JIHAD WATCH 05/30/2020

Morocco: Police arrest actor for blasphemy against Islam after he calls on people to “perform prayers with whiskey” Boubker’s excuse is that he was drunk. That is unlikely to fly among the Islamic supremacists he has enraged. Meanwhile, this is a glimpse into the future of the U.S. This can’t happen here, you say? We respect the freedom of speech, you say? Maybe that was true at one time, but it is no […] Read more 2020-05-30  •  Robert Spencer Nigeria: Muslim leader claims Jesus was a Muslim This is not an “extremist” view. As I explain in The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran, it is mainstream Islamic teaching that Jesus was a Muslim who taught Islam, and that all the Biblical prophets were Muslims as well. In this view, their followers then twisted their teachings to create the distorted and false […] Read more 2020-05-30  •  Robert Spencer Sweden: Muslim migrant with multiple ties to al-Qaeda and jihad terror recruitment dies peacefully in hospital “All though he has managed to elude security services for several decennia, the man has now died from corona virus at the Swedish Huddinge hospital….Despite strong evidence, and being one of the most infamous jihadist recruiters in Sweden, the man was never convicted of a terrorist crime.” And he clearly took full advantage of Swedish […] Read more 2020-05-30  •  Robert Spencer A Former Muslim’s Journey of Faith I am a Jordanian Arab from a Muslim family born in 1989. In 2010, I decided to leave Islam after becoming fed up with all the jihadist violence and intolerance and persecution of non-Muslims. What made my decision final was the realization that this violence and hatred is enshrined in the verses of the Koran […] Read more 2020-05-30  •  Rami Dabbas The Financial Times Calls Israel A “Segregated Society” Adam Levick of CAMERA dissects a recent article on Israel in the Financial Times. The headline of the story in the Financial Times is “The Arab medics battling coronavirus in Israel’s segregated society.” Levick notes: The article itself, reported from Haifa, the city that’s arguably the most successful model of Jewish-Arab coexistence in the country, […] Read more 2020-05-30  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Palestinian Authority’s Supreme Sharia Judge invokes Qur’an: “Kill them wherever you find them” “Kill them wherever you find them” appears in the Qur’an at 2:191 and 4:89, and 9:5 says “kill the idolaters wherever you find them.” Mahmoud Al-Habbash’s words here shows how seriously some Muslims today take these commands. 1,400 years have proven that individuals, groups and countries have been committing the worst abuses against humanity in […] Read more 2020-05-30  •  Christine Douglass-Williams Burkino Faso: Muslims kill over 200 teachers and school staff since 2017 because jihadis oppose Western education The true face of Islamic supremacist intolerance and hate is evident daily, and Burkino Faso isn’t exempt: Human Rights Watch (HRW) said more than 200 teachers and other staff had been targeted since 2017 – some of them shot, others beheaded. Why? Because the jihadis who targeted them have a rabid hatred of anything Western. […] Read more 2020-05-30  •  Christine Douglass-Williams How the Hagia Sophia became a mosque on this day in 1453 Turkish President and would-be caliph Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to turn the Hagia Sophia, now a museum in Istanbul, back into a mosque. But how did the Hagia Sophia become a mosque in the first place? Today is the anniversary of an awesome tragedy. On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, once the greatest city in the […] Read more 2020-05-29  •  Robert Spencer Germany: Muslim migrants rape 14-year-old, sexually assault 13-year-old, get 3 1/2 years prison Once they get out, they will become loyal, stable, productive members of German society, no? No. Because nothing whatsoever will be done while they are in prison to try to ensure that. The Islamic principles that likely contributed to their thinking this was acceptable behavior will not be challenged; to do so would be “Islamophobic.” […] Read more 2020-05-29  •  Robert Spencer Palestinian-American Congressional Candidate Loses Big in Illinois’ ‘Little Palestine’ District Palestinian-American Rashad “Rush” Darwish was the first Muslim Palestinian to run for elected office in Illinois’ 3rd congressional district, an area comprising Chicago’s southern suburbs and “Little Palestine,” where thousands of Palestinian-Americans live and work. Despite this favorable constituency, Darwish’s decision to neglect local issues and prioritize the distant Palestinian-Israeli conflict may have led to […] Read more 2020-05-29  •  Hesham Shehab