Wednesday, January 8, 2014

JIHAD WATCH 01/08/2014


Jan 08, 2014 03:31 am | Robert Spencer
Another Qur'an dress, from 1994 The worst aspect of this incident is that the college immediately bowed to the threats. That will only ensure that there will be more threats. "Arab Fashion Designer Threatened over Quran Dress," by Gil Ronen for Israel National News, January 7 (thanks to The Religion...

Jan 08, 2014 02:11 am | Robert Spencer
Visiting shrines: a grave sin in Sunni Islam. Murdering people who visit shrines: pleasing to Allah. "6 men found with throats cut at Pakistan shrine," from AFP, January 7 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The bodies of six men with their throats slit have been found near a...

Jan 08, 2014 12:30 am | Robert Spencer
"Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam....

Jan 07, 2014 04:47 pm | Robert Spencer
This really ought to be easy. If the mainstream narrative is true, al-Qaeda members are ignoring not only peaceful passages of the Qur'an, but the entire thrust of the Qur'an and Sunnah, which mandates peace and respect for non-Muslims. Yet they are clearly and invariably devout Muslim believers, so...

Jan 07, 2014 04:40 pm | Robert Spencer
"Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that Allah has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for Allah’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish;...

Jan 07, 2014 04:22 pm | Robert Spencer
Kowtowing to Islamic antisemitism. "Dutch Soccer Team Leaves Star Israeli Player Behind," by Tova Dvorin for Israel National News, January 6: The premier Dutch soccer team Vitesse left for training in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this year - without its best defender, after UAE authorities refused to allow...

Jan 07, 2014 04:14 pm | Robert Spencer
Tongue planted firmly in cheek, David Solway identifies the twelfth imam. This one made me laugh: "The Return of the Twelfth Imam: A prophecy has been fulfilled," by David Solway at PJ Lifestyle, January 5: In a fascinating article for FrontPage Magazine titled “Now the Twelfth Imam Can Come,”...

Jan 07, 2014 04:10 pm | Robert Spencer
The West's new export: jihad. "Jihadi Leaders Anjem Choudary and Omar Bakri Acknowledge Sending Western Fighters to Syria," from MEMRI, n.d.: Following are excerpts from a report on British Islamist Anjem Choudary and Jihadi cleric Omar Bakri, which aired on LBC TV on November 27, 2013: Reporter: According to...

Jan 07, 2014 04:03 pm | Robert Spencer
"The week before, gunmen restrained police officers at a checkpoint in the same area, and shot dead 12 people at a row of adjoining alcohol shops nearby." Clearly these gunmen are deeply concerned with morality, and are keen to maintain Baghdad as a moral city. Murder of those they...

Jan 07, 2014 03:48 pm | Robert Spencer
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were fool's errands from the beginning; the U.S. was never going to be able to establish Western-style pluralistic republics in either of those countries, and its attempt to do so was doomed to be rejected by most people in both countries as being...

Jan 07, 2014 03:43 pm | Robert Spencer
This has long been known: the Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husseini lived in Berlin during the war, was friendly with Hitler, made broadcasts for the Nazis, and raised up a Muslim SS division. But in light of the universal denial and obfuscation of these facts by Muslim leaders...

Jan 07, 2014 03:12 pm | Robert Spencer
This shouldn't surprise anyone. The Democrats have for years now been focused on "Islamophobia" and building relationships with supposedly "moderate" Muslims, without having any way to discern whether the Muslims they were dealing with were "extremist" or "moderate," since they deny the reality of how jihadists use the texts...

Jan 07, 2014 01:26 pm | Robert Spencer
Nicolas Bons was a petty drug dealer who cleaned up his life under the influence of Islam. He began studying the Qur'an and frequenting the local mosque. Then, also under the influence of Islam, he went to Syria and blew himself up, hoping to gain the promise of Paradise...

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