JIHAD WATCH 02/11/2017

UK: “Man from Hertfordshire” arrested arriving from Iraq on suspicion of jihad plotting
By Robert Spencer on Feb 10, 2017 08:12 pm

When dealing with the establishment propaganda media, one has to read the tea leaves to recognize the full extent of the jihad threat. All the Guardian deigns to tell us here is that a “man from Hertfordshire” was arrested. Great. And a person on business from Porlock woke up Coleridge from his sunny dream of […]
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German cops hunt knife-carrying Muslim migrant “sex pest who said victim was asking for it”
By Robert Spencer on Feb 10, 2017 07:48 pm

This is the present that Merkel has brought upon Germany. Imagine what the future will be like. Of course she was asking for it, as far as he is concerned. The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right […]
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Not enough societal upheaval yet: Merkel wants 12,000,000 more Muslim migrants
By Robert Spencer on Feb 10, 2017 07:37 pm

What could possibly go wrong? Well, let’s see: all of the jihadis who murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015 had just entered Europe as refugees. In February 2015, the Islamic State boasted it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. The Lebanese Education Minister said in September 2015 that there […]
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Iraqi archbishop hopes Trump will aid persecuted Christians
By Christine Williams on Feb 10, 2017 06:04 pm

The Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Erbil, Bashar Warda, has commended President Trump’s concern for persecuted Christians: the fact that an American administration seems to know that there are Christians and other religious minorities here who need help is something I find heartening. I hope this means that we will no longer be excluded from U.S. […]
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France thwarts “imminent” jihad attack; 4 Muslims arrested, including 16-year-old girl
By Christine Williams on Feb 10, 2017 05:58 pm

“France is still under a state of emergency after several deadly attacks in 2015 and 2016.” Other countries in Europe are also on alert or scrambling to fix the chaos caused by Muslim migrants and jihadists. Billions of dollars are already being spent by Germany and the EU to clean up the chaos caused by […]
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EU boss says Brexit and Trump are “politics of paranoia,” should set alarm bells ringing across the West
By Christine Williams on Feb 10, 2017 05:44 pm

“Europe is on the road to war,” according to European Commission first vice-president Frans Timmermans, who has declaraed that citizens have to “fight against the ‘politics of paranoia’ and the ‘disruptive forces of xenophobia, intolerance and illiberalism.’” He goes on: EUROPE must not repeat the mistakes of its violent and bloody past by embracing populism […]
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Georgetown prof Jonathan Brown responds to Robert Spencer’s acceptance of his debate challenge: “my God you’re ugly”
By Robert Spencer on Feb 10, 2017 01:42 pm

Several people informed me that Georgetown University Jonathan A. C. Brown delivered a lecture at Gonzaga University on January 30, in which Brown said that he would debate me anytime and boasted that he would mop the floor with me. On Twitter, I accepted his challenge. Here’s what happened: Brown’s tactic here is clear. There […]
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Islam and the Propaganda War (Part I): In Print and Online
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Feb 10, 2017 12:15 pm

Among the many weapons of the American government during the Cold War were its programs to disseminate, behind the Iron Curtain, and especially in the Soviet Union, information that exposed the cruelties of Communism. Millions in Eastern Europe listened to Radio Free Europe, millions more in the Soviet Union listened to Radio Liberty, and everywhere […]
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Appeals court decision blocking Trump ban doesn’t even mention law empowering President to restrict immigration
By Robert Spencer on Feb 10, 2017 11:26 am

The whole controversy turns on this law. It’s hard to see how any Presidential action restricting immigration can be overruled in light of it, as it specifies that “whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of […]
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Trump administration releases list of terror suspect cases from travel ban countries
By Robert Spencer on Feb 10, 2017 10:53 am

Leftists are not troubled by facts. Nevertheless, the facts are there. The appeals court ruling was nakedly political; it didn’t even bother to cite, much less attempt to explain away, the statute empowering the President to place restrictions on immigration. “Trump Admin Releases List of Terrorist Suspect Cases From Travel Ban Countries,” by Cameron Cawthorne, […]
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Pakistani government officials deny that blasphemy laws target Christians
By Christine Williams on Feb 10, 2017 10:34 am

Pakistan is infamous worldwide for its harsh blasphemy laws, but members of its government are denying that Christians are targeted by those laws. This denial is all the more absurd in light of the fact that Pakistan’s minority minister Shahbaz Bhatti, a vocal Christian critic of the blasphemy laws, was assassinated in 2011 for his outspokenness. […]
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Quebec imam prays: “O Allah, destroy the accursed Jews…O Allah, kill them one by one”
By Christine Williams on Feb 10, 2017 10:18 am

Those are among the regular prayers being recited at Al Andalous Islamic Center in Montreal by Imam Sayed AlGhitawi. He also pleaded with “Allah to support the mujahideen (Muslims who engage in jihad) in Palestine and to inflict total destruction on the Jews.” There are others like him who are being permitted in Canada to […]
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Raymond Ibrahim: Muhammad’s Sexual Fantasies of the Virgin Mary
By Raymond Ibrahim on Feb 10, 2017 09:39 am

At a time when Western people are constantly warned to speak respectfully of Muhammad, or else offended Muslims might respond with violence — to the shame and blame of those who exercise their freedom of expression — consider what Muslims regularly say about the things non-Muslims hold dear. Recently during his televised Arabic-language program, Dr. […]
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The Islamic State chops off children’s hands for refusing to execute prisoners
By Christine Williams on Feb 10, 2017 09:22 am

The two boys, aged between 10 and 12, were ordered to execute the captives in front of their families…lads refused and were punished for failing to follow orders from the caliphate. Children do not escape the cruelty of Islamic State jihadists. Some horrific examples (which may be disturbing to some people): A one-year-old Yazidi baby […]
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A Fixed Way of Looking at the World
By Michael Devolin on Feb 10, 2017 09:18 am

“A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports that myth.” — Edward de Bono In a recent article in the Huffington Post, Thomas Woodley tells his readers that “Islamophobia” is defined as a “dislike of or prejudice against Islam […]
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Raymond Ibrahim: Muhammad and Forced Conversions to Islam
By Raymond Ibrahim on Feb 10, 2017 09:10 am

What are we to make of the glaring contradiction between the Koran’s claim that “there is no compulsion in religion” (2:256) and the many other verses that call for war, slavery, and death to those who refuse to submit to Islam (9:5, et al)—to say nothing of the militant behavior of the prophet of Allah, […]
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