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Daily Digest If you would like to forward this email to a friend, please use this link  Revisionist History: Columbus Discovered America Because He Hated Muslims, LA Times Claims My latest in PJ Media: Christopher Columbus was the “progenitor of a continental genocide,” claims Alan Mikhail in the Los Angeles Times Monday, and Mikhail is not part of some affirmative action plan at the Times to give a voice to those who propagate insanely ahistorical anti-American garbage. Mikhail is, in fact, the chair of the Department of History […] Read more 2021-10-11  •  Robert Spencer France: Muslim pupil knocks his female teacher to the ground: ‘The Qur’an, make way, madam’ Celebrate diversity! What will France be like in five years? Ten? Apparently this young thug believed that by the Qur’an, he had the authority to order his infidel female teacher around. 🔴 "Wallah écarte toi de ma rue. Eh le Coran poussez-vous Madame" : Yassine menace et claque violemment la porte sur sa professeur qui […] Read more 2021-10-11  •  Robert Spencer Canada: Muslim admits to making up story about being Islamic State executioner that fooled the New York Times This incident shows how reliable the New York Times really is: not at all. Meanwhile, Chaudhry will no doubt go on to a long and happy life in Canada, with this incident forgotten. It isn’t as if he had pretended to be something really dangerous, such as a “right-wing extremist”; if he had, he would […] Read more 2021-10-11  •  Robert Spencer CounterPunch: ‘Modern jihad’ of al-Qaeda and ISIS not in Qur’an, is ‘manifestation of age of neoliberal capitalism’ CounterPunch is a gang of hard-Left fantasists, but since their ideological kin run the world today, it’s worthwhile to look in on their fever dreams from time to time. The article below, which is a book review of a book that is clearly missable, contends that “modern jihad is exactly that—modern. It is not a […] Read more 2021-10-11  •  Robert Spencer Since 2018, Islamic groups have assassinated or abducted at least 300 leaders in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso Showing up the weakness and/or complicity of the governments involved. “Extremists target African village leaders in wave of assassinations,” by Edward McAllister and Lena Masri, Reuters, October 8, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): …The ambushes were part of rapidly growing violence by groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State in the Sahel, […] Read more 2021-10-11  •  Robert Spencer Afghanistan: Islamic State claims responsibility for mosque bombing that targeted Shi’ites, says perp was Uyghur This is noteworthy, as the Taliban has said that China is friend of Afghanistan, and promised not to allow Uyghur jihadis to enter the country. An update on this story. “Islamic State group claims Afghanistan mosque bombing, says suicide bomber targeted Shiites,” by Joydeep Bose, Hindustan Times, October 9, 2021: The Islamic State of Khorasan […] Read more 2021-10-11  •  Robert Spencer Islamic Republic of Iran TV: Women can’t be shown eating pizza This kind of thing is based on the principle of ihtiyat, precaution: avoiding things that are technically not violations of Sharia provisions so that one doesn’t even come close to violating actual Sharia provisions. “No Pizza for Women. Men Can’t Serve Women Tea. Iran’s TV Censorship Gets Weirder,” by Amir Hossein Miresmaeili, Iran Wire, September […] Read more 2021-10-11  •  Robert Spencer Over 50% of those wanted by the Ottawa police have Muslim names The full wanted list is here. 6.7% of the population of Ottawa is Muslim, so Muslims are vastly overrepresented on the Wanted list. What could account for this? Justin Trudeau and other Canadian authorities would like say that it’s because of “Islamophobia”: Ottawa police disproportionately target Muslims out of “racism” and “Islamophobia.” That is remotely […] Read more 2021-10-11  •  Robert Spencer The Pandora Papers, King Abdullah, and Crooks On the Other Side of the Jordan The Pandora Papers is the name given to a very detailed report, the result of a multiyear investigation by 600 journalists from 117 countries, about how many of the world’s very rich — politicians, celebrities, billionaires, drug dealers — manage to hide, for various reasons including tax avoidance, a total of $32 trillion. Among them […] Read more 2021-10-11  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Qatar: Rape victims accused of sex outside marriage, face up to a year in prison and 100 lashes Numerous rape victims are in prison in Pakistan as well. From the perspective of Islamic law, if they tempted men to rape them, they are at fault, and must be punished. The rape must also have been public, since four male Muslim witnesses are required to have witnessed the act in order to establish it […] Read more 2021-10-11  •  Robert Spencer Biden’s handlers lift sanctions on two Iranian ‘key producers of military-grade goods for Iran’s missile programs’ But it wasn’t a political decision, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the nuclear talks! Was someone paid off to do this? We’ll never know, because those who have the responsibility to investigate such questions are just as corrupt, if not more so, as those they would be investigating. And anyway, what could possibly […] Read more 2021-10-11  •  Robert Spencer David Horowitz Freedom Center P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks California 91499-1964 United States