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Muslim from Indiana joins the Islamic State in Syria, keeps two sex slaves at home with his wife and kids
By Robert Spencer on Apr 16, 2018 12:00 pm

Why have we seen not just the Islamic State, but also Boko Haram and al-Shabaab take sex slaves? Because it is sanctioned in Islamic law. The seizure of Infidel girls and their use as sex slaves is sanctioned in the Qur’an. According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an […]
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Islamic scholar Akbar Ahmed: Italy must remember its pluralist past
By Robert Spencer on Apr 16, 2018 11:41 am

Akbar Ahmed has a sterling reputation as a “moderate” Muslim and thoughtful academic, but there is a sinister undercurrent to his new book Journey Into Europe: he calls for a “New Andalusia,” which to non-Muslims who have forgotten their own history conjures up the newly-minted historical myth of a paradise of peace and tolerance, under […]
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A fine display of Islamic values
By Jacob on Apr 16, 2018 10:52 am

There is a practicing Muslim in Glasgow by the name of Shaykh Zoheeb Iqbal. He runs an organization called the Al Falaah Academy in Glasgow’s south side, an area heavily populated by Muslims. His organization helps deliver lectures and courses to universities. This is all fine and dandy if it weren’t for the character of […]
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Russian Roulette of the West
By Alexander Maistrovoy on Apr 16, 2018 10:01 am

While the West is busy hunting Russian “witches,” its sworn enemies devour it alive from within. In 1986, Georges Besse, the manager of France’s largest state company, Eurodif, arrived at his office as per usual. When he got out of his car, he was shot at point-blank range by unknown people on a motorcycle. Initially […]
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Jamie Glazov: Facebook Bans Me For Reporting a Muslim’s Threat
By Jamie Glazov on Apr 16, 2018 09:21 am

Facebook has banned me for seven days. My crime is posting/reporting on my Facebook page a physical threat that was made to me personally on my own FB page by a member of the Religion of Peace. On Saturday, April 14, 2018, a certain Muhammad Irfan Ayoub started commenting on my page, rebuking me for […]
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