JIHAD WATCH 01/17/2020

Iranian top dog says UK ambassador to Iran should be “chopped to pieces” Woah! The representative of the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader today called for the UK’s Ambassador to Iran Rob Macaire @HMATehran to be “chopped into pieces”. Any comment from @foreignoffice @DominicRaab @UKinIran? CC @eu_eeas @DonaldJTrumpJr @RichardGrenell @USAmbUK @PressSec pic.twitter.com/tRjGpMVj5G — M. Hanif Jazayeri (@HanifJazayeri) January 14, 2020 This is the regime that the American and international […] Read more 2020-01-16  •  Robert Spencer Afghanistan: Muslim cleric calls on his followers to punish women who don’t wear hijab Meanwhile, Western feminists don hijabs in solidarity with supposedly oppressed Muslim women in the West. The real oppression is of women who don’t wear hijab, but no one cares about them. “Afghan religious clerk warns to punish women who disregard Islamic Hijab,” Khaama Press, January 15, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Mujeeb Rahman […] Read more 2020-01-16  •  Robert Spencer The Adventures of Asking Muslim Reformers to Categorically Choose between Western Laws and Islam On January 7th Jihad Watch published my article titled “93% of Muslim Public Officials Would Not Express Support for the Constitution They Swore to Uphold.”[1] This article was a result of a survey of four questions I had sent to eighty Muslim public officials across the United States. With each of the four questions the […] Read more 2020-01-16  •  Stephen M. Kirby Germany: Muslim migrants took video of Berlin synagogue in preparation for jihad massacre there Will the Islamophobia never end? “Germany: Terrorists planning attack on synagogue arrested,” by David Rosenberg, Israel National News, January 14, 2020: Authorities in Germany arrested suspected Islamist terrorists in a series of raids across the country Tuesday morning, AFP reported. Chechen nationals suspected of being part of a terrorist plot were arrested in police raids […] Read more 2020-01-16  •  Robert Spencer UK: Muslim rape gang free to roam streets, cops told to “find other ethnicities” to investigate Here is more on this story. This makes it abundantly clear: not only were British authorities afraid of being called “racist” and “Islamophobic”; they also were told not to investigate Muslim rape gangs because they had an obligation to make Muslim communities look good. To that agenda they sacrificed untold numbers of British girls. The […] Read more 2020-01-16  •  Robert Spencer UK: Muslim rape gang known to police but allowed to operate freely for fear of “Islamophobia” charges These revelations come after it has long been known that 1,400 British non-Muslim children were gang-raped and brutalized by Muslims in one city alone, and “several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.” […] Read more 2020-01-16  •  Robert Spencer Cameroon: Muslims murder at least seven Christians, kidnap a ten-year-old boy Will the Islamophobia never end? “At least seven Christians killed as Boko Haram strikes villages in Far North Cameroon,” Barnabas Fund, January 13, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): At least seven Christians were killed as gangs of around 300 Boko Haram militants raided five Christian villages in Far North Cameroon, reports a Barnabas […] Read more 2020-01-16  •  Robert Spencer He Coulda Been A Contendeh, If He Hadn’t Been Iranian Here is yet another story, this one from last September, of the kind of thing the Iranian regime forces its people to do, and against which they are now protesting in large numbers. An Iranian judo star, who fled his home country after criticizing Tehran for pressuring him to throw matches to avoid competing against […] Read more 2020-01-16  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Ukraine pulled out of virulently anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian committee the day before Iran shot down its jetliner The Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office “is investigating possible willful killing and aircraft destruction in its probe of the crash of a Ukrainian airliner in Iran.” First Iran insisted that the jetliner crash was due to mechanical failure, but when Iranian authorities refused to turn over the black box, the Iranian government’s back was against the […] Read more 2020-01-16  •  Christine Douglass-Williams Maldives: Man advocates for right to leave Islam, official says such blasphemy will not be tolerated The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them […] Read more 2020-01-16  •  Robert Spencer