JIHAD WATCH 07/15/2019

Kenya: Muslim leaders oppose new anti-terror law
By Robert Spencer on Jul 14, 2019 05:00 pm

In the U.S., we regularly see Muslim groups opposing counterterror measures, and this story shows that this is an international phenomenon. Muslim groups in the West consistently assert that they oppose terrorism (without ever specifically defining what it is), but often also oppose any attempt to do anything about it. “Muslims lobby oppose school anti-terror […]
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Malaysia: Bomb threats from anti-Shia Sunni Muslims force cancellation of seminar about ending Muslim sectarianism
By Robert Spencer on Jul 14, 2019 04:00 pm

Here is yet another example of why we don’t see more sincere Muslim reformers. “‘Anti-Shia’ bomb threats force organisers in Malaysia to cancel seminar about ending Muslim sectarianism,” by Amy Chew, South China Morning Post, July 12, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Organisers of a seminar on the Amman Message – a declaration […]
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India: Police raid Islamic school, find weapons and ammunition
By Robert Spencer on Jul 14, 2019 03:00 pm

Imagine the uproar if weapons and ammunition were found in a Jewish or Christian school. But the international media will take no notice of this. “Uttar Pradesh: Arms found in madrassa during raid, 6 arrested,” Indo-Asian News Service, July 11, 2019 (thanks to Upananda): Six people were arrested after the police raided a madrassa in […]
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UK: Muslim family forced daughter to marry cousin to stop her from getting “too Western”
By Robert Spencer on Jul 14, 2019 02:00 pm

What are the chances that this family will become loyal, productive members of British society? Right. “British Muslim Family Forced Daughter to Marry Cousin to Stop Her From Getting ‘Too Western,'” Sputnik News, July 13, 2019: As the woman herself has explained, the decision to marry her cousin was forced upon her by her family […]
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Failed jihad suicide bomber: “I don’t like life on Earth, my only reward is Allah”
By Robert Spencer on Jul 14, 2019 01:00 pm

“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111) It would be refreshing if one of the Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. who insist that Islam forbids jihad suicide bombing would […]
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“I love beheading the enemy”: Muslim migrant who supports the Islamic State is deported from US
By Robert Spencer on Jul 14, 2019 12:00 pm

“Extremist, terrorist, tough, brain-washed, radical, I love explosions, booby trapping, beheading the enemy, and am among the supporters of establishing the religion with the sword.” Charming fellow. Why was he admitted into the US in the first place? Was any attempt made to determine his sentiments regarding jihad? Almost certainly not. “Tunisian national with terrorist […]
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UK: Muhammad cartoons absent from Media Freedom Conference’s display of censored political cartoons
By Robert Spencer on Jul 14, 2019 11:00 am

The Media Freedom Conference was, of course, a cynical and deceptive enterprise. There was never any chance that it would deal with social media censorship or the imposition of Sharia blasphemy laws in the West. Cowardice is pandemic today, marketed as “respect.”  “Danish ‘Muhammed’ absent from Media Freedom Conference’s display of censored political cartoons,” […]
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India: Fearful Hindus Try to Buy Off Muslims 
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jul 14, 2019 10:00 am

I recently received a remarkable and disturbing article about the current situation of Hindus and Muslims in India. It was written by a Hindu, K. Bhattacharjee, who argues that the present  Indian government, that of the Hindu BJP, with Narendra Modi as Prime Minister, has failed to stand up to Muslim demands and outrageous behavior, […]
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UK: Jihad terrorists can work at airports without MI5 being tipped off
By Robert Spencer on Jul 14, 2019 09:00 am

Khuram Butt worked at various Tube stations. An MI5 officer “said there was no evidence that Butt took the job for ‘nefarious purposes.'” That means that there was no evidence that Butt plotted a jihad massacre in the Tube. MI5 does not know, however, what he might have intended to do eventually. That is important […]
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“They hate us”: Muslim barbers refuse to cut hair of low-caste non-Muslims in India
By Robert Spencer on Jul 14, 2019 08:00 am

“If Dalits take haircut and shave in these shops, the towels will become dirty. How will other Muslims take haircuts after that?” Where did the Muslims get this idea? From the Qur’an: “O you who have believed, indeed the polytheists are unclean, so let them not approach al-Masjid al-Haram after this, their year. And if […]
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