JIHAD WATCH
Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Obama: Afghanistan “not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again”
DECEMBER 27, 2014 7:44 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER21 COMMENTS
How can he say this after sending Guantanamo detainees back to Afghanistan, and while the Taliban continue to operate with relative impunity? He can say it because he is Obama: he knows that no matter what he says, the mainstream media will cover for him.
“Obama: Afghanistan ‘Not Going to Be a Source of Terrorist Attacks […]

New issue of al-Qaeda magazine devoted to “jihad in America”
DECEMBER 26, 2014 5:19 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER24 COMMENTS
Trying to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60).
“New issue of jihadist magazine produced by al-Qaeda in Yemen suggests attacks on U.S.,” by Karen DeYoung, Washington Post, December 24, 2014 (thanks to Block Ness):
A new issue of Inspire, the English-language online magazine produced by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, is devoted […]

US gives Pakistan free pass and $1 billion, ignores its ties to jihad terror groups
DECEMBER 26, 2014 2:05 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER44 COMMENTS
“A defence authorization bill signed by President Barack Obama last week that provides for $1 billion in aid to Pakistan in 2015 conditions it on Islamabad taking steps to disrupt the Haqqani Network and eliminating safe havens of al-Qaida and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. However, it makes no mention of the Punjab-centric terror groups such as the […]

Malian academic: What Islamic jihad groups did in Mali “has nothing to do with Islam”
DECEMBER 26, 2014 11:22 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER28 COMMENTS
“What they did has nothing to do with Islam. They cut off people’s hands and feet.”
“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 […]

Egyptian security forces foil jihad terrorist attack on Coptic Christmas celebrations
DECEMBER 26, 2014 10:42 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER16 COMMENTS
This plot may have been foiled yesterday, but it was unlikely to have been planned for yesterday, as Copts celebrate Christmas on January 7. In any case, it is noteworthy that the jihad plot was organized by “a 50-year-old deputy headmaster of a secondary school in the Minya governorate.” Yet again we see that the […]

Libya: Islamic jihadis murder 13-year-old Christian girl
DECEMBER 26, 2014 5:50 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER49 COMMENTS
They had already murdered her parents. Will the Islamophobia never end?
“Egyptian Coptic teen seized in Libya found dead,” AFP, December 26, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Benghazi – An Egyptian Coptic Christian teenager abducted in Libya by armed men who killed her parents has been found dead, a hospital source said on Friday.
Residents found […]

Australia: Muslims planned to “turn Blue Mountains into killing ground”
DECEMBER 26, 2014 4:39 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER40 COMMENTS
Sulayman Khalid said, “In order for me to be connected to the values here of Australia, the Australian government needs to stop picking on the Muslims here” — in other words, he would be loyal to Australia if Australia did nothing to stop jihad terror activity. Now it appears that he wanted the Australian government […]

Islamic State reportedly selling Christian artifacts, turning churches into torture chambers
DECEMBER 26, 2014 11:45 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER38 COMMENTS
“The terrorist group has sought to destroy religious groups that don’t embrace its twisted and violent interpretation of Islam.” Reporter Perry Chiaramonte assumes that the Islamic State’s interpretation of Islam is “twisted” because that is the acceptable opinion today. The fact that it has not been established, and flies in the face of the obvious […]

Pakistan: Christians in Peshawar celebrate Christmas behind cement blocks, barbed wire, and 2,000 policemen
DECEMBER 26, 2014 11:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER19 COMMENTS
All these precautions were necessary because on September 22, 2013, jihad-martyrdom suicide bombers murdered 127 people and injured over 250 at All Saints Church in Peshawar. And one never knows when the adherents of the Religion of Peace may launch yet another murderous attack that Has Nothing To Do With Islam. Note that even these […]

Islamic State issues rules for Christians living in “state of subjugation”
DECEMBER 26, 2014 10:21 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER44 COMMENTS
The ever-clueless Daily Mail is, of course, treating these rules as if they’re sinister creations of the “conservatives” running the Islamic State. In fact, they are part of traditional and mainstream Islamic law. A manual of Islamic law certified by no less an authority than al-Azhar as a reliable guide to orthodox Sunni Islam lays […]
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