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Daily Digest If you would like to forward this email to a friend, please use this link  Muslim academic tries to refute Robert Spencer’s ‘History of Jihad,’ fails miserably Jihad Watch reader Mark has alerted me to an academic review of my book The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS by one Ahmed Achrati, who says that he “graduated from Law School in Algeria and received an LL.M from the School of Law at NYU, and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the […] Read more 2020-10-27  •  Robert Spencer The Trump Effect: Sudan Joins UAE and Bahrain in Normalizing Relations with Israel And why the political elites hate America’s president so much. My latest in FrontPage: “This is one of the great days in the history of Sudan,” President Trump declared Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added: “Today, Khartoum is saying yes to peace with Israel, yes to recognition of Israel and yes to normalization with […] Read more 2020-10-27  •  Robert Spencer Norway is expecting twice as many ‘asylum seekers’ next year, over half from Syria and Turkey What could possibly go wrong? Well, will any attempt be made to ensure that these migrants will adopt Norwegian values? Of course not. Only greasy Islamophobes would even dare to suggest such a thing. “Norway is expecting twice as many asylum seekers next year,” by Robin-Ivan Capar, Norway Today, October 25, 2020: The Norwegian Directorate […] Read more 2020-10-27  •  Robert Spencer Poland: Muslim migrant plots to organize network to commit jihad terror attacks in Western Europe Note that “the deportation decision obliged him to return to his country of origin and imposed a five-year ban on entering Poland or other countries of the EU’s passport-free Schengen Area.” What happens after five years? He will be free to return to Poland and resume his jihad? “Poland deports Lebanese man suspected of supporting […] Read more 2020-10-27  •  Robert Spencer UK: Muslim rape gang inquiry stalled for fear of charges of ‘racism’ This is criminal. It was fear of charges of “racism” and “Islamophobia” that led British authorities to allow the Muslim rape gangs to continue operating with impunity in the first place. “At least 1,400 children were subjected to appalling sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013,” and British officials did nothing; they “described their […] Read more 2020-10-27  •  Robert Spencer Erdogan: Muslims in Europe are treated like Jews before World War II Really? Where has a single state denied Muslims the right to employment, or confiscated their property, or done anything comparable to what National Socialist Germany did to the Jews before World War II? Also, if this were true, why are Muslims trying so hard to get into Europe, rather than streaming out of it? Erdogan’s […] Read more 2020-10-27  •  Robert Spencer Pakistan’s Khan likens pain Muslims feel over insults to Muhammad to pain suffered by Jews during Holocaust A level of moral myopia that is positively obscene. “After Pakistani bots, Pakistani Prime Minister now attacks French President Emmanuel Macron for calling out radical Islam,” OpIndia, October 25, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): …In a video statement at UNGA, he tried to justify what has happened in France and said, “The Prophet […] Read more 2020-10-27  •  Robert Spencer Pakistan’s Khan demands that Facebook ban ‘Islamophobic’ material “Islamophobia” is a propaganda term that is used for two unrelated phenomena: vigilante attacks against innocent Muslims, which are never justified, and honest analysis of the motivating ideology behind jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others. The goal of this conflation is to inhibit such analysis and intimidate people into thinking it’s wrong […] Read more 2020-10-27  •  Robert Spencer Iran Denounces Sudan’s Normalization Agreement As Paying ‘Ransom’ Tehran appears to be almost as unhinged as the Palestinians in its reaction to the normalization agreements that three Arab states – the UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan (once its government approves the deal) – have now made with Israel. Iran’s charge of “ransom” is reported on here: “Iran slams Sudan’s Israel deal, says it paid […] Read more 2020-10-27  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Hamas-linked CAIR demands France be investigated for ‘collective punishment’ of Muslims after jihad beheading Hamas-linked CAIR is getting CAIRless: this press release is riddled with errors. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is USCIRF, not USCIFR. The man who was beheaded in France for showing a Muhammad cartoon was Samuel Paty, not Samuel Petty (they do get it right the second time). Apparently having the establishment media […] Read more 2020-10-27  •  Robert Spencer David Horowitz Freedom Center P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks California 91499-1964 United States