
Ex-Ottawa imam tells Libyans “jihad today is simple and easily accessible”
MARCH 14, 2015 11:09 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER2 COMMENTS
When Abdu Albasset Egwilla was in Ottawa, did he preach the same kind of thing? Why wouldn’t he have? And where are the people who heard him and heeded his words now? “Former Ottawa imam surfaces in video telling Libyans ‘jihad today is simple and easily accessible,’” by Stewart Bell, National Post, March 13, 2015 […]

Islamic State amputates hands of five people caught smoking
MARCH 13, 2015 10:43 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER20 COMMENTS
The Islamic State probably judged that they were spreading corruption upon the earth. “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they […]

UK: Anglican vicar holds Muslim prayer service in his church, asks congregation to praise “the god that we love, Allah”
MARCH 13, 2015 2:16 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER158 COMMENTS
When Giles Goddard painted that cross on his church building, and had one placed on his forehead, was he aware of this hadith? “Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, ‘By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, son of Mary (Jesus) will shortly descend amongst you people (Muslims) as a just ruler and will break […]

Spanish police arrest eight Muslims suspected of planning attacks in Spain and recruiting for Islamic State
MARCH 13, 2015 11:32 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER17 COMMENTS
Muslims? How odd. Everyone knows that the Islamic State has absolutely nothing to do with Islam. So many misunderstanders of Islam are out there today — what programs do mosques and Islamic schools have in place to prevent all this misunderstanding of Islam? What? None? Now, why is that? “Spain arrests eight suspected Islamist militants […]

Islamic State blows up 10th century Assyrian Catholic monastery near Mosul
MARCH 13, 2015 10:37 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER52 COMMENTS
Besides removing supposed temptations to idolatry, Islamic jihadists want to ruin the artifacts of non-Muslim civilizations because doing so testifies to the truth of Islam, as the Qur’an suggests that ruins are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his truth: Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before you: […]

CIA’s Brennan: Islamic State not Islamic — they’re “psychopathic thugs”
MARCH 13, 2015 11:14 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER71 COMMENTS
“CIA Director John Brennan at an event Friday warned against ascribing “Islamic legitimacy” to the overseas terrorist group, saying that allowing them to identify themselves with Islam does a disservice to Muslims around the world.” The fallacious assumption here is that Muslims around the world are looking to non-Muslims in the West to show them […]

France: Muslims assault, rob Jewish teens outside synagogue, screaming “dirty Jews, we will exterminate all of you”
MARCH 13, 2015 6:03 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER15 COMMENTS
Behold the future of France, and of all of Europe. “Jewish Teens Assaulted, Robbed Outside French Synagogue,” by Ari Yashar, Arutz Sheva, March 12, 2015: The French National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) reported that two Jewish teens were assaulted and robbed while leaving a synagogue in Marseille, and as a result of the […]

Australia: Muslim cleric quotes Qur’an to incite Muslims against Jews, “strongest people in enmity towards the believers”
MARCH 13, 2015 1:16 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER21 COMMENTS
“You shall find the strongest people in enmity towards the believers to the Jews and the polytheists.” That’s Qur’an 5:82. “Fight them until there is no fitna [‘strife’], and religion belongs to Allah alone.” That’s Qur’an 8:39. “Fitna is worse than killing.” That’s Qur’an 2:191 and 2:217. Will some moderate Muslim leader please explain how […]
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