JIHAD WATCH

 

Pakistani Taliban top dog: Taliban victory in Afghanistan is victory for the entire Muslim people in the world The Islamic aspect of the conflict in Afghanistan was ignored in Washington from the beginning to the end. Washington foreign policy experts never understood the conflict from the Afghan perspective and never came close to formulating an effective response to their presentation of the conflict to the Afghan people. The dogma that Islam is a […] Read more 2021-08-01  •  Robert Spencer Iran says jihad ‘suicide drone’ on oil tanker was revenge for Israeli airstrike on military airport in Syria The oil tanker is not a military vessel, but such distinctions are unimportant to the mullahs, who likely see all Israelis as enemy combatants. Meanwhile, they frame their attack as revenge because by framing it as defensive jihad against an infidel attack, they remind the knowledgeable and devout that according to Islamic theology, all Muslims […] Read more 2021-08-01  •  Robert Spencer Iraq: Islamic State jihadis open fire on funeral procession, murder 13 people, injure 45 The participants in the procession did not accept the authority of the Islamic State, and thus were heretics or apostates, who deserved death and could be lawfully killed according to Sharia. “Over a dozen killed in terrorist attack on a funeral procession in northern Iraq,” Gulf News, July 31, 2021: Baghdad: An attack on a […] Read more 2021-08-01  •  Robert Spencer Niger: Muslims murder 19 civilians in jihad raid on village Will the Islamophobia never end? “19 Civilians Killed in New Attack in Niger,” AFP, July 30, 2021: A fresh attack in western Niger near the border with volatile Mali has left 19 civilians dead, the government said on Thursday. The attack took place on Wednesday in the village of Deye Koukou in the Banibangou area, […] Read more 2021-08-01  •  Robert Spencer France: Muslimas complain of hijab ban, ‘I’m scared,’ ‘I felt violated by the demand to undress’ That the Guardian would publish pro-Sharia victimhood propaganda and deny the French the right to defend their own culture is predictable. If the Guardian had any interest in actual human rights violations regarding the hijab, it would note that many of the most celebrated of the cases claiming the harassment of women and girls wearing hijab […] Read more 2021-08-01  •  Robert Spencer Georgetown’s Bridge Initiative: Manufactured ‘Islamophobia’ Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative, a project of its Saudi-founded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), claims it exists to combat the pernicious spread of “Islamophobia.” ACMCU’s June 30 webinar featuring former Bridge research fellow Jordan Denari Duffner offered further evidence that Bridge’s real mission is to depict all Muslims as victims and silence critical commentary on Islam. Like […] Read more 2021-08-01  •  Andrew Harrod Turkey Keeps Main Orthodox Christian Theological School Closed for 50 Years July 29 marked the 50th anniversary of the closure by the Turkish government of the Halki seminary, formally the Theological School of Halki, in 1971. The school served as the main school of theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church’s Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The US Department of State released a statement, urging Turkey to reopen […] Read more 2021-08-01  •  Uzay Bulut In Tunisia, Street Riots and a Necessary Quasi-Coup The much ballyhooed “Arab Spring” began with the self-immolation of a Tunisian street seller, Mohamed Bouazizi, in protest at police corruption and his own ill treatment. His death set off riots across Tunisia, becoming a general uprising against the massive corruption of President Ben Ali and his cronies; Ben Ali was forced to flee the […] Read more 2021-08-01  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Pakistan: Sunni Muslims target Ahmadi in drive-by shooting amid spike in persecution of Ahmadis Sheikh Nasir Ahmad was the victim of a drive-by shooting in Pakistan because he is from the Ahmadiyya community. The targeting of the Ahmadis in Pakistan and elsewhere is as brutal as the persecution of infidels and apostates, because they are considered heretics in Islam, as is every Muslim group that doesn’t follow normative Islamic […] Read more 2021-08-01  •  Christine Douglass-Williams 2,000 Muslim migrants gather in northern France, ready to cross English Channel into UK

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