JIHAD WATCH 07/03/2016

Malaysia: Muslim/Christian interfaith event cancelled after threat to participating Christians
By Robert Spencer on Jul 02, 2016 08:53 pm

“Someone made a police report and two police (one Muslim and one Christians) went to the church nicely and explain that tonight there might be an individual or group who would cause trouble. Having weighing all options, the church decided to cancel the event. All in good faith.” So apparently not all Muslims were as […]
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“Moderate” Malaysia: Mosque official fired for allowing non-Muslim into prayer hall
By Robert Spencer on Jul 02, 2016 08:37 pm

“According to the Selangor Mosque and Surau Guideline 2010, non-Muslims are not allowed to step into the prayer area of a mosque or surau in the state to hold any activity.” An interesting exercise of Islamic supremacism in “moderate” Malaysia. “Selayang mosque chairman faces the axe for inviting non-Muslim MP into prayer hall,” by Jamilah […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Pass/Fail in Bangladesh
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jul 02, 2016 07:15 pm

“The gunmen were doing a background check on religion by asking everyone to recite from the Quran. Those who could recite a verse or two were spared. The others were tortured.” This from the jihad attack at the Holey Artisan Bakery, in Dhaka. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the English naturalist Henry Bates, a contemporary of […]
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Arizona: Muslim teen arrested for jihad plots against government buildings
By Robert Spencer on Jul 02, 2016 06:39 pm

Where did Mahin Khan learn his understanding of Islam? Is his local mosque being investigated? Or are the feds satisfied that he was “radicalized on the Internet”? They never seem curious as to why these Internet radicals are so easily able to defeat the peaceful, benign Islam that Muslims supposedly imbibe in U.S. mosques. “FBI: […]
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Ramadan in France: Muslim couple screaming “Allahu akbar” stabs man in stomach
By Robert Spencer on Jul 02, 2016 06:22 pm

The family that slays together stays together. “Frenchman stabbed by couple shouting ‘Allahu Akbar,'” BBC, July 1, 2016 (thanks to Damian): Police are investigating after a French charity worker said he was attacked with a knife and an axe by a couple who shouted “Allahu Akbar”. The incident happened at a soup kitchen in Montreuil, […]
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First call to Islamic prayer inside Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia in 85 years
By Robert Spencer on Jul 02, 2016 04:07 pm

The Orthodox Church has protested, but the Turks know that there is nothing whatsoever that they can do that would lose them the favor of the European Union. They know they have nothing to lose, and that Islamization is the wave of the future in Europe and the West in general. The Orthodox protests are […]
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Bangladesh: Muslims murder 20 hostages, 13 others saved
By Robert Spencer on Jul 02, 2016 11:11 am

Prime Minister Hasina said: “Anyone who believes in religion cannot do such act. They do not have any religion, their only religion is terrorism.”… Yet the jihadis “did not hit people who could recite verses from the Quran. The others were tortured. The gunmen asked everyone inside to recite from the Quran. Those who recited […]
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Trump: “Incitement and preaching of hate by the Palestinian leadership…must end immediately”
By Robert Spencer on Jul 02, 2016 10:59 am

After seven and a half years of Obama ignoring “Palestinian” incitement and pressuring Israel to make disastrous concessions to the “Palestinian” jihadis, this is most refreshing. The “Palestinian” airwaves are filled with genocidal incitement on a constant basis. Yet few American politicians have ever been willing to point to this as a source of the […]
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Al Quds Day and the jihadist mantra: “death to America, death to Israel”
By Christine Williams on Jul 02, 2016 10:18 am

Tens of thousands of Iranians joined anti-Israel rallies across the country to express solidarity with Palestinians. They chanted “death to Israel, death to America” and burned the Israeli flag. The day is known as al Quds Day, an annual event held on the last Friday of Ramadan that was initiated by Iran during its 1979 revolution to […]
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Bangladesh restaurant jihad attack: Those who could recite Qur’an were spared
By Robert Spencer on Jul 02, 2016 05:52 am

“The gunmen were doing a background check on religion by asking everyone to recite from the Quran. Those who could recite a verse or two were spared. The others were tortured.” And even in the face of this, which we saw before in the Westgate Mall jihad massacre in Kenya and in other jihad massacres, […]
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Reading the Qur’an during Ramadan 28: Juz Qad Sami Allahu
By Robert Spencer on Jul 02, 2016 04:41 am

At the beginning of the Medinan sura 58, Allah tells Muhammad that he has heard the pleas of the woman whose husband attempted to divorce by telling her, “You are to me as my mother’s back.” A woman thus divorced could not remarry, and indeed had to remain in her ex-husband’s household as, effectively, a […]
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