JIHAD WATCH 04/15/2020

Robert Spencer Hosts Freedom Center Webinar Thursday on Coronavirus: The Muslim Response FREEDOM CENTER WEBINAR: TEACH-INS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY The Freedom Center is proud to announce our exclusive new webinar series, “Teach-Ins for the Twenty-First Century.” Join us as some of the leading thinkers and pundits on the scene today discuss key issues related to the coronavirus pandemic and its ongoing implications, confronting the Left, the […] Read more 2020-04-14  •  Robert Spencer Virtual Seder features Reza Aslan, defender of Hamas and Board member of lobbying group for Islamic Republic of Iran Would the Saturday Night Seder have featured Josef Goebbels in 1938? Reza Aslan is a Board member of a lobbying group for the bloodthirsty and genocidally antisemitic Iranian regime; tried to pass off Iran’s genocidally-minded former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a liberal reformer; called on the U.S. Government to negotiate with Ahmadinejad himself, as well […] Read more 2020-04-14  •  Robert Spencer Tunisia closes mosques over coronavirus, Al Jazeera claims “Tunisia has a problem with internalised Islamophobia” Al Jazeera ultimately retracted this claim, but the entire incident was illustrative of how the “Islamophobia” narrative is generally advanced: any action that is taken, and statement that is made, that is perceived to be in the slightest way opposed to the practice of Islam, including jihad violence, will result in the application of the […] Read more 2020-04-14  •  Robert Spencer Somalia: Jihadis murder immigration official in Puntland, Puntland President calls for “dialogue” with jihadis There are immigration officials in Somalia? Are there people who actually want to go live there despite the jihad-wrought devastation, or is the job of these officials solely to help people get out? In any case, note that Osman Hussein Haji Farey was murdered outside a mosque by a jihad group affiliated with al-Qaeda. The […] Read more 2020-04-14  •  Robert Spencer Afghanistan: Taliban again shows respect for peace agreement, murders five bank employees Did anyone in Washington ever really think that the Taliban would honor a peace agreement it made with Infidels? If so, that person should be made to write an extensive study of the Treaty of Hudaybiyya. Or be fired. Or both. “Taliban Kills Five Bank Employees In Western Afghan Province,” DPA, April 10, 2020 (thanks […] Read more 2020-04-14  •  Robert Spencer India: Muslims, including an imam, pelt police team with stones for trying to seal a mosque The mosque must not be closed. The prayers must go on. Coronavirus? Allah will protect them from that. This is the same kind of fanaticism that fuels jihad activity. “Meerut: Police Team Trying To Seal Mosque In Jali Kothi Hotspot Attacked; Four Arrested,” IANS, April 12, 2020: Four persons, including the Imam of a mosque, […] Read more 2020-04-14  •  Robert Spencer Greece: Muslim migrants cough on police, chop down 5,000 olive trees What are the chances that these migrants will become loyal, stable, productive citizens of European states? Right, about nil. “An attack on Greek heritage, migrants chop thousands of olive trees on Lesvos,” by Paul Antonopoulos, Greek City Times, April 7, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): It has been a wild few days on […] Read more 2020-04-14  •  Robert Spencer Iran: Muslim cleric slams UNICEF as “enemy of Islam” Shirazi has it all wrong. UNICEF, and the UN in general, is a massive friend of Islam, driven by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to demonize Israel relentlessly, and to try to intimidate the West into criminalizing criticism of Islam under the guise of “hate speech.” “Iranian hardline cleric slams UNICEF as ‘enemy of Islam,’” […] Read more 2020-04-14  •  Robert Spencer Muslim Economist: China Will Triumph Over America Due to Coronavirus Pandemic, So Learn Chinese At MEMRI.org, we find the predictions of one Saeed Tawfiqi, a Kuwaiti economist, as to the inevitable rise of China and the decline of the West. Tawfiqi said in a March 30, 2020 interview on Diwan Al-Mulla Internet TV (Kuwait) that in light of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. and Europe will enter a sharp […] Read more 2020-04-14  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Video from UK: Cops threaten journalist for reporting mosque violating coronavirus restrictions It’s clear what group is in charge in Britain today. It has been clear for years. They might as well make Anjem Choudary Prime Minister and be done with it. “WATCH: Police Threaten Independent Journalist After He Reported a Mosque for Violating Restrictions on Public Gatherings,” Caldron Pool, April 13, 2020 (thanks to The Religion […] Read more 2020-04-14  •  Robert Spencer