| The 04/11/2016 Jihad Watch Daily Digest: |
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Turkey’s top Muslim cleric: Terrorism has nothing to do with Islam
By Robert Spencer on Apr 10, 2016 07:24 pm
They have to keep telling us, because this is so obviously false, it can only be put across by constant repetition. If the “terror” that is mentioned in Qur’an 3:151, 8:12, and 8:60 is something other than the terror that is caused by terrorism, where exactly in Islamic scripture or tradition is this distinction found, […]
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Was Islam Really More Tolerant Than Christianity?
By Danushka Goska on Apr 10, 2016 07:11 pm
I received an email from “Stan,” who wrote to respond to my article “Donald Trump and Counter-Jihad.” Through Google I discovered that Stan is an Ivy-League-educated PhD. “Counter-jihadists,” Stan wrote, “deny that Islam was indeed more tolerant from the end of the 11th century down to the 17th.” Catholic Church teaching during that period “was […]
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UK: Muslim Labor official fired for saying Hitler was “greatest man in history”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 10, 2016 06:53 pm
But she wrote it in 2011. Why are Labor Party officials only getting angry about it now? (Photo courtesy Daily Mail) “UK Labor official fired after posting Hitler ‘was the greatest man in history,'” Jerusalem Post, April 10, 2016: A UK Labor official was suspended on Sunday after she allegedly wrote anti-Semitic messages onto social […]
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Kerry invites Taliban to negotiate, they respond with rocket fire
By Robert Spencer on Apr 10, 2016 06:35 pm
Politically correct fantasy once again meets reality. “Taliban respond with rocket fire to Kerry’s calls for peace,” by Phillip Walter Wellman, Stars and Stripes, April 10, 2016: KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban claimed responsibility Sunday for a rocket attack on Kabul’s diplomatic area which came just after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ended a […]
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Canadian paper removes story about Muslim migrant bullying: “sensitive subject”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 10, 2016 06:15 pm
It removed the story not because it was false, but because it was inconvenient. It showed the folly of large-scale Muslim immigration, which the political and media elites are determined that we accept. An update on this story. “Chronicle Herald Disappears References To “Muslims Rule The World’ & Chains Used In School Attacks By ‘Refugees,’” […]
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Sesame Street unveils hijab-wearing Muslim puppet
By Robert Spencer on Apr 10, 2016 05:54 pm
This puppet is apparently intended for the Afghan version of Sesame Street, “Baghch-e-Simsim,” and thus represents yet another naive and well-intentioned but foredoomed effort to improve the situation of women there. The plight of women in Afghanistan stems from Islam, and so isn’t going to be changed by a TV show. And if Zari is […]
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Saudi TV host: We must admit that terrorists “adhere to the religion of Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 10, 2016 05:36 pm
A refreshing and highly unusual moment of truth on Saudi TV. ” We must admit that they are present everywhere, that their nationality is Arab, and that they adhere to the religion of Islam. We must acknowledge that we are the ones who gave birth to them, and who have made them memorize the teachings […]
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Austria: Muslim “refugee,” Mumbai jihad suspect, arrested for plot in Europe
By Robert Spencer on Apr 10, 2016 04:07 pm
He is a suspect in the Mumbai jihad massacres, but still was able to enter Europe as a “refugee.” “Mumbai terror attack suspect defected to Isil and ‘posed as refugee to plan attack in Europe,'” by Justin Huggler, Telegraph, April 10, 2016: A Pakistani extremist linked to the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks has reportedly been […]
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Dr. Omar Ahmad and The Agony of the “Decent Muslim”
By Hugh Fitzgerald on Apr 10, 2016 12:12 pm
Professor Emeritus Dr Omar Farouk Sheikh Ahmad is a professor at the Centre for Policy Research and International Studies (CenPRIS), Universiti Sains Malaysia. The current state and status of Islam in the world worries him. For Dr. Ahmad is a devout Muslim, but instead of denying the many attacks by Muslims throughout the world, he […]
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UK “Equalities” chief admits: Muslims won’t assimilate
By Robert Spencer on Apr 10, 2016 10:33 am
It was Trevor Phillips who first gave the spurious propaganda term “Islamophobia” an intellectual veneer. Now he is admitting he was wrong all along, and has enabled and abetted the creation of Sharia enclaves in Britain and all over Europe. So what is he going to do about it now? Can the damage done to […]
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