| The 05/05/2016 Jihad Watch Daily Digest: |
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Bosch Fawstin’s winning Muhammad cartoon removed by eBay on ‘technicality’
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2016 06:31 pm
EBay submits to Sharia blasphemy restrictions, and validates the assassin’s veto by bowing to it — thereby assuring that we will be bullied much, much more, until we submit entirely to Islam. “Bosch Fawstin’s winning Muhammad cartoon removed by eBay on ‘technicality,’” by Jessica Chasmar, The Washington Times, May 4, 2016: The artist who won […]
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California Muslimas sue cafe for discrimination; cafe countersues
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2016 06:13 pm
Good to see the Urth Caffe fighting back against this cynical and deceptive victimhood claim. “Urth Caffe Retains AFLC to Countersue Muslim Women Fraudulently Claiming Discrimination,” American Freedom Law Center, May 4, 2016: Shortly after being served with a fraudulent lawsuit alleging religious discrimination, the Urth Caffe in Laguna Beach retained the American Freedom Law […]
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Death threats for “teaching my kid about football and not teaching him about the Quran”
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2016 05:39 pm
“I received 20-30 unknown threatening calls in Afghanistan asking why I’m teaching my kid about football and not teaching him about the Quran.” “Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must […]
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Video: The United West: Texas Jihad — ‘Snap Out of It, America’
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2016 05:27 pm
I wasn’t just a featured speaker; I was co-organizer of the event, and Jihad Watch was co-sponsor. The cause of defending the freedom of speech is worth any sacrifice. “The United West: Texas Jihad — ‘Snap Out of It, America,’” Breitbart, May 3, 2016: (THE UNITED WEST) Tuesday, May 3 is the one-year anniversary of […]
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Egypt: Christian official takes child to Muslim grandfather, orders her to “remove the cross”
By Raymond Ibrahim on May 04, 2016 05:05 pm
Nabila Makram — the only Coptic Christian currently serving as a minister in the Egyptian government — may have unwittingly exposed how she reached that position during a televised interview. In the interview, she told the story of a young Egyptian girl named Kariman. Apparently her Muslim mother divorced her father and fled to Italy with […]
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This project of shielding Muslims from criticism is misguided in the extreme
By Joel Shapiro on May 04, 2016 04:52 pm
It is very common for liberals and multi-culturalists, who are great defenders of human rights, to vilify criticism of Islamic racism and terrorism. Even the CBC, Canadian bastion of human rights, went into full panic and attack mode when Robert Spencer visited Calgary. Leftists are worried that any critique of Muslims, however rigorous, scholarly, or […]
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Raymond Ibrahim: Muslim Persecution of Christians, February 2016
By Raymond Ibrahim on May 04, 2016 04:35 pm
As opposed to their Western counterparts, Christian leaders who live in the Middle East continued expressing their frustration at the West’s indifference and worse. Jean-Clément Jeanbart, the Melkite Greek Catholic archbishop of Aleppo, asked during an interview: “Why are your bishops silent on a threat that is yours today as well? Because the bishops are, like […]
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Tunisian Imam: Homosexuals should be stoned to death
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2016 03:52 pm
Notice that he says that this is the ruling of all the schools of Sharia. His words, “This is the verdict of all the Sunni ulema,” are for some reason left out of the MEMRI translation, but I have put them back in, as he did say them, and it is an important point. The […]
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Video: Robert Spencer on the Qur’an’s violent verses
By Robert Spencer on May 04, 2016 08:14 am
This is the fourth video in my Basics of Islam series. Note that the verse that commands that Muslims fight “the People of the Book” is incorrectly labeled as Qur’an 9:5. It is actually Qur’an 9:29.
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Hugh Fitzgerald: John Shattuck and America’s “Duty” to Solve Europe’s Refugee Crisis
By Hugh Fitzgerald on May 04, 2016 07:40 am
The other day on NPR I heard John Shattuck, a former ambassador to Czechoslovakia and now the President and Rector of the Central European University in Budapest, declare the need for the United States to help more with the “refugee crisis” in Europe which, he said, threatened to break Europe apart. His solution was for […]
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