| The 02/01/2016 Jihad Watch Daily Digest: |
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Islamic State beheads teenager for apostasy
By Robert Spencer on Jan 31, 2016 08:38 pm
A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence. This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned […]
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Iran awards medal given to war heroes for capture of U.S. sailors
By Robert Spencer on Jan 31, 2016 08:15 pm
A medal given to war heroes? They don’t seem to realize that a lasting peace has been achieved. How very strange! Surely Barack Obama and John Kerry couldn’t be misleading us, could they? “Iran gives medals for capture of U.S. sailors,” Reuters, January 31, 2016: Iran’s supreme leader has awarded medals to navy commanders for […]
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UK: Muslim migrant gets 9 years for joining jihad terror group
By Robert Spencer on Jan 31, 2016 07:42 pm
Solution: Bring tens of thousands more migrants to Britain. “Somali Migrant to UK Gets Nine Years for Joining Islamic Terror Group Al-Shabaab,” by Michelle Moons, Breitbart, January 31, 2016: A U.S. judge sentenced 26-year-old Madhi Hashi — a one time Somali migrant to the United Kingdom — to nine years on Friday for joining Islamic terrorist […]
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‘Tsunami of money’ from Saudi Arabia funding 24,000 madrassas in Pakistan
By Robert Spencer on Jan 31, 2016 05:17 pm
These madrassas don’t teach readin’, ‘ritin’, and ‘rithmatic. They teach Qur’an, the hatred of Infidels, and the duty Muslims have to wage war against and subjugate them. “‘Tsunami of money’ from Saudi Arabia funding 24,000 madrassas in Pakistan,” PTI, January 30, 2016 (thanks to Vikrant): Washington: About 24,000 ‘madrassas’ in Pakistan are funded by Saudi […]
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Islamic State in West Africa murders over 100 in raid on Nigerian village
By Robert Spencer on Jan 31, 2016 05:08 pm
UPDATE: The death toll is now over 100. ———- Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and changed its name to the Islamic State in West Africa last year. Attacks like these are a foreshadowing of what is coming to Europe. “Boko Haram kills 65 in Borno village attack,” by Kayode Idowu, Punch, January […]
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Europol warns: Islamic State runs training camps in the middle of Europe
By Robert Spencer on Jan 31, 2016 04:56 pm
Yet heedless of or indifferent to the consequences, the Europeans continue to bring hundreds of thousands of Muslims into the continent, even though there is no way to screen out Islamic jihadis from among them. “Europol warns: “Islamic State” runs training camps in the middle of Europe,” RT, January 31, 2016 (thanks to Pamela Geller): […]
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Afghan Islamic scholars’ fatwa: Peace talks “against Islamic injunctions”
By Robert Spencer on Jan 31, 2016 12:30 pm
“Islam instructs its followers that ‘Jihad’ is compulsory unless the invaders are expelled from an Islamic country.” One might almost get the idea that jihad terror had something to do with Islam, did we not have so many learned mullahs such as John Kerry and David Cameron assuring us otherwise. “Afghan religious scholars issue fatwa […]
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Syria: Sunnis murder 45 people near Shia shrine south of Damascus
By Robert Spencer on Jan 31, 2016 07:44 am
The Sunni/Shi’ite jihad has killed far more people than the trumped-up propaganda term “Islamophobia.” Yet no one seems particularly concerned about it as a human rights issue. Perhaps too much concern about it would in itself be “Islamophobic.” “Syria conflict: Deadly blasts near Sayyida Zeinab shrine,” BBC, January 31, 2016: At least 45 people have […]
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Palestinian Authority security officer opens fire on Israelis, wounding three
By Robert Spencer on Jan 31, 2016 06:39 am
Remember: the Palestinian Authority is the “peace partner” that Obama keeps pressing the Israelis to shower with concessions. “Three wounded in West Bank shooting attack, terrorist shot dead,” by Yaakov Lappin, Jerusalem Post, January 31, 2016: A Palestinian gunman opened fire on Israelis at the Focus checkpoint near Bet El in the West Bank on […]
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The Same God Question (Part 2)
By Ralph Sidway on Jan 31, 2016 06:30 am
Allah’s Theological Jihad against Christianity – A Case of Two Extremes Continued from Part 1, An Epistemological Malady The first problem for a Christian who affirms that Muslims worship the same God, is that such a Christian has to contend with the Koran, which Muslims believe to be the unalterable, eternal words of God, revealed […]
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