JIHAD WATCH 07/01/2016

Ramadan in Bangladesh: Muslims hack Hindu priest to death at temple
By Robert Spencer on Jun 30, 2016 10:38 pm

“He was preparing morning prayers with flowers at the temple early in the morning and that time three young people came by a motor bike and killed him with machetes and fled away,” secure in the knowledge that they had pleased their bloodthirsty god. “Hindu priest hacked to death in Bangladesh,” Reuters, July 1, 2016: […]
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Ramadan in Egypt: Muslims kill Christian priest with hail of bullets outside church
By Robert Spencer on Jun 30, 2016 08:22 pm

Did Fr. Raphael provoke them in some way? Did he draw Muhammad? Did he opine that Islam was not a religion of peace? Or could his murder simply have been provoked by who he was, as an Infidel, a Christian priest? Why are Church leaders in the West so uniformly silent about the Muslim persecution […]
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Strict gun control didn’t stop jihadists from gathering weapons near German mosque
By Christine Williams on Jun 30, 2016 05:59 pm

Police seized a “war grade weapons” arsenal near a mosque in the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Local politician Ismail Tipi said the discovery “confirms his feelings that these fundamentalist Salafists groups are ready to use violence against the civilian population.” Germany has ultra-strict gun control laws, which did not prevent Islamic jihadists from obtaining a […]
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New Robert Spencer pamphlet: Oriana Fallaci: Europe’s Cassandra
By Robert Spencer on Jun 30, 2016 05:33 pm

Inside my copy of Oriana Fallaci’s The Force of Reason is an envelope, on which is written in Fallaci’s inimitable and elegant handwriting, “PERSONAL. For Robert Spencer from O. Fallaci.” Oriana included this request in the note inside the envelope: “Please don’t let somebody else write about ‘The Force of Reason’ and me. Do it […]
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CIA Director: Brexit is bigger crisis for the EU than the Islamic State
By Christine Williams on Jun 30, 2016 04:30 pm

CIA Director John Brennan is claiming that the biggest crisis facing the EU is not the Islamic State threat, but Brexit. He is “prioritizing consequences of the referendum vote over the threat of terror posed by the Islamic State as refugees from the Middle East continue to stream into the continent.” Brennan, the onetime chief counter-terrorism advisor […]
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Homesick for “Islamophobic” US, “Clock Boy” returns to Texas
By Robert Spencer on Jun 30, 2016 01:43 pm

Ahmed Mohamed didn’t build anything. He just fit existing clockworks into a pencil box. His arrest was a hysterical overreaction, but not “Islamophobia”: school officials nationwide have acted in similar ways with non-Muslim students because of the zero tolerance policy on weaponry. There were ominous implications of this entire episode, with the inevitable effect that […]
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Ramadan in Israel: Muslim murders 13-year-old Israeli girl in her bed, is celebrated as hero by “Palestinians”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 30, 2016 01:03 pm

The savagery of this is breathtaking and should gain for the “Palestinians” the opprobrium of the entire world. But it won’t. Instead, the Obama administration and the UN are likely to issue fresh condemnations of Israel. “PA and Fatah quick to honor murderer who killed 13-year-old girl in her sleep,” by Itamar Marcus and Nan […]
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DHS top dog Jeh Johnson refuses to answer Senate on scrubbing terror docs of all mention of jihad and Islam
By Robert Spencer on Jun 30, 2016 12:38 pm

Throughout this questioning by Ted Cruz, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson maintains that how the enemy is identified is unimportant, and that he and other intelligence and law enforcement top dogs know full well who the enemy is, and are busy foiling his plots. Cruz, in response, shreds Johnson, pointing to numerous ways in which the […]
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Wikipedia removes Orlando jihad massacre from ‘Islamist Terror Attack’ list
By Robert Spencer on Jun 30, 2016 12:30 pm

“An editor named Bastun further claimed that just because Omar Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS, that doesn’t mean that his actions were indicative of the Islamic group. ‘The world’s asylums are full of people who claim they’re Napoleon. If one of them attacks a psychiatric nurse, we don’t attribute the attack to the French Empire […]
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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Hillary’s ‘Serious Lack of Competence’ Cost Lives at Benghazi
By Robert Spencer on Jun 30, 2016 11:26 am

But she is only the tip of the iceberg. Over at FrontPage, I explain why. Former CIA officer D. W. Wilber noted in The Hill Monday that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s actions leading up to the Benghazi attack, and the Obama administration’s foreign policy in Libya as a whole were “lunacy on a […]
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Foreign Policy: “It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 30, 2016 11:18 am

The elites are indeed rising up against the masses: in the UK, they’re trying to find ways to reverse the Brexit vote and overrule the will of the people, while in the US, the Republican establishment is trying desperately to overrule the will of its own voters and deny the nomination, or the presidency, to […]
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Obama administration to deny public records requests on Mateen’s jihad attack at the Pulse
By Christine Williams on Jun 30, 2016 11:05 am

It is astounding how far the Obama administration is willing to go to keep covering up the real motive behind the Mateen jihad massacre at the Pulse and the problem America faces with Islamic jihad. Now the FBI has instructed Florida agencies to deny any requests for public records that involve the case of Mateen. […]
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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Obama-Appointed Prosecutor Chills Free Speech in Idaho Migrant Sex Assault
By Robert Spencer on Jun 30, 2016 10:27 am

Over at PJ Media, I discuss the attempt to cover up Muslim migrant crime in Idaho, and to criminalize free discussion of what happened there: The Obama administration has on numerous occasions shown its distaste for the First Amendment. Now, in Idaho, an Obama-appointed federal prosecutor has gone to war against it, behaving as if […]
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Reading the Qur’an during Ramadan 26: Juz Ha Mim
By Robert Spencer on Jun 30, 2016 04:10 am

The Meccan sura 46 is the last of the “Ha Mim” series of suras (40-46), and hews closely to the themes of the others: the Qur’an is revealed by Allah (v. 2); Allah created the heavens and the earth for a just purpose, but the unbelievers reject faith (v. 3); those whom they pray to […]
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