JIHAD WATCH 05/19/2015

Qatar Kidnaps Journalists…and Practices Sharia
By Ronn Torossian on May 18, 2015 11:48 pm

On Monday, the BBC reported a story which noted that several of their journalists spent two days in jail for the crime of reporting the truth about the poor conditions under which migrant workers are treated in Qatar.  The journalists were told they were being held due to “national security,” and were also told: “This […]
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Since converting to Islam, UK woman has murdered 400 people
By Robert Spencer on May 18, 2015 11:21 pm

How many did she murder before converting to Islam? Zero, right? And she ascribes her activities now to Islam. Yet no one thinks the phenomenon of converts to Islam becoming jihadis is worthy of study. The mainstream analysts just wave it away with a mumble or two about being “radicalized on the Internet.” “White Widow […]
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Obama knew jihadis were planning Benghazi attack 10 days in advance
By Robert Spencer on May 18, 2015 10:59 pm

This makes his blaming of the freedom of speech — his attribution of the attack to a spontaneous reaction to a YouTube video — frankly insidious. What anti-free speech initiative was he hoping to implement in the wake of the attack? “JW: Obama Admin Knew About Benghazi Before It Happened,” Judicial Watch, May 18, 2015: […]
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NY police commissioner wants 450 more cops to fight against jihadis
By Robert Spencer on May 18, 2015 10:41 pm

The Islamic State threat, says Bratton, “has expanded significantly in the now 16 months I’ve been police commissioner.” He also says: “The significantly increased threat from ISIS using social media to recruit people not only to go to Syria to fight, but encouraging people … to attack police, to attack government officials, to basically brainwash […]
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Pakistan: Christian builds giant cross, challenges jihadis to destroy it
By Robert Spencer on May 18, 2015 09:53 pm

Parvez Henry Gill is standing up against violent intimidation. If the reaction to his building of this cross runs along the same line as the reaction to our Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest, he will be accused of deliberately offending the jihadis with a gratuitous provocation, and blamed for anything that may happen to […]
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Cathy Young is a terrible poster child for journalism
By Robert Spencer on May 18, 2015 08:57 pm

This is the second time in a week that I have answered, point-by-point, a lengthy exercise in character assassination against Pamela Geller and me written by Cathy Young, a contributing editor at Reason magazine and a longtime apologist for jihad terror. Young’s hit piece on us from last week appeared not in Reason but in […]
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Turkey: Muslims shoot 19-year-old woman in the head for appearing on a televised song contest
By Robert Spencer on May 18, 2015 03:38 pm

“The Posta newspaper reported on Sunday that Kaya had been threatened by relatives after travelling to Istanbul to take part in the contest.” By relatives. “Mutlu Kaya, 19, from the conservative region of Diyarbakir in the Kurdish-majority south-east of of the country…” By “conservative” AFP doesn’t mean “Reagan fans” or “supporters of free speech,” but […]
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Easy Money
By Joseph Zaalishvili on May 18, 2015 03:27 pm

Everyone is wondering how so many jihadists have appeared in the Middle East. Tens of thousands of mujahideen have come to a place where there is a war. Why is jihad recruitment going unnoticed? How and why do their movements remain invisible to law enforcement officials in many countries? Maybe they are not invisible. Maybe […]
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Appeals Court rules YouTube should not have been forced to take down film critical of Muhammad
By Robert Spencer on May 18, 2015 02:25 pm

A victory for the freedom of speech, but it hardly matters now: all jihadists need to do in order to get us to stop saying anything negative about Islam or Muhammad is to threaten to kill us, and everyone folds up, cowers and submits. “Appeals Court Sides With Google in Anti-Muslim Film Case,” by Sudhin […]
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UK Muslim who tried to join Islamic State: “there’s no life, no life without Jihad”
By Robert Spencer on May 18, 2015 01:30 pm

He earlier tried to get into Syria along with his father. So apparently he learned his Islam That Has Nothing to Do with Islam at home — he wasn’t “radicalized on the Internet.” “Coventry man ‘wanted martyrdom’ in Syria,” BBC, May 18, 2015: Zakariya Ashiq denies two counts of preparing acts of terrorism A young […]
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Boston Marathon jihad murderer’s mother: Non-Muslims will burn in “flames of an eternal and terrifying fire, an otherworldly flame, inshaallah”
By Robert Spencer on May 18, 2015 12:55 pm

Charming lady. Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wrote: Allah is the greatest. His decisions are the greatest. Inshaallah to him we belong and to him we will return. They think that they are killing us and they celebrate this, but we are the ones who will rejoice when Allah grants us the chance to behold them in the […]
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Islamic State Ramadan rules: 2-hour workday, women forbidden to leave homes
By Robert Spencer on May 18, 2015 09:36 am

Islamic jihadists and supremacists constantly tout the decadence of the West, and preen about Islamic piety. But this piety is enforced at the point of a gun. This is just establishing an empire of fear. “ISIS issues new rules in Mosul for Ramadan,” Rudaw, May 17, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): ERBIL, Kurdistan […]
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Denmark gave 32 jihadis in the Islamic State $58,000 in welfare payments
By Robert Spencer on May 18, 2015 09:21 am

The jihad against the West: funded with Danish taxpayer money! “Danish jihadists cashed in on welfare benefits,” The Local, May 18, 2015: Thirty-two Danes have collected nearly 400,000 kroner worth of unemployment benefits while fighting in Syria, it was revealed on Monday. According to an Employment Ministry document obtained by Radio24syv, the Danish Security and […]
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Belgium: Seven Muslimas convicted of terror charges for joining Islamic State
By Robert Spencer on May 18, 2015 09:07 am

Four of them are actually in the Islamic State now. Will they be allowed back into Belgium? If so, they’d be arrested, imprisoned for some period of time shorter than five years, and then released ready and able to carry out jihad attacks in Belgium and/or elsewhere in Europe. Wouldn’t it be wiser not to […]
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White House steps up warnings about jihad terrorism on U.S. soil
By Robert Spencer on May 18, 2015 08:36 am

You would think that some of these officials would stop and wonder why the Islamic State’s message so resonates with so many Muslims in America. But they are bound as a matter of policy to ignore that question. “White House steps up warnings about terrorism on U.S. soil,” by Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times, May […]
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Islamic State says women can become suicide bombers without husband’s permission
By Robert Spencer on May 18, 2015 08:27 am

See how the Islamic State respects women? No wonder feminists are so silent regarding Sharia oppression of women — this is real gender equality in the workplace! “ISIS doc says women can become suicide bombers without husbands’ permission,” Rudaw, May 17, 2015: ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Sexual jihad allows women to become suicide bombers “without […]
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