JIHAD WATCH 08/27/2020

Texas: Muslim who murdered his daughters in honor killing caught after 12 years on the run Yaser Said murdered his daughters for having non-Muslim boyfriends. This horrifying case points up the reality that honor murder can happen even in Western countries. Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, […] Read more 2020-08-27  •  Robert Spencer Rating America’s Presidents: ‘intellectual rigor and fearlessness in resisting facile orthodoxy’ “Robert Spencer’s greatest contribution to the public debate has always been intellectual rigor and fearlessness in resisting facile orthodoxy. In Rating America’s Presidents, he makes his cynosure President Donald Trump’s guiding tenet: The duty of America’s president is, simply, to put America’s interests first. His effort to apply the same metrics to every chief executive […] Read more 2020-08-26  •  Robert Spencer Muslim cleric says that the conflict between Arabs and Israel is purely religious The religious aspect of the Israeli-Arab conflict is always front and center in the statements of Arab Muslim leaders, and yet it is the single element most frequently and immediately discounted and ignored by Western foreign policy analysts. Get the truth in The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process. “Controversial […] Read more 2020-08-26  •  Robert Spencer Norway: Muslim mob beats critic of Islam for saying Muhammad was a false prophet Another glimpse into the future of the West. Do you doubt that? Really? But how is anything remotely connected to criticism of Islam, even simple opposition to jihad terror, treated in the establishment media and by both parties now? “Norwegian critic of Islam attacked by mob: ‘We are on our way to the Swedish state,'” […] Read more 2020-08-26  •  Robert Spencer Bangladesh: Muslims threaten to murder atheist blogger for criticizing political Islam, defending Buddhists “One of Noor’s video blogs featured the apparent vandalism of a Buddhist statue under construction in a Buddhist monastery in Rangunia. Noor claimed that the attackers were supported by forest officials and the local MP of the AL party because they wanted to evict the monks from the area. After Noor published his videos, local […] Read more 2020-08-26  •  Robert Spencer Curb Your Enthusiasm: Saudi Arabia Wants Israel to Pay an ‘Expensive Price’ The enthusiasm in Israel for the normalization agreement with the UAE has caused some to lose their heads. The Jerusalem Post published an editorial on August 19 claiming that there was no reason for Israel to worry about the proposed sale by the U.S. to the UAE of the top-of-the-line Stealth fighter jet, the F-35, […] Read more 2020-08-26  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Islamic Republic of Iran paid bounties to Taliban for targeting American troops in Afghanistan This is one of the reasons why Qasem Soleimani was killed. And remember the storm of outrage with which the establishment media and the Leftist political elites greeted the news that he had been taken out. “US intelligence indicates Iran paid bounties to Taliban for targeting American troops in Afghanistan,” by Zachary Cohen, CNN, August […] Read more 2020-08-26  •  Robert Spencer Canada: Convicted jihad terrorist arrested for second time since release from prison “The Parole Board of Canada warned prior to his release there was no evidence Mohamed had abandoned extremist beliefs and said it was concerned he would continue to commit terrorist crimes.” Why, then, was he released? But it’s no surprise that his views hadn’t changed. Nothing, nothing whatsoever, was done while they were in prison […] Read more 2020-08-26  •  Robert Spencer PA’s Grand Mufti: We will spit in the face of Muslims who visit al-Aqsa Mosque through the Israeli gate Sheikh Mohammad Hussein stated: Whoever wants to come visit the Aqsa Mosque through the gate of Palestine: Welcome, and we will rejoice over him. But whoever wants to come through the Israeli gate is unwanted, and he will find nothing but the shoes of the people of Jerusalem and the spit of the people of […] Read more 2020-08-26  •  Christine Douglass-Williams Let Us Now Praise Famous Unknown Men: “A” Israel is the gift that, for the Free World (yes, let’s agree to use that now-quaint phrase), keeps on giving. This tiny strip of unprepossessing land at one dusky end of Asia is an endless source of astonishments, in peace and in war. Every week, every day, brings news of technological inventions and agricultural improvements […] Read more 2020-08-26  •  Hugh Fitzgerald