Category archives for: Jihad Watch

Bombay High Court says Islam can be criticized, but not “maliciously”

Bombay High Court says Islam can be criticized, but not “maliciously”

The problem with this ought to be obvious: who decides what constitutes “malicious” criticism? Islamic spokesmen in non-Muslim countries routinely characterize any and every criticism of Islam, including any accurate depiction of the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism, as malicious. It is a central element of their playbook: characterize anyone…

UK: Christian teacher “forced out” after complaining about Muslim students who praised 9/11 jihadists and shouted out their hatred for Jews and Christians

UK: Christian teacher “forced out” after complaining about Muslim students who praised 9/11 jihadists and shouted out their hatred for Jews and Christians

Nothing surprising in what these children were saying: we have seen adult Muslims saying similar things many, many times over the years here at Jihad Watch. Nor is there anything very surprising in the fact that in Absurd Britannia today it is this teacher who suffers for reporting this, while…

Spencer: The Railroading of Geert Wilders

Spencer: The Railroading of Geert Wilders

In the lead story in FrontPage this morning I discuss how Geert Wilders is being denied a fair trial — although of course the very fact that he is on trial at all indicates that it is not a fair trial. The Stalinist-show-trial aspect of the Geert Wilders “hate…

Louay Safi at Ft. Hood: a testament to willful cluelessness about jihad and national security

Louay Safi at Ft. Hood: a testament to willful cluelessness about jihad and national security

Here is a useful summary of Louay Safi’s checkered past and dubious associations, despite which he was employed as a military subcontractor to lecture on Islam. This report does not mention that, even after the Ft. Hood shootings, Safi was involved in troops’ training, and was allowed to meet with…

Pakistani Christian sentenced to life in prison on blasphemy charges

Pakistani Christian sentenced to life in prison on blasphemy charges

Life behind bars, for allegedly damaging a Qur’an. An update on this story. “Christian sentenced to life in prison for blaspheming Islam,” from Spero News, February 7: A court in Faisalabad, Pakistan, sentenced to life imprisonment Imran Masih, a young Christian, for having insulted and desecrated the Koran, according to…

Somali Taliban’s new envoy to U.S. is HuffPo columnist, CAIR official

Somali Taliban’s new envoy to U.S. is HuffPo columnist, CAIR official

Abukar Arman is the new special envoy to the U.S. for the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) that leads the Somali Unity government and presided over bloody Sharia rule in Somalia in 2006. Leftist/Jihadist Alliance Alert: Abukar Arman is also a columnist for the Huffington Post. There he has said of…

Iranian Supremo promises punch that will “stun” West on February 11

Iranian Supremo promises punch that will “stun” West on February 11

I tend to think that those who can, do, and those who can’t, rattle sabers — but you never know. “Iran anniversary ‘punch’ will stun West: Khamenei,” from AFP, February 8 (thanks to Syzygy): Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a…

Pakistan: Human rights activist jailed on blasphemy charge for objecting to the destruction of a church

Pakistan: Human rights activist jailed on blasphemy charge for objecting to the destruction of a church

Save My Father Hector Aleem by Mehwish Aleem At a time that the United Nations calls Switzerland’s ban on new minarets “clearly discriminatory and deeply divisive,” and the whole world is condemning the Swiss for their vote, I would like to bring to the attention of the world my plight….

Dry run at Detroit airport? “Arabic man” ignores instructions from security guards, part of airport shut down

Dry run at Detroit airport? “Arabic man” ignores instructions from security guards, part of airport shut down

They thought maybe he didn’t understand English, but he did. So what was he doing? “Security scare closes airport concourse,” from UPI, February 8: DETROIT, Feb. 8 (UPI) — Part of a Detroit airport terminal was shut down Monday after an Arabic man ignored instructions from security guards, police said…….

Fitzgerald: General Petraeus and the likely effect of attacking the Islamic Republic’s nuclear project

Fitzgerald: General Petraeus and the likely effect of attacking the Islamic Republic’s nuclear project

A few days ago – on February 3 – this news item appeared: TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) – A military strike on Iran could have the unintended consequence of stirring nationalist sentiment to the benefit of Tehran’s hard-line government, U.S. General David Petraeus told Reuters…. “It’s possible (a strike) could be…

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