How it happened that a group that calls itself the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad could have misunderstood Islam so spectacularly, he did not explain. Nor, unfortunately, did he say what he planned to do to teach young Muslims why they should reject and avoid this understanding of Islam. […]
Archives for December 2014
Muslima from Australia goes to Islamic State, spouts hate for non-Muslims
How was it possible for this “loving sister and aunt” to be so swiftly “radicalized”? What would make this loving, “normal Turkish Melbourne girl” so suddenly flee to the Islamic State and start spouting hatred for non-Muslims on social media? Authorities seem to have no curiosity whatsoever about exactly how this “radicalization” takes place — […]
Netanyahu: Iran increasing efforts to deepen jihad activities in West Bank
Iran is Shi’ite, but the Iranian mullahs hate Israel and the Jews more than they hate the Sunni jihadists in Judea and Samaria. Also, by aiding Sunni jihad activity, the Iranians continue to try to position themselves as the world leader of Muslims — a position for which they have a good deal of competition. […]
German Finance Minister: “People are right to fear Islamist terrorism. But not Islam”
But “Islamist terrorism” arises from Islam. Or does Schaeuble think it is just as likely to emerge from the Lutheran churches as from the mosques? How does Schaeuble propose to separate the Islam that he considers benign from the Islamist terrorism he regards as malignant? He doesn’t say, and probably doesn’t have any idea how […]
Muslim from Australia: “Martin Place was just the beginning for you dogs”
That is probably true. There will almost certainly be more jihad terror attacks in Australia. The Islamic State has called for them, and nothing much is being done to prevent them — least of all any attempt to compel mosques and Islamic schools in Australia to teach against the Islamic State’s understanding of Islam, even […]
Islamic State blows up church on the day after Christmas
“Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.” — Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February 8, 2013 Yes, clearly that dialogue is working wonders. “ISIS blows up Catholic church in […]
Jihadis kill 14: “We targeted the enemies at a time they were celebrating Christmas”
The Islamic jihadis wanted to maximize the grief and pain of those whom they regarded as “enemies of Allah.” “Islamist gunmen attack African Union base in Somalia,” by Abdi Sheikh and Fiesal Omar, Reuters, December 27, 2014: MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Eight Islamist gunmen infiltrated the main African Union (AU) base in Mogadishu on Thursday and […]
Pakistan: Ahmadi killed after Muslim leader calls them “enemy” on TV
In Pakistan and elsewhere, Sunnis violently persecute Ahmadis as heretics and apostates. Yet in the West, Ahmadi spokesmen such as the viciously arrogant and spectacularly rude Qasim Rashid and the ostentatiously pious and unctuously reptilian Haris Zafar make a tidy living allying with their persecutors and aiding and abetting their sinister agenda by telling non-Muslim […]
Egyptian writer charged for tweet “defaming” Islam
Apparently post-Muslim Brotherhood Egypt has not discarded Sharia blasphemy laws. In any case, we are much freer and more enlightened in the West. If Fatima Naoot had been in the West, she would not face criminal charges for criticizing any aspect of Islam. She would just be excoriated as a “racist” and a “bigot,” and […]
Obama: Afghanistan “not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again”
How can he say this after sending Guantanamo detainees back to Afghanistan, and while the Taliban continue to operate with relative impunity? He can say it because he is Obama: he knows that no matter what he says, the mainstream media will cover for him. “Obama: Afghanistan ‘Not Going to Be a Source of Terrorist […]
Libya: Islamic jihadis murder 13-year-old Christian girl
They had already murdered her parents. Will the Islamophobia never end? “Egyptian Coptic teen seized in Libya found dead,” AFP, December 26, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Benghazi – An Egyptian Coptic Christian teenager abducted in Libya by armed men who killed her parents has been found dead, a hospital source said on […]
New issue of al-Qaeda magazine devoted to “jihad in America”
Trying to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60). “New issue of jihadist magazine produced by al-Qaeda in Yemen suggests attacks on U.S.,” by Karen DeYoung, Washington Post, December 24, 2014 (thanks to Block Ness): A new issue of Inspire, the English-language online magazine produced by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, […]
Australia: Muslims planned to “turn Blue Mountains into killing ground”
Sulayman Khalid said, “In order for me to be connected to the values here of Australia, the Australian government needs to stop picking on the Muslims here” — in other words, he would be loyal to Australia if Australia did nothing to stop jihad terror activity. Now it appears that he wanted the Australian government […]
US gives Pakistan free pass and $1 billion, ignores its ties to jihad terror groups
“A defence authorization bill signed by President Barack Obama last week that provides for $1 billion in aid to Pakistan in 2015 conditions it on Islamabad taking steps to disrupt the Haqqani Network and eliminating safe havens of al-Qaida and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. However, it makes no mention of the Punjab-centric terror groups such as the […]
Islamic State reportedly selling Christian artifacts, turning churches into torture chambers
“The terrorist group has sought to destroy religious groups that don’t embrace its twisted and violent interpretation of Islam.” Reporter Perry Chiaramonte assumes that the Islamic State’s interpretation of Islam is “twisted” because that is the acceptable opinion today. The fact that it has not been established, and flies in the face of the obvious […]
Malian academic: What Islamic jihad groups did in Mali “has nothing to do with Islam”
“What they did has nothing to do with Islam. They cut off people’s hands and feet.” “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides […]
Pakistan: Christians in Peshawar celebrate Christmas behind cement blocks, barbed wire, and 2,000 policemen
All these precautions were necessary because on September 22, 2013, jihad-martyrdom suicide bombers murdered 127 people and injured over 250 at All Saints Church in Peshawar. And one never knows when the adherents of the Religion of Peace may launch yet another murderous attack that Has Nothing To Do With Islam. Note that even these […]
Egyptian security forces foil jihad terrorist attack on Coptic Christmas celebrations
This plot may have been foiled yesterday, but it was unlikely to have been planned for yesterday, as Copts celebrate Christmas on January 7. In any case, it is noteworthy that the jihad plot was organized by “a 50-year-old deputy headmaster of a secondary school in the Minya governorate.” Yet again we see that […]
Islamic State issues rules for Christians living in “state of subjugation”
The ever-clueless Daily Mail is, of course, treating these rules as if they’re sinister creations of the “conservatives” running the Islamic State. In fact, they are part of traditional and mainstream Islamic law. A manual of Islamic law certified by no less an authority than al-Azhar as a reliable guide to orthodox Sunni Islam lays […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Why Robert George Is the Chris Christie of Conservative Intellectuals
Over at PJ Media I discuss the all-too-predictable blind spot of “this country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker”: Princeton Professor Robert P. George is a leading American conservative thinker, with some undeniably outstanding accomplishments. The New York Times has hailed him as “this country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker.” But as is the case with […]