Wednesday, December 4, 2013

JIHAD WATCH 12/04/2013

Dec 04, 2013 01:53 am | Robert Spencer
Shhhh: "Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims." -- Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February 8, 2013 "Syria: 'Crimes against humanity' in Christian...

Dec 03, 2013 10:46 pm | Robert Spencer
Peace in our time! "‘Iran plans two more nuclear plants at Bushehr,’" from the Times of Israel, December 4: Iran is reportedly talking to Russia about building two more nuclear plants in Bushehr province, according to a senior official who spoke to an Iranian media outlet on Tuesday. The...

Dec 03, 2013 10:38 pm | Robert Spencer
This is becoming a global problem. There is a polio outbreak in Syria because Pakistani jihadis are bringing the virus from home. A Pakistani Muslim cleric has said that polio vaccinations are un-Islamic. And the Taliban have for some time been murdering people who were administering the polio vaccine...

Dec 03, 2013 05:34 pm | Robert Spencer
Nevertheless, "there appears to be general relaxation of sanctions and a rush to accommodate Iran … as if Iran has changed anything of its actual policies." Indeed. Fantasy-based policymaking rules the day. "Netanyahu Blasts Iran ‘Deal’ as ‘Political Theater,’" by Abraham Rabinovich for the Washington Free Beacon, December 3:...

Dec 03, 2013 04:51 pm | Robert Spencer
Hizb ut-Tahrir "said the federal government was hypocritical in criticising such activities at the same time it had troops fighting in Afghanistan." The fact that these jihadis were on their way to Syria to fight for the opposing side was apparently something they hoped the public would overlook. In...

Dec 03, 2013 02:47 pm | Robert Spencer
Helps to be a rock star His guilt is not in serious doubt. There are numerous witnesses, there is the video from the scene of the jihad attack, the car chases, the capture at the boat, etc. Do you think he would be receiving this solicitude if he were, say,...

Dec 03, 2013 02:28 pm | Robert Spencer
Islamic supremacists have already burned 82 churches. But to be concerned about this would be "Islamophobic." "Islamic Party Member Renews Threats Against Coptic Christians in Egypt: They 'Will Regret' Supporting Overthrow of Morsi," from the Christian Post, December 3: Assem Abdel Magid, a member of the Islamic party Gamaah...

Dec 03, 2013 02:04 pm | Robert Spencer
Bedouin Day of Rage Islamic groups in and around Israel generally claim that all of Israel belongs to Islam. So these guys must be moderates. "Islamic Movement: All Negev Lands Belong to Islam," by Dalit Halevi and Tova Dvorin for Israel National News, December 3 (thanks to Twostellas): Leaders of...

Dec 03, 2013 01:57 pm | Robert Spencer
Yet another sign of Turkey's rapid re-Islamization. The site has been a museum since 1946, per a ruling by the secular Turkish government. But secularism in Turkey is now on its way out. "Istanbul monastery to become mosque," from the Hürriyet Daily News, November 26 (thanks to Twostellas): The...

Dec 03, 2013 01:50 pm | Robert Spencer
In other words, the whole Afghan adventure, which began so as to topple the Taliban and destroy their jihad training operation, has been pointless and suicidally self-defeating, as I have been saying for years. "Interview: Karzai Says He'll Agree To Deal Once The U.S. Meets His Demands," from Radio...

Dec 03, 2013 01:31 pm | Robert Spencer
In PJ Lifestyle I discuss a new example from Syria of how jihadis are made: The videois chilling: a jihadist from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, al-Qaeda’s branch for those two countries, addresses a crowd of boys at a school in Syria, rallying them to jihad. The...

Dec 03, 2013 11:47 am | Robert Spencer
1997 Hamas jihad bombing in Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda Mall Iran's new "moderate" image hardest hit. "Court Awards $9 Million to Victims of Iranian-Backed Terrorism," by Alana Goodman for the Washington Free Beacon, December 2: A U.S. district court has awarded millions in Iranian government funds to five American families who...

Dec 03, 2013 09:12 am | Robert Spencer
Never too young to start "He is already serving a three-year probation order for a conviction of arson and break and enter last year." Now his "probation conditions have been tightened." Clearly this young man is a walking time bomb -- a jihad time bomb. For what is being done...

Dec 03, 2013 08:34 am | Robert Spencer
The Muslim Brotherhood's second great theorist, after its founder Hasan al-Banna, was Sayyid Qutb, the father of modern jihad theory. He sharpened his distaste for the West while living in the United States from November 1948 to August 1950. While hospitalized for a respiratory ailment in Washington, D.C., in...

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