JIHAD WATCH 12/22/2019

The Palestinian Delusion is “the wake-up call to pull Western policy makers out of dreamland”
By Robert Spencer on Dec 21, 2019 06:00 pm

Another excellent review of The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, which you can order here. “The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process,” review by Loren Rosson, December 19, 2019: Many will find Robert Spencer’s latest book dispiriting, but reality is often just that. It doesn’t […]
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Florida: Muslim who wrote about taking revenge on non-Muslims not charged with terrorism for sabotaging plane
By Robert Spencer on Dec 21, 2019 05:00 pm

“Prosecutors said at his detention hearing in September that FBI investigators learned Alani lied about taking a trip to Iraq in March to visit his brother. They also found out he told a fellow American Airlines employee in June that his brother had been kidnapped and was a member of the extremist Islamic group known […]
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Australia: Muslim Uber driver refuses couple because they had a Christmas ham, Uber charges them cancellation fee
By Robert Spencer on Dec 21, 2019 04:00 pm

The principle is always and everywhere the same: in Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to suit Muslim sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to suit Muslim sensibilities. “‘We were furious’: Uber driver rejects couple because of their Christmas ham,” 3aw.com, December 19, 2019: RUMOUR CONFIRMED A couple were left […]
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Sweden: Crime statistics agency pressured to manipulate findings for political purposes
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Dec 21, 2019 03:00 pm

“A report has claimed that employees of the Swedish Crime Prevention Council (Brå) have been pressured by management to manipulate and obfuscate findings for political purposes….If results were not liked, then there was censorship, organisation of results, dimming of results.” What about the rights of the public to know who these criminals are? Migrants as […]
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Indonesia: Christians banned from Christmas home celebrations in West Sumatra
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Dec 21, 2019 02:00 pm

“Governments on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have banned Christians from celebrating Christmas in private homes, according to a report Thursday from International Christian Concern.” This comes on the heels of the announcement that Indonesia was set to deploy 200,000 police to protect Christmas celebrations from Islamic jihad massacres. The country’s President Joko Widodo has […]
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Minnesota: Muslim woman awarded $120,000 for having to remove her hijab for jailhouse mugshot
By Christine Douglass-Williams on Dec 21, 2019 01:00 pm

Every other prisoner is expected to get a mugshot and exchange his or her own clothes for jail clothes, but not Aida Shyef Al-Kadi, a Muslim woman in Minnesota. She “received $120,000 to settle her lawsuit alleging she was forced to strip in jail and remove her hijab for a booking photo…A judge had issued […]
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Leftist Jews Ally with Suit-Wearing Jihadists in New Group (Part Three)
By Andrew Harrod on Dec 21, 2019 12:00 pm

Jews and Muslims “share so much in common about our dreams of what a just, fair, compassionate, whole world should be for all God’s children,” stated Rabbi David Saperstein at Washington, DC’s Newseum on December 3. These remarks at the previously discussed launch of the Inter Jewish Muslim Alliance (IJMA) ignored historic Jewish subjugation under […]
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Pentagon screens Saudi military trainees after Pensacola jihad massacre, finds no “current threat”
By Robert Spencer on Dec 21, 2019 11:00 am

The wording is interesting. No “current threat”? But what about past and future threats? And do Pentagon officials even know what to look for? They’re largely committed to the fantasy that Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. Did they examine what these trainees have learned in Saudi […]
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I’ll Have What They’re Having, Or, How Do the Israelis Do It?
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Dec 21, 2019 10:00 am

I recently spent some time at www.MEMRI.org, where Arabs, Iranians and Turks can be seen, and transcripts of their harangues read, denouncing Israel for many terrible things. Let’s see now, what were they? Oh yes: the Zionist state is denounced for plotting to create a Greater Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates. And for […]
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Turkey: Officials say statements on anti-Jewish, anti-Christian billboards are from Qur’an, and so aren’t incitement
By Robert Spencer on Dec 21, 2019 09:00 am

Of course. How could anything from the Qur’an be hateful or inciting? The billboards quote this Qur’an passage: “O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as friends or allies. They are friends and allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you – then indeed, […]
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Australia: Muslims sentenced for plot to commit jihad massacre on airplane with meat grinder bomb
By Robert Spencer on Dec 21, 2019 08:00 am

“In handing down her sentence, Adamson said despite no one being killed, the offenders had succeeded in ‘creating terror’ because the public was made aware of the plot.” “And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and […]
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