JIHAD WATCH 12/30/2020

 

Muslim former US professor who was darling of the American Left renews call for Israel’s destruction Longtime Jihad Watch readers will remember Sami Al-Arian, the former University of South Florida professor who for years was a darling of the Leftist intelligentsia. In March 2002, Nicholas Kristof went to bat for the professor in the New York Times: “The point is not whether one agrees with Professor Al-Arian, a rumpled academic with […] Read more 2020-12-29  •  Robert Spencer Iranian news agency: ‘Muslims love Jesus, too’ Ahlul Bayt News Agency paints a pretty picture of Islam’s love for Jesus. Here are a few items it left out: Jesus is not the Son of God, belief in the Trinity is “excess”: “O People of the Scripture, do not commit excess in your religion or say about Allah except the truth. The Messiah, […] Read more 2020-12-29  •  Robert Spencer France: Muslim migrant with ‘visible psychiatric disorders’ gets six months for sexual assault of 15-year-old girl Here is a variant on the frequently recurring phenomenon of the global outbreak of mental illness. Instead of covering for a jihad attack, here “psychiatric disorders” cover for a sexual assault. Would this fellow have been dismissed as having “a moderate impairment of discernment,” and would he have gotten only six months, if he had […] Read more 2020-12-29  •  Robert Spencer Iran’s Rouhani: ‘We are nullifying sanctions on both exports and imports’ Rouhani and the other mullahs know that their crisis is almost over, and good times for them are ahead, if not for their long-suffering people. “Rouhani: We’re seriously after nullifying sanctions,” Tehran Times, December 27, 2020: TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that his administration is seriously pursuing the nullification of the sanctions. […] Read more 2020-12-29  •  Robert Spencer Yemen: Houthi jihadis beat woman to death in front of her two children “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah and your enemies…” (8:60) “Yemen’s Houthi rebels kill woman in front of her children,” The National, December 26, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A 25-year-old woman […] Read more 2020-12-29  •  Robert Spencer Wonder Woman 1984: ‘I didn’t pick up on the blatant Islamophobia during my initial viewing’ Maybe Farid-ul-Haq initially missed the “Islamophobia” in “Wonder Woman 1984” because one has to strain so hard to see it at all. What exactly constitutes “Islamophobia” is never defined in this article; it is taken for granted that everyone knows what it is, and it appears that Farid-ul-Haq thinks of it as an irrational prejudice […] Read more 2020-12-29  •  Robert Spencer Nigeria: Muslims murder three loggers, kidnap dozens more Hostage-taking is sanctioned in Islamic law and subject to particular rules: “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale […] Read more 2020-12-29  •  Robert Spencer The ‘intolerance and animosity’ that Muslims exhibit toward non-Muslims is not new — it’s 1,400 years old The Palestinian Christian Bishara Bahbah paints a grim picture of the lot of Christians in Hamas-ruled Gaza, but at the same time he misleadingly describes a pollyannish version of how Palestinian Christians live in the PA-ruled parts of the West Bank. In this version, Christians get along swimmingly with their Muslim “friends and neighbors.” The […] Read more 2020-12-29  •  Hugh Fitzgerald

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