# Jihad Watch

Jihad Watch is an American far-right anti-Muslim conspiracy blog operated by Robert B. Spencer. A project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Jihad Watch is the most popular blog within the counter-jihad movement.

## Quotes

* Why Jihad Watch? Because non-Muslims in the West, as well as in India, China, Russia, and the world over, are facing a concerted effort by Islamic jihadists, the motives and goals of whom are largely ignored by the Western media, to destroy their societies and impose Islamic law upon them — and to commit violence to that end even while their overall goal remains out of reach. That effort goes under the general rubric of jihad.
** quoted at also quoted in JIHAD: What Everyone Needs to Know Asma Afsaruddin · 2022
* “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 to oppose jihad terror. And it’s working great.
** Robert Spencer,
* Child marriage is sanctioned in Islam.Islamic tradition records that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and the resultant fact that child marriage is accepted in wide swaths of the Islamic world. Child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law.
** Robert Spencer,
* There is, of course, domestic violence in all cultures. So to post this is just “Islamophobic,” right? Wrong: there is domestic violence in all cultures, but only in one does it have divine sanction. Islam doesn’t teach that man may kill his wife, but once you’ve allowed him to beat her, accidents will happen.
** Robert Spencer, quoted in
* No surprise here. Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide.
** Often quoted by Robert Spencer, e.g. Islamic Republic of Pakistan: 70 honor killings in six months in Sindh
* And who was this speaker, anyway? I waited to the end, enduring the nonsense of it all just to find out. It turned out to be William Dalrymple. Ah, of course. William Dalrymple, described here long ago, quite accurately, as an up-market Barbara Cartland, whose tales of trans-racial passion at the Mughal Court, or at this or that princely court in the time of the Mughals, has it all: star-crossed lovers, and of course the Splendor That Was India, or rather the India of the Muslim rulers who lived off of their Hindu subjects, the subjects who were killed by the Muslims in numbers without any historical parallel. Now a love of luxe, and of luxe combined with heaving breasts, is the kind of thing that the Barbara-Cartlands of this world love, including even the plausible sort who put in a bit more history and a little less of the Romance-novelette lord or duke or Arab prince (see “The Sheik”), who picks up the girl in her swoon at the very end (the promise of sex has always been just beyond what Nabokov calls “the skyline of the page”) — that is, William Dalrymple. He’s as vulgar and stupid as they come, behind the plummy voice and the pretense of being a historian.
** Hugh Fitzgerald: A tribute to William Dalrymple 2006.
* For Sen is an example of the Indian who becomes famous in the Great World and who wants to make sure that he can never be accused of what in India is called “communalism,” but which really means all those Hindus who are aware of their being Hindus, and aware too of what Islam did to India’s civilization of Hinduism, a way of life and thought rather than a religion as we understand it in the West.
** Hugh Fitzgerald: First thoughts on the debate, “We Should Not Be Reluctant to Assert the Superiority of Western Values”

## Quotes about Jihad Watch

* Recently, for example, PayPal blocked the Jihad Watch website in response to a spurious claim that Jihad Watch was a hate group.
** What Catholics Need to Know About Islam - William Kilpatrick · 2020
* SPLC and Discover Card presently combine to prohibit contributions to Jihad Watch.
** Economics 101 for Senators and Representatives: President ... Wallace Hoffman · 2022
* A central concern of Jihad Watch is that American laws will be replaced by Sharia law...
** New Media and Society - Page 101 Deana A. Rohlinger · 2019
* Jihad Watch is a well-known and popular website hosted by Robert Spencer that is aimed at alerting people to what he perceives as the danger of Islam to Western societies.
** Wars of Terror - Page 94 Gabriele Marranci · 2020