JIHAD WATCH 12/27/2014

Libya: Islamic jihadis murder 13-year-old Christian girl Dec 26, 2014 05:50 pm | Robert Spencer They had already murdered her parents. Will the Islamophobia never end? “Egyptian Coptic teen seized in Libya found dead,” AFP, December 26, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Benghazi – An Egyptian Coptic Christian teenager abducted in Libya by armed men who killed her parents has been found dead, a hospital source said on Friday. Residents found ... comments | read more      New issue of al-Qaeda magazine devoted to “jihad in America” Dec 26, 2014 05:19 pm | Robert Spencer Trying to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60). “New issue of jihadist magazine produced by al-Qaeda in Yemen suggests attacks on U.S.,” by Karen DeYoung, Washington Post, December 24, 2014 (thanks to Block Ness): A new issue of Inspire, the English-language online magazine produced by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, is devoted ... comments | read more      Australia: Muslims planned to “turn Blue Mountains into killing ground” Dec 26, 2014 04:39 pm | Robert Spencer Sulayman Khalid said, “In order for me to be connected to the values here of Australia, the Australian government needs to stop picking on the Muslims here” — in other words, he would be loyal to Australia if Australia did nothing to stop jihad terror activity. Now it appears that he wanted the Australian government ... comments | read more      US gives Pakistan free pass and $1 billion, ignores its ties to jihad terror groups Dec 26, 2014 02:05 pm | Robert Spencer “A defence authorization bill signed by President Barack Obama last week that provides for $1 billion in aid to Pakistan in 2015 conditions it on Islamabad taking steps to disrupt the Haqqani Network and eliminating safe havens of al-Qaida and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. However, it makes no mention of the Punjab-centric terror groups such as the ... comments | read more      Islamic State reportedly selling Christian artifacts, turning churches into torture chambers Dec 26, 2014 11:45 am | Robert Spencer “The terrorist group has sought to destroy religious groups that don’t embrace its twisted and violent interpretation of Islam.” Reporter Perry Chiaramonte assumes that the Islamic State’s interpretation of Islam is “twisted” because that is the acceptable opinion today. The fact that it has not been established, and flies in the face of the obvious ... comments | read more      Malian academic: What Islamic jihad groups did in Mali “has nothing to do with Islam” Dec 26, 2014 11:22 am | Robert Spencer “What they did has nothing to do with Islam. They cut off people’s hands and feet.” “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or ... comments | read more      Pakistan: Christians in Peshawar celebrate Christmas behind cement blocks, barbed wire, and 2,000 policemen Dec 26, 2014 11:00 am | Robert Spencer All these precautions were necessary because on September 22, 2013, jihad-martyrdom suicide bombers murdered 127 people and injured over 250 at All Saints Church in Peshawar. And one never knows when the adherents of the Religion of Peace may launch yet another murderous attack that Has Nothing To Do With Islam. Note that even these ... comments | read more      Egyptian security forces foil jihad terrorist attack on Coptic Christmas celebrations Dec 26, 2014 10:42 am | Robert Spencer   This plot may have been foiled yesterday, but it was unlikely to have been planned for yesterday, as Copts celebrate Christmas on January 7. In any case, it is noteworthy that the jihad plot was organized by “a 50-year-old deputy headmaster of a secondary school in the Minya governorate.” Yet again we see that the ... comments | read more      Islamic State issues rules for Christians living in “state of subjugation” Dec 26, 2014 10:21 am | Robert Spencer The ever-clueless Daily Mail is, of course, treating these rules as if they’re sinister creations of the “conservatives” running the Islamic State. In fact, they are part of traditional and mainstream Islamic law. A manual of Islamic law certified by no less an authority than al-Azhar as a reliable guide to orthodox Sunni Islam lays ... comments | read more      Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Why Robert George Is the Chris Christie of Conservative Intellectuals Dec 26, 2014 09:51 am | Robert Spencer Over at PJ Media I discuss the all-too-predictable blind spot of “this country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker”: Princeton Professor Robert P. George is a leading American conservative thinker, with some undeniably outstanding accomplishments. The New York Times has hailed him as “this country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker.” But as is the case with many ... comments | read more