JIHAD WATCH 05/13/2019

At The Saatchi Gallery, Muslims Make Demands
By Hugh Fitzgerald on May 12, 2019 03:00 pm

Recently there was a brouhaha in Great Britain over two paintings that had been on display at the Saatchi Gallery. They were both by the pseudonymous artist who goes by the name SKU. Thy paintings overlaid Arabic script on images of a nude woman, and included the Qur’anic verse that constitutes the shahada, or Profession […]
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For The First Time, A Cyberattack Is Answered in Real Time With A Bombing Attack
By Hugh Fitzgerald on May 12, 2019 02:00 pm

  While Hamas fired 690 rockets at Israeli civilians during the recent flare-up, Israel is careful to warn civilians away from its own targets. As Hamas always places its warehouses of weapons, including rockets, and its fighters, too, in the midst of civilian neighborhoods, and even in the same buildings as civilians (including schools and […]
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In Paris: A Bearded Bus Driver Enforces Muslim Dress Code
By Hugh Fitzgerald on May 12, 2019 01:00 pm

In Paris, the “affaire de la jupe” (Affair of the Skirt), reported on in French here  is one of those seemingly small contretemps, involving Muslims in the West, that circumstances turn into something much bigger. It begins with two women, North African in origin, who were waiting, at 11 p.m. for city bus #60, at […]
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“Throats Must be Slit” Muslim Brotherhood Imam Apologizes for Views
By Daniel Greenfield on May 12, 2019 01:00 pm

In 2017, Human Rights Watch was complaining that the Saudi crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood had entangled a number of clerics including Sheikh Ayed al-Qarni. “These apparently politically motivated arrests are another sign that Mohammad bin Salman has no real interest in improving his country’s record on free speech and the rule of law,” said Sarah […]
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FBI discovers homegrown jihadi training camp in Alabama, similar to one in New Mexico
By Christine Douglass-Williams on May 12, 2019 10:30 am

The FBI has uncovered a homegrown terror training camp in Alabama. “The property, similar to another compound in New Mexico the group is now linked to where federal prosecutors say Wahhaj and four other suspects were training children to carry out deadly terror attacks on American soil.” The children were said to be living under […]
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Kentucky Imam in Mosque Fatwa for Murder Plot
By Daniel Greenfield on May 12, 2019 10:00 am

The sharia solution to business disputes appears to be not so very different from the mob solution. The imam and president of the Lexington Islamic Center has been arrested, along with two other men, on federal charges related to an alleged murder-for-hire plot. Authorities said 70-year-old Mahmoud Shalash was charged Thursday, along with 34-year-old Abdul […]
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Belgium: “Islam” party co-founder convicted of discrimination against a woman
By Christine Douglass-Williams on May 12, 2019 09:30 am

Co-founder Redouane Ahrouch of the Belgian Islamic party “named simply ‘Islam’ has been given a suspended sentence after being convicted by the Criminal Court of Brussels of discriminating against a woman on a television programme “. This should be no surprise, given the lower status of women under the sharia.  Ahrouch also said following the […]
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Trump’s campaign staffer accused of being anti-Muslim for calling 9-11 jihad supporters “murderous thugs”
By Christine Douglass-Williams on May 12, 2019 09:00 am

Talking Points Memo has wrongly accused Matt Wolking, a staffer on President Donald Trump’s political campaign, of being “anti-Muslim”. This is yet another demonstration of a continued pattern of attack against those who call out obvious truths and worst, a twisting of their words . TPM accuses Wolking of describing Muslims as “murderous thugs,” which […]
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Islamic Terrorists Hit Pakistan Hotel to Target China
By Daniel Greenfield on May 12, 2019 09:00 am

There’s been a pattern of Islamic terrorists in the region targeting hotels. Here’s the latest attack. Pakistan. Heavily armed gunmen attacked a luxury hotel in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, in an assault in which a Pakistani separatist group claimed to be targeting Chinese interests and warned of further violence. “After more than 10 hours of […]
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