
Italy: Screaming phrases from the Qur’an, a 67-year-old Muslim devastates a church in Trento
JANUARY 6, 2015 1:09 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER14 COMMENTS
The “mental illness” that has been afflicting France lately now spreads to Italy. Symptoms include screaming Islamic phrases and attacking Infidels or, in this case, and Infidel house of worship. I look forward to the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) to list and classify this particular mental illness, and […]

State Department wishes ‘RIP’ to living captives of jihad terrorists
JANUARY 6, 2015 8:41 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER9 COMMENTS
This epitomizes how out of touch and frankly stupid the State Department’s Think Again, Turn Away program really is. State Department analysts continue to misdiagnose the problem of the global jihad and apply solutions that only make it worse — and since the mainstream media is just as clueless and compromised, these failed analysts are […]

Mali: Islamic jihadis kill seven soldiers in dawn attack
JANUARY 6, 2015 7:40 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER15 COMMENTS
Two years after the French drove the Sharia regime out of power in Mali, the jihadists are still active. The fallacy of the analysts who predict that the “war on terror” (or whatever they call the defense against the global jihad these days) will last ten years, or twenty, or 100, is that they think […]

Libya: Islamic jihadists kidnap thirteen Coptic Christians from Egypt
JANUARY 5, 2015 5:29 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER20 COMMENTS
“Bishop Kevin, may I come in?” (Heavy sigh) “Yes, Father Bud. But make it quick, okay? I have to get down to Masjid Tamerlane for an outreach meeting.” “Yes, I know, Your G–” “Kev.” “Kev. Yes, I know. That’s why I came in. I just wanted to let you know that Islamic jihadists have just […]

Israeli spat upon, beaten by Muslims singing anti-Semitic songs in Berlin
JANUARY 5, 2015 4:42 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER25 COMMENTS
This is once again becoming the norm in Europe. If there were a sufficient number of people in Europe who were sane and clear-sighted enough to act in the proper direction, there would be strong action by European governments against Islamic antisemitism. But they are too busy worrying about “Islamophobia.” “Israeli attacked by men singing […]

Egypt’s Sisi: “We are in need of a religious revolution”
JANUARY 6, 2015 12:32 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER19 COMMENTS
The speech that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recently made calling for Islamic reform is getting quite a bit of attention, and warrants close examination. Here are the excerpts that Raymond Ibrahim posted here at Jihad Watch a few days ago, with my comments interspersed: I am referring here to the religious clerics. We have […]

Islamic State chief executioner found beheaded with cigarette in his mouth
JANUARY 6, 2015 8:22 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER53 COMMENTS
Not exactly what the Surgeon General had in mind when those warnings about smoking were first issued — but still, this is the Islamic State’s version of an anti-smoking message. “Syria: Isis chief executioner found beheaded with cigarette in his mouth,” by Gianluca Mezzofiore, International Business Times, January 6, 2015 (thanks to Anne Crockett): In […]

India Muslim leader: “Why are you linking terrorism with Islam? Islam and Prophet Muhammad came to finish off terrorism”
JANUARY 5, 2015 5:45 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER65 COMMENTS
Muhammad said: “I have been made victorious through terror” (Bukhari 4:52.220). The Qur’an says: “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah and your enemies…” (8:60) The people responsible for the linking of Islam with terrorism […]

Bosnia: Muslim cleric who opposes Islamic State attacked by violent jihadis seven times in past year
JANUARY 5, 2015 5:05 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER14 COMMENTS
“When did Muhammad ever behead anyone?” asks Selvedin Beganovic. He meant it as a rhetorical question to show that the Islamic State is un-Islamic. But then there is this: “Then they [the Jewish Qurayzah tribe] surrendered, and the apostle [Muhammad] confined them in Medina in the quarter of d. al-Harith, a woman of B. Al-Najjar. […]

Robert Spencer in PJ Media: 5 Reasons Why Angela Merkel Is Wrong to Oppose Germany’s Anti-Islamization Rallies
JANUARY 5, 2015 4:25 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER25 COMMENTS
In PJ Media I discuss yet another potentially disastrous misstep by another Western leader: After tens of thousands of Germans participated in rallies organized by Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA), German Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced them, claiming that when they chanted “We are the people,” they really meant, “You don’t belong […]
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