JIHAD WATCH

‘Batman’ Cartoonist Frank Miller Canceled From Comic Convention For ‘Anti-Muslim Hate’
My latest in PJ Media. Comic book artist Frank Miller, whose credits include Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Sin City, was all set to appear at the Thought Bubble Yorkshire Comic Art Festival this November in England; in fact, he was listed first among the luminaries who were set to attend. But now he has been dropped […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/batman-cartoonist-frank-miller-canceled-from-comic-convention-for-anti-muslim-hate
2021-08-03  •  Robert Spencer


UK: Imprisoned Muslim pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, was released anyway, stabbed two people
Britain is finished. “Streatham terror attacker said was ‘not finished with non-believers’ days before release from prison, inquest hears,” by Lizzie Dearden, Independent, August 2, 2021: A terrorist who launched an attack after being released from prison declared that he was “not finished with non-believers” days before he was freed. Sudesh Amman, a 20-year-old Isis […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/uk-imprisoned-muslim-pledged-allegiance-to-the-islamic-state-was-released-anyway-stabbed-two-people
2021-08-03  •  Robert Spencer


Germany: Two women are gang-raped every day, half of the suspects are Muslim migrants
Why does this keep happening? Because officials are so paralyzed by fear of being called “Islamophobic” that they do not act to remove such people as these Muslim migrant rapists from the country. And why is there so much sexual assault and rape of this kind? A survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/germany-two-women-are-gang-raped-every-day-half-of-the-suspects-are-muslim-migrants
2021-08-03  •  Robert Spencer


Biden State Department spokesman: ‘We look to China to play a role that is constructive’ in Afghanistan
The U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan has created economic and political opportunities for China. This need not have been the case. Biden’s handlers are putting a good face on it and hoping for the best, but there is no reason for any of the parties involved to work in favor of American interests. China is […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/biden-state-department-spokesman-we-look-to-china-to-play-a-role-that-is-constructive-in-afghanistan
2021-08-03  •  Robert Spencer


India: Muslims threaten to slit Hindus’ throats, blow up Hindu temple
“They will slit the throats of all of them…” “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) “Threatening letter of terrorists! Complete demands, or pay for consequences,” by Laxman Chaurasiya, NewsTrackLive, July 31, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Lucknow: Hanuman Temple in Aliganj police station area of Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/india-muslims-threaten-to-slit-hindus-throats-blow-up-hindu-temple
2021-08-03  •  Robert Spencer


Rep. Omar Wants to Replace July 4th With Muslim Heritage Month
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. July is when families load up screaming kids into a minivan for a road trip, when water parks overflow with the smells of cotton candy and chlorine, and Chicago shootings reach […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/rep-omar-wants-to-replace-july-4th-with-muslim-heritage-month
2021-08-03  •  Daniel Greenfield


UK: ISIS bride who defends Manchester jihad massacre gets free $695,000 house and free artificial arm
You get what you pay for. By subsidizing Samia Hussein’s lavish lifestyle, Britain is making it clear that it will reward jihad activity. So it will get more of it. “WELCOMED BACK ISIS bride Samia Hussein who called Manchester bombing kids ‘just victims of war’ given £500K house & new ARM on NHS,” by Sarah […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/uk-isis-bride-who-defends-manchester-jihad-massacre-gets-free-695000-house-and-free-medical-treatment
2021-08-03  •  Robert Spencer


Abdul Salam Muhammad Alimat, UNRWA Arabic teacher, calls for violent jihad against Israel
A strong American president would withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations. “Abdul Salam Muhammad Alimat (Abu Alim), Arabic Teacher at UNRWA, Advocates Violence & Antisemitism,” UN Watch, August 2, 2021: Abdul Salam Muhammad Alimat lists himself as an Arabic teacher at UNRWA in Jordan. His posts advocate violence and promote antisemitism. In this post […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/abdul-salam-muhammad-alimat-unrwa-arabic-teacher-calls-for-violent-jihad-against-israel
2021-08-03  •  Robert Spencer


Jibril Rajoub Deserves a Gold Medal
For his steadfast support of Palestinian terrorists, his incitement of hatred and demonization of Israel, his praise of athletes who have refused to compete against Israeli athletes, Jibril Rajoub, who is not only Secretary-General of Fatah, but the head of the Palestine Olympic Committee, surely deserves a gold medal. A report on his activities that […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/saeed-khalaf-abu-freh-unrwa-math-teacher-glorifies-jihadi-who-murdered-israeli-father-of-12
2021-08-03  •  Hugh Fitzgerald

Saeed Khalaf Abu Freh, UNRWA math teacher, glorifies jihadi who murdered Israeli father of 12
Are you starting to notice a pattern? Defund the UN. “Saeed Khalaf Abu Freh, Math Teacher at UNRWA in Jordan, Incites Terrorism,” UN Watch, August 2, 2021: Saeed Khalaf Abu Freh lists himself as a Math Teacher at UNRWA. He glorifies the terrorist Omar Abu Laila who stabbed an Israeli soldier to death, stole his […]
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Fatima Abu Mufreh, UNRWA math teacher, promotes violent jihad against Israel
No surprise here. UNRWA schools teach jihad and Jew-hatred. “Fatima Abu Mufreh, Math Teacher at UNRWA, Promotes Terrorism Against Israel,” UN Watch, August 2, 2021: Fatima Abu Mufreh lists herself as a mathematics teacher at UNRWA. She endorses armed violence against Israel. On May 15, 2018, Fatima Abu Mufreh shared a post advocating armed violence […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/unrwa-math-teacher-promotes-violent-jihad-against-israel
2021-08-03  •  Robert Spencer

‘Did Muhammad Exist?’ zooms to #1 bestselling book in two categories
Find out what the uproar is all about in Did Muhammad Exist?
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/middle-east-forum-founder-describes-designation-of-jihad-watch-as-violent-extremist-as-repugnant-absurd
2021-07-29  •  Robert Spencer



Middle East Forum Founder describes designation of Jihad Watch as ‘violent extremist’ as ‘repugnant & absurd’
Daniel Pipes, President and Founder of the Middle East Forum, rightly described the libelous branding of Jihad Watch as a “violent extremist” organization by the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism as “repugnant & absurd.” Read full story HERE. In a tweet, Pipes identified Jihad Watch as a “mainstream conservative group,” even though toxic “progressives” […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/middle-east-forum-founder-describes-designation-of-jihad-watch-as-violent-extremist-as-repugnant-absurd
2021-07-29  •  Christine Douglass-Williams


UK Muslim publication says Christian stabbed at Speakers’ Corner ‘is known for insulting the Prophet’
This is just painting a large target on Hatun Tash’s back. Islam mandates death for non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic state who mention “something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o11.10), and such laws are based upon passages in the Hadith and Sira in which […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/uk-muslim-publication-says-christian-stabbed-at-speakers-corner-is-known-for-insulting-the-prophet
2021-07-29  •  Robert Spencer



India: Muslims threaten Hindu at gunpoint, beat him and give him electric shocks for refusing to convert to Islam
Here again, “there is no compulsion in religion” (Qur’an 2:256), but Pant could have chosen to die. Hence in the view of his captors, he was not forced to convert to Islam. “Rajasthan: Hindu man forcefully converted to Islam, was threatened at gunpoint and given electric shocks on resisting,” OpIndia, July 28, 2021: Nitin Pant, […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/india-muslims-threaten-hindu-at-gunpoint-beat-him-and-give-him-electric-shocks-for-refusing-to-convert-to-islam
2021-07-29  •  Robert Spencer


Turkish Foreign Ministry to UNESCO: Conversion of Hagia Sophia to mosque was exercise of ‘sovereign rights’
Fair enough. But if Turkey feels no sense of responsibility to its non-Muslim minorities, or to the rest of the world, why is it still a member in good standing of NATO and considered an American ally? “Turkey’s provocative response to UNESCO: It’s our right to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque,” Orthodox Times, July […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/turkish-foreign-ministry-to-unesco-conversion-of-hagia-sophia-to-mosque-was-exercise-of-turkeys-sovereign-rights
2021-07-29  •  Robert Spencer


Greece: Muslim migrant discovered to have been a member of the Islamic State since 2014
It’s hard to say what Greece or any other European country gains by admitting large numbers of Muslim migrants, among whom are a number of jihadis, without even making an attempt to discover their sentiments regarding jihad and Sharia. Europe is just engineering its own demise. But of course it’s “Islamophobic” to point that out. […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/greece-muslim-migrant-discovered-to-have-been-a-member-of-the-islamic-state-since-2014
2021-07-29  •  Robert Spencer

UK: Social workers turned blind eye as 15-year-old raped, forced into Islamic marriage and domestic slavery
Of course they did. They were terrified above all of appearing “Islamophobic” by acting against this, just as they were in Rotherham and elsewhere. These are the stories of a society in its death throes. “Social worker ‘attended wedding of terrified girl, 15, to her abuser’: Carers turned a blind eye when teenage grooming victim […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/uk-social-workers-turned-blind-eye-as-15-year-old-raped-forced-into-islamic-marriage-and-domestic-slavery
2021-07-29  •  Robert Spencer  


PayPal, MasterCard, banks act against dissenters from Leftist agenda, including foes of jihad terror
What’s coming has been absolutely clear for quite some time. And it’s coming fast now. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you. And they will. “Second Class Citizens: The 5 Stages of Financial Blacklisting,” by Allum Bokhari, Breitbart, July 27, 2021: After years of censoring conservatives without admitting to […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/paypal-mastercard-banks-act-against-dissenters-from-leftist-agenda-including-foes-of-jihad-terror
2021-07-29  •  Robert Spencer



Social media giants’ Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism classifies Jihad Watch as ‘violent extremism’
This is pure libel. We have never advocated or approved of any violence or any illegal activity of any kind. And if we are “extremist,” so is the U.S. Constitution, for we are trying to defend the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the equality of rights of all people before the law. […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/social-media-giants-global-internet-forum-to-counter-terrorism-classifies-jihad-watch-as-violent-extremism
2021-07-29  •  Robert Spencer


Saudi Arab Debunks Tale of Israelis Desecrating Al-Aqsa
Elder of Ziyon has a fascinating article: a Saudi Arab journalist, Ali al-Ameem, working for a major Arab paper, has thoroughly debunked a wild tale about Israelis desecrating Al-Aqsa on June 6, 1967, the day Israel took control of the Old City of Jerusalem. His report is here. This is something you don’t often see […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/saudi-arab-debunks-tale-of-israelis-desecrating-al-aqsa
2021-07-29  •  Hugh Fitzgerald

Qatar’s foreign minister visits Iran, plans to broker future talks between Iran and Arab countries
Qatar’s foreign minister Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al Thani (who is also Qatar’s deputy prime minister) met with Iranian leaders to improve bilateral relations and cooperate on mutual interests. Between the disastrous nuclear deal (which ensures that Iran will obtain a nuclear bomb), and Iran’s rapid expansion in the region and globally via its proxies, […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/qatars-foreign-minister-visits-iran-plans-to-broker-future-talks-between-iran-and-arab-countries
2021-07-29  •  Christine Douglass-Williams


UK Home Secretary vows ‘unwavering determination’ to stop migrants as nearly 600 more arrive
As long as Britain and the European Union countries tolerate the illegal violation of their borders by Muslim migrants, the message is being sent is that they can continue these violations with impunity. Since Brexit, no illegals have been deported, despite the continual record-breaking numbers of migrant arrivals. Expect more, regardless of Priti Patel’s “unwavering […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/uk-home-secretary-vows-unwavering-determination-to-stop-migrants-as-nearly-600-more-arrive
2021-07-29  •  Christine Douglass-Williams

Islamic theologian concludes: Muhammad probably never existed
Why did Muhammad Sven Kalisch come to this conclusion? Find out in Did Muhammad Exist?. “Professor Hired for Outreach to Muslims Delivers a Jolt,” by Andrew Higgins, Wall Street Journal, November 15, 2008: MÜNSTER, Germany — Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany’s first professor of Islamic theology, fasts during the Muslim holy month, […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/islamic-theologian-concludes-muhammad-probably-never-existed
2021-07-28  •  Robert Spencer



Ilhan Omar and Other Democrat Representatives Call for Special Envoy to Combat ‘Islamophobia’
My latest in PJ Media: The sage and visionary Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) looked out at our unhappy land and saw just what we need to usher in a new era of healing, peace, and prosperity. And so she has made yet another modest proposal for the correction and improvement of the land that gave […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/ilhan-omar-and-other-democrat-representatives-call-for-special-envoy-to-combat-islamophobia
2021-07-28  •  Robert Spencer


Iran: Protesters chant ‘Khamenei must be killed! Death to Khamenei!’
This is extraordinary, and takes immense courage. Will the Iranian people prevail? Or will Biden’s handlers prop up the mullahs and their bloody regime, as Obama did? Original video: MEMRI excerpt: “Iranian Protesters Chant: Khamenei Must Be Killed! Death To Khamenei! Khuzestan, We Support You!,” MEMRI, July 20, 2021: Protesters in Izeh, a city in […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/iran-protesters-chant-khamenei-must-be-killed-death-to-khamenei
2021-07-28  •  Robert Spencer



France: Metz mayor says Allah appeared to him, speeds up construction of mega-mosque
Amid all of François Grosdidier’s Islamopandering, how likely is it that he will ensure that his brand new mega-mosque isn’t staffed by jihad sympathizers and supporters of Sharia oppression? Why, of course he will do nothing to vet the mosque’s leadership. Any such action would be “Islamophobic.” “France: Notorious Mayor Grosdidier wants to create a […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/france-metz-mayor-says-allah-appeared-to-him-speeds-up-construction-of-mega-mosque
2021-07-28  •  Robert Spencer


Pakistan: Muslim forces Hindu boy to scream ‘Allahu akbar’ and abuse Hindu gods
“There is no compulsion in religion,” says the Qur’an 2:256. But Abdul Salam Abu Dawud likely did not think his actions in this video to constitute compulsion. After all, the boy could have chosen to refuse to scream “Allahu akbar” and be beaten or killed. “Pakistan: Muslim man forces Hindu boy to chant ‘Allahu Akbar’, […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/pakistan-muslim-forces-hindu-boy-to-scream-allahu-akbar-and-abuse-hindu-gods
2021-07-28  •  Robert Spencer

Somalia: 13-year-old girl dies after female genital mutilation
This Guardian story notes that “in Somalia, an estimated 98% of women and girls are genitally mutilated, most before the age of 10,” but it doesn’t explain why. We are constantly told the opposite by propagandists in the West, but the reality is that female genital mutilation (FGM) is justified in Islamic law. It is […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/somalia-13-year-old-girl-dies-after-female-genital-mutilation
2021-07-28  •  Robert Spencer


Australia: Muslim sexually assaults four women, sentenced to 250 hours of community service
Do you think Muhammad Bilal Khan’s sentence would have been as lenient if he hadn’t been a member of a group that authorities the world over are desperately afraid of offending, for fear of charges of “Islamophobia”? Neither do I. “Public masturbator avoids jail after assaulting women at music festivals, on tram,” by Danny Tran, […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/australia-muslim-sexually-assaults-four-women-sentenced-to-250-hours-of-community-service
2021-07-28  •  Robert Spencer


Speech and Reporting Censored as ‘Anti-Muslim’
For animal lovers, Eid al-Adha is the saddest day of the year. To thank Allah for sparing Ibrahim’s child from death, Muslim families sacrifice sheep, goats, cows, buffaloes and camels in public in staggering numbers. In 2017, news outlets photographed rivers of blood in Bangladesh and a photo of a little girl dressed in her best clothes, standing in […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/speech-and-reporting-censored-as-anti-muslim
2021-07-28  •  Martha Rosenberg

Israel’s President calls BDS ‘new kind of terrorism’ after Ben & Jerry’s boycott
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign was originally intended to delegitimize the State of Israel by presenting it as an international lawbreaker, an apartheid state, an oppressor and “occupier.” The jihadist goal is to obliterate Israel, and BDS is one weapon that is employed to further that goal. Says the Hamas Charter: “Israel will […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/israels-president-calls-bds-new-kind-of-terrorism-after-ben-jerrys-boycott
2021-07-28  •  Christine Douglass-Williams

Biden Administration Takes Side of Russia, Syria, Iran, Hezbollah Against Israel
Israel has for years been able to bomb targets in Syria virtually at will. These include Iranian bases, where precision-guided weapons are both assembled and made ready for delivery to Hezbollah, and Hezbollah bases which take delivery of these weapons and take them back to Lebanon. In hundreds of missions over Syria, Israeli planes have […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/biden-administration-takes-side-of-russia-syria-iran-hezbollah-against-israel
2021-07-28  •  Hugh Fitzgerald

Iraq: Son of prominent rights activist found shot dead, Iran-backed jihad militias suspected
While there is usually a statement or two by Amnesty International or other human rights organizations in cases involving the targeting of defenders of human rights, there is no substantial followup and certainly no global outcry. The global outcry is about “Islamophobia,” a concept pushed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and marketed particularly by […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/iraq-son-of-prominent-rights-activist-found-shot-dead-iran-backed-militias-suspected
2021-07-28  •  Christine Douglass-Williams


Iran-backed militias seeking ‘demographic change’ in areas of Syria, recruiting locals, buying up lands
There is no significant democratic presence in the Middle East except the state of Israel, which has been targeted for obliteration by its Arab neighbors since 1948. Instead, Iran — which funds Hamas and aims to annihilate Israel — continues to expand its influence. Iran’s goals are (as usual) more sophisticated than current Western leaders […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/iran-backed-militias-seeking-demographic-change-in-areas-of-syria-recruiting-locals-buying-up-lands
2021-07-28  •  Christine Douglass-Williams

Robert Spencer Video: Who Collected the Qur’an?
Order the new revised and expanded version of Did Muhammad Exist? here.
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/robert-spencer-video-who-collected-the-quran
2021-07-24  •  Robert Spencer


Can the Hamas-Linked AP Any Longer Be Considered a News Source?
My latest in PJ Media: The Associated Press (AP) is one of the largest, most respected, most venerable news sources on the planet. It is also increasingly clear that the AP, in these overheated days, has reduced itself to acting as a press agency for Hamas. This tendency has become so pronounced recently that among […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/can-the-hamas-linked-ap-any-longer-be-considered-a-news-source
2021-07-24  •  Robert Spencer


Nigeria: Senate passes bill proposing 10 years prison for using ‘hate speech’ to ‘stir up religious hatred’
This is a glimpse into the future, the near future, of Europe, Canada, and the U.S. The concept of “hate speech” is entirely subjective, such that prohibitions of this kind are tools in the hands of the powerful in order to silence the powerless. Leftists and Islamic groups in the U.S. insist that honest discussion […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/nigeria-senate-passes-bill-proposing-10-years-prison-for-using-hate-speech-to-stir-up-religious-hatred
2021-07-24  •  Robert Spencer



Germany: Economics Ministry advisory board wants to eliminate freedom of the press, criminalize criticism of Islam
“Unfortunately, we made a mistake here and a non-final working version was published.” Ever notice how these “mistakes” all go in the same direction? “Revealed: An advisory board of a German ministry wants to eliminate freedom of the press, among other things, in order to criminalise criticism of Islam,” Medforth, July 14, 2021: An advisory […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/germany-economics-ministry-advisory-board-wants-to-eliminate-freedom-of-the-press-criminalize-criticism-of-islam
2021-07-24  •  Robert Spencer

Algeria: Muslim athlete withdraws from Olympics to avoid facing Israeli opponent
He says it’s all about “Palestine,” but this likely formed his attitudes: the Jews in the Qur’an are called the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/algeria-muslim-athlete-withdraws-from-olympics-to-avoid-facing-israeli-opponent
2021-07-24  •  Robert Spencer



Germany: Muslim migrants crash car into crowd of homosexuals
“Of course, boys are shaped when they grow up in a culture where gays are insulted.” And worse. A hadith depicts Muhammad specifying the punishment for homosexual activity: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/germany-muslim-migrants-crash-car-into-crowd-of-homosexuals
2021-07-24  •  Robert Spencer


Austria: Muslim migrant who raped and murdered 13-year-old girl is 20, not 16 as he claimed
“Refugee” resettlement officials throughout Europe are so boundlessly credulous that it’s a wonder they have still have homes, cars, and pairs of shoes that sharpies haven’t conned away from them yet. “Tweet of the day: Medically prove the age of young asylum seekers? Why not!,” translated from “Tweet des Tages: Bei jungen Asylwerbern das Alter […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/austria-muslim-migrant-who-raped-and-murdered-13-year-old-girl-is-20-not-16-as-he-claimed
2021-07-24  •  Robert Spencer


Sudan: Muslims beat and threaten to kill government advisor for Christian affairs
He was told that he would be killed “if he continues to open church files with the Empowerment Removal Committee and the Ministry of Religious Affairs.” This would presumably uncover evidence of the persecution of Christians in Sudan during the rule of Omar Al Bashir. Some apparently want to keep this quiet, and are doing […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/sudan-muslims-beat-and-threaten-to-kill-government-advisor-for-christian-affairs
2021-07-24  •  Robert Spencer


U.S. borders open to any and all, including jihad terrorists — but not Cubans fleeing Communism
Recently the Cuban people did an almost unheard-of thing. Risking life and limb, they took to the streets to protest their horrific treatment under the Communist regime that has kept the nation in slavery since the putsch that put the Castro brothers in power in 1959. Today, the Cuban people have had enough as the […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/u-s-borders-open-to-any-and-all-including-jihad-terrorists-but-not-cubans-fleeing-communism
2021-07-24  •  James Simpson


IDF and Mossad Concur: With Iran, It’s the Death of a Thousand Cuts
If the Bidenites have their way, and the U.S. returns to the 2015 Iran deal, lifting all sanctions on the Islamic Republic, the malign regime in Tehran will potentially have a windfall of more than a hundred billion dollars, much of which it can plow into its nuclear program. Iran is a vast country, with […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/idf-and-mossad-concur-with-iran-its-the-death-of-a-thousand-cuts
2021-07-24  •  Hugh Fitzgerald


Erdogan on the Taliban: ‘Turkey has nothing that contradicts their beliefs’
Secularism? Oh, never mind that. It’s on the way out. Remember when all the learned analysts would confidently point to Turkey and say that it, not the jihadis, was the future of the Islamic world? So do I. “Turkey ‘Has Nothing That Contradicts The Taliban’s Beliefs,’” International Christian Concern, July 22, 2021: 07/22/2021 Turkey (International […]
Read morehttps://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/erdogan-on-the-taliban-turkey-has-nothing-that-contradicts-their-beliefs
2021-07-24  •  Robert Spencer



France: Mosque complies with covid restrictions by closing doors to women
This recalls the famous hadith about how women who pass in front of men while they’re praying invalidate the prayer: Narrated `Aisha: The things which annul the prayers were mentioned before me. They said, “Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman (if they pass in front of the praying people).” I […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/erdogan-on-the-taliban-turkey-has-nothing-that-contradicts-their-beliefs
2021-07-24  •  Robert Spencer

What do the earliest historical records tell us about Muhammad (if anything)?
Order the new revised and expanded version of Did Muhammad Exist? here.
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2021-07-18  •  Robert Spencer

UK: Pastor who was tried for making offensive remarks about Islam dies at age 84
The trial of James McConnell for calling Islam “heathen” and “satanic” is one of the low points of modern British history. How many imams have called Judaism, Christianity, or Hinduism “heathen” or “satanic” without suffering any consequences? If McConnell had been an atheist who called Christianity “heathen” and “satanic,” or “stupid” and “evil,” or some […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/uk-pastor-who-was-tried-for-making-offensive-remarks-about-islam-dies-at-age-84
2021-07-18  •  Robert Spencer

Islamic Republic of Iran hired private detectives in NYC to surveil Iranian dissident and allow for her kidnapping
Biden’s handlers have emboldened the mullahs. Expect more of this. An update on this story. “Masih Alinejad: How Iran threatened and attempted to kidnap a US journalist,” Reuters, July 15, 2021: The image on the alleged Iranian intelligence operative’s device was chilling: A graphic showing photos of two Iranian dissidents captured overseas. Next to them […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/islamic-republic-of-iran-hired-private-detectives-in-nyc-to-surveil-iranian-dissident-and-allow-for-her-kidnapping
2021-07-18  •  Robert Spencer

Germany: Iran used mosque in Hamburg as propaganda center to export Islamic revolution to Europe
Will the mosque be closed down? Or would that be “Islamophobic” and not in accord with Germany’s commitment to diversity? “German Intelligence Says Hamburg Mosque Aimed At Islamic Revolution,” Iran International, July 16, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The German domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, said […]
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2021-07-18  •  Robert Spencer

UK: Jihad preacher’s bans on public speaking, associating with suspected jihadis, Internet use removed
What could possibly go wrong? It would be “Islamophobic” to continue to impose these restrictions on Choudary’s activities. So a few jihad murderers were his proteges — so what? We all make mistakes! Britain remains strong, safe, and secure, because numerous opponents of jihad violence and Sharia oppression are banned from entering the country, and […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/uk-jihad-preachers-bans-on-public-speaking-associating-with-suspected-jihadis-internet-use-removed
2021-07-18  •  Robert Spencer

Muslim cleric on accused blasphemer: ‘We just kill. For us, as it concerns the Apostle of Allah, ours is to kill.’
Islam mandates death for non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic state who mention “something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o11.10), and such laws are based upon passages in the Hadith and Sira in which Muhammad orders the murders of people who have insulted him. These […]
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2021-07-18  •  Robert Spencer


Taliban demands war booty, women aged 15-45, as sex slaves in captured Afghanistan 
Having captured key districts and border posts with Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the Taliban are now hunting for women in these areas. “All imams and mullahs in captured areas should provide the Taliban with a list of girls above 15 and widows under 45 to be married to Taliban fighters,” read a letter issued […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/taliban-demands-war-booty-women-aged-15-45-as-sex-slaves-in-captured-afghanistan
2021-07-18  •  Ashlyn Davis

Turkish Webinar Wages Anti-Israel Jihad (Part Three)
“The only solution is to dismantle and do away with Zionism,” stated Sami Al-Arian, the founding director of Istanbul Zaim University’s Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) during a June 20 webinar. Such hateful sentiments exemplified CIGA’s June 18-23 second annual Palestine Conference, which shockingly included prominent individuals such as South Africa’s former ambassador […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/turkish-webinar-wages-anti-israel-jihad-part-three
2021-07-18  •  Andrew Harrod

The BBC’s notoriously anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian Middle East coverage
The BBC has for many decades been notoriously anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian in its Middle East coverage. Among the main offenders there is the execrable John Simpson, who for years was in charge of all foreign broadcasts as head of BBC World Services; there is Jeremy Bowen, now the BBC’s Middle East Editor, and there is […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/the-bbcs-notoriously-anti-israel-and-pro-palestinian-middle-east-coverage
2021-07-18  •  Hugh Fitzgerald


Pakistan: Bus blast that killed 13 Chinese men not an accident as originally claimed, but a jihad suicide bombing
Imran Khan’s pro-China stance may be on a collision course with his support for jihad. “Pakistan bus blast that left 9 Chinese nationals dead was work of suicide bomber, editor says,” by Tom Hussain, South China Morning Post, July 16, 2021: A suicide bomber driving a vehicle packed with explosives was responsible for Wednesday’s attack […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/pakistan-bus-blast-that-killed-13-chinese-men-not-an-accident-as-originally-claimed-but-a-jihad-suicide-bombing
2021-07-18  •  Robert Spencer



New Jersey: Muslims arrested for forced labor of illegal Muslim migrants at halal slaughterhouse
Of course this possibility will not be investigated, but could it be that Mohammad Abdul Wahid and Mohammed Iqbal Kabir thought that these practices were acceptable because of attitudes and assumptions they derived from their faith? Slavery is acceptable in Islam. The Qur’an has Allah telling Muhammad that he has given him girls as sex […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/new-jersey-muslims-arrested-for-forced-labor-of-illegal-muslim-migrants-at-halal-slaughterhouse
2021-07-18  •  Robert Spencer

‘Did Muhammad Exist?’: ‘Intellectually exhilarating.’ ‘Leaves no stone unturned.’
Author’s note: This is the fifth and final segment of my review of Robert Spencer’s new revised and expanded edition of Did Muhammad Exist?. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. Part 4 is here. Here is more from chapter thirteen, “Making Sense of it All,” which gives a wonderful […]
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2021-07-16  •  Ibn Warraq

New York Times covers Muslim stabbing rabbi a week late, claims hate crime charges based on ‘weak evidence’
News that doesn’t fit the narrative is only covered if absolutely necessary. In this case, the Times was getting criticism for ignoring the story, so this disgraceful Leftist propaganda rag finally had to notice the incident. “New York Times Belatedly Finds Stabbing of Chabad Rabbi Fit to Cover, at Least Online,” by Ira Stoll, Algemeiner, […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/new-york-times-covers-muslim-stabbing-rabbi-a-week-late-claims-hate-crime-charges-based-on-weak-evidence
2021-07-16  •  Robert Spencer

Austria becomes the first European country to ban the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities outright
This won’t happen in the U.S., as long as Biden’s handlers are in power. They’re actively collaborating with Brotherhood entities in the U.S. “Austria Bans Muslim Brotherhood and Sets New Standard In the Fight Against Islamist Extremism,” EU-Policies, July 13, 2021: Last week, the Austrian National Assembly passed an act targeting the activities of ISIS […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/austria-becomes-the-first-european-country-to-ban-the-muslim-brotherhoods-activities-outright
2021-07-16  •  Robert Spencer

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad summer camps train children for jihad
Meanwhile, children in the West are being taught about how racist they are, and the glories of being trans. What will happen if these two groups of children ever meet? “Solidarity with ‘Palestine’ Means Kalashnikovs for Kids,” by A. J. Caschetta, National Review, July 13, 2021: All the academics who sign statements of solidarity with “Palestine” […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/hamas-and-palestinian-islamic-jihad-summer-camps-train-children-for-jihad
2021-07-16  •  Robert Spencer

Nigeria: Kano State Sharia police say the use of mannequins is un-Islamic
This is because, you see, if a man is tempted by seeing an unveiled mannequin, and rapes her, then the poor mannequin will have to be put to death to salvage the honor of the department store. “Hisbah threatens to apprehend, prosecute users of mannequins in Kano,” by Bashir Bello, Vanguard, July 4, 2021: The […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/nigeria-kano-state-sharia-police-say-the-use-of-mannequins-is-un-islamic
2021-07-16  •  Robert Spencer

Nigeria: Kano State Sharia police arrest five men accused of engaging in homosexuality
A hadith depicts Muhammad specifying the punishment for homosexual activity: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.’” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4462) Will gay rights […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/nigeria-kano-state-sharia-police-say-the-use-of-mannequins-is-un-islamic
2021-07-16  •  Robert Spencer


Germany: ‘Islamist terrorism has developed…The number of terrorist actors and the danger they pose has increased’
Meanwhile, Muslim migrants continue to stream into Germany, with only perfunctory efforts (at best) made to determine their sentiments regarding jihad. The suicidal madness seems to have no end. “German spy chief warns of Islamic State’s strength,” DW, July 13, 2021: The head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency has warned that the Islamic State is […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/germany-islamist-terrorism-has-developed-the-number-of-terrorist-actors-and-the-danger-they-pose-has-increased
2021-07-16  •  Robert Spencer


activities ‘which aim to undermine the faith of a Muslim’
Algeria: Christian gets prison, heavy fine for engaging in activities ‘which aim to undermine the faith of a Muslim’
How brittle and insecure the faith of the Muslims in question must be, if it has to be protected with these draconian punitive measures. “Christian in Algeria Sentenced to Prison, Heavy Fine,” Morning Star News, July 9, 2021: TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – A judge in Algeria on Thursday (July 8) sentenced a Christian […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/algeria-christian-gets-prison-heavy-fine-for-engaging-in-activities-which-aim-to-undermine-the-faith-of-a-muslim
2021-07-16  •  Robert Spencer


In Iran, Israel Rattles the Cage
No one has claimed credit for the two recent cyberattacks on Iran’s Transport Ministry. But we can hazard a guess as to who was most likely behind them. Here’s what those unidentified, bur identifiable, saboteurs were up to on July 9: Train services in Iran were delayed by apparent cyberattacks on Friday, July 9, with hackers […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/in-iran-israel-rattles-the-cage
2021-07-16  •  Hugh Fitzgerald



Iranian official: Biden ‘cannot make decisions,’ this ‘passive position spells the imminent collapse of America’
There is no doubt that Biden’s handlers’ regime has presented an America that is drastically weakened in the eyes of the world.  “Former Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Danaeifar: Current U.S. President Cannot Make Decisions, These Passive Positions Spell the Imminent Collapse of America,” MEMRI, July 5, 2021: Former Iranian ambassador to Iraq Hassan […]
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2021-07-16  •  Robert Spencer


Austria: Leftist activists target cops for memorializing teen who was murdered by Muslim migrant
Just another day in this Age of Absurdity, in which Leftists defend evil and then preen about their moral superiority. “Leonie case: Left activists target grieving police officers,” translated from “Fall Leonie: Linke Aktivisten nehmen trauernde Polizisten ins Visier,” Exxpress, July 12, 2021 (thanks to Medforth): Several police officers have come under fire for attending […]
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2021-07-16  •  Robert Spencer

Could the Qur’an have been adapted from a Christian text?
Author’s note: This is the fourth segment of my review of Robert Spencer’s new revised and expanded edition of Did Muhammad Exist?. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. In Chapter nine, Spencer tackles the vexatious problem of the variants in the Koran, largely but not entirely, due to the […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/could-the-quran-have-been-adapted-from-a-christian-text
2021-07-15  •  Ibn Warraq

China invests $1.3 trillion in Muslim countries, they remain silent about Uighur genocide
Can China buy an end to any jihad against it? The Islamic doctrines will remain, but the Muslim countries have 1.3 trillion reasons to ignore them for now. “$1.3 trillion And Counting: The Cost That Keeps Muslim Countries Mum on China’s Uyghur Genocide,” by Santosh Chaubey, News18, July 8, 2021: Recently, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/china-invests-1-3-trillion-in-muslim-countries-they-remain-silent-about-uighur-genocide
2021-07-15  •  Robert Spencer

Israel: Muslim teens, 13 and 15, brutally beat 50-year-old Jewish man in Tel Aviv park
Time for the UN to issue another condemnation of Israel. טוב, תקשיבו, הצעקות האלו לא יוצאות לי מהראש. בנאדם מבוגר שרק יצא מהבית בשבת בצהריים לרכב באפניים בפארק שוכב על הרצפה באמצע לינץ' וזועק את נשמתו שוב ושוב. יהודים הצילו. יהודים הצילו. יהודים. והכל באמצע פארק הירקון באור יום. טירוף מוחלט. pic.twitter.com/yCUD9M76F6 — אדם גולד […]

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2021-07-15  •  Robert Spencer

Belgium: Muslim government commissioner resigns over links to the Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the United States are dedicated, according to a captured internal document, to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house.” How did Ihsane Haouach get so far without being thoroughly vetted? To have vetted her would have been “Islamophobic.” “Belgium: suspected of having links with the Muslim […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/belgium-muslim-government-commissioner-resigns-over-links-to-the-muslim-brotherhood
2021-07-15  •  Robert Spencer

Turkey: Erdogan to form new monitoring agency to restrict social media activity and combat ‘fake news’
“Fake news” according to whom? Why, according to Erdogan, of course. Just as in the U.S., what Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg and the Google thugs consider “fake news” from their far-Left perspective is banned, buried, erased, silenced. Biden’s handlers are likely taking notes from Erdogan in this and ready to make this social media […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/turkey-erdogan-to-form-new-monitoring-agency-to-restrict-social-media-activity-and-combat-fake-news
2021-07-15  •  Robert Spencer

Nigeria: Muslims murder 18 people in Christian-majority southern Kaduna State
But, but, the white supremacist threat! The number of dead is the same, but this is a different incident from the one covered here. “Eighteen killed in Christian-majority southern Kaduna State by suspected Fulani Islamist militants,” Barnabas Fund, July 13, 2021: Eighteen Nigerians were killed in Christian-majority southern Kaduna State when suspected Fulani Islamist militants […]

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2021-07-15  •  Robert Spencer


Pakistan: Muslim teacher rapes 8-year-old Christian girl, school blames Christian boy, protects rapist
“Our pleas for justice are falling on deaf ears. The school management is protecting the rapist, and the police are colluding with them. Who should we look to for justice?” Not to the authorities of the Islamic Republic. “School in Pakistan Covers Up Rape of Christian Girl, Family Says,” Morning Star News, July 11, 2021: […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/pakistan-muslim-teacher-rapes-8-year-old-christian-girl-school-blames-christian-boy-protects-rapist
2021-07-15  •  Robert Spencer

58 ‘Palestinian’ women murdered in domestic violence in the last two years
There is, of course, domestic violence in all cultures. So to post this is just “Islamophobic,” right? Wrong: there is domestic violence in all cultures, but only in one does it have divine sanction. Islam doesn’t teach that man may kill his wife, but once you’ve allowed him to beat her, accidents will happen. The […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/58-palestinian-women-murdered-in-domestic-violence-in-the-last-two-years
2021-07-15  •  Robert Spencer

UNHRC Special Rapporteur Declares Israeli Settlements ‘A War Crime.’ Here’s Why He’s Wrong.
It’s not enough that Israel is perennially in the dock at the UN Human Rights Council, according to its permanent Agenda item #7, “Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories.” Israel is the whipping boy of the UNHRC. It has had more resolutions against it adopted by the UNHRC than have all […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/unhrc-special-rapporteur-declares-israeli-settlements-a-war-crime-heres-why-hes-wrong
2021-07-15  •  Hugh Fitzgerald

Palestinian Authority gives jihad terrorists and their families ATM cards
Cutting-edge, as it were, 21st-century jihad terror finance. “PA introduces new way for terrorists, families to get cash,” Israel Hayom, July 11, 2021: The Palestinian Authority announced a new mechanism on Tuesday for disbursing payments to terrorists and their families by using ATMs at PA post offices across the West Bank, the Middle East Media […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/palestinian-authority-gives-jihad-terrorists-and-their-families-atm-cards
2021-07-15  •  Robert Spencer

UK ex-cop: Rochdale Muslim rape gang case “continues to expose what is wrong with our so-called ‘justice system'”
Maggie Oliver is right, but even her calls for justice don’t get at the root of the problem. Nowhere in this article does she come close to acknowledging the beliefs and assumptions that give rise to and perpetuate this kind of behavior, and no one else in Britain even comes as close to doing so […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/uk-ex-cop-rochdale-muslim-rape-gang-case-continues-to-expose-what-is-wrong-with-our-so-called-justice-system
2021-07-15  •  Robert Spencer

Robert Spencer Video: Did Muhammad Exist?
Order the new revised and expanded version of Did Muhammad Exist? here.
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2021-07-15  •  Robert Spencer


Anni Cyrus Video: Does Judge Quraishi Really Know ‘Nothing’ About Sharia?
This new Glazov Gang episode features Anni Cyrus, an artist, the producer of The Glazov Gang, the founder of Live Up To Freedom and National Director of American Truth Project. [Learn more about how Anni has joined Mike Lindell in his fight for freedom and also about her new Etsy Channel.] Anni asks Does Judge […]

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2021-07-15  •  Jamie Glazov

If Muhammad is legendary, why were stories invented about him that portray him in a negative light?
Author’s note: This is the third segment of my review of Robert Spencer’s new revised and expanded edition of Did Muhammad Exist?. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Chapter 5 discusses the work of Ibn Ishaq and Ibn Hisham, the earliest biographers of Muhammad, in considerable detail, and shows how totally unreliable they […]

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2021-07-14  •  Ibn Warraq




Palestinian Authority top dog says Israel freezing funds PA gives to jihad terrorists is ‘racism’
Of course! Everything else is these days, why not this? “PA: Freezing of money for terrorists is ‘racism,'” by Dalit Halevi, Arutz Sheva, July 12, 2021: Qadri Abu Bakr, the head of the Palestinian Authority’s Prisoners Affairs Commission, condemned the decision of the Israeli Cabinet to freeze the funds transferred by the Palestinian Authority to […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/palestinian-authority-top-dog-says-israel-freezing-funds-pa-gives-to-jihad-terrorists-is-racism
2021-07-14  •  Robert Spencer




‘One of world’s top scholars on Islam’ says political Islam can be ‘gateway to democratic and pluralist worldview’
Jocelyne Cesari is a highly respected academic: she is professor of religion and politics at the University of Birmingham; senior research fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; and professorial fellow at the Australian Catholic University. So you know immediately what she thinks about everything. The only examples offered, at […]

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2021-07-14  •  Robert Spencer




Nigeria: Muslim mob demands death sentence for man accused of insulting Muhammad
A glimpse into the future of the West. This is where the Left’s “hate speech” rhetoric is tending. We are very close to this now, far closer than most people realize. Supporters of the President are defamed and smeared now, but for years, critics of jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women and others have […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/nigeria-muslim-mob-demands-death-sentence-for-man-accused-of-insulting-muhammad
2021-07-14  •  Robert Spencer




Bangladesh: Mosque prayer leader was also bomb-making instructor
Why wasn’t Naeem deterred from bomb-making by all the peaceful teachings of the Qur’an, upon which non-Muslim Western politicians are staking the future of their societies? “Bangladesh: 5 members of the Neo-JMB banned militant outfit were arrested,” by P C Thomas, News Track Live, July 12, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): DHAKA: Dhaka […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/bangladesh-mosque-prayer-leader-was-also-bomb-making-instructor
2021-07-14  •  Robert Spencer



Prof: Israel will be destroyed, we will establish Islamic state, Allah will allow some Jews to escape annihilation
This is the side that, according to the American Left, has the moral high ground. “Gaza Professor Of Islamic Studies Nasr Fahajan: When Palestine Is Liberated, The Jews Will Not Be Annihilated; Some Will Be Allowed To Escape Abroad,” MEMRI, July 2, 2021: Palestinian professor of Islamic studies Nasr Fahajan said that according to the […]
 https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/prof-israel-will-be-destroyed-we-will-establish-islamic-state-allah-will-allow-some-jews-to-escape-annihilation
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2021-07-14  •  Robert Spencer



Afghanistan: Taliban impose new restrictions on women, force men to grow beards
Is this the United States’ problem to solve? Should we stay in Afghanistan until doomsday? The U.S. should concentrate on making sure the Taliban don’t export their jihad activity. That’s all. But of course, our military today has other concerns, such as making sure there are no patriots among our armed forces. “Taliban Impose New […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/afghanistan-taliban-impose-new-restrictions-on-women-force-men-to-grow-beards
2021-07-14  •  Robert Spencer



Pakistan: Muslims force 60 Hindus to convert to Islam
The Qur’an says “There is no compulsion in religion” (2:256). However, what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. The institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. Even when conversions are […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/pakistan-muslims-force-60-hindus-to-convert-to-islam
2021-07-14  •  Robert Spencer



Arch-Terrorist Ahmed Jibril Dies; Mahmoud Abbas Offers His Condolences
Ahmad Jibril, the leader of a major Palestinian terrorist group, died in a Damascus hospital on Wednesday night, Lebanese media has reported. The story of his life as a terrorist is here: “Ahmad Jibril, head of Syria-based Palestinian terror group PFLP-GC, dead at 83,” by Aaron Boxerman, Times of Israel, July 7, 2021: …Jibril, the […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/arch-terrorist-ahmed-jibril-dies-mahmoud-abbas-offers-his-condolences
2021-07-14  •  Hugh Fitzgerald


UK: Labour Party to vote against ‘Freedom of Speech’ bill, says it will embolden ‘hate speech’
Another small episode in the long, slow, lingering death of Britain. Who decides which people are “harmful to public interest”? Who appoints the tribunal that determines who can speak and who cannot? That this bill is necessary, and that it causes any controversy at all, shows yet again that Britain is in its death throes 
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2021-07-14  •  Robert Spencer


Rep. Eric Swalwell Cheats on China With Qatar
The old joke about an honest politician is that he stays bought. Bad news for Communist China, Rep. Eric Swalwell may not be an honest politician. A pair of Democratic congressmen are seen in photos sitting shirtless on camels during a trip to Qatar paid for by a special interest group. Photos posted to Instagram on […]

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https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/rep-eric-swalwell-cheats-on-china-with-qatar
2021-07-14  •  Daniel Greenfield

You can’t question Muhammad’s existence! That’s Islamophobic!’
One of the new features in the Revised and Expanded edition of Did Muhammad Exist? is that I discuss charges that the inquiry itself is “Islamophobic.” There is a surprising number of supposed scholars and academics who use this word to register their objections. I show why they’re wrong and why the term “Islamophobia” has […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/you-cant-question-muhammads-existence-thats-islamophobic
2021-07-09  •  Robert Spencer

Here’s the Real Reason for the Dire Situation in Afghanistan Today
My latest in PJ Media is a VIP article. I am happy to be able to offer you a 5% discount on becoming a VIP member at PJ Media. Just enter the code SPENCER when you sign up here. Kabul today is starting to look like Saigon in 1975, and the long-predicted return to power of the Taliban […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/heres-the-real-reason-for-the-dire-situation-in-afghanistan-today
2021-07-09  •  Robert Spencer

Syria: Muslim family murders teen girl after she tried to run away with her lover and refused to marry her cousin
In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So we intended that their Lord should substitute for […]
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2021-07-09  •  Robert Spencer

Saudi prince investigated over claims he kept seven women as slaves at his Paris apartment
Slavery is acceptable in Islam. The Qur’an has Allah telling Muhammad that he has given him girls as sex slaves: “Prophet, We have made lawful to you the wives to whom you have granted dowries and the slave girls whom God has given you as booty.” (Qur’an 33:50) Muhammad bought slaves: “Jabir (Allah be pleased […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/saudi-prince-investigated-over-claims-he-kept-seven-women-as-slaves-at-his-paris-apartment
2021-07-09  •  Robert Spencer

New Jersey: Imam says Jews spread corruption, with help of Allah Muslims ‘will erase this filth called Israel’
Note how Abbasi keeps referring to the Qur’an. His desire to destroy Israel comes from his Islamic antisemitism, while most Western analysts would assume that he and others like him are antisemitic because they hate Israel. The Jews in the Qur’an are called the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/new-jersey-imam-says-jews-spread-corruption-with-help-of-allah-muslims-will-erase-this-filth-called-israel
2021-07-09  •  Robert Spencer

Biden’s handlers to ‘prioritize’ pushing Israel to stop demolishing jihad terrorists’ homes
Not prioritized: getting the “Palestinians” to stop paying jihad terrorists and their families. Not prioritized: getting the “Palestinians” to stop shooting rockets at Israeli civilians. Not prioritized: getting the “Palestinians” to end their genocidal jihad rhetoric. Not prioritized: getting the “Palestinians” to stop training their children to hate and murder Israelis. “US now to ‘prioritize’ […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/bidens-handlers-to-prioritize-pushing-israel-to-stop-demolishing-jihad-terrorists-homes
2021-07-09  •  Robert Spencer

India: Muslim organizations push ‘Prophet Muhammad Bill’ to criminalize insults to Islam
This kind of initiative is heading West. “Maharashtra: Muslim organisations want special law to punish ‘insults’ against Muhammad, even when 295(a) was brought for the same reason,” OpIndia, July 7, 2021: Muslim religious groups like Raza Academy and Tahaffuz Namoos-e-Risalat Board and Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) have reportedly been pressurised the Maharashtra state government to […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/india-muslim-organizations-push-prophet-muhammad-bill-to-criminalize-insults-to-islam
2021-07-09  •  Robert Spencer



Austria: Leftists storm news site’s offices, enraged it identified rapists and murderers of teen as Muslim migrants
What kind of society do these people want to live in? Apparently one that prioritizing not appearing “racist” and “Islamophobic” over protecting women from sexual assault, rape, and murder. NEW – Left-wing extremist group stormed the offices of the Austrian news site "oe24" because it named the Afghan nationality of the four perpetrators in the […]

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2021-07-09  •  Robert Spencer



Austria: Muslim migrants rape and murder 13-year-old girl, one rapist was to be deported years ago
Why does this keep happening? Because officials are so paralyzed by fear of being called “Islamophobic” that they do not act to remove such people as these Muslim migrant rapists from the country. And why is there so much sexual assault and rape of this kind? A survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/italy-non-stop-muslim-migrant-landings-in-lampedusa-the-situation-is-out-of-control
2021-07-09  •  Robert Spencer


Israel’s Defense Minister Gantz Offers Humanitarian Aid to Lebanon, US and Europeans Do Not
Lebanon is on the edge of complete economic collapse, and so far one country has offered it aid. Not its fellow Arab states. Not Iran, that provides aid not to Lebanon, but only to Hezbollah, the terror group that has helped bring Lebanon to its present pass. Not the Europeans nor the Americans. That one […]

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2021-07-09  •  Hugh Fitzgerald



Italy: Non-stop Muslim migrant landings in Lampedusa, ‘The situation is out of control’
All of this is happening with the help of people smugglers and representatives of various NGO’s, who should be jailed. In June, nearly 1,300 Muslim migrants landed during a single weekend in Lampedusa. Illegal Muslim migrants have been steadily swarming into the EU and the UK for years, and it’s getting worse. Amid indifference from […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/italy-non-stop-muslim-migrant-landings-in-lampedusa-the-situation-is-out-of-control
2021-07-09  •  Christine Douglass-Williams


UK Home Office unveils new Nationality and Borders Bill allowing border officials to storm migrant boats, use force
More illegal Muslim migrants landed in Britain in June 2021 than in all of 2019. Here is the catch to the new border bill Priti Patel unveiled: it depends on French cooperation, and France hasn’t shown itself to be a reliable partner in this effort. For one thing, France doesn’t want the migrants, either. Last […]

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2021-07-09  •  Christine Douglass-Williams



Robert Spencer Video: How Will the World React If Iran Uses Its Proxies in Lebanon and Syria to Attack Israel?
With Barry Nussbaum of the American Truth Project.

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2021-07-09  •  Robert Spencer

Group Biden Removed From Terror List Show Gratitude by Screaming ‘Death to America!’
My latest in PJ Media: When Donald Trump had the Yemeni Shi’ite Houthis, a client group of the Islamic Republic of Iran, designated as foreign terrorists, the Leftist political and media establishment was (as always regarding anything and everything Trump did) outraged. No fewer than twenty-two aid groups that were operating in Yemen demanded that the designation […]

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2021-07-04  •  Robert Spencer


Pakistan: Police constable hacks to death man acquitted of blasphemy because ‘he had committed blasphemy’
This is the reality of life in Pakistan. If you’re even accused of blasphemy, regardless of whether or not you’re guilty, you’ll live for the rest of your life with the threat of a violent death hanging over your head. “Pakistani policeman accused of killing man acquitted of blasphemy,” by Mubasher Bukhari, Reuters, July 3, […]
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2021-07-04  •  Robert Spencer


‘Muhammad must have existed, because why would anyone invent all those stories of him raping and killing?’
Find out why that argument doesn’t hold up to scrutiny in the new revised and expanded version of Did Muhammad Exist?.
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/muhammad-must-have-existed-because-why-would-anyone-invent-all-those-stories-of-him-raping-and-killing
2021-07-04  •  Robert Spencer

Group Biden Removed From Terror List Show Gratitude by Screaming ‘Death to America!’
My latest in PJ Media: When Donald Trump had the Yemeni Shi’ite Houthis, a client group of the Islamic Republic of Iran, designated as foreign terrorists, the Leftist political and media establishment was (as always regarding anything and everything Trump did) outraged. No fewer than twenty-two aid groups that were operating in Yemen demanded that the designation […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/group-biden-removed-from-terror-list-show-gratitude-by-screaming-death-to-america
2021-07-04  •  Robert Spencer

Pakistan: Police constable hacks to death man acquitted of blasphemy because ‘he had committed blasphemy’
This is the reality of life in Pakistan. If you’re even accused of blasphemy, regardless of whether or not you’re guilty, you’ll live for the rest of your life with the threat of a violent death hanging over your head. “Pakistani policeman accused of killing man acquitted of blasphemy,” by Mubasher Bukhari, Reuters, July 3, […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/pakistan-police-constable-hacks-to-death-man-acquitted-of-blasphemy-because-he-had-committed-blasphemy
2021-07-04  •  Robert Spencer

Canada: Muslim lawyer says ‘anti-Islamophobia’ is ‘yet another tool to consolidate the Islamophobic status quo’
Opposition to “Islamophobia” is now “Islamophobic”! A total surrender to jihad violence and unqualified acceptance of Sharia oppression of women and others seems to be the only thing that will satisfy Azeezah Kanji. “The coloniality of Canadian Islamophobia – and anti-Islamophobia,” by Azeezah Kanji, Al Jazeera, July 2, 2021: In the wake of the latest […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/canada-muslim-lawyer-says-anti-islamophobia-is-yet-another-tool-to-consolidate-the-islamophobic-status-quo
2021-07-04  •  Robert Spencer

Panama’s minister of foreign affairs: Terrorists are entering Panama and making their way to the US
If you are concerned about this, you’re a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe,” and of course also a white supremacist. Celebrate diversity! Erika Mouynes is Panama’s minister of foreign affairs. “The (Literal) Gap in U.S. Migration Policy,” by Erika Mouynes, Foreign Policy, June 24, 2021: The surge of migrants at the United States’ southern border has undoubtedly […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/panamas-minister-of-foreign-affairs-terrorists-are-entering-panama-and-making-their-way-to-the-us
2021-07-04  •  Robert Spencer


India: Public school organizes summer camp to promote Islamic values among children, sparks outrage
A shocking and communally charged invitation put out by a Moradabad school has come under scrutiny and led to tremendous public fury in India, except, of course, among the Muslims. The Delhi Public Global School had set up a summer camp for students aged 8-15, intending to impart Islamic education online. The school also created […]
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2021-07-04  •  Ashlyn Davis

India: Muslim politician demands all Deputy Chief Minister’s offices be reserved for Muslims
Adding to his party’s list of bizarre demands, Syed Asim Waqar, leader of the Islamic political party All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen, has asked all states to appoint Muslims as Deputy Chief Ministers (CM). The Muslim leader has skillfully made this demand just before the Uttar Pradesh State elections, to polarize the electorate. Waqar asserts that other […]
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2021-07-04  •  Ashlyn Davis

Pakistan: Man gets life in prison for throwing a copy of the Qur’an into a drain
Killing people in accord with its teachings — not blasphemy. Treating a copy of it with less than obsequious respect — blasphemy. “Man gets life for blasphemy, Dawn, July 3, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): SWAT: Additional district and sessions judge, Bahrain, Ayaz Khan Momand on Friday sentenced a man, who was arrested […]
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2021-07-04  •  Robert Spencer

Norway: Muslim migrant teen plots jihad massacre using poison or explosives, donates money to the Islamic State
Norway, like other Western countries, welcomed Muslim migrants as “refugees” and gave them all assistance to start a new life. No one would have dared suggest that some of those coming might harbor jihadist sentiments and support the Islamic State. That would have been “Islamophobic” and “racist.” “‘Poison or Explosives’: Norway Sentences Syrian Teenager For […]
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2021-07-04  •  Robert Spencer

Palestinian Analyst Bassem Eid Invites The Squad to Visit Him in Jerusalem
Bassem Eid is a Palestinian analyst and human-rights campaigner who chooses to live in Jerusalem, under Israeli rule, rather than in those parts of the West Bank where Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority hold sway. He’s not fond either of the PA, or of Hamas, and he’s horrified that those claiming to champion the […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/palestinian-analyst-bassem-eid-invites-the-squad-to-visit-him-in-jerusalem
2021-07-04  •  Hugh Fitzgerald

Pakistan: Textbook publishers must observe ‘Islamic morality,’ not print pics showing human figures ‘sans clothes’
In the name of “Islamic morality,” authorities have “warned textbook publishers not to print any diagram or sketch in biology textbooks that show human figures ‘sans clothes.’” Pakistan has been emboldened under its Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is committed to moving his country (and the whole world in fact) toward even stricter observance of […]
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2021-07-04  •  Christine Douglass-Williams

Iran: Hardline Muslim cleric appointed to Islamic Republic’s highest civilian position, judiciary chief
Iran’s supreme leader has “appointed a hard-line cleric” as the country’s new judiciary chief. He replaces the president-elect Ebrahim Raisi who previously held the post. Ever since Trump left office, there is no significant global presence to stymie the regime’s aggressive ambitions. Of particular concern is how these trends will manifest in Israel, since Iran […]

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2021-07-04  •  Christine Douglass-Williams

Islamic apologist Shabir Ally: ‘If the prophet Muhammad did not exist, then there’s no reason to be a Muslim’
That’s what is at stake in the historical inquiry into the origins of Islam, and that’s why so many Islamic apologists are reacting so furiously to the book Did Muhammad Exist? Revised and Expanded Edition. Preorder Did Muhammad Exist? Revised and Expanded Edition here.
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/islamic-apologist-shabir-ally-if-the-prophet-muhammad-did-not-exist-then-theres-no-reason-to-be-a-muslim
2021-06-30  •  Robert Spencer


University of Denver Co-Sponsors Anti-Israel Conference With Admitted Member of Jihad Terror Group
My latest in PJ Media: In yet another sign of the thoroughgoing corruption of American academia, the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies just co-sponsored a conference with a man who admitted to being a member of a jihad terror group, and an organization affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, which is dedicated, according to […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/university-of-denver-co-sponsors-anti-israel-conference-with-admitted-member-of-jihad-terror-group
2021-06-30  •  Robert Spencer

Yemen: Houthis ban song and music as part of ‘promoting Qur’anic awareness’
The Yemeni Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism (and you know what a tourist hotspot Yemen is) has declared July 1 Yemeni Song Day, but the Houthis are countering by claiming Qur’anic authenticity, an appeal that will resonate with many people in Yemen. Whenever I note that Islamic law forbids music (aside from nasheeds, a […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/yemen-houthis-ban-song-and-music-as-part-of-promoting-quranic-awareness
2021-06-30  •  Robert Spencer

Netherlands: Muslima recruited for Islamic State, gets prison and compulsory psychological treatment
Why compulsory psychological treatment? Because Dutch authorities, like authorities everywhere else, cannot and will not face up to the reality of Islam’s teachings regarding warfare against unbelievers. So instead, they pretend that those who act in accord with those teachings are psychologically disturbed. “Six years in prison for ISIS recruitment, propaganda over Telegram,” NL Times, […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/netherlands-muslima-recruited-for-islamic-state-gets-prison-and-compulsory-psychological-treatment
2021-06-30  •  Robert Spencer

Blinken presses US allies to bring back Islamic State jihadis
Yeah, come on, people. What could possibly go wrong? Sure, they might commit a jihad massacre here or there, but what’s a few deaths compared to the horror of being Islamophobic? “US Blinken presses allies to repatriate Islamic State fighters,” France24, June 28, 2021 (thanks to Henry): Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday pressed […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/blinken-presses-us-allies-to-bring-back-islamic-state-jihadis
2021-06-30  •  Robert Spencer

Australia: Muslima migrant who stabbed man while screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ now stabs fellow inmate
What is being done to disabuse Momena Shoma of her jihadist sentiments? Why, nothing. Nothing at all. To attempt any such thing would be “Islamophobic,” and non-Muslim authorities all over the world have determined that their primary responsibility is to avoid appearing “Islamophobic.” “Convicted terrorist admits stabbing inmate, being Islamic State member,” by Erin Pearson, […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/australia-muslima-migrant-who-stabbed-man-while-screaming-allahu-akbar-now-stabs-fellow-inmate
2021-06-30  •  Robert Spencer


Malaysia seeks stricter Sharia punishments for ‘promoting LGBT lifestyle’ and ‘insulting Islam’ on social media
It is peculiar how the “woke” movement claims to support human rights, including the rights of LGBTQ individuals. Yet the severe persecution of LGBTQ people under Sharia somehow escapes them, including the fact that members of this community routinely have to hide for their own safety in the midst of “Islam’s jihad against homosexuals.” The […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/malaysia-seeks-stricter-sharia-punishments-for-promoting-lgbt-lifestyle-and-insulting-islam-on-social-media
2021-06-30  •  Christine Douglass-Williams

India: Muslim poses as Hindu to lure girl and rape her multiple times
“The Prophet said, ‘War is deceit.’” (Bukhari 4.52.269) These “love jihad” incidents are motivated by supremacist assumptions. The idea is that the Muslim community will always grow at the expense of the non-Muslim community, and that because that is a good outcome, any means, including deception, may be pursued in order to attain it. Also, […]
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/india-muslim-poses-as-hindu-to-lure-girl-and-rape-her-multiple-times
2021-06-30  •  Robert Spencer

Ilhan Omar has no regrets about grouping US, Israel with jihad terror groups, calls critics ‘Islamophobic’
Not only does she have no regrets, but this was not an isolated incident. “Squad member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., retweeted a video produced by an anti-Israel organization previously investigated by the FBI for possible terrorist ties.” I She defends accusations against about her being antisemitic with her own accusations that her critics “haven’t been […]

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2021-06-30  •  Christine Douglass-Williams

No US ‘investment’ has paid such large and steady dividends as the investment made in Israel
Israel has shared its experiences in fighting terrorism with the U.S. It was the first country that had to plan and execute a long-distance commando raid against terrorists, long before the Navy Seals’ night-time raid, thousands of miles from home, on Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Yoram Ettinger offers more evidence of Israel as […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/no-us-investment-has-paid-such-large-and-steady-dividends-as-the-investment-made-in-israel
2021-06-30  •  Hugh Fitzgerald
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Germany: Mayor of city where jihadi murdered 3 justifies massacre, ‘How would you feel as a foreigner in our city?’
And the Catholic Church is worried about online “hate speech.” No one seems particularly concerned with addressing jihad, much less with trying to stop it. “Letter from the mayor after the massacre: ‘How would you feel as a foreigner,'” translated from “Brief von Bürgermeister nach Massaker: „Wie würden Sie sich als Ausländer fühlen“,” by Johanna […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/germany-mayor-of-city-where-jihadi-murdered-3-justifies-massacre-how-would-you-feel-as-a-foreigner-in-our-city
2021-06-30  •  Robert Spencer


Islamic apologist Shabir Ally: ‘If the prophet Muhammad did not exist, then there’s no reason to be a Muslim’
That’s what is at stake in the historical inquiry into the origins of Islam, and that’s why so many Islamic apologists are reacting so furiously to the book Preorder Did Muhammad Exist? Revised and Expanded Edition here
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2021-06-30  •  Robert Spencer

‘There is no God but Allah, and Qutham is his prophet’
The more one looks into the origins of Islam, the stranger it all gets. Some Islamic traditions say Muhammad originally had a different name, Qutham. Yet most histories of early Islam omit all mention of this. Find out what this means and why it matters in the new revised and expanded edition of Did Muhammad […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/there-is-no-god-but-allah-and-qutham-is-his-prophet
2021-06-28  •  Robert Spencer


Man Screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ Stabs 3 to Death, Says It’s His ‘Jihad,’ Cops Search for Motive
My latest in PJ Media: German authorities are baffled: a knife-wielding man, identified in the German media as “Jibril A.,” stabbed three people to death and injured five others in Würzburg, Germany, on Friday. Police and intelligence officials have no idea why he did it. Yes, he was screaming, “Allahu akbar!” during his attacks, and yes, he […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/man-screaming-allahu-akbar-stabs-3-to-death-says-its-his-jihad-cops-search-for-motive
2021-06-28  •  Robert Spencer

European soccer association agrees to remove beer bottles from press conferences to avoid offending Muslims
The Union of European Football Associations is the administrative body for soccer in Europe. Euro 2020 is the European soccer championship. A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Verily Allah, the Exalted, has forbidden wine. So who hears this verse and he has anything of it with him, he should neither drink it nor sell it.” (Sahih […]

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2021-06-28  •  Robert Spencer


Somalia: Muslims murder at least 30 people in jihad attack on military base
“The al Qaeda-allied al Shabaab has been fighting in Somalia for more than a decade to try to topple the country’s central government and establish its own rule based on its strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law.” At least Reuters admitted that they’re fighting to impose Sharia, but it is a shame there is no […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/somalia-muslims-murder-at-least-30-people-in-jihad-attack-on-military-base
2021-06-28  •  Robert Spencer

Pakistan’s Khan says Osama bin Laden was ‘martyred,’ Foreign Minister says he was ‘quoted out of context’
There are plenty of public pronouncements from Khan that make it likely that he did mean it. Claiming that an inconvenient statement has been taken “out of context” is a common tactic of Islamic supremacists worldwide, and their Leftist marks fall for it every time. “PM Imran calling Osama bin Laden a martyr was a […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/pakistans-khan-says-osama-bin-laden-was-martyred-foreign-minister-says-he-was-quoted-out-of-context
2021-06-28  •  Robert Spencer

Canada: Muslim who narrated ISIS’ execution videos was ‘devout in his faith,’ went to Egypt to study Qur’an
Everyone in the Western world knows that the Islamic State (ISIS) has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, except the ISIS jihadis themselves. Nor does anyone seem curious about how this alleged misunderstanding of Islam became so widespread. “RCMP preparing charges against Toronto IT worker who became ‘voice of ISIS,’ document reveals,” by Stewart Bell, […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/canada-muslim-who-narrated-isis-execution-videos-was-devout-in-his-faith-went-to-egypt-to-study-quran
2021-06-28  •  Robert Spencer

France: Muslim who railed against ‘dirty Jews’ and endorsed Holocaust calls for murder of prominent French Jews
There is a photo that shows him smiling and holding up a Qur’an. This image might give a clue as to the source of his hatred. The Jews in the Qur’an are called the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/france-muslim-who-railed-against-dirty-jews-and-endorsed-holocaust-calls-for-murder-of-prominent-french-jews
2021-06-28  •  Robert Spencer

Nigeria: Muslims murder Christian physician and 17 other Christians
“In 2015, Muhammadu Buhari, a Fulani, was elected president of Nigeria. He has done virtually nothing to address the behavior of his fellow tribesmen in the Middle Belt and in the south of the country.” Meanwhile, the worldwide “human rights community” says little and does nothing, because the persecution of Christians in Nigeria doesn’t fit […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/nigeria-muslims-murder-christian-physician-and-17-other-christians
2021-06-28  •  Robert Spencer


France: Machete-wielding Muslim who attacked soldiers outside Louvre while screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ gets 30 years
He’s 33. He won’t serve his full sentence. In 15 or 20 years or sooner, he will be back on the streets. But by then he will have reformed and been “deradicalized,” right? Wrong. Nothing — nothing whatsoever — is done to jihadis while they’re in prison to disabuse them of their jihadi sentiments. Quite […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/france-machete-wielding-muslim-who-attacked-soldiers-outside-louvre-while-screaming-allahu-akbar-gets-30-years
2021-06-28  •  Robert Spencer


The Funeral of Nizar Banat: ‘Out, Out, Out, Get the Dogs of the PA Out’
Nizar Banat was one of the fiercest critics of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President-For-Life who is now in the sixteenth year of his four-year term. Banat had for several years railed against the corruption and nepotism in the PA; he was keenly aware that Abbas had managed to amass a $400 million fortune from the […]

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2021-06-28  •  Hugh Fitzgerald

Israel: Police thwart multiple attempts to commit jihad massacres at Tel Aviv Pride parade
Rabbi Dror Aryeh makes it clear that there were plenty of people who objected to the parade. But the terror threat came from “two residents of the Palestinian Authority” who were “carrying a knife.” There are all sorts of people who object to the celebration of homosexuality on various grounds. But there is only one […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/israel-police-thwart-multiple-attempts-to-commit-jihad-massacres-at-tel-aviv-pride-parade
2021-06-28  •  Robert Spencer


Biden’s handlers order airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed jihad groups
Then Biden’s handlers turn around and offer Iran massive sanctions relief. So the U.S. will end up paying for these unmanned aerial vehicle attacks against U.S. personnel and facilities in Iraq, who shouldn’t be there in the first place. “Biden orders airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups,” by Barbara Starr, CNN, June 27, […]

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2021-06-28  •  Robert Spencer

Video: Robert Spencer responds to Muslim cleric’s critique of ‘Did Muhammad Exist?’
With Husain Steve Mashni. Preorder Did Muhammad Exist? Revised and Expanded Edition here. Preorder The Critical Qur’an: Explained from Key Islamic Commentaries and Contemporary Historical Research here.
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2021-06-27  •  Robert Spencer

India: Islamic mass conversion scheme targeted non-Muslim girls from rural areas as easy to lure and brainwash
Funded by the ISI, the Pakistani spy service. Imagine the outcry if the Indian government had funded a scheme to induce Muslims to leave Islam. But the establishment media will take no notice of this. “Mass conversion racket: Umar Gautam reveals how they targeted non-Muslim girls from rural areas as it is easier to lure, […]

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2021-06-27  •  Robert Spencer


Syria: Islamic State’s religious police burn liquor store, prosecute those who violate Islamic law
Virtually every politician in the Western world has assured us with supreme confidence that the Islamic State (ISIS) has nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with Islam. That is now taken for granted everywhere. The only ones who haven’t gotten the message are the ISIS jihadis themselves. “Islamic State revives religious police in northeast Syria,” by […]

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2021-06-27  •  Robert Spencer


Germany: Muslim migrant who murdered three while screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ targeted women, had ISIS propaganda
The Islamic State issued this call in September 2014: So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them […]

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2021-06-27  •  Robert Spencer

India: Muslim scientist sets up Islamic State base and plans jihad massacres
An India-based Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist, Syed Ali, also known as Vinjani, who is a scientist, was charged by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and presented before an NIA Special Court in Poonamallee, Chennai earlier this month. Syed Ali, whose family hails from Parassala in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram, is alleged to have participated in a terror […]
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2021-06-27  •  Ashlyn Davis


UK: Leftists protest against lesbian candidate who opposes the treatment of gays under Islamic law
There are two lesbian candidates standing for their own respective parties in the upcoming Batley and Spen by-election. One of the women opposes the treatment of gays at the hands of Muslims and is eager to have a dialogue about the issue. The other promises to be a voice for those in the district who […]

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2021-06-27  •  Joshua Winston

Official PA daily praises jihadi who named his son Eichmann to ‘anger Zionism’
The world will continue to ignore all this genocidal bloodlust from the “Palestinians,” and blame Israel for the conflict. “A kid called Eichmann,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, June 24, 2021: The ways Palestinians can “resist” and “fight” Israel seem to be unlimited. One such way, which was praised by the official PA […]

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2021-06-27  •  Robert Spencer


Indonesia: Jihad group finances its activities through charity boxes for the poor and needy
Jemaah Islamiah almost certainly doesn’t believe it is misappropriating these funds in any way. In Islam, zakat — the alms required of every Muslim — can and should be given to further the jihad. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that there are so many jihad-linked charities. “Alms for terror: Militants in Indonesia finance extremists with […]

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2021-06-27  •  Robert Spencer


The Death of Nizar Banat
Mahmoud Abbas is now in the sixteenth year of his four-year term as President-For-Life of the Palestinian Authority. Famously corrupt, he has managed while in office to amass, with his two sons Yasser and Tareq, a fortune of $400 million. Earlier this year he decided to call for Presidential and Parliamentary elections, under the misapprehension […]

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2021-06-27  •  Hugh Fitzgerald


Germany: Muslim suspected of arson attack on synagogue spread material from Erdogan’s AKP party
The effects of Turkey’s rapid re-Islamization are felt in Germany. “Suspected arsonist flees to Turkey,” translated from “Mutmaßlicher Brandstifter in die Türkei geflohen,” by Franz Feyder, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, June 25, 2021 (thanks to Medforth): Stuttgart – According to research by our newspaper, the alleged perpetrator who carried out an arson attack on the Ulm synagogue […]

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2021-06-27  •  Robert Spencer

Indonesia: Students from Islamic school, ages 5-12, break off crosses of Christian graves
What fun people of this supremacist mindset will have, and in many cases are already having, in Europe. “Indonesian Islamic school faces desecration backlash,” by Konradus Epa, UCA News, June 22, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The mayor of a town in Indonesia’s Central Java province has vowed to shut down an Islamic […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/indonesia-students-from-islamic-school-ages-5-12-break-off-crosses-of-christian-graves
2021-06-27  •  Robert Spencer

Italy: Muslim migrant mother lured her daughter back home, where she was murdered in honor killing
JUN 25, 2021 2:00 PM 
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/italy-muslim-migrant-mother-lured-her-daughter-back-home-where-she-was-murdered-in-honor-killing
BYROBERT SPENCER
 

Greece: Muslim migrant rapes woman, she asks for help from three other Muslim migrants, who rape her again
Why does this keep happening? A survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK has said that her rapists would quote the Qur’an to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam. Thus it came as no surprise when Muslim migrants in France raped a girl and videoed the rape while praising Allah and invoking the Qur’an. […]

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2021-06-25  •  Robert Spencer


Biden’s handlers walk back Trump’s recognition of Golan Heights as Israeli territory
We’re back in full-on Obama mode now, betraying allies and giving aid and comfort to enemies. It will not, of course, end well. “Biden Admin Walks Back U.S. Recognition of Golan Heights as Israeli Territory,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, June 24, 2021: The Biden administration is walking back the United States’ historic recognition […]

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2021-06-25  •  Robert Spencer


Pelosi: ‘Root Causes’ of Capitol ‘Insurrection’ Were ‘White Supremacy, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia’
Pelosi: ‘Root Causes’ of Capitol ‘Insurrection’ Were ‘White Supremacy, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia’
My latest in PJ Media: Nancy Pelosi spoke today about “the root causes” of the January 6 Capitol riot: “the white supremacy, the anti-Semitism, the Islamophobia, all the rest of it that was so evident when you see a sweatshirt on one of the people saying, ‘Camp Auschwitz.’” She repeated the common and yet completely unsubstantiated claim […]

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Germany: Muslim migrant screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ murders 3, Interior Minister says he had ‘possible Islamist motive’
Yet again. Sorry, sieht halt wieder nach dem klassischen „geistig Verwirrten“ aus, der über das Mittelmeer gekommen ist. Wenn ich mich irre, entschuldige ich mich natürlich. Inzwischen soll es übrigens drei Tote und mehrere Verletzte in Würzburg geben. 🥺#würzburg pic.twitter.com/B1Rjq6B6oP — Anabel (@ainyrockstar) June 25, 2021 “Three killed, five seriously injured in Germany knife attack,” […]

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2021-06-25  •  Robert Spencer

UK: Muslima ‘refugee’ who ran al-Qaeda social media account from Britain wins right to challenge deportation
This is no surprise. The Home Office some time ago banned Martin Sellner, Brittany Pettibone, Lauren Southern and Lutz Bachmann from entering, all for the crime of opposing jihad terror and Sharia oppression, and thereby made it clear that it is more authoritarian and unwilling to uphold the freedom of speech than ever – at […]
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2021-06-23  •  Robert Spencer

Coming in November: The first English edition of the Qur’an that translates ‘jihad’ as ‘jihad’
I’m very pleased to announce that my book The Critical Qur’an: Explained from Key Islamic Commentaries and Contemporary Historical Research is set to be published by Bombardier Books on November 16, 2021, and is available for preorder now. Here is the publisher’s description of the book: As Islamic terrorism become distressingly common features of life […]

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2021-06-22  •  Robert Spencer


American University Has Maoist Self-Incrimination Session, Decides It’s ‘Islamophobic’
My latest in PJ Media: Self-incrimination was a common feature of the “struggle sessions” of Communist China’s Cultural Revolution: someone who was accused of ideological deviation broke down, under intense browbeating and often torture, and accused himself or herself of all manner of wrongdoing, amid tearful repentance and vows never to deviate from the party’s […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/american-university-has-maoist-self-incrimination-session-decides-its-islamophobic
2021-06-22  •  Robert Spencer


NYC mayoral candidate Yang refuses comment on Omar’s likening of US and Israel to Taliban and Hamas
Asking leading nyc mayoral candidate @AndrewYang about Ilhan Omar's comments comparing America and Israel to the Taliban and Hamas Yang responds by smiling, refusing to comment, then walking away pic.twitter.com/9XicJXpouR — Elad Eliahu (@elaadeliahu) June 21, 2021 Of course. Andrew Yang knows that the Left’s base today hates America and Israel, and agrees with Ilhan […]

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2021-06-22  •  Robert Spencer


Pakistan’s Khan explains why he is silent on China’s mistreatment of Muslims but vocal about Western ‘Islamophobia’
.@jonathanvswan presses Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on why he’s outspoken against Islamophobia in the West but silent about the genocide of Muslim Uyghurs in western China. Khan: I concentrate on what is happening on my border. Swan: This is on your border. #AxiosOnHBO pic.twitter.com/QdLfY1qXGL — Axios (@axios) June 20, 2021 The real reason is […]

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2021-06-22  •  Robert Spencer



India: Muslim teacher says ‘If someone quits Islam, he needs to be killed’
Then full quote: “If someone quits Islam/religion then what is his fate? Islam asks him to repent, still, if he does not repent then he needs to be killed by the ruler or who is responsible.” The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would […]

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2021-06-22  •  Robert Spencer


UK: ISIS bride Shamima Begum wore an ISIS badge on her school blazer, tried to recruit classmates for jihad
Why didn’t school officials put a stop to this? Because, as always in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain, they were afraid of being called “Islamophobic.” You can etch that on Britain’s tombstone: “We were afraid of being called Islamophobic.” “Shamima Begum ‘wore an ISIS badge on her blazer to pressure classmates at Bethnal Green school into […]

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2021-06-22  •  Robert Spencer


Germany bans Hamas flags in response to rise in antisemitic attacks
Germany has responded to “numerous anti-Israel riots in Berlin, Hamburg and other German cities in May of this year,” by banning the Hamas flag. This is justified. In Germany, like everywhere else across the Western world, pro-Palestinian demonstrations have been the occasion for numerous anti-Semitic displays. Ironically, although Angela Merkel is an open-borders globalist, she […]

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2021-06-22  •  Christine Douglass-Williams



Afghanistan: Former president says US presence ‘failed,’ as ‘extremism is at the highest point today’
Karzai is correct. But no one in Washington is going to face the reality of why the U.S. military misadventure failed. It failed because it was wrongly conceived, with no understanding of the importance of Sharia for the majority of Afghans, and of the significance of their attachment to it. So the Bush administration that […]

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2021-06-22  •  Robert Spencer



Chicago Dyke March plans violent riots, calls for destruction of US and Israel
The antisemitic Chicago Dyke March are calling for an end to Israel and also planning on violent rioting. Two fascinating & disturbing graphics they just released. pic.twitter.com/AnnUdMmISy — Ari Ingel (@OGAride) June 21, 2021 And if that wasn’t enough, they doubled down on a call for violence against Israel by the barrel of the gun, […]

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2021-06-22  •  Robert Spencer


Tom Friedman, World’s Greatest Authority, Has A ‘Big Idea’: US Should Pay Assad to Expel Iran From Syria
A well-pleased pleaser, mightily impressed with himself, the New York Times columnist Tom Friedman — the World’s Greatest Authority — has just announced that he has had a Big Idea about Syria, one that should solve all kinds of problems for Israel and the U.S. Ira Stoll was not impressed. His critical analysis is here: “Tom […]

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2021-06-22  •  Hugh Fitzgerald


Texas: Muslim gets 12 years for hiding his brother, who murdered his daughters for dating non-Muslims
When Yaser Said was caught in August 2020, Irving police Chief Jeff Spivey said: “This man brutally murdered — shot to death — his two daughters in his taxi cab. What led him to do that, I think at this point to us, is irrelevant.” And I pointed out that reports at the time of […]

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2021-06-22  •  Robert Spencer


Austria: Prison imam agitates against counterjihad measures
“One would wish that he would take action against extremism. But sometimes he seems to locate the extremism more with the authorities than with the accused.” Of course. It isn’t “extremist,” as far as Džemal Šibljaković, to wage jihad for the sake of Allah. “Vienna prison imam attacks terrorist investigation,” translated from “Wiener Gefängnis-Imam greift […]

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2021-06-22  •  Robert Spencer


Anni Cyrus on the infiltration of Sharia into American Courts
In this episode of ATP Report, Barry Nussbaum interviews me. We discuss how the Senate just confirmed a lifetime appointment of Pakistani American Muslim Federal Judge Zahid Quraishi and the escalation of Islamization in America.

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2021-06-22  •  Aynaz Anni Cyrus

“It would be good to see ‘Did Muhammad Exist?’ as introductory reading for courses on Islam in universities”
JUN 21, 2021 7:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER18 COMMENTS


This review of the first edition of Did Muhammad Exist? appeared in The American Spectator. The new revised and expanded edition contains:

25% new material.
Answers to objections raised to the first edition.
Startling information that makes it clear that Islam could not have originated the way it is described as doing so in the standard, canonical Islamic accounts.
The reasons why it is more likely that the Muhammad of Islamic tradition is more myth and legend than historical figure.
New information showing that the current Qur’anic text is not the original, and has been changed multiple times.
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Go to a high-street or online bookstore, and one can find numerous biographies written about Muhammad — the reputed founder of Islam — by the likes of Karen Armstrong and Tariq Ramadan. These works — generally apologetic in nature — wholly rely on the traditional Islamic accounts of the Prophet’s life, and if they ever delve into the question of the reliability of those sources, it is only in the hope of explaining away incidents in Muhammad’s life that might come across as unsavory to modern readers.

Such an approach, however, simply will not do for genuine historical research. One cannot adopt a pick-and-mix method to determining what aspects of Muhammad’s life actually occurred on moralistic grounds. It is in this respect that Robert Spencer’s latest book differs from the writings of Armstrong and Ramadan.

Without indulging in polemics or pushing a partisan political agenda, the author simply investigates the question of whether we can really trust the traditional Islamic accounts for the life of Muhammad and the supposed early days of Islam during the Arab conquests.

To be sure, serious scholarship on Islamic historiography dates back to the latter half of the 19th century — with the works of the Belgian Jesuit Henri Lammens and the acclaimed Geschichte des Qorans by Theodor Noldeke, to name just two pioneers of the field — and Spencer makes no pretense to originality.

Yet a traditional problem with Islamic historiography has been the intended audience: that is, the academic specialist assumed to have extensive background knowledge, rather than the general reader. Thus, Spencer’s book serves a useful purpose, for it flows nicely while providing the reader with a firm grounding for delving deeper into the subject. Indeed, the author provides a handy “Further Reading List” (pp. 239-40) for anyone interested in consulting specialist works. Spencer also deserves credit for integrating his sources nicely into his writing, avoiding the practice of simply quoting verbatim large chunks from other authors.

SO WHAT ARE THE MAIN arguments against the historicity of the traditional Islamic accounts of Muhammad’s life and the subsequent rise of Islam through the Arab conquests?

To begin with, contemporary non-Muslim sources of the 7th century do not corroborate the canonical story. For example, the Doctrina Jacobi (a document dating to 634-40 CE and probably written by a Christian living in Palestine; p. 20), an account of the Arab conquest of Jerusalem by Sophronius — the patriarch who is said to have surrendered the city in 637 — and a letter written in 647 by the patriarch of Seleucia make no reference to the Arab conquerors as Muslims, or show any awareness of a religion called Islam.

The earliest account that can reliably be taken to refer to Muhammad is a chronicle by the Armenian bishop Sebeos, dating either to the 660s or 670s but containing material that sharply diverges from the traditional Islamic accounts: thus he has Muhammad “insisting on the Jews’ right to the Holy Land — even if in the context of claiming that land for the Ishmaelites, acting in conjunction with the Jews” (p. 32).

Only by around 730 CE, nearly one hundred years after Muhammad’s death in 632 CE according to the canonical story, do we see an account by John of Damascus make detailed reference to parts of the Qur’an, but even then he does not name the Qur’an or allude to the existence of a complete holy book for those he calls “Hagarians,” “Ishmaelites” or “Saracens” (but not Muslims).

Instead, we have reference to Qur’anic chapter titles like “The Women” (this is the fourth Sura of the Qur’an today), implying that he was drawing on fragments of text that were later incorporated into the Qur’an.

Arabic epigraphic evidence from the 7th century similarly fails to validate the canonical account. An inscription attributed to the first Umayyad caliph — Muawiya — in 677 or 678 CE makes reference to belief in God but gives no indication of belief in Muhammad as his messenger or the Qur’an as revealed scripture.

On coins from this period, we do find the word “Muhammad” inscribed, but curiously the inscription comes under kingly figures bearing a cross, a symbol of Christianity that is totally antithetical to traditional Islam (pp. 43-4).

Bearing in mind that “Muhammad” can also mean “the chosen/praised one,” the coins could well be conveying the idea that the ruler is praised or chosen in God’s name (p. 45). Alternatively, they could be referring to Jesus — at a time when the religion of the Arab conquerors was still a vague monotheism — or a proto-Muhammad figure still very much unlike the man depicted in the traditional accounts of his life. Even the inscriptions on the Dome of the Rock — completed in 691 CE and often thought to be the first elaborations on traditional Islamic theology — could be referring to Jesus, explaining how he (“Muhammad”) is a mere messenger and not divine as orthodox Christianity held (pp. 56-7).

IT IS ONLY TOWARDS the middle of the 8th century (735 CE onwards) that we begin to see very clear epigraphic evidence referring to Muhammad as we know him from the Ahadith (plural of hadith) and Sira (pp. 61-2). This observation leads nicely to an examination of the reliability of biographical material from the Ahadith and Sira concerning the sunna (i.e. example) of Muhammad. The centrality of the Ahadith and Sira in interpreting various Qur’anic verses, whose meaning would otherwise be entirely obscure, cannot be overstated.

However, as Spencer points out, it is notable that the invocation of Muhammad’s example begins with the same caliph who had the Dome of the Rock built and issued the first coins invoking Muhammad as the Prophet of God: Abd al-Malik (p. 69), whose successors would do likewise.

Since Muhammad now became such an important figure as a paragon of moral virtue, there naturally arose a need for people to know what the Prophet said and did in various matters of life. The Ahadith in particular then became political weapons, liable to be completely fabricated. Even in the first half of the 8th century, one Islamic scholar wrote that the “emirs forced people to write hadiths” (p. 71).

Factionalism is an especially noteworthy phenomenon here behind the invention of Ahadith.

For example, in the midst of the dispute between the followers of the caliph Muawiya, who Shi’a believe usurped the place of Ali’s son and designated successor Husayn, and Ali’s followers who would later become the Shi’a, a hadith arose in which Muhammad declared that Ali’s father was burning in hellfire (p. 73), while Ali’s partisans invented a hadith in which Muhammad declared, “I go to war for the recognition of the Qur’an and Ali will fight for the interpretation of the Qur’an.”

It is little surprise that in light of all these disputes, the Ahadith are riddled with contradictions.

To be sure, Muslim scholars did try to devise criteria by which to separate forgeries from Ahadith they deemed to be authentic: for instance, how well a hadith is in accordance with the Qur’an. Yet however reasonable such a criterion may be, “it doesn’t get us any closer to what Muhammad actually said and did” (p. 81).

Another devised standard was the supposed reliability of an isnad (chain of oral transmission from the Prophet to the narrator), but this is even more dubious.

While Arabia may well have had “an established practice of memorizing poetry” (p. 84), the Ahadith are not pieces of poetry, and in any event must have been plagued by “embellishment, clarification, or alteration of any kind until the hadiths were finally collected and written down in the ninth century” (p. 85).

In fact, I would add that even if we suppose that we are dealing with poetry in an oral culture, it is erroneous to think that oral poets can transmit verses with perfect recall, word-for-word. Oral poetry is constantly subject to reworking and improvisation.

Hence, for example, the Iliad and the Odyssey were certainly not transmitted through generations of oral poets until they were finally written down. Rather, we understand each of these epics to be the work of a single poet, who would have picked up numerous “formulaic phrases” and stories and then improvised and reworked his material numerous times, while striving for an artistic structure.

In all probability, the poet had his work dictated to a scribe. If the Iliad and Odyssey were subsequently memorized wholesale by bards, the bards were working from written texts, not via oral transmission of the poems.

If the Ahadith cannot be taken as a reliable guide to what Muhammad said and did, then what are we to make of Ibn Ishaq’s Sira? It is often noted that Ibn Ishaq’s biography, which does not in fact survive intact and is only partially preserved by later transmitters, dates over 100 years after Muhammad’s death in 632 CE. Tradition tells of earlier historians, but their purported works have not survived and little is known about their lives.

That Ishaq’s work dates so long after the time in which Muhammad supposedly lived is not proof of the Sira‘s unreliability, but the fact is that Ibn Ishaq would undoubtedly have been working from oral material that would have been embellished and fabricated.

Many of the stories transmitted by Ibn Ishaq would have been tailored to convince the audience that Muhammad was a prophet of God, hence tales of Christians already recognizing him as a prophet in his youth before his prophetic career began (p. 96).

NOW COMES A CRUCIAL PART of the book. One of the key reasons many critics of Islam think that the traditional accounts of Muhammad’s life are rooted in historical reality is the argument from embarrassment: that is, Muhammad is presented as doing things that might be deemed abhorrent to pious sensibilities. Ibn Hisham states that his own transmission of Ibn Ishaq’s work omits “things which it is disgraceful to discuss” (p. 88).

Even in the traditional accounts, there are still events recounted that have embarrassed Muslim apologists of the modern era: perhaps most notably, Muhammad’s marriage to his daughter-in-law Zaynab.

Yet as Spencer notes, “what constitutes a negative depiction is not necessarily constant from age to age and culture to culture” (p. 111). This is certainly true, for example, of the tradition that Aisha married Muhammad when she was six and consummated the marriage with him when she was nine: no one in the traditional accounts is shown having a problem with this betrothal (p. 112).

In any case, Spencer shows that the Zaynab incident is likely to have been a much later invention to explain the fact that there is an apparent doctrine in the Qur’an of a “prophetic bloodline”: that is, “the prophetic office is handed down from father to son” (p. 115).

Since Muhammad is regarded as the final prophet, it had to be emphasized that he did not have any sons — biological or adopted — who reached puberty. Thus, the status of Zayd as Muhammad’s adopted son had to be marginalized, hence the attendant Qur’anic doctrine delegitimizing adoption (Qur’an 33:4) and the emphasis that “Muhammad is not the father of any one of your men” (Qur’an 33:40).

Nevertheless, if the Sira and Ahadith are unreliable, the question arises of where the Qur’an came from. A superficial reading — noting the consistent message of uncompromising monotheism — might suggest that the book is the work of a single author.

On closer examination, however, there are good grounds to hypothesize that the Qur’an developed over the 7th and 8th centuries in the religious and cultural milieu of the Arab conquests, rather than just within Arabia itself during Muhammad’s purported lifetime (570-632 CE).

For one thing, the Qur’an displays a lack of careful organization: frequently there is an abrupt shift in subject matter and grammatical persons, suggesting at the minimum a rather clumsy process of redaction.

Islamic tradition itself hints at early losses of parts of the Qur’an, with one hadith as follows: “Let none of you say, ‘I have acquired the whole of the Qur’an.’ How does he know what all of it is when much of the Qur’an has disappeared? Rather let him say, ‘I have acquired what has survived’” (p. 137).

Also of interest here is the Qur’an’s repeated emphasis that it is a work of “pure” Arabic. This could only be in response to claims that the Qur’an was not wholly Arabic. Indeed, there is evidence of a substantial non-Arabic substrate, as evinced by numerous loan words in both religious and cultural vocabulary. Even the word for God — Allah — is thought to derive from Syriac (p. 156). What follows in Spencer’s book is a nicely summarized exposition of the arguments of recent scholars like Christoph Luxenberg who have theorized that the Qur’an was originally — at least in part — a Syriac Christian liturgical text. This hypothesis does explain many of the linguistic obscurities of the Qur’an.

I am still unsure what to make of this theory, but even if we suppose a text wholly derived from Arabic oral traditions, the canonical accounts of the Qur’an’s origins are not vindicated, for reasons outlined above in this review as regards oral transmission and poetry.

In light of this research vis-à-vis the Qur’an, taken together with the fact that the conquered peoples had no idea of the existence of a Muslim holy book in the mid-7th century, it seems unlikely that the third caliph — Uthman (579-656 CE) — was responsible for the compilation and distribution of the Qur’an as we know it today, despite the claims of Muslim orthodoxy.

There are reputed Qur’anic manuscripts dating back to the 7th century, but since they lack the diacritical marks that are integral to the Arabic alphabet, we cannot tell whether they were written as the Qur’an in the first place, or separate documents later adapted as part of the Qur’an (p. 192). There is also no complete Qur’an dating from the first century of the Arab conquests.

Moreover, it is possible that the Qur’an’s second and longest sura (chapter) was originally a separate book. As late as 730 CE, John of Damascus referred to the “text of the Cow” (p. 196: “The Cow” being the name of the Qur’an’s second sura), implying it was a separate text, which in turn suggests that the Qur’an “was not yet fixed in its present form” even towards the mid-8th century (p. 197). It was noted earlier that the first caliph to invoke Muhammad as a messenger of God was Abd al-Malik.

Thus, “from the historical records available to us, it makes sense that the Qur’an was not collected until Abd al-Malik’s reign” (p. 197), as part of a collaborative effort between Abd al-Malik and Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, the governor of Iraq (661-714 CE). The work of Hajjaj in collecting the Qur’an is in fact attested in many Ahadith. The compilation was then traced back to Uthman in an attempt to give the project an authentic feel.

From all these findings, the most plausible conclusion to draw is that Islam as we know it emerged over a protracted period between the 7th and 8th centuries, developed in such a way as to (i) unify the vast empire created by the Arab conquests that conquered a vast amount of territory (stretching from Spain to Sindh by 750 CE) and (ii) justify the expansionism.

This “imperial theology” (to borrow Spencer’s term; p. 208) was based on a monotheism that perhaps was more tolerant towards Judaism and Christianity in its very early days (hence Qur’anic verses such as 2:62 that include Jews, Christians and Sabaeans in the fold of salvation; p. 209). Yet from the end of the 7th century onwards, Islam takes on a much more distinct identity, with a separate prophet and holy book, supplanting Judaism and Christianity.

SPENCER’S EXPLANATION FOR THE ORIGINS and development of early Islam is significantly corroborated by analogy with the rise of the Roman imperial cult after Augustus’ creation of the Principate.

Needing to hold the Roman state together with concentration of power in his hands, he made much of the reputed divine descent of his family line (the Julian line), and commissioned Virgil to write an epic celebrating the founding of the Roman race by his supposed ancestor Aeneas. In the same way, we have Muhammad as the founder of Islam and the Muslim ummah. For the first time, we see a coherent and emphatic articulation of an expansionist outlook:

tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento
(hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem,
parcere subiectis et debellare superbos

Remember, Roman, to rule the peoples with your power (these will be your skills), to impose mos on peace, to spare the subdued and war down the proud’ — Aeneid 6.851-3.

Here we have ideas that closely parallel Islamic expansionism in the concept of jihad, as articulated in the classical theology that developed from Muhammad’s life and example as a warrior prophet: the notion of establishing peace through warfare and bringing civilization to the subdued.

Though the above lines are instructions from Aeneas’ father Anchises to the hero, they have the force of emphasizing the Romans’ destiny. The divine mandate to rule the world is corroborated by the chief god Jupiter’s famous saying: “imperium sine fine dedi” (‘I have given empire without end’ — Aeneid 1.279). Like Mohammed, Aeneas engages in fierce warfare, becoming master of Latium in central Italy.

While the Aeneid‘s borrowings from earlier epics are apparent, the text also drew on the value system promoted by Augustus and his inner circle (in particular Maecenas) that drew on Stoicism. Thus, the poem had a paradigmatic function, becoming a virtual school-text for Roman boys, and Aeneas himself soon became an idealized figure in the same way that Muhammad came to be seen as a moral paragon among Muslims.

The point of this comparison is not to say that the Arab conquerors borrowed ideas of expansionism and the like from the Romans (they didn’t), but rather that Spencer’s explanation of the rise of Islam should not be implausible from a historical perspective. It is therefore hardly shocking that Islam was bound with politics from the beginning (p. 214).

As for the question of Muhammad’s existence, Spencer gives a concise answer to round off his book: “the full truth of whether a prophet named Muhammad lived in seventh-century Arabia, and if he did, what sort of a man he was, may never be known” (p. 216), but for too long, the topic of Islamic historiography has been confined to highly specialized academia, with the growing problem of Islamist intimidation.

Thus, an accessible primer on the subject as we have here is most welcome. In addition, the project of translating this book into Arabic is to be commended.

In the years to come, it would be good to see Spencer’s book prescribed as introductory reading for courses on Islam in schools and universities. I myself have taken the step of donating his book to Brasenose College’s library, and hope that others will similarly distribute the work upon reading it.

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Woman converts to Islam, plots jihad bombings in New York City because of ‘Islamophobia’
It is a common tactic on the Left: accuse your target of what you’re actually guilty of doing. It is the Left’s lies about rampant “Islamophobia” in the U.S. that incite violence, not opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women. But the Left’s lies are ubiquitous, and are the real pandemic these days. […]

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2021-06-19  •  Robert Spencer


Israel: Muslim cleric calls for murder of police officers
He’d fit right in with the American Left. “Imam of Lod mosque arrested for inciting violence against police,” Israel Hayom, June 17, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Detectives from the Israel Police’s elite Lahav 433 Major Crimes Unit arrested Sheik Yusuf Elbaz, imam of the local Great Mosque in Lod, early Thursday morning, […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/israel-muslim-cleric-calls-for-murder-of-police-officers
2021-06-19  •  Robert Spencer


Germany: Muslim migrant murders his wife, invokes Sharia in court, says it allows him to punish her
There is domestic violence in all cultures, but only in one does it have divine sanction. The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth […]
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2021-06-19  •  Robert Spencer


Pakistan: Muslim clerics lead mob to attack Ahmadi funeral, throw stones at mourners and beat them with sticks
Imagine if clerics of any other religion behaved in this way. The international media would be in an uproar for weeks. But you’ll only hear about this here. “Pakistani mob attacks funeral of Ahmadi woman,” Rabwah Times, June 11, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A mob led by right-wing Muslim clerics attacked the […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/pakistan-muslims-abduct-torture-and-rape-17-year-old-christian-boy
2021-06-19  •  Robert Spencer



Germany: ‘Right-wing extremist’ who threw burning bottle at families on playground was actually a Muslim migrant
In Germany as in the United States, the Left pursues its agenda at the expense of the truth, ignoring the reality of jihad violence and wildly exaggerating a terror threat from so-called “right-wing extremists.” If the facts don’t match the narrative, alter the facts to fit the narrative. “Greens look for neo-Nazi – find German-Iranian!,” […]

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2021-06-19  •  Robert Spencer


Muslim cleric tells Muslims to move to South Sudan and Islamize it by making ‘sacrifice’ of marrying ‘Negro women’
Muslim cleric tells Muslims to move to South Sudan and Islamize it by making ‘sacrifice’ of marrying ‘Negro women’
But remember: opposing Islamization is “racist.” Sheikh Ahmed Al-Naqeeb also says: “As for talking about finding a solution and sitting at a table of dialogue, this is all nonsense.” Will Pope Francis ponder why the sheikh says this, and consider its implications? Of course not. “Egyptian Muslim fundamentalist proposes recolonization of South Sudan,” Nyamilpedia, June […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/muslim-cleric-tells-muslims-to-move-to-south-sudan-and-islamize-it-by-making-sacrifice-of-marrying-negro-women
2021-06-19  •  Robert Spencer


UK celebrates Refugee Week, boasts of taking in more as migrant surge crisis rages
Consider the headlines below and a pattern of contradictions becomes obvious: the UK government pretends to care about the massive numbers of illegal Muslim migrants illegally entering the country, because the public is growing impatient. The Boris Johnson government would prefer to hide the problem, in hopes that it will go away. It has no […]
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2021-06-19  •  Christine Douglass-Williams


Hamas Breaks Ceasefire With Incendiary Bombs
Hamas apparently believes its own propaganda, and remains under the illusion that it was the “victor” in the recent war with Israel in Gaza. It has already forgotten how, in the last week of the war, it — Hamas — was desperate for a ceasefire, and it was the IDF that wanted to keep going, […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/hamas-breaks-ceasefire-with-incendiary-bombs
2021-06-19  •  Hugh Fitzgerald


Marx, Muhammad, and the West’s Current Crisis
The “entire world seems to be going insane,” writes investigative journalist James Simpson in his new book, Who Was Karl Marx?: The Men, the Motives and the Menace Behind Today’s Rampaging American Left. In this primer on the Left’s ideological origins, Simpson reveals the totalitarian trends that are roiling modern America and the wider Western […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/marx-muhammad-and-the-wests-current-crisis
2021-06-19  •  Andrew Harrod


Pakistan: Muslims abduct, torture, and rape 17-year-old Christian boy
On a routine basis, the news out of Pakistan involves forced conversions of Hindus and Christians, forced marriage, false blasphemy charges, and now this. An infidel’s life is worth nothing to Islamic supremacists, and international so-called human rights organizations ignore such cases for fear of appearing “Islamophobic.” Local human rights activist “Lala Robin Daniel expressed […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/pakistan-muslims-abduct-torture-and-rape-17-year-old-christian-boy 2021-06-19  •  Christine Douglass-Williams

NYC: Muslims screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ burn Israeli flag, repeat genocidal chant calling for Israel’s destruction
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” means that Israel will be erased completely, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. This will lead to the deaths of millions of Jews. Welcome to de Blasio’s New York. “‘Allahu Akhbar!’: Pro-Palestinian protesters chant as they BURN Israeli flag in march through NYC […]

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2021-06-17  •  Robert Spencer


Canada: Day of Rage planned in Vancouver to ‘reject Zionist annexation of Palestinian Land’
A Day of Rage Against Annexation is being planned at the Vancouver Art Gallery for July 12. Yet it is all based on a delusion. Right from the beginning, following the announcement of Israel’s statehood in 1948, the surrounding Arab States tried to obliterate the tiny Jewish state. Even prior to the Holocaust, the Arab […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/canada-day-of-rage-planned-in-vancouver-to-reject-zionist-annexation-of-palestinian-land
2021-06-17  •  Christine Douglass-Williams


Greece: Muslim migrants jailed for burning down Europe’s largest migrant camp, leaving over 12,000 without shelter
Greece: Muslim migrants jailed for burning down Europe’s largest migrant camp, leaving over 12,000 without shelter
According to Deutsche Welle reporters, Islamic State jihadis ruled Moria’s refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. “Underneath the nose of the Greek authorities, gangs from Syria control drug smuggling and prostitution. Members of the gangs do not hesitate to use overt violence, using knives, and relying on Sharia law.”  This is what globalists […]

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2021-06-17  •  Christine Douglass-Williams

UK: Muslim ‘refugee’ detained for smuggling illegal Muslim migrants into the country inside sofas
More of the same, and no matter how many reports pour in about the abuse of UK citizens who have to endure the Muslim migrant onslaught, the Boris Johnson government does nothing beyond offer lip service to calm the public, even in the face of growing frustration. Over the last year, during lockdown, there have […]
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Greece: Muslim migrants jailed for burning down Europe’s largest migrant camp, leaving over 12,000 without shelter
According to Deutsche Welle reporters, Islamic State jihadis ruled Moria’s refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. “Underneath the nose of the Greek authorities, gangs from Syria control drug smuggling and prostitution. Members of the gangs do not hesitate to use overt violence, using knives, and relying on Sharia law.”  This is what globalists […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/greece-muslim-migrants-jailed-for-burning-down-europes-largest-migrant-camp-leaving-over-12000-without-shelter
2021-06-17  •  Christine Douglass-Williams


June 15: 106th Anniversary of Turkey’s 1915 Assyrian Genocide
Tuesday, June 15 marked the 106th anniversary of the beginning of the Assyrian Genocide by Ottoman Turkey committed between 1915 and 1923. During this period, Assyrians — alongside Greeks and Armenians — were exposed to genocide, in which around 300,000 Assyrians perished. Assyrians call the crime “seyfo,” which means “sword” in their language, as swords […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/june-15-106th-anniversary-of-turkeys-1915-assyrian-genocide
2021-06-17  •  Uzay Bulut


Islamic scholar quotes Qur’an to support claim that ‘massacring this enemy [Israelis] is a divine order’
Marwan Abu Ras says: “Thus, my dear brother, massacring this enemy is a divine order. [The Quran says:] ‘So strike them upon the neck and strike from them every fingertip.'” That’s Qur’an 8:12. He continues: “Striking the necks of this enemy is a duty according to the shari’a. Anyone who can massacre this enemy should […]
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2021-06-17  •  Robert Spencer
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Nigeria: Muslim Fulani herdsmen threaten jihad violence over ban on open grazing
Nigeria: Muslim Fulani herdsmen threaten jihad violence over ban on open grazing
The Fulani herdsmen have already been waging violent jihad against Nigeria’s Christians for years. They are able to operate with impunity and issue threats such as this one because the Nigerian government has neither the will nor the power to counter them, as some government officials sympathize with the jihadis. “‘Fulani’ group writes Delta Gov, […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/nigeria-muslim-fulani-herdsmen-threaten-jihad-violence-over-ban-on-open-grazing
2021-06-17  •  Robert Spencer



Former Mossad Head Yossi Cohen: The Man With ‘Hundreds of Passports’
Yossi Cohen, the just-retired head of Mossad, has many acts of supreme ingenuity and daring to his credit. He recently gave a television interview in which he dilated upon a few of his most recent accomplishments involving Iran’s nuclear project. The interview is discussed here: “In stunning, revelatory interview, ex-Mossad chief warns Iran, defends Netanyahu,” […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/former-mossad-head-yossi-cohen-the-man-with-hundreds-of-passports
2021-06-17  •  Hugh Fitzgerald

Pakistanis enraged as Saudi Arabia eases female guardianship rules: ‘This is what follows when you recognise Israel’
Pakistanis enraged as Saudi Arabia eases female guardianship rules: ‘This is what follows when you recognise Israel’
Saudi Arabia hasn’t recognized Israel, but as the Jews are the worst enemies of the Muslims according to the Qur’an (5:82), everything has to be their fault. In any case, the prohibition on women going out without a male guardian is not “extremism.” It’s basic, mainstream Sharia: “The husband may forbid his wife to leave […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/pakistanis-enraged-as-saudi-arabia-eases-female-guardianship-rules-this-is-what-follows-when-you-recognise-israel
2021-06-17  •  Robert Spencer


Somalia: Muslim murders ten people, injures ten others in jihad martyrdom suicide attack
“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111) But to consider the values and beliefs of migrants streaming into the U.S. would be “racist” and “Islamophobic.” “Suicide bomber blows up […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/somalia-muslim-murders-ten-people-injures-ten-others-in-jihad-martyrdom-suicide-attack
2021-06-17  •  Robert Spencer

Congress votes to make Pulse nightclub, site of jihad massacre, a national memorial
Almost certain to be left unmentioned in the memorial, as it is in this NBC News article, is the fact that the mass murderer, Omar Mateen, was an avowed jihad terrorist. Here are some of the highlights from his conversations with police: “I pledge my allegiance to (unidentifiable name) on behalf of the Islamic State” “Call […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/congress-votes-to-make-pulse-nightclub-site-of-jihad-massacre-a-national-memorial
2021-06-13  •  Robert Spencer


Qatar discovered to be behind hostile Israel statements from American universities
Universities today are not institutions of higher learning, but indoctrination centers for far-Left propaganda. This did not happen by accident. Qatari money, and money from other pro-jihad entities, has bought much more than anti-Israel propaganda in American colleges and universities. At Georgetown University, Saudi money funds the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, and […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/qatar-discovered-to-be-behind-hostile-israel-statements-from-american-universities
2021-06-13  •  Robert Spencer

UK: Muslim migrant got girl, 13, pregnant and trafficked 15-year-old, says ‘we haven’t committed that big a crime’
In shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain, Khan and Rauf will probably win their fight against deportation. After all, British officials did nothing for years while the lives of thousands of British girls were ruined, because the officials were afraid of being called “Islamophobic.” That same fear will now keep Khan and Rauf in the country for […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/uk-muslim-migrant-got-girl-13-pregnant-and-trafficked-15-year-old-says-we-havent-committed-that-big-a-crime
2021-06-13  •  Robert Spencer

Iran presidential candidate: ‘We’ll take 1,000 Americans hostage. This is how we can solve our economic problems.’
Rezaei would never float such an idea if he thought that the American leadership was strong and would respond to the taking of 1,000 Americans as hostages in a way that would make it clear that such activity would not be tolerated. But he knows Old Joe’s handlers would most likely pony up the taxpayer […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/iran-presidential-candidate-well-take-1000-americans-hostage-this-is-how-we-can-solve-our-economic-problems
2021-06-13  •  Robert Spencer

India: Another Muslim man kills his Hindu partner for using social media
A Muslim man named Shanavas killed his Hindu live-in partner, Aathira, by dousing her in kerosene and setting her alight after being provoked by her “posting videos on Tiktok”. Aathira was only 28 at the time of death. Both had children from their previous marriages, and had been living together for the past few years […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/india-another-muslim-man-kills-his-hindu-partner-for-using-social-media
2021-06-13  •  Ashlyn Davis

India unlikely to accept back four women who converted to Islam and joined the Islamic State
Four Muslim women, who migrated to Afghanistan from Kerala, India, in 2016 to join the Islamic terror outfit known as the Islamic State (ISIS), will not get permission to return to India. “One line of thought was to allow them to come back and become an approver in the cases here. However, their interview revealed […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/india-unlikely-to-accept-back-four-women-who-converted-to-islam-and-joined-the-islamic-state
2021-06-13  •  Ashlyn Davis

Ex-Muslim who became Catholic now says ‘Rome is lost, and the Qur’an is the road to truth’
The uncertain and unclear voice is less appealing than the confident and clear one. “Man reverted to Catholicism under Pope Benedict, now says ‘Rome is lost’ and praises Islam,” LifeSite News, June 10, 2021 (thanks to Tom): An Anglo-Catholic religious revealed that a man who turned to Islam and then reverted back to Catholicism because […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/ex-muslim-who-became
2021-06-13  •  Robert Spencer


Is Israel Illegally Displacing Arabs In East Jerusalem?
Israel is being charged by anti-Israel groups with illegally, displacing Palestinians from East Jerusalem. It is doing no such thing. The story of this latest calumny is here: “The Myth of Arab Displacement in Eastern Jerusalem,” by Joshua Beylinson, Algemeiner, June 8, 2021: In early May, a host of anti-Israel groups published a petition calling […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/is-israel-illegally-displacing-arabs-in-east-jerusalem
2021-06-13  •  Hugh Fitzgerald


Pakistan: Mosques collecting donations for Afghan Taliban
Why doesn’t the vast majority of peaceful Muslims rise up and put a stop to this? “Pakistan mosques collecting donations for Afghan Taliban: Opposition Party,” ANI, June 10, 2021: Pakistan opposition party Awami National Party (ANP) on Tuesday said that mosques were collecting donations for Afghan Taliban and asked the government to act swiftly to […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/pakistan-mosques-collecting-donations-for-afghan-taliban
2021-06-13  •  Robert Spencer

CAIR-linked Hamas denounces Ilhan Omar for equating ‘Palestinian Resistance’ to ‘crimes of Israel and the US’
Omar walked back her equation of the U.S. and Israel with jihad terrorist groups. Will she now walk back her walkback and assure the world of her wholehearted support of the “Palestinian” jihad? Watch for it. “Hamas denounces Rep. Ilhan Omar’s controversial comments,” Jerusalem Post, June 12, 2021: Hamas denounced US Rep. Ilhan Omar in […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/cair-linked-hamas-denounces-ilhan-omar-for-equating-palestinian-resistance-to-crimes-of-israel-and-the-us
2021-06-13  •  Robert Spencer


Carnage and ‘Islamophobia’ in Canada
Nathanial Veltman shocked his native Canada and the wider world when he killed four members of a Muslim family by running them over with his pickup truck in London, Ontario, on June 6. Veltman’s attack left a fifth person wounded, a nine-year-old boy who is now an orphan. Suspicions have arisen that Veltman targeted his […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/carnage-and-islamophobia-in-canada

Giant of Avant-Garde Music Says: ‘If We Lose America, Shame on Us’
My latest in PJ Media: Anthony Braxton is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who, over the past fifty years, has written hundreds of jazz, classical, and unclassifiable avant-garde musical works, along with operas and innovative combinations of improvised, pre-composed, and recorded music. The fact that he is not a household name in America today is one […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/giant-of-avant-garde-music-says-if-we-lose-america-shame-on-us
2021-06-11  •  Robert Spencer


‘The leaders of Hamas will get together to divide among themselves the money that will be poured into Gaza’
Hugh Fitzgerald has pointed out many times here at Jihad Watch that the leaders of Hamas, and other “Palestinian” leaders, are multimillionaires or billionaires. Where did they get this money? From the aid money that Western countries continue to shovel at the “Palestinians.” From your taxpayer dollars, thanks to Old Joe Biden’s handlers. “Vienna-Based Syrian […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/the-leaders-of-hamas-will-get-together-to-divide-among-themselves-the-money-that-will-be-poured-into-gaza
2021-06-11  •  Robert Spencer

Israeli ambassador meets with Associated Press top dog, tells him Hamas had Iron Dome jammer in AP building
Ambassador Erdan said: “AP is one of the most important news agencies in the world and Israel doesn’t think that AP employees were aware it was being cynically used in this way by Hamas for a secret unit.” They weren’t aware? They’re supposed to be reporters. And they didn’t even know that jihad terrorist activity was […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/israeli-ambassador-meets-with-associated-press-top-dog-tells-him-hamas-had-iron-dome-jammer-in-ap-building
2021-06-11  •  Robert Spencer

Pakistan: Muslims kidnap Christian, repeatedly rape and beat her, threaten to murder her children if she escapes
Why does this keep happening? A survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK has said that her rapists would quote the Qur’an to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam. Thus it came as no surprise when Muslim migrants in France raped a girl and videoed the rape while praising Allah and invoking the Qur’an. […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/pakistan-muslims-kidnap-christian-repeatedly-rape-and-beat-her-threaten-to-murder-her-children-if-she-escapes
2021-06-11  •  Robert Spencer

India: Muslim repeatedly rapes 15-year-old Hindu girl, then kidnaps her on pretext of marriage
These “love jihad” incidents are motivated by supremacist assumptions. The idea is that the Muslim community will always grow at the expense of the non-Muslim community, and that because that is a good outcome, any means, including deception, may be pursued in order to attain it. Also, pressure is brought on Hindu women to convert […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/india-muslim-repeatedly-rapes-15-year-old-hindu-girl-then-kidnaps-her-on-pretext-of-marriage
2021-06-11  •  Robert Spencer

Biden to Celebrate 20th Anniversary of 9/11 by Freeing Gitmo Terrorists
Biden is restarting every terrible Obama project. And he’s trying to finish those that Obama couldn’t. Obama’s big dream was freeing all the terrorists and closing Gitmo. One of his first executive orders addressed Gitmo’s terrorists. He forced out Secretary of Defense Hagel over it, and terrorized Secretary of Defense Ash Carter to such an extent […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/biden-to-celebrate-20th-anniversary-of-9-11-by-freeing-gitmo-terrorists
2021-06-11  •  Daniel Greenfield

UK: Muslim writer says the only no-go zones in the country are ‘posh’ areas where Muslims fear to enter
An article came out recently that addressed the issue of no-go zones in the UK. It was written by a Muslim named Ed Husain. It covers what you have heard already. The lack of non-Muslims in these areas. The lack of rights and opportunities for females. The violence and grooming gangs, etc. Nothing new. As […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/uk-muslim-writer-says-the-only-no-go-zones-in-the-country-are-posh-areas-where-muslims-fear-to-enter
2021-06-11  •  Joshua Winston

Uganda: Muslim employer sends hit man to murder Christian because he refused to convert to Islam
Imagine if a Muslim employee’s Christian supervisor in any Western country sent a hit man to kill him because he refused to convert to Christianity. Yet such persecution of Christians and other religious minorities by Muslims is so commonplace that it is now practically expected, and largely ignored. The genocide of Christians and the persecution […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/uganda-muslim-employer-sends-hitman-to-murder-christian-because-he-refused-to-convert-to-islam
2021-06-11  •  Christine Douglass-Williams

Historian Bella Hadid Makes a Comical Mistake
Bella Hadid, the Palestinian-American model, a master of the catwalk’s mandatory swirl-and-twirl, gets an A for her chilly good looks, but I’m afraid that, not for the first time, she has flunked History. She recently posted a photo on Instagram of a soccer team, identified as “Palestine – 1939,” which was apparently playing against an […]
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2021-06-11  •  Hugh Fitzgerald

Rep. Omar Accuses Jewish Critics of Her Antisemitism of ‘Islamophobia’
I’m not Antisemitic. You’re Islamophobic. Rep. Ilhan Omar has one trick for responding to criticism about anything from her bigotry, her dubious financial ethics, or her odd familial situation. It doesn’t matter what it is, it’s Islamophobia. Or in modern intersectional parlance, “Islamophobic tropes”. There were some expectations that after Omar’s outrageous behavior during the […]
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2021-06-11  •  Daniel Greenfield


Omar claims she wasn’t ‘equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries’ after Jewish Dems condemn her
Omar claims she wasn’t ‘equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries’ after Jewish Dems condemn her
Why would Jewish Democrats in the House of Representatives even bother to meet to discuss antisemitism and Ilhan Omar now? Omar has a long record of antisemitism. From virtually the day she was sworn in as Congresswoman, Omar’s loyalties were quite clear. Now, as antisemitism has risen to a fever pitch levels, Omar continues to […]
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2021-06-11  •  Christine Douglass-Williams


Did Muhammad exist? Zoom chat with Robert Spencer coming June 28
Register for the Zoom chat here. Preorder Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins―Revised and Expanded Edition here.
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2021-06-11  •  Robert Spencer

Critical Race Theory Is Not Compatible With Christianity. Churches Must Say So
My latest in PJ Media: Critical Race Theory is as an indictment of the United States as a systemically-racist society, but it is also something worse: an all-encompassing worldview, a guiding life philosophy that purports to explain the world in a staggeringly simple manner. With racism, slavery, imperialism, colonialism, and more, white people have inflicted incalculable […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/critical-race-theory-is-not-compatible-with-christianity-churches-must-say-so
2021-06-10  •  Robert Spencer

Turks irked, call for boycott of Ancestry.com for noting that many Turks are ethnically Greek
This is not at all surprising. Throughout history, when Muslims have conquered an area, they relegate the non-Muslims to second-class status, denying them numerous rights and mandating that they pay a tax, the jizya, for the privilege of practicing their religions without being killed. There is one easy way for the subjugated dhimmis to escape […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/turks-irked-call-for-boycott-of-ancestry-com-for-noting-that-many-turks-are-ethnically-greek
2021-06-10  •  Robert Spencer


Pakistan: ‘He started to rape me. He demanded I convert to Islam. He said if I would not agree he would kill me.’
“Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who follow him are ruthless to unbelievers, merciful to one another” (Qur’an 48:29). A survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK has said that her rapists would quote the Qur’an to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam. Thus it came as no surprise when Muslim […]
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2021-06-10  •  Robert Spencer


Malala says education kills terrorism; one dead Muslim engineer-turned-ISIS jihadi begs to differ
Indian intelligence agencies verified on June 6 that a Malayali Muslim engineer from Kerala, who had joined the terrorist outfit ISIS, had died in Libya. His name, “Abu Bakr Al-Hindi,” has also been commemorated in a document of the Islamic State entitled “Know Your Martyrs.” He has been venerated as an “Istishhadi,” which translates to […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/malala-says-education-kills-terrorism-one-dead-muslim-engineer-turned-isis-jihadi-begs-to-differ
2021-06-10  •  Ashlyn Davis


UK: Smash the Muslim patriarchy
The only patriarchy the UK has to worry about is the Islamic one. It feels repetitive to continue talking about it, since most of the Muslim rapists are still walking the streets still grooming, raping, and terrorising their old victims together with new ones, but the institutional rape of non-Muslim girls didn’t resonate with today’s […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/uk-smash-the-muslim-patriarchy
2021-06-10  •  Joshua Winston


Biden ‘Withdrawal’ May Leave 1,000 Soldiers in Afghanistan
Is Biden actually withdrawing from Afghanistan? As usual, it’s a question of how you define “withdrawing”. Biden declared that, “it’s time to end the forever war” and that “it’s time for American troops to come home.” Obama said things like that too when he was announcing withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan that didn’t turn out […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/biden-withdrawal-may-leave-1000-soldiers-in-afghanistan
2021-06-10  •  Daniel Greenfield



Turkish truck driver imprisoned for trying to smuggle illegal migrants OUT of the UK
The laxity in border control on the part of British authorities and those in other Western countries has not only encouraged illegal migrants, but is also facilitating the “choice” for them to move between EU countries. They continue to flood into Britain via the English Channel, and are so much wanted there that now a […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/turkish-truck-driver-imprisoned-for-trying-to-smuggle-illegal-migrants-out-of-the-uk
2021-06-10  •  Christine Douglass-Williams



Saudi Arabia aims to reduce tensions with Iran, moves to normalize relationship with Syria
In the post-Trump world, countries are realigning fast, leaving America behind. The alliances being formed for expedience and mutual convenience are not in American interests, or for that matter, in the interests of the West (or Israel). Speculation has vanished about any possibility of Saudi Arabia normalizing relations with Israel. Not that it was a […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/saudi-arabia-aims-to-reduce-tensions-with-iran-moves-to-normalize-relationship-with-syria
2021-06-10  •  Christine Douglass-Williams


The Lessons of the Yom Kippur War, Pre-Emptive Strikes, and Iran
The Yom Kippur War was a war Israel almost lost. The accepted story is that Israel was taken by surprise; that Egypt and Syria managed to launch simultaneous attacks against an unprepared IDF. It turns out that the true story was more disturbing than that: Israel knew in advance, thanks to American intelligence, of the […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/the-lessons-of-the-yom-kippur-war-pre-emptive-strikes-and-iran
2021-06-10  •  Hugh Fitzgerald


Italian coast guard blocks German migrant ship after it drops off 415 Muslim migrants in Italy
Italian coast guard blocks German migrant ship after it drops off 415 Muslim migrants in Italy
On the heels of the news that the UK Border Force had entered French waters to pick up illegal migrants and bring them to Britain comes this: the German migrant taxi NGO Sea-Eye 4 disembarked “415 migrants in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo.” In response, the Italian coast guard detained the Sea-Eye 4. Such activity […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/italian-coast-guard-blocks-german-migrant-ship-after-it-drops-off-415-muslim-migrants-in-italy
2021-06-10  •  Christine Douglass-Williams



Gaza: Tunnel used by ‘Palestinian’ jihadis found under UNRWA school
Here is a clear example of how Hamas uses civilians as human shields. If Israel had bombed this tunnel and damaged the school, Hamas would have claimed that the IDF was bombing indiscriminately and endangering schoolchildren, when it was actually Hamas itself, with the possible collusion of the UN, that put the children in harm’s […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/gaza-tunnel-used-by-palestinian-jihadis-found-under-unrwa-school
2021-06-10  •  Robert Spencer

Ilhan Omar Equates US and Israel with Hamas and Taliban. Here’s why she’s wrong.
My latest in PJ Media: The fiercely patriotic and morally scrupulous Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Hypocrisy) showed yet again Monday that she is a master at appealing to the Democratic Party’s core constituency. She tweeted: “We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity. We have seen unthinkable atrocities […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/ilhan-omar-equates-us-and-israel-with-hamas-and-taliban-heres-why-shes-wrong
2021-06-09  •  Robert Spencer

Biden’s war on Jerusalem: Violating Israeli sovereignty and US law to support Islamic terrorists
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. A decade ago, Vice President Biden paid a visit to Jerusalem. Like any trip by an emissary of the Obama administration, it wasn’t a goodwill tour, but a combination of a […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/bidens-war-on-jerusalem-violating-israeli-sovereignty-and-us-law-to-support-islamic-terrorists-2
2021-06-09  •  Daniel Greenfield

Israel: Muslim MK who will be part of new government says Israel makes Al Aqsa Mosque ‘impure’
“O you who have believed, indeed the polytheists are unclean…”(Qur’an 9:28) In Islam, virtually every other group, including the Jews, are considered “polytheists.” To wit: Egyptian Islamic Scholar Zaghloul Al-Naggar just said: “Today’s Jews are not really Jews. This was acknowledged by the reasonable people among the Jews themselves. They have nothing to do with […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/israel-muslim-mk-who-will-be-part-of-new-government-says-israel-makes-al-aqsa-mosque-impure
2021-06-09  •  Robert Spencer

Germany: Muslim migrant who threatened people with knife while screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ was convicted sex offender
“The man was sentenced to 20 months in prison on appeal in October 2020.,” but the sentence was suspended, so Omar K. was free. If German authorities understood the assumptions and ideology behind sexual assault and rape committed by Muslim migrants, and the jihad imperative in general, Omar K. would likely have never have been […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/germany-muslim-migrant-who-threatened-people-with-knife-while-screaming-allahu-akbar-was-convicted-sex-offender
2021-06-09  •  Robert Spencer

The Church Militant and the Battle of Lepanto, 1571-2021
“The Christian victory of Lepanto on October 7, 1571,” a “triumph…still today is a symbol of the militant spirit that should never leave the Christian,” writes Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Astana (Kazakhstan) Athanasius Schneider in a recent book preface. He thus thematically introduces the excellent new book by leading Italian Catholic historian Roberto de Mattei, […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/church-militant-and-the-battle-of-lepanto-1571-2021
2021-06-09  •  Andrew Harrod
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Turkey: 86-year-old Greek man murdered; court rules against ‘hate crime’
The case concerning the brutal murder of an 86-year-old Greek Christian citizen of Turkey in 2019 has finally concluded. The court ruled against it being considered a hate crime. It also rejected the intervention of Turkey’s Human Rights Association (IHD) in the case. The victim, Zafir Pinaris, lived a desolate life on the island of […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/turkey-86-year-old-greek-man-murdered-court-rules-against-hate-crime
2021-06-09  •  Uzay Bulut


Oakland: Pro-jihad Arab Resource and Organizing Center stops Israeli ship from unloading
“Preventing commerce, jeopardizing local jobs, and compromising the health future of the port will only hurt Oakland and the region … Many port truck drivers only get paid if they pick up and drop off containers.” Yes. And also, supporting Hamas’ genocidal jihad is not a good look, no matter how fashionable it is today […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/oakland-pro-jihad-arab-resource-and-organizing-center-stops-israeli-ship-from-unloading
2021-06-09  •  Robert Spencer



India: Christian converts to Islam, joins ISIS, blows himself up in Libya
“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, they kill and are killed.” (9:111) “Christian Engineer from Kerala converts to Islam to join IS, dies in a suicide bomb attack mission in Libya,” OpIndia, June 6, 2021 (thanks […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/india-christian-converts-to-islam-joins-isis-blows-himself-up-in-libya
2021-06-09  •  Robert Spencer


With Israeli Flag Parade On-Again, Off-Again, On-Again, Palestinians Announce ‘Victory March’
Eastern Jerusalem Arabs have called for a “victory march” to be held on June 10, following the very route of what was to have been Israel’s Jerusalem Day flag parade. The story of the dueling parades is here. On the original Jerusalem Day this year Israelis were all set to take part in a “flag […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/parades-end-israelis-cancel-their-march-palestinians-announce-their-victory-march
2021-06-09  •  Hugh Fitzgerald



Israel: Jerusalem flag march canceled, then rescheduled after Hamas warns about ‘provocations’
The Jerusalem flag march through the Old City of Jerusalem was called off after “Israel Police rejected the organizers’ request that participants be allowed to march through the Old City’s Damascus Gate.” The annual flag march, erroneously but not surprisingly dubbed “right wing,” is held annually on Jerusalem Day, May 10. The day is meant […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/israel-jerusalem-flag-march-canceled-after-hamas-warns-about-provocations
2021-06-09  •  Christine Douglass-Williams


Italy: ‘Populist’ Salvini coalition surges in polls, Left flounders in wake of illegal Muslim migrant influx
Italy: ‘Populist’ Salvini coalition surges in polls, Left flounders in wake of illegal Muslim migrant influx
Anti-illegal migration leader Matteo Salvini is rising again in popularity in Italy, in the wake of an illegal migrant surge. The influx of illegal Muslim migrants has not stopped during coronavirus lockdowns; Spain, Greece, Italy and the UK are particularly affected. These economic migrants, once they arrive at port,  make their way to the EU […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/italy-populist-salvini-coalition-surges-in-polls-left-flounders-in-wake-of-illegal-muslim-migrant-influx
2021-06-09  •  Christine Douglass-Williams


Reminder: Things are not always as they seem, even in website comments
Reminder: Things are not always as they seem, even in website comments
Now and again Leftists and Islamic supremacists try a tactic that was common back in 2003 or 2004: to hold this site or me personally responsible for nasty comments written here by people unknown to me. In reality, of course, no one is responsible for what anyone else does, unless he asked that it be […]
Read more  https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/reminder-things-are-not-always-as-they-seem-even-in-website-comments
2021-06-09  •  Robert Spencer


Email exchange: Trying to teach a college student
Universities in the U.S. and all over the West today are no longer institutions of higher learning, but radioactive wastelands of far-Left indoctrination. Students aren’t taught how to evaluate ideas rationally and discover the truth on the basis of the evidence rather than political advantage, personal preference, or ideological prejudice. Instead, they’re programmed and propagandized […]

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2021-06-09  •  Robert Spencer

If No Islamophobic ‘Hate Crimes’ Exist, They Must Be Invented. The Next Target Is Southwest
My latest in PJ Media: If “hate crimes” targeting Muslims do not exist, they must be invented. They’re simply too politically useful to do without. And so it is that the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is aiding a Muslim woman, Fatima Altakrouri, who claims that Southwest would not allow her to sit in a plane’s exit row because she […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/if-no-islamophobic-hate-crimes-exist-they-must-be-invented-the-next-target-is-southwest
2021-06-07  •  Robert Spencer’

Brooklyn Film Festival premieres documentary about NJ mayor who ‘fights the forces of Islamophobia’
Stunning and brave. But it is certain that Mayor Mohamed doesn’t mention any of this: terrorism researcher John Rossomando noted in November 2019 that Khairullah made “frequent travel to the Syrian war zone via Istanbul,” and that “Khairullah’s social media shows he repeatedly expressed support for Jabhat al-Nusra,” al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria. “Khairullah even thanked ISIS […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/brooklyn-film-festival-premieres-documentary-about-nj-mayor-who-fights-the-forces-of-islamophobia
2021-06-07  •  Robert Spencer

Yemen: Houthi leader claims US fabricated 9/11 in order to target the Islamic world
If this is true, the U.S. has done a very poor job of it, with leaders from both parties insisting that Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism, and demonizing and ostracizing anyone who speaks honestly about the motivating ideology behind the jihad threat. The entire Islamic world […]
Read more  https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/yemen-houthi-leader-claims-us-fabricated-9-11-in-order-to-target-the-islamic-world
2021-06-07  •  Robert Spencer

Florida: Muslim inmates beat guard unconscious for trying to search their Qur’an for contraband
They have evidently thoroughly imbibed the Qur’an’s teachings of peace. Flager County officials would do well to investigate the possibility that there is heavy Islamic proselytizing and jihad recruitment going on in their jail. But they almost certainly will not do so. “2 Flagler jail inmates attack guard who tried to search Quran for contraband, […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/florida-muslim-inmates-beat-guard-unconscious-for-trying-to-search-their-quran-for-contraband
2021-06-07  •  Robert Spencer

Afghanistan: 12 civilians murdered in bomb blasts on buses in Shi’a area
This Reuters article is a veiled ad for keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan, but it is likely that this was a Sunni jihad attack against Shi’ites. The Sunni-Shi’ite jihad was going on before we got there, and will continue after we leave, even if that is in three hundred years. “Bombings on two transport buses […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/afghanistan-12-civilians-murdered-in-bomb-blasts-on-buses-in-shia-area
2021-06-07  •  Robert Spencer


Germany: Intelligence agency reports dramatic increase in number of Hizballah members and supporters
“The report did not explain the reasons for the increase in Hezbollah members and supporters in Germany and Lower Saxony.” Of course it didn’t, because the reasons would indict Merkel’s mass migration policies. What could possibly go wrong? Celebrate diversity! “Germany sees increase of Hezbollah supporters and members – Intel,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/germany-intelligence-agency-reports-dramatic-increase-in-number-of-hizballah-members-and-supporters
2021-06-07  •  Robert Spencer

Erdogan: ‘The re-opening of the Hagia Sophia as a mosque is important, as it is a legacy of conquest’
Erdogan couldn’t be clearer in signaling what is coming, and it should be clear to everyone, but isn’t: in February 2018, he declared his desire to reconquer the lands the Ottoman caliphate once ruled: “Those who think that we have erased from our hearts the lands from which we withdrew in tears a hundred years ago […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/erdogan-the-re-opening-of-the-hagia-sophia-as-a-mosque-is-important-as-it-is-a-legacy-of-conquest
2021-06-07  •  Robert Spencer

UN investigators find that Islamic State gave Yazidis ultimatum: convert to Islam or be killed
Meanwhile, Western politicians were falling all over themselves to assure the world that the Islamic State (ISIS) had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. This is either appalling ignorance on the part of those whose job it was and is to know better, or willful dishonesty. Either way, this refusal to face reality continues to […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/un-investigators-find-that-islamic-state-gave-yazidis-ultimatum-convert-to-islam-or-be-killed
2021-06-07  •  Robert Spencer


Hamas: Give Us The Money From Qatar Or Else…
As is well known, the just-retired head of Mossad, Yossi Cohen, made several visits in the past to urge Qatar to send money to Hamas in order to keep the Gazan economy from cratering. He was persuasive; Qatar sent the money, via Israel, in monthly installments to Hamas which, after its leaders skimmed some off […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/hamas-give-us-the-money-from-qatar-or-else
2021-06-07  •  Hugh Fitzgerald


Syria: Turkey builds mosques in Yazidi villages to promote Islamization, forces hijab-wearing, preaches Jew-hatred
But remember: if you oppose Islamization, you’re a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” “Turkey promoting radical Islam among Yazidis in northern Syria – report,” Ahval News, June 1, 2021: Turkey’s top religious body, the Religious Affair Directorate (Diyanet), has built mosques in Yazidi villages to promote Islamization in the northern Syrian region of Afrin, Germany -based Society […]
Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/syria-turkey-builds-mosques-in-yazidi-villages-to-promote-islamization-forces-hijab-wearing-preaches-jew-hatred
2021-06-07  •  Robert Spencer


India: Muslim politician says cyclones and coronavirus are because government ‘tampered with Islamic Sharia law’
This is why Muslim countries all enjoy perfect weather. In any case, it is an important insight into the mindset of many Muslims who become jihadis. They believe that by working to please Allah they will stave off personal and societal disasters. Since waging war against unbelievers is a divine command (cf. Qur’an 8:39, 9:29, […]

Read more https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/india-muslim-politician-says-cyclones-and-coronavirus-are-because-government-tampered-with-islamic-sharia-law
2021-06-07  •  Robert Spencer