Jihad Watch

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Jihad Watch
Type of site
Blog
Available inEnglish
OwnerRobert Spencer
Created byRobert Spencer and Hugh Fitzgerald
URLjihadwatch.org
RegistrationNone
Launched23 September 2003
Current statusActive

Jihad Watch is an American

counter-jihad movement.[14]

Organization

The site features commentary by multiple editors, and its most frequent editor is Robert Spencer.[15] It is a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.[14] Dhimmi Watch was a blog on the Jihad Watch site, also maintained by Spencer, focusing on alleged outrages by Muslims.[16]

Funding

The Horowitz Freedom Center has paid Spencer, as Jihad Watch's director, a $132,000 salary in 2010. Jihad Watch has also received funding from donors supporting the Israeli right,[15] and a variety of individuals and foundations, like Bradley Foundation and Joyce Chernick, wife of Aubrey Chernick.[17] Politico said that during 2008–2010, "the lion's share of the $920,000 it [David Horowitz Freedom Center] provided over the past three years to Jihad Watch came from [Joyce] Chernick".[17] In 2015, Jihad Watch received approximately $100,000 in revenue, with three quarters of that revenue coming from donations.[18]

Content and traffic

Articles begin with editorial commentary, then follow usually with a linked excerpt from a news website.

Jihad Watch is one of the world's most popular sites on the subject of terrorism, with more than 6,000 other sites being linked to it.[6] It is the most popular counter-jihad blog.[14]

Reception

Part of a series on
Islamophobia
No mosque
Issues
Status by country
Examples
Attacks on mosques:

Genocide:

Massacres, torture, expulsion:

Other incidents:

Media
Opposition

Jihad Watch has widely been described as an anti-Muslim blog.

Islamophobic website",[19] while other critics such as Dinesh D'Souza,[20] Karen Armstrong and Cathy Young, pointed to what they see as "deliberate mischaracterizations" of Islam and Muslims by Spencer as inherently violent and therefore prone to terrorism.[13][21]

Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani Prime Minister, in her book Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West, wrote that Spencer uses Jihad Watch to spread misinformation and hatred of Islam. She added that he presents a skewed, one-sided, and inflammatory story that only helps to sow the seed of civilizational conflict.[22]

Institute] ... and Jihad Watch."[23]

The website was cited 64 times by Norwegian

far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, who committed the 2011 Norway attacks due to his belief that Muslim immigrants were a threat to Western culture.[24] Breivik later said that he was a neo-Nazi since the early 1990s, and only in later years disguised himself with and exploited counter-jihad writings.[25]

In 2017, Christine Douglass-Williams was terminated as a board member of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation for her writings on the blog.[26]

References

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  • ^ a b Armstrong, Karen (27 April 2007). "Balancing the Prophet". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 12 September 2007. Retrieved 3 February 2008.
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  • ^ Oborne, Peter (7 July 2008). "The shameful Islamophobia at the heart of Britain's press". The Independent. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  • ^ a b Russonello, Giovanni; Vogel, Kenneth P. (5 September 2010) [first published 4 September 2010]. "Latest mosque issue: The money trail". Politico.Com. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  • ^ a b Angwin, Julia; Larson, Jeff; Varner, Madeleine; Kirchner, Lauren (19 August 2017). "Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate". ProPublica. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
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  • ^ "Breivik: - Jeg leste Hitlers Mein Kampf da jeg var 14 år". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). 16 March 2016.
  • ^ "Race relations board member says she's been fired over writings about Islam". CBC News. 21 December 2017.
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