JIHAD WATCH 03/16/2019

Nigeria: Muslim suicide bombers try to enter church, are stopped, blow themselves up outside the church building
By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2019 03:53 pm

If they had succeeded in entering, many people could have been killed, and there would have been a torrent of international outrage and calls for a more concerted effort to stop jihad violence, right? Wrong. The international media would have yawned and published another story about “Islamophobia.” “Boko Haram Suicide Bombers Target Church in Madagali, […]
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Nigeria: Muslims murder over 20 Christians with machetes and gunfire
By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2019 03:23 pm

Christianity Today reported that “Fulani have become more deadly than the Boko Haram jihadist insurgency”; according to Reuters,they have “a deliberate plan to ‘wipe out certain communities,” chief among them being the Christians of Nigeria, who are the farmers targeted in this attack and others. “Fulani Militants Kill Over 20 in Nigeria with Machetes and […]
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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: ISIS Spokesman: ‘What’s Our Crime? We Just Wanted to Apply Sharia.’
By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2019 03:05 pm

And what could possibly be wrong with that? My latest in FrontPage: In a new video, an Islamic State (ISIS) spokesman named Abu Abd al-Azeem, “whose speech,” noted Reuters, “is peppered with Koranic recitations,” complained about the bad rap his cuddly group has gotten. “Why are we bombed by planes,” he asked plaintively, “why do […]
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Hamas-linked CAIR exploits New Zealand massacre to try to shut down opposition to jihad terror
By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2019 02:00 pm

The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its allies have for years been trying to shut down all opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others. They have succeeded in fooling many people into thinking that it is “bigotry” and “racism” to oppose jihad terror, and have made those who […]
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China shields leader of Pakistani jihadi terror group from being listed as “global terrorist” by UN Security Council
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Mar 15, 2019 12:00 pm

China is allied with Pakistan, which is a state sponsor of jihad terror. Pakistan has also often “depended on China to protect it from the listing of Pakistan-based terrorist groups and individuals in the UN 1267 sanctions committee.” A Veteran US Army Colonel warned in December that “Americans need to recognize that Pakistan is not […]
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New Zealand murders: repercussions and perspective
By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2019 11:41 am

The savage and heinous terrorist attacks on the mosques in New Zealand are being and will be used to try to silence all criticism of jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women and others. The effort to stamp out such criticism is longstanding, and has gained new impetus now, although few stop to think about […]
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Iran looking to exploit the crisis in Algeria, in another threat to the EU
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Mar 15, 2019 11:00 am

A crisis in Algeria caused by a leadership vacuum with no prospects in sight is feared to be creating an opportunity for Iranian elements to hijack the country and “pose a dangerous strategic threat to Europe.” “ Tens of thousands took to the streets, chanting “No to a fifth Bouteflika term” and “No to the […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Riada Akyol Presents the “Tolerant Islam” of Bosnia (Part One)
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Mar 15, 2019 10:00 am

Riada Akyol wants Europeans not to worry about the ongoing invasion of Muslims — there are now 44 million of them in Europe — but to take heart from the experience of Bosnia, where, she claims, a “liberal European Islam” developed that could serve as a model for Muslims all over Europe. What is too […]
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Canadian Islamic Circle posts book on website featuring “prophecy” about Jews being slaughtered by Muslims
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Mar 15, 2019 09:00 am

Canada is under the strictures of anti-Islamophobia Motion M-103 — which is based on the premise that Canadians have a problem with hating and fearing Muslims. Canadians do not have such a problem. But the government of Canada does nothing to curb the real problem of hate, intolerance, incitement and bigotry that emanates from the […]
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New Mexico jihad compound members charged with “conspiring to attack and kill officers and employees of the US”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2019 08:00 am

They were also charged with kidnapping. This group was planning to train children to become school shooters, all in the cause of jihad. “Feds charge 5 from New Mexico compound, where 11 children were found, with terror, kidnapping offenses,” by Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, March 14, 2019: The residents of a makeshift New Mexico compound […]
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Canada: Leftists defame counterterror event as “Islamophobic,” press for its cancellation
By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2019 07:59 am

Vivienne Grace Ziner, the author of this article, is wrong in thinking that political Islam is some twisting or adulteration of the genuine article. Islam has been political ever since the Hijrah, and Sharia is and always has been as much of a political system as it is a set of religious laws. She also […]
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Audio: Christine Douglass-Williams on “the threat of Omar and Tlaib”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 15, 2019 07:58 am

In this superb and wide-ranging interview, Jihad Watch writer and Frontpage Associate Editor Christine Douglass-Williams explains what the new Muslim members of the House of Representatives are really telling us with their hateful rhetoric. Christine also provides a thoughtful discussion of the question of whether or not Islam can be modernized and reformed, which is […]
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