Thursday, May 2, 2019

JIHAD WATCH
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New Zealand leader slams suggestions that jihad terror in Sri Lanka was linked to Christchurch

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“Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has criticised suggestions Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings were retaliation for the Christchurch mosque shootings, saying his country is being “misused”. Sri Lankan Deputy Minister for Defence Ruwan Wijewardene last week said early investigations had revealed the bombing of churches and hotels that killed 253 people had been in revenge for shootings at two New Zealand mosques on March 15, which killed 50 people.”
Expect anything in the the jihad war against infidels and any made up excuse about victimhood. Meanwhile the astronomical tally of abuses by Islamic supremacists and jihadists globally is routinely ignored. Excuses for jihadi violence range from “colonialism” and “zionism” to “insulting Islam” and now the attack on innocent Christians in Sri Lanka is being blamed by some on the New Zealand shooter who identified as left wing, right wing, socialist, and his favorite model government was communist China. The recent jihad massacer in Sri Lanka was purely about the rise of jihadists in Southern Asia, nothing else. Jihadists do not need any excuse. Their goal is self evident in their 1400 year war against infidels, from Muhammad to ISIS.
It is instructed: “war is deceit” (Bukhari 4.52.268), so blaming New Zealand for the Sri Lankan massacre is merely a lie and propaganda to a ‘greater end’. Buddhists are also now deemed to be a target in Sri Lanka, as are all infidels.
“‘Cheap shot’: NZ slams Sri Lanka-Christchurch link terror claim”, NZ Stuff(Thanks to The Religion of Peace), April 24, 2019:
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has criticised suggestions Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings were retaliation for the Christchurch mosque shootings, saying his country is being “misused”.
Sri Lankan Deputy Minister for Defence Ruwan Wijewardene last week said early investigations had revealed the bombing of churches and hotels that killed 253 people had been in revenge for shootings at two New Zealand mosques on March 15, which killed 50 people.
But foreign minister Peters on Tuesday reiterated his government had seen no evidence of a link.
He said expert advice suggested the Sri Lankan bombings would have been planned well before the Christchurch terror attack……
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ISIS Caliph: Sri Lanka Bombings Revenge for Caliphate, Not New Zealand

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Jihadists don’t need a reason to kill anyone. Their revenge and retaliation claims are a psychological game to make us feel as if we are responsible for their violence against us.
After a mass shooting at a mosque in New Zealand, some people worried that revenge attacks would follow. And indeed, the Sri Lanka bombings of churches seemed to follow that pattern. Soon the media was full of claims that ISIS had murdered hundreds of Christians as revenge for the New Zealand shootings.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s defense minister said Tuesday that the coordinated Easter Sunday attacks that killed at least 321 people were in retaliation for the recent Christchurch mosque massacre in New Zealand.
“Extremist group named National Thowheed Jamaath carried out Sunday’s terror attacks in response to terror attacks in Christchurch,” Defense Minister Ruwan Wijewardene said.
Like everything coming out of the Sri Lankan government, this should have been taken with a grain of salt. It’s not just the Jihadists who want to shift responsibility for the violence on to us. The Sri Lankan government ignored warnings about the attack. It’s convenient for them to shift the blame. Reports from ISIS and the terrorists have been mixed. But now the Caliph of ISIS has released a video.
“And as for your brothers in Sri Lanka,” he is heard saying while footage of the attackers and attacks rolls, “they have put joy in the hearts of the monotheists with their immersing operations that struck the homes of the Crusaders on their Easter, in vengeance for their brothers in Baghuz.”
This appeal to Baghuz (also spelled Baghouz), the last vestige of ISIS’ caliphate in Syria, reclaimed by coalition and Syria Democratic Forces in late March, is the most critical element of Baghdadi’s statements. The loss was a major blow to the so-called caliphate and a staple of some leaders’ narratives of the group’s “defeat.”
Why would ISIS care, let alone launch a major operation in Sri Lanka over mass shootings in New Zealand?
That never made any sense.
Baghdadi plausibly positions the attacks in relation to the defeat of ISIS in Baghuz.
ISIS badly needs credibility after its losses and the Sri Lanka bombings provided them. The media however has less interest in reporting this statement by Baghdadi because it finds the New Zealand meme far more politically useful for its purposes.
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Hugh Fitzgerald: In An Age of Terror, What Is The Responsibility of Glenn K. Beaton? (Part Four)

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Still, I won’t blame all Muslims for that attack or for one congresswoman’s stupid remark about it. I firmly believe that to do so would dishonor my decent friends who died that day.
“I won’t blame all Muslims for that attack [9/11],” he tells us. But who has blamed “all Muslims” for the 9/11 attack? No one. That is a charge made by apologists for Islam, wishing to present sober islamocritics as incapable of distinguishing among Muslims. There are many Jihadis, and there are far more supporters of violent Jihad who have not themselves participated, but fortunately, they are not “all [the] Muslims.” The question is: are those Muslims who do not participate in violent Jihad refraining because they have a moral objection, they don’t believe in violence, or because they have other more effective ways of conducting Jihad (as Jihad of the pen, speech, or Jihad of wealth, or demographic Jihad), or because they believe that Muslim terrorism is in current circumstances in the West unwise, and counterproductive?
That leaves me with the question posed at the outset. What is the responsibility of that congresswoman and other Muslims in today’s world of terror?
It’s this: They need to step up. They need to man up. They need to Allah up. The many decent and devout ones need to distance themselves from — nay, they need to condemn, ostracize and, if necessary, destroy — the few psychopaths.
“The few psychopaths”? The “few psychopaths” who have conducted 35,000 terror attacks around the world since 9/11? For 1,400 years Muslims have been conducting violent Jihad against non-Muslims. It was not a “few psychopaths,” but perfectly mainstream Muslims, following the dictates of the Qur’an, who managed to conquer many lands and subjugate many peoples, throughout the Middle East, all across North Africa, and then Spain, and even plunged deep into France, where their invasion was finally halted by Charles Martel at Tours in 732 A.D. Muslim armies conquered Sassanian Persia, islamizing a country that had been entirely Zoroastrian, and after many attempts over the centuries, Muslim armies finally conquered both the Byzantine Empire and India. They sowed terror wherever they went. During the centuries of Mughal rule in India, according to the historian K. S. Lal, between 70 and 80 million Hindus were killed. Were all of these Muslims who spread Islam by violence and terror “psychopaths,” or were they orthodox Muslims following the murderous dictates of the Qur’an? You know the answer to that. And Beaton would, too, if he would only take the time to study the Qur’an.
In short, the responsibility of Muslims is the same as the responsibility of Jews, Christians and all other people of faith and civilized secularists. In the battle against violent bigotry, there’s no middle ground. You’re either with us or against us.
Be with us. Be our brothers and sisters in our battle for humanity. We want you.
The “responsibility” of Muslims is greater than that of “Jews, Christians, and all other people of faith” because the worldwide terrorism we see today is almost entirely that carried out by Muslims against non-Muslims. Think of Europe, where Muslims have carried out major attacks in Madrid, Barcelona, Paris (many times), Toulouse, Nice, Magnanville, St. Etienne de Rouvray, Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, London (many times), Manchester, Berlin, Hamburg, Wurzburg, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Malmö, Helsinki, Turku, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Beslan. In Africa, there have been repeated Muslim attacks on non-Muslims in Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, Kenya, Tanzania. In Asia, Muslim terrorists have struck at Christians in Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, at Hindus in Mumbai, in Delhi, in New Delhi, in Hyderabad, in Calcutta and, most recently, at several Christian targets in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Or think of the terror attacks just in the United States, in New York (many times), Boston, Washington, Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Seattle, Fort Hood, Little Rock, Orlando, San Bernardino, Chattanooga?
Muslim terrorism is not the product of psychopaths, but of devout Muslims all over the world who are following dutifully what the Qur’an commands.
If that’s not reason enough to be with us, then be with us just to be on the winning side. Because we will indeed win, I promise you.
Does Beaton know what he is asking of Muslims? Apparently unfamiliar with the Islamic texts, he does not realize that he is telling them to ignore the commands to wage Jihad that are found throughout the Qur’an. He is asking them to ignore the example, too, of Muhammad himself, who claimed he was “made victorious through terror.” He is asking Muslims not to be Muslims, but who is going to tell him that? He will have to come to that understanding  on his own. Mainstream Muslims will never stop heeding those immutable texts. And when he tells the world’s Muslims that they should “be with us just to be on the winning side” because “we will indeed win, I promise you,” he is issuing a kind of triumphalist threat that will not be well received by Muslims. They will be offended by Beaton’s prediction of a victory by the world’s Infidels, for they know that Allah is on their side; Allah is the “best schemer,” and he will not let them down.
Perhaps Beaton will surprise everyone; perhaps he will read and study the Qur’an, and some of the Hadith, and write another, very different, article about Muslim terrorists, this one based not on fantasy, but on the unpleasant reality of those immutable texts. He could do it in the form of an address to his “Muslim friends,” asking them how they think non-Muslims such as himself react when they read such Qur’anic verses as 2:191-193, 3:151, 4:89, 8:12, 8:60, 9:5, 9:29, 47:4, and 98:6. And then he might ask them, in a more-in-sorrow tone, something like this:
“How do you, the moderate Muslims of whom there must be many [not repeating that factitious “fact” about 99.9% of the world’s Muslims being good guys], propose to deal with these texts, that preach hatred and contempt for, exalt violence towards, command the killing of, and the sowing of terror among, all non-Muslims? What is the responsibility of Islam, of Muslims? Is it really enough for some Muslims to denounce this or that terrorist attack by fellow Muslims? Don’t we have to address the source of so much bloodshed? The Islamic texts have to be dealt with, if there is ever to be a  way out of this morass — or is there no way out, as long as you continue to believe that the Qur’an is the uncreated, immutable word of God? We Need To Talk.”
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A message about Robert Spencer from the David Horowitz Freedom Center

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Dear Valued Reader:
Due to a personal circumstance, Robert Spencer is currently on a hiatus. All of us at the David Horowitz Freedom Center ask of you to please say a prayer into his situation.
In the meantime, Jihad Watch will continue to provide you with quality daily coverage as usual until Robert’s return of which we are all eagerly awaiting. We deeply appreciate your continued loyal readership and support.
With sincere gratitude,
The Jihad Watch and Freedom Center Team.

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Robert Spencer talks about “Islamophobia” on “What do you Meme”

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Robert Spencer discusses a popular tweet that became a meme, from Dr. Craig Considine of Rice University. In the tweet, Considine explains how an Islamophobe is “a person who doesn’t know any Muslims in real life”. Robert Spencer gives his own thoughts on the word “Islamophobe”.
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