The 05/02/2015 Jihad Watch Daily Digest: |
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Germany: Frankfurt professional bike race canceled over jihad plot By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 11:44 pm
This is just what the jihad terrorists want: to compel non-Muslims to curtail their behavior and live in fear. This cancellation will only provoke more jihad terror threats. “Frankfurt bike race cancelled over Islamist terror plot arrests,” by Justin Huggler, Telegraph, May 1, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller): Police in Frankfurt ordered the cancellation of […] Read in browser »
Islamic State demands $23 million for Christian hostages By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 11:24 pm
They’re acting in full accord with Islamic law. Here is a salient passage on this issue from a Shafi’i manual of Islamic law: When an adult male is taken captive, the caliph considers the interests … (of Islam and the Muslims) and decides between the prisoner’s death, slavery, release without paying anything, or ransoming himself […] Read in browser »
Minnesota mosques, Muslim orgs complain about anti-terror program By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 07:16 pm
Have you ever — ever! — seen Muslim organizations anywhere in the U.S. express their unreserved support for any anti-terror program? Instead, again and again we get this complaining that such programs stigmatize and discriminate against them. One might almost get the impression that Hamas-linked CAIR and the other Muslim groups involved here don’t want […] Read in browser »
Muslim cleric: Jews “malignant tumor” that “can only be treated by eradication” By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 06:36 pm
This is not what the world considers hate speech. What the world considers hate speech is opposing this. “Egyptian Cleric Saad Abu Aziz: Jews Are a Malignant Tumor That Must Be Eradicated,” MEMRI, April 24, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller): In an April 24 Friday sermon, which he posted on the Internet, Egyptian cleric Saad […] Read in browser »
Islamic State hides heavy weaponry at mosques and occupied churches By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 04:12 pm
“They use the mosques and churches because they know that the coalition jets won’t shell holy locations.” “IS Hides Heavy Weaponry at Religious Sites,” by Sardar Sattar, BasNews, May 1, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A member of the Nineveh Province council has revealed that Islamic State (IS) hides heavy weapons in mosques […] Read in browser »
Ex-Muslim: Qur’an revealed a religion I did not like By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 03:55 pm
Mona Walter grew up a Muslim in Somalia. When she moved to Sweden, she started studying Islam, and found that she did not like what she was learning. Now she has left Islam and is called an “Islamophobe” and worse. What should she have done? Stayed in a religion she disliked and believed to be […] Read in browser »
India’s spy agency warns of threat from Islamic State’s Af-Pak group By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 09:17 am
The Islamic State now has a presence not just in Iraq and Syria, but in Libya, Nigeria, the Philippines, Egypt, Yemen, and Afghanistan and Pakistan. Its influence is spreading rapidly among Muslims worldwide while Western leaders wave it away and insist that it has nothing to do with Islam. “Islamic State’s Af-Pak Group a Cause […] Read in browser »
Robert Spencer’s Blogging the Qur’an: Sura 5, “The Table” By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 08:31 am
Newly revised edition up at PJM: Allah spends most of Sura 5, “The Table,” castigating the Jews and the Christians for their various sins and offenses. If you think he was angry with them in suras 2-4, you ain’t seen nothing yet. This sura dates from the Medinan period (as do suras 2-4) — according […] Read in browser »
Turkey: Historic 12th-century church to be reopened as a mosque By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 08:18 am
Turkey’s rapid re-Islamization and assertion of Islamic supremacism continues. “Historic Hagia Sophia in a Turkish province to be re-opened as mosque,” by Serdar Korucu, Hürriyet Daily News, May 1, 2015: A ruined Hagia Sophia dating back to the 12th century in the western border province of Edirne will be renovated as a mosque, despite former […] Read in browser »
3,000 more foreign jihadis join the Islamic State By Robert Spencer on May 01, 2015 07:06 am
The lure of the concept of the caliphate continues to be ignored and dismissed. The mainstream media is too busy declaring victory: A CNN headline asked in November 2014: “Has ISIS peaked? Terror group suffers setbacks in Iraq.” The Atlantic announced in January 2015: “ISIS Is Losing Its Greatest Weapon: Momentum: Evidence suggests that the […] Read in browser »
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