JIHAD WATCH 04/03/2015

Texas: Muslim charged with aiding Afghan jihad groups
By Robert Spencer on Apr 02, 2015 11:18 pm

In what way is Muhanad Mahmoud al Farekh a “Texas man”? He was born there. Yet it is unlikely that he has anything but contempt for many, if not most, of his fellow Texans — those who would not wish to see Texas become an Islamic state. It is unlikely that Muhanad Mahmoud al Farekh […]
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New York jihadi Muslimas were “devoted to Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 02, 2015 10:02 pm

“That’s not what we promote here,” said the imam. “Very friendly, nothing political, nothing extremist. . . . If they were doing it, they were doing it on the down low.” What did you expect him to say? “Oh, yes, we put them up to it, kaffir”? “Yes, we all knew about what they were […]
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New York City: Two Muslim women inspired by Islamic State arrested for trying to build bomb
By Robert Spencer on Apr 02, 2015 03:01 pm

“Two weeks ago, after news broke about Pugh’s arrest, she said she didn’t understand why people wanted to join ISIS overseas when there are ways of ‘pleasing Allah’ here in the United States, court documents say.” Yes. Watch for more of this. “Two ISIS-Inspired Women Arrested in NYC for Allegedly Trying to Build Bomb,” by […]
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Iran runs the table at Lausanne, then brags about US nuke concessions
By Robert Spencer on Apr 02, 2015 02:52 pm

The catastrophe of this cannot be overstated. The US and the free world will be paying for this deal for a long time to come. “Iran Brags About Nuke Concessions,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, April 2, 2015: LAUSANNE, Switzerland—Iran and world powers on Thursday announced that following the latest round of nuclear negotiations, […]
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Friedman’s Fantasy
By Michael Devolin on Apr 02, 2015 02:45 pm

“A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.” – Arthur Miller, from Death of a Salesman Writing of America’s relationship with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s Iran, Efraim Karsh recounts that, “So entrenched had the idea of this Iranian-American symbiosis become that successive US administrations came to view Iranian interests as indistinguishable […]
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FBI confirms death of jihad terrorist with DNA from severed finger
By Robert Spencer on Apr 02, 2015 08:43 am

Why did he have a severed finger? Did he steal a pencil, or a pack of gum, or some other small item? Seriously, does the Philippine government think that its granting of autonomy to Muslim areas will end the jihad against it? Philippine officials will be unpleasantly surprised. “FBI confirms death of ‘most wanted terrorist’ […]
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Mali: “With the help of the hand of Allah,” Muslims kill Red Cross aid worker
By Robert Spencer on Apr 02, 2015 08:21 am

“With the help of the hand of Allah, we killed near Gao, in Muslim territory, a driver who worked for the enemy,” said a spokesman for The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO). “Oneness” is tauhid, Islamic monotheism. Not that this has anything to do with Islam. “Al Qaeda Splinter Group Claims […]
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Kenya college: Jihadis separate Muslims from Christians, murder Christians
By Robert Spencer on Apr 02, 2015 08:04 am

At least 14 people have been killed, but a spokesman for the jihadis said, “We’ve killed many people; Kenyans will be shocked when the go inside.” The Muslims were freed. Time for the Left and the Islamic supremacists to issue another report about rampant “Islamophobia,” so as to deflect attention from this. “Kenya Garissa University […]
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Islamic law overrides Egyptian law in case of recent church attack, says Coptic priest
By Raymond Ibrahim on Apr 02, 2015 07:48 am

According to a local priest and Coptic spokesman, last Friday’s assault on a Coptic Christian church proposed to be built, with President Sisi’s permission, to honor the 21 Coptic Christians who were slaughtered by the Islamic State in Libya, was all too typical and a reminder that Islamic Sharia sentiment continues to trump the sovereignty […]
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Middle East Quarterly: Raymond Ibrahim Reviews Beth Baron’s The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood
By Raymond Ibrahim on Apr 02, 2015 07:42 am

In 1933, Turkiya Hassan, an orphaned Egyptian, Muslim girl, was beaten by a matron at a Swedish missionary school. School authorities later contended that the “rude and aggressive” 15-year-old was ordered “into a room for private chastisement” at which time the girl “showed fight and seized the cane” from the matron who soon “regained mastery […]
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