JIHAD WATCH 04/30/2017

Video: Robert Spencer on the Andrew Klavan Show on Trump’s 100 days and the fight against global jihad
By Robert Spencer on Apr 29, 2017 06:31 pm

Yesterday I appeared on the Andrew Klavan Show on the Daily Wire to discuss how President Trump has fared in facing the jihad threat during his first 100 days in office. This video is of the entire show; I am on from 20:09 to 31:39.
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Hijabbed Muslim journalist complains that when she accepts media award, viewers will see only her hijab
By Robert Spencer on Apr 29, 2017 06:15 pm

Victimhood status is currency these days. If you’re a victim, all manner of doors open to you that might otherwise have remained closed: doors to the adulation of the Left; doors to free passes from scrutiny (legal or otherwise) that you might otherwise have received; doors to a privileged status that elevates you above ordinary […]
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“Liberals are too terrified to examine where the real threat to women’s rights comes from”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 29, 2017 03:59 pm

Fantasy Christian oppression vs. very real Muslim oppression: which do you think the Left is more upset about? That’s right. “Laura Perrins: Islamism poses the real threat to the sisterhood,” by Laura Perrins, The Conservative Woman, April 29, 2017 (thanks to Inexion): The novel, The Handmaid’s Tale by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, has been scaring […]
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Australia: Muslim avoids jail for sex attacks on beach due to “cultural differences”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 29, 2017 03:13 pm

“The judge accepted that seeing girls in bikinis is different to the environment in which he grew up.” The Qur’an says: “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not […]
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Australia: New police anti-terror unit to target “fixated persons” who are “mentally ill”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 29, 2017 02:56 pm

Here is yet more of the global outbreak of mental illness: the pervasive tendency to ascribe jihad violence to mental illness, which is yet another way to avoid noticing the texts and teachings of Islam that incite hatred and violence. “ABC Does Terrorism Report Without Once Mentioning ‘Islam,'” by Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun, April 27, […]
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Church of England spokesman: “Children should be forced to learn about Islam”
By Christine Williams on Apr 29, 2017 11:38 am

The Church of England has called for parents to lose the right to withdraw their children from religious education classes – because some parents are apparently using it to pull their children out of lessons on Islam. This shocking encroachment upon the rights of parents is being justified by the Church of England’s essentially accusing parents […]
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Missing lesbian couple set up for ‘honor’ killing, found in Turkish detention center
By Christine Williams on Apr 29, 2017 11:21 am

Maria Jimena Rico Montero and her Egyptian girlfriend Shaza Ismail had been reported missing after being tricked to flying to Dubai where homosexuality is punishable by death….Shaza’s father duped his daughter – according to Maria’s family Another attempted family ‘honor’ murder and another violation of the rights of gays, among countless others; but the Western […]
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Islam Is As Islam Does
By Michael Devolin on Apr 29, 2017 11:13 am

“No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.” — Alfred North Whitehead, from Adventures in Ideas (1933) Publilius Syrus wrote long ago that “there are some remedies worse than the disease.” We could say as much about most of the Western world’s erroneous ideas about […]
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UK: Muslim arrested carrying knives near PM’s office was on Gaza jihad flotilla ship in 2010
By Robert Spencer on Apr 29, 2017 10:05 am

Khalid Omar Ali has gone from one jihad to another. The people on the Mavi Marmara flotilla were genocidal Jew-hating jihadis, as you can see in the second video above: they were chanting a jihad war cry recalling Muhammad’s massacre of the Jews of Arabia: “Khybar, Khybar, O Jews, the army of Muhammad will return.” […]
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Belgium PM: Vote for Saudi Arabia to UN women’s rights panel was “regrettable diplomatic mix-up”
By Christine Williams on Apr 29, 2017 09:25 am

Belgium’s vote in favor of appointing Saudi Arabia to a United Nations women’s rights commission was due to a regrettable diplomatic mix-up, said Prime Minister Charles Michel, after the decision sparked a firestorm of criticism at home. And here is the reason for the so-called “diplomatic mix-up”: When the US called for a sudden vote, […]
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