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Online jihadis call for jihad murders of cartoonists in US, Australia
By Robert Spencer on Apr 30, 2015 07:47 pm
Foreign Policy follows a generally dhimmi line, but the clueless Obama-era FBI reads it to gather its “intelligence,” so it is worth looking into occasionally. Here is a piece on ongoing attempts to intimidate the West into silence by calling for the murder of those who violate Islam’s blasphemy laws. It is precisely to show […]
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Robert Spencer in PJM: Has Baghdad Bob Become Secretary of Defense?
By Robert Spencer on Apr 30, 2015 07:11 pm
Over at PJ Media I explain how we’re getting nowhere with the Islamic State, but you wouldn’t know that by listening to this administration: Remember Baghdad Bob? During the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, or “Baghdad Bob,” kept us laughing by repeatedly declaring that the Iraqi Army was humiliating […]
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AFDI challenges MTA ban on free speech
By Robert Spencer on Apr 30, 2015 06:55 pm
Last Wednesday, angry at being ordered by a federal court to run our ad criticizing Hamas and Islamic antisemitism, the New York City MTA voted to ban all political ads. Pamela Geller was there; she has a full account here, and you can see her own impassioned and eloquent remarks in defense of the freedom […]
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Senior female Islamic State recruiter is student from Seattle
By Robert Spencer on Apr 30, 2015 09:34 am
She could still be in the country, and plotting to wage jihad here — or simply still recruiting for the Islamic State. In any case, from the description below, she doesn’t seem to have been suffering from notable poverty or deprivation or oppression. John Kerry, call your office! “Senior female Isis figure who helped recruit […]
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Georgian jihadi: “All Muslims believe that they have to go to jihad”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 30, 2015 09:25 am
And so he went to wage jihad in Syria. He didn’t think his obligation to go to jihad was fulfilled by taking the kids to school or going to the gym. This looks like a job for Hamas-linked CAIR: to disabuse young Ali of his misunderstanding of Islam! No doubt Ahmed Rehab and Ibrahim “Honest […]
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Germany: Two Muslims arrested with weapons and bomb materials
By Robert Spencer on Apr 30, 2015 09:10 am
Every day, more jihad, more murder plots. The police’s luck will not hold forever. The sheer volume of these plots will ultimately exhaust them, particularly since they refuse to deal with the ideology that inspires and motivates the plots. And that exhaustion is just what the Islamic State and other jihadists are counting upon. “Weapons, […]
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UK Muslim in court over possession of Islamic State jihad terror material
By Robert Spencer on Apr 30, 2015 08:03 am
“Other publications were called Missbraucht Kinder, which means “abused children”, and others entitled Mensuura Inshallah, The Book Of Jihad, This Is The Province Of Allah, A Message To The Mujahidin And The Muslim Ummah In The Month Of Ramadan, and Indeed Your Lord Is Ever Watchful.” These are Islamic State publications. “A Message To The […]
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Al-Azhar Sheikh: “Islam cannot prevail and spread by means of weapons”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 30, 2015 07:44 am
Al-Tayeb says here that “what the Islamist armed movements are doing is wrong.” However, rejoicing over his “moderation” may be premature: he has justified anti-Semitism on Qur’anic grounds; called for the Islamic State murderers of the Jordanian pilot to be crucified or have their hands and feet amputated on opposite sides (as per the penalty […]
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Blast at explosives factory in Syria kills 25 Islamic State fighters
By Robert Spencer on Apr 30, 2015 06:25 am
Virgin eligibility unclear. Meanwhile, the Islamic State made gains in southern Syria for the first time. But don’t be concerned: the Pentagon says they’re losing! “Blast at explosives factory in Syria kills 25 IS fighters, says monitor,” Middle East Eye, April 30, 2015: Twenty-five fighters from the Islamic State group were killed when a powerful […]
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Malaysia: Six charged in Islamic State-inspired jihad murder plot
By Robert Spencer on Apr 30, 2015 06:15 am
How could modern, moderate Muslims from modern, moderate Malaysia get mixed in something so backward and extremist as a jihad mass murder plot? How did they come to misunderstand Islam after being taught its true, moderate form in modern, moderate Malaysia? “Six men charged over terror plot in Malaysia,” Agence France-Presse, April 30 2015: Six […]
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