Over at PJ Media I recap ten of the year’s lowlights:
Here are the most significant advances made by Islamic supremacists this year.
10. The abduction of the Nigerian schoolgirls
Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian jihad group named the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad and better known as Boko Haram (“Western Education Is Sinful,” or “Books Bad”), disgusted and horrified the world last May, and even provoked a Michelle Obama hashtag, by abducting over three hundred schoolgirls and selling them into sex slavery. Shekau even published a video in which he gloats about the abduction, telling the girls’ grieving families:
I abducted your girls. I will sell them on the market, by Allah….There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell.
Shekau had a point: the Qur’an really does allow for the owning of sex slaves. Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). It also says: “O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils of war” (33:50). 4:3 and 4:24 extend this privilege to Muslim men in general, as does this passage:
Certainly will the believers have succeeded: They who are during their prayer humbly submissive, and they who turn away from ill speech, and they who are observant of zakah, and they who guard their private parts except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they will not be blamed (Qur’an 23:1-6).
None – absolutely none – of the extensive international coverage of the abduction discussed the justifications for this practice within the Qur’an. This refusal to deal with the root causes only ensured that the practice would happen again, and it did later in the year, when the Islamic State pressed Yazidi and Christian women into sex slavery.
9. Britain’s capitulation on Muslim rape gangs
Britain’s Birmingham Mail reported in November that Birmingham’s City Council buried a report about Muslim cab drivers exploiting non-Muslim girls back in 1990.
A researcher, Dr. Jill Jesson, drafted a report on this issue. But, she explained,
the report was shelved, buried, it was never made public. I was shocked to be told that copies of the report were to be destroyed and that nothing further was to be said. Clearly, there was something in this report that someone in the department was worried about.
Authorities were worried because Jesson’s report illustrated that virtually all of the exploitative cab drivers were “Asians,” the British media euphemism for Muslims, and their victims were “white,” i.e., non-Muslim. The exploitation of these girls stems from Qur’an-based religious beliefs, but British officials were terrified because stopping this exploitation would appear “racist.”
Jesson elaborated:
There was a link between the sexual abuse of the girls and private hire drivers in the city. I thought at the time I did the work that there was an issue with race. Most of the girls were white. I was asked to take this link out, to erase it….Every time a news item has come on about sexual grooming of young girls and girls in care, and the link, too, between private hire drivers, I have thought “I told them about that in 1991 but they didn’t want to acknowledge it.”
“The sad part of this story,” Jesson concluded, “is not the suppression of evidence but that the relevant organisations have failed to address this problem.”
Indeed so – and that is because of its racial and religious aspects. British authorities persist in seeing this as a racial issue, when in fact these cabbies only preyed upon these girls because they were non-Muslims, and thus eligible to become “captives of the right hand” and used as sex slaves.
But the fact is they see it as a racial issue, and their anxiety to avoid “racism” led them to cover up these cases and allow thousands of girls to be victimized for 23 years. The officials responsible for this should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned. The race-mongers on the current British scene, such as far-Left smearmongers like Nick Lowles of Hope Not Hate and Fiyaz Mughal of Tell Mama UK, have been denounced by opinion-makers and policymakers from all points on the political spectrum — and should be tried also if their complicity in this behavior is found to have risen to criminal culpability.
Instead, British authorities looked for scapegoats. The BBC reported in November that “the police watchdog is to investigate 10 South Yorkshire Police officers over the handling of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham,” where 1,400 British non-Muslim children were gang-raped and brutalized by Muslims, and “several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.”
These managers are the ones who are really responsible for this, along with opinion-makers such as Lowles and Mughal who created the culture in which people cower in fear at charges of “racism.” These ten police officers who were being investigated were just being set up to take the fall; they originated neither the police policies nor the cultural climate that led to the abandonment of these 1,400 abused children to their fate. Those who created the climate in which those who knew about this hesitated to speak out, for fear of being called “racist,” are the ones who ought to be put on trial — Lowles and Mughal and their ilk. These police officers, if they did cover up the activities of these rape gangs, are just the symptoms of the problem, not its cause.
8. The Bergdahl trade
The British weren’t the only ones capitulating. When he announced on May 31 the exchange of five Guantanamo detainees for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held by Islamic jihadists in Afghanistan since 2009, Barack Obama declared that the swap was “a reminder of America’s unwavering commitment to leave no man or woman in uniform behind on the battlefield.” However, as ever more damning information came to light about both the deal and Bergdahl himself, it became increasingly clear that the prisoner exchange was actually a reminder of Barack Obama’s unwavering commitment to appeasing and aiding jihadis.
The freed jihadis included, according to the Associated Press, “Abdul Haq Wasiq, who served as the Taliban deputy minister of intelligence”; “Khairullah Khairkhwa, who served in various Taliban positions including interior minister and had direct ties to Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden”; and “Mohammad Fazl, whom Human Rights Watch says could be prosecuted for war crimes for presiding over the mass killing of Shiite Muslims in Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001.”
What could possibly go wrong?
Even more disturbing were the questions swirling around Bergdahl himself. Former infantry officer Nathan Bradley Bethea, who served with Bergdahl, wrote in the Daily Beast that “Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down.” Refuting reports that Bergdahl got separated from his unit while on patrol, Bethea declared: “Make no mistake: Bergdahl did not ‘lag behind on a patrol,’ as was cited in news reports at the time. There was no patrol that night. Bergdahl was relieved from guard duty, and instead of going to sleep, he fled the outpost on foot. He deserted. I’ve talked to members of Bergdahl’s platoon—including the last Americans to see him before his capture. I’ve reviewed the relevant documents. That’s what happened.”
By the year’s end, the results of the investigation of Bergdahl’s conduct have – as the most pessimistic among us could have predicted – not been released.
7. The Islamic State beheadings
Bergdahl was one of the few captives of jihadis to come home alive. The Islamic State shocked and appalled the world as it carried out a series of beheadings of hostages and other prisoners, including Americans James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and Peter Kassig, and Britons David Haines and Alan Henning.
The White House response to these atrocities took on a clockwork predictability. Obama might as well have had a form ready for the next one: all he would have had to do would have been to fill in the blank and then take to the airwaves to say that the latest bloodshed had nothing to do with Islam.
In Kassig’s case, Obama seized on the hostage’s at-gunpoint conversion to Islam to assert: “ISIL’s actions represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith which Abdul-Rahman adopted as his own.”
“Least of all”! As if it were possible that the Islamic State’s actions represented Buddhism, or Methodism, or Christian Science, or the Hardshell Baptists, or the Mandaeans, to greater or lesser degrees, but the most far-fetched association one could make, out of all the myriad faiths people hold throughout the world, would be to associate the Islamic State’s actions with…Islam. The Islamic State’s actions represented no faith, said the president, least of all Islam – as if it were more likely that the Islamic State were made up of Presbyterians or Lubavitcher Hasidim or Jains or Smartas than that it were made up of Muslims.
Yet anywhere that people read the phrase “when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4) as if it were a command of the Creator of the Universe, the fatuousness of Obama’s claim is revealed anew. The truth will out; indeed, it is already abundantly out. We can only hope that not too many more will have to feel the blade at their necks before Obama and the rest can no longer avoid taking realistic and effective action.
6. The Oklahoma beheadingOn September 21, the Islamic State’s spokesman, Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani, urged Muslims to murder non-Muslims in the West. “Rely upon Allah,” he thundered, “and kill him in any manner or way however it may be. Do not ask for anyone’s advice and do not seek anyone’s verdict. Kill the disbeliever whether he is civilian or military, for they have the same ruling.” He also addressed Western non-Muslims:
You will not feel secure even in your bedrooms. You will pay the price when this crusade of yours collapses, and thereafter we will strike you in your homeland, and you will never be able to harm anyone afterwards.
Five days later, Jah’Keem Yisrael (formerly Alton Alexander Nolen) beheaded one of his coworkers and was shot while in the process of trying to behead another in Vaughan Foods, a food processing plant in Moore, Oklahoma. No one made the connection between his actions and al-Adnani’s call, despite the fact that Yisrael’s Facebook was full of admiring material about the Islamic State, the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The beheader even had a graphic photo of a beheading captioned with another Qur’anic beheading verse (8:12) on his Facebook page.
Authorities did not classify his action as terrorism.
5. The Canadian jihad strikes
In October, Canada experienced two murderous jihad terror attacks in three days. Ahmad Rouleau, a convert to Islam, hit two Canadian soldiers with his car, murdering Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent. Then he led police on a high-speed chase, during which he called 911 and explained that he was doing it all “in the name of Allah.” The chase, and Rouleau’s jihad, ended when he flipped his car and then, brandishing a knife, charged police, who shot him dead. One of Rouleau’s close friends said:
It was a terrorist attack and Martin died like he wanted to. That’s what happened….He did this because he wanted to reach paradise and assure paradise for his family. He wanted to be a martyr….The caliphate called all the Muslims on earth to fight. He listened to what they had to say and he did his part here.
Two days later, another Muslim, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, went on a shooting rampage in Ottawa, murdering military reservist Corporal Nathan Cirillo and engaging in a gun battle inside Canada’s Parliament building. He had threatened to strike “in the name of Allah in response to Canadian foreign policy.”
Islamic State spokesmen Al-Adnani told Muslims in September to murder non-Muslims with any weapon at hand, or anything that could be used as a weapon: “If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him.” Zehaf-Bibeau found a bullet. Rouleau found a car.
In reality, what motivated him was blazingly obvious, but it was the one thing most Western government officials and all of the mainstream media have determined to ignore, and so the search was one for some other remotely plausible motive that could be sold to a public that is increasingly suspicious of what the government and media elites are telling them. Toronto’s Globe and Mail quoted a friend of Zehaf-Bibeau saying, “I think he must have been mentally ill.” It was a refrain we would increasingly hear in connection with jihad attacks as the year went on.
Meanwhile, the denial and unreality regarding the jihad threat took other forms as well…
Read the rest here.
Infidel Aussie says
The most disturbing story to me is how so many so called leaders ,large sections of the media and the left wing pseudo intellectual classes don’t believe or at least refuse to admit any connection between jihad and the Islamic religion. I just find that incredible
mortimer says
Indeed, the Leftarded cultural Marxists, who never read a book about Marxism or about jihad either, present themselves as experts on both. They are clueless, inept pseudointellectuals among whom Justin Trudeau poses as chief of postmodern pygmies. Their slogan is ‘Islam has nothing to do with Islam.’
particolor says
Western Country’s only Elect Ostriches !!
lebel says
You forgot that Tunisians Muslims went to the polls and elected secularists. I guess that didn’t seem newsworthy
mortimer says
Newsworthy, but wait for the counterattack by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Angemon says
lebel posted:
“You forgot that Tunisians Muslims went to the polls and elected secularists. I guess that didn’t seem newsworthy”
Regardless of its importance and relevance, I’m not sure that it classifies under “jihad”.
lebel says
Maybe but definitely more than Maher
Salah says
@ lebel
“You forgot that Tunisians Muslims went to the polls and elected secularists. I guess that didn’t seem newsworthy”
It *is* newsworthy, and I wrote about it on this thread on JW:
The Muslim Brotherhood just suffered another huge defeat: Seculars win Tunisian presidential elections.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/12/21/Tunisians-vote-in-historic-presidential-run-off.html
Apparently more and more Muslims are rejecting Islamic governments.
JW thread:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/egypt-churches-burned-by-muslim-mobs-last-year-still-in-ruins/comment-page-1#comment-1165841
Beth says
The media have obtained ‘the bullhorn’ as I like to call it. They have a voice. Individuals can speak the truth – and they should, – but they do not have the same power as any of the media. And the media has been thumbing their noses at the truth for a long time now. And because they hold ‘the bullhorn’ in a society (as a whole) that is not aware of the dangerous teachings of Islam – much of the bloodshed and suffering cause by those teachings of the koran – is their fault.
Had they done their own homework and warned the people all along – those sickening teachings of the koran would be common knowledge – and they would have been rejected a long time ago.
The self-proclaiming Christian leaders are to be blamed also. They too – have a voice. And they’ve said nothing whatsoever about those teachings – let alone the koran calls the Lord that they claim to be represenatives of – an abomination and all of His eye-witnesses liars. There is no dialogue to be had for them – with those who bow down to such teachings and lies.
I have no doubt, none whatsoever, that they’ll be the first to be rejected in the Judgment. And they’ll be the ones saying, “But didn’t we do this and that in your name?” And He will say – “Depart from me – ye who work wickedness. I never knew you”. With the truth about Islam becoming more and more clear – there’s not a single one of them who will have the right to “wonder why” when that time comes. They know better. They all know better…….yet, – they continue on in the deception – as though nothing is wrong with the teachings of Islam. Shame on the poltical leaders also.
Here is what they ALL defend:
Koran (chapter and verse given for proof)
047.004 – Beheadings
033.052 – Gang Rape of female ‘infidels’
005.033 – Crucifixions
008.067 – Treason (see also – 003.028)
005.041 – Racism….
033.061 – Genocide “without mercy” (mass murder of the infidels – showing no mercy – even to the children of ‘infidels’)
And the Tree is known by its fruit. They’re all without excuse. And – they’re all responsible. All of the bloodshed and suffering is their fault. Not a single one of them deserves the positions they hold in society. Not one!
CPH says
All of this is known and is true. What is also true and known, to all of us and our ‘leaders’, is that we have within ourselves the same capacity for savagery and retribution as our worst enemies, who happen at the moment to be Muslim terrorists. If and when that capacity is unleashed, perhaps by some unusually vile Muslim terrorist atrocity aimed at one of our schools, the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ Muslims will go under at the same time. The leadership appears to be buying time and hoping, probably vainly, that the problem will get better rather than worse.
Alissa says
I don’t think there ever will be a tipping point brought on by some islamic atrocity because they have already done the most disgusting and brutal acts and the public don’t do anything…not because they aren’t outraged but because there is no leadership.
There needs to be a well organized plan of simultaneously held demonstrations en masse throughout the remaining free world: North America, South America, UK and Europe, Australia and New Zealand etc. Germany and France are doing it but it needs to spread throughout and the governments of each country need to feel the impact. But be prepared for marshal law. I never thought I would say this but I think the “preppers” might be on to something.
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Alissa says
I agree with you. However, Billy Graham along with some of his family members have been quite vocal about islamic terrorism and this joke we call the presidency.
Alissa says
That was in response to Beth
MKG says
Mr. Spencer,
It was a horrible year in the Muslim world, as well as other territories, and it doesn’t look like it is going to get better any time soon. Your work and Jihad Watch is criticaly important for getting much needed information out to the masses. 2014 was informative, but your work isn’t done. So stay sharp, watch your back, and keep up the good work.
John Stefan Obeda says
I fully concur MKG. And we must pray for His welfare and that of his family and also for our country; might as well include the world and pray for the persecuted Christians and the conversion of the Islamists and others to the Lord Jesus the Saviour of the world.
ken says
3 cheers for Robert Spencer without whom I would not be educated on what Islam is all about.
Meri says
One I think should be on list is the beheading of Palmira Silvia in London in Sept 2014
Mainly as it is so whitewashed not many even got to hear about it and also was beginning of the “lone wolf /mentally ill”excuse
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11078451/Nick-Salvadore-suspect-for-beheading-of-Palmira-Silva-is-would-be-cage-fighter-and-Muslim-convert.html