| The 06/08/2015 Jihad Watch Daily Digest: |
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Pakistan Muslim scholars: Jihad groups have “nothing to do with Islam”
By Robert Spencer on Jun 07, 2015 06:44 pm
This is the same Pakistan Ulema Council that has endorsed jihad-martyrdom suicide bombings, so its understanding of what constitutes “extremes” and “excesses” might not be identical to that of your average Western non-Muslim analyst. In any case, their fatwa against the jihad terror groups is, unfortunately, unlikely to be effective, since the Islamic State and […]
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Islamic State recruiting ‘highly trained foreigners’ to produce chemical weapons
By Robert Spencer on Jun 07, 2015 04:28 pm
How can they attract “highly trained foreigners” when they represent, as every Western authority will tell us, a twisted version of Islam that outrages all of the true, peaceful principles of the religion? The cognitive dissonance is absolute, but no one in any position of power or influence seems to notice or care. “Isis recruiting […]
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Saudi Supreme Court upholds guilty verdict against blogger for insulting Islam
By Robert Spencer on Jun 07, 2015 09:12 am
In the enlightened West, we don’t jail and flog people for insulting Islam. We believe in the freedom of speech and the free exchange of ideas, including the right to criticize ideas one finds wanting in whatever way. In the free and enlightened West, the only thing that will happen to you if you are […]
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Jihadi selfie leads US airmen to Islamic State headquarters
By Robert Spencer on Jun 07, 2015 09:01 am
Everyone is chortling over this, but there is one aspect of it about which no one has remarked: why is the U.S. military relying on this kind of luck? Why didn’t it know where the Islamic State headquarters building was already? Are “terrorist selfies” going to come in sufficient quantity to destroy the Islamic State? […]
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Turkey’s Erdogan: ‘Jewish capital’ is behind New York Times
By Robert Spencer on Jun 07, 2015 08:48 am
Thinking that the New York Times is remotely pro-Jewish or pro-Israel shows how out of touch Erdogan really is — and demonstrates yet again how anti-Semitic conspiracy paranoia so often goes along with Islamic supremacism. “Turkey’s Erdogan: ‘Jewish capital’ is behind New York Times,” Haaretz, June 7, 2015: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out […]
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Egypt: Copts attacked, expelled because of Muhammad cartoon
By Raymond Ibrahim on Jun 07, 2015 07:46 am
On Sunday, May 24, in the village of Kafr Darwish, just south of Cairo, a Muslim mob attacked Coptic Christian homes, including by hurling stones and Molotov explosives at them. More than 10 homes were torched and damaged. This latest bout of Muslim persecution of Christians was prompted by a familiar narrative: one of […]
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Pakistan: Muslims destroy church, beat Christians for ‘proselytism and conversions of Muslims’
By Raymond Ibrahim on Jun 07, 2015 07:43 am
On May 28, in Chakwal city south of Lahore, Muslim men destroyed a Protestant church and beat six Christians, including the pastor. Some of those wounded were hospitalized with minor injuries. Pastor Suhail Masih and five other Christians were in the church when armed men entered the holy place, instigated by a local imam. […]
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Egypt: Masked men open fire on evangelical church
By Raymond Ibrahim on Jun 07, 2015 07:41 am
On Sunday morning, May 31 in Senoras city, Fayum, masked men on motorbikes opened fire on an Evangelical church. Security forces guarding the church briefly exchanged fire with the assailants before the masked men fled on their motorbikes. No one was reported hurt.
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Ethiopia: Muslim convert to Christianity told to murder pastors ‘or else’
By Raymond Ibrahim on Jun 07, 2015 07:38 am
On April 25, police raided a Christian worship service in Asella just south of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The Church of Asella had just baptized 40 new converts to Christianity, prompting mass arrests. One of those imprisoned, a former Muslim who converted to Christianity known only as “Palus Ejigu,” said, “We were gathered […]
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Islamic State burns 80-year-old Christian woman alive
By Raymond Ibrahim on Jun 07, 2015 07:34 am
According to a May 26 report, the Islamic State “burned an 80-year-old Assyrian [Christian] woman to death in a village southeast of Mosul.” The elderly woman was reportedly immolated for “failing to comply with Islamic Sharia law.”
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Pope Francis said to back sainthood for anti-Semitic priest
By Robert Spencer on Jun 07, 2015 04:25 am
Canonization in the Roman Catholic Church has already become a charade, with recently deceased popes whose records are likely to be viewed by history quite differently from how they are now rushed to sainthood the way Roman Emperors used to be deified right after their deaths (no matter what rogues they had been in life), […]
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