Jihad Watch

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

Jihadist bombings in Somalia, Kenya, Nigeria more powerful in 2011

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Imagine if they put that ingenuity and resourcefulness into building something constructive, rather than attempting to blackmail their targets into submission by destroying them bit by bit. It is far easier to destroy than rebuild, and easier to get attention that way, and so they become self-serving vandals, launching cowardly attacks against civilians. In Somalia […]

Yemen: Allies of ousted president still reportedly trying to leverage al-Qaeda revolt to their advantage

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That won’t end well. An update on this story. “Yemenis: Ousted leader undermining al-Qaida fight,” by Ahmed al-Haj and Aya Batrawy for the Associated Press, March 14: SANAA, Yemen (AP) “” It was a stunning attack by al-Qaida in a country that is one of the world’s hottest fronts against the terror group. Militants rampaged […]

Mali: “Suspected Islamists” hold up Red Cross convoy, tear down flag

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Jihad causes poverty. “Suspected Islamists block Red Cross convoy in Mali,” from Agence France-Presse, March 14: Suspected Islamists turned back an International Committee of the Red Cross convoy, tearing down its flag, as it tried to enter Tessalit in northeast Mali, a source said Wednesday. Tessalit was seized on Sunday by Tuareg rebels following weeks […]

Asia Bibi petition: “We refuse to accept that this mother of five children will continue to languish in her putrid, stifling, freezing cell for so long”

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Blasphemy laws: Keeping Pakistan safe from devout Christian women. Here is the text of the petition reported on in this story. From UN Watch, March 13: Since June 2009, Pakistani citizen Asia Bibi, mother of five little children, has been imprisoned in appalling and intolerable conditions in Sheikhupura prison in Punjab province. Her crime: being […]

Pakistan running for a seat on UN Human Rights Council; 50 human rights activists sign petition to council for release of Asia Bibi

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Pakistan on the Human Rights Council, and Asia Bibi’s release: the former should not happen without the latter, unless the council changes its name to the UN Council for Window Dressing and Hypocrisy. “Petition: Free Pakistani Christian woman set for execution,” from CNN, March 14: (CNN) — Activists presented a petition Tuesday to the United […]

Iran: Many executed for “drug offenses” who were initially arrested for resisting the regime

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According to this report, the vast majority of executions in 2011 involved alleged drug offenses. “UN: Iran executes anti-Islam citizens,” by Benjamin Weinthal for the Jerusalem Post, March 14 (thanks to L): BERLIN — Iran executed 670 people in 2011, including more than 20 for offenses against Islam, a UN investigator said in Geneva on […]

Iranian officials can’t keep their stories straight on imprisoned ex-Muslim pastor

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Once again, the tacked-on charges seem to have evaporated, and Nadarkhani is said to have somehow “humiliated” and “offended” Islam even as the Iranian “human rights envoy,” Mohammad Javad Larijani, claims changing religions is no big deal. But as even CNN has observed, as of 2010, the only charges against Nadarkhani were about apostasy. As […]

Australia: “Convert to radical Islam” insists he didn’t really mean death threats

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This guy again: he had said of Australian non-Muslims, “One day they know they will be controlled,” but apparently none of that applies to him, and he doesn’t seem to take any responsibility to control himself. “Muslim radical on child porn, terror threat charges,” from ABC News (Australia), March 14 (thanks to Dumbledoresarmy): A convert […]

U.S. nuke expert spots high-explosive test chamber at site Iran won’t show inspectors

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Uh, we like, need this for electricity or something. Go away. More on this story. “U.S. nuclear expert finds Iran explosive site in imagery,” from Reuters, March 13: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. non-proliferation expert said on Tuesday he has identified a building at the Parchin military site in Iran suspected of containing, currently or […]

Somalia: Al-Shabaab forbids you to Save the Children

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Another aid group banned on flimsy pretext. We often say “jihad causes poverty,” but al-Shabaab is taking that idea to a whole new level of literalism. “Somali rebels ban aid group Save the Children,” from Agence France-Presse, March 13: Somalia’s Shebab rebels Tuesday banned the aid group Save the Children from operating in regions under […]

Iraq: Interior ministry allegedly knew of planned massacre of “emo” youth

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More on this story. Note the freewheeling conflation of the suspicion of homosexual tendencies, allegations of devil worship, and whatever else the government’s thugs please to level at their targets. The all too literal witch-hunt is ultimately an indiscriminate, arbitrary display of power designed to terrorize the populace into line, and into erring on the […]

Egyptian parliament votes unanimously in favor of expelling Israeli ambassador, describes Israel as “number one enemy”

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As long as the military has veto power, the vote is symbolic, but the language of the resolution points to things to come. “Egypt’s Islamist-dominated parliament votes in support of expelling Israel’s ambassador,” from the Associated Press, March 12: CAIRO – Egypt’s Islamist-dominated parliament has unanimously voted in support of the expulsion of Israel’s ambassador […]

Iraq: Militia comes to school, asks students to report “suspicious behavior”: not terrorists, but “emo” kids

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Priorities, in an update on this story. No one seems to grasp that looking the other way from extrajudicial killings of allegedly deficient Muslims will eventually come back to bite them, because they have approved the practice in principle. “Iraqi murders put gay and emo youth on edge,” by Mohammed Tawfiq for CNN, March 12: […]

Pakistan: Another Christian woman charged with blasphemy

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Blasphemy laws: keeping Pakistan safe from devout Christian women. You can learn a lot about someone by what and whom they are afraid of. “Yet another Christian woman charged with blasphemy,” by Asher John for Pakistan Today, March 13 (thanks to Kenneth): LAHORE – Police in Khichiwala, Bahawalnagar district have charged a young Christian woman […]

Iraq police tasked with protecting “social minorities” say they are “powerless” to protect Emo youth subculture from violent persecution

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One can’t help but wonder if it is a true lack of capacity, or a lack of political will. More on this story. “Police unable to prevent rising violence against gays, Emo youths in Iraq,” by Lara Jakes for the Associated Press, March 11: BAGHDAD – Young people who identify themselves as so-called Emos are […]

Accused 7/7 jihadist was caught fleeing in a burqa

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This sort of thing happens from time to time among the intrepid, manly mujahedin, as in the case of the Pakistani Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz, and the 7/21 plotter Yassin Omar. More on this story. “7/7 terror accused Briton ‘was arrested while dressed in a burka’,” by Adrian Shaw for The Mirror, March […]

Priest in bombed Nigerian church reports up to 4 suicide bombers; attackers were prevented from entering church compound

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Any jihadist attack on a church puts contrasting ideals of martyrdom on display. More on this story. “11 dead after suicide attack on Nigerian church,” from Agence France-Presse, March 11: A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Catholic church in central Nigeria on Sunday, killing seven people and sparking panic in which security forces […]

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