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Islamic State opens 5-star resort in Iraq

May 6, 2015 11:11 am By Robert Spencer

Ninawa HotelHey, this is perfect timing! Now Bill O’Reilly, Laura Ingraham, Alisyn Camerota, Greta van Susteren and all the others who have been denouncing our “provocative” free speech contest in Garland, Texas can travel over to the Islamic State and defuse the volatile situation we have created by assuring the caliph (if he is still alive) and his men that they have nothing but “respect” for Islam. That will bring peace in a jiffy — and now they can do it while staying in five-star comfort!

“5-star resort opens for ISIS supporters in Iraq,” RT, May 6, 2015:

It may look like any other top resort in Iraq, but the Ninawa International Hotel in Mosul has one major difference. It is the first 5-star hotel for Islamic State jihadists. It includes a swimming pool and tennis court… but no bar.

The battlefield is a place of few comforts, so the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) has decided to re-open a luxury hotel in conquered territory to give its jihadists a bit of R&R. The Ninawa International Hotel in Mosul used to be one of the most luxurious in Iraq, catering to foreign guests and local dignitaries. However, its 262 rooms will now be used by extremist terror group.

From a distance, it may look like any run-of-the-mill ritzy establishment, but a closer look reveals the terrorist organization’s black and white flags flying in multiple locations around the complex.

There is even a swimming pool and tennis courts for hotel guests, while there is also a gymnasium for those wanting to keep in shape.

The hotel underwent a facelift ahead of its grand re-opening on May 1. Gone are the building’s decorative pieces of stone work, which have been destroyed by stone masons.

Twitter accounts linked to the IS promoted an event to mark the hotel’s opening night. The messages stated that all Muslims were told they could attend free of charge.

Men, without their rifles, as well as women dressed in line with the IS’s strict rules, attended the gathering.

However, unsurprisingly the hotel’s bar and ballroom have undergone massive changes. Coca Cola has replaced champagne and there’s plenty of water, but no wine. All alcohol is strictly forbidden.

The hotel was reviewed by the travel website TripAdvisor before it was taken over by the militants. It listed the Ninawa International as the top hotel in Mosul….

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  1. Kelfin Planck says

    May 6, 2015 at 11:29 am

    “FIVE” Star Hotel? I suspect the 80 lashes for being caught with alcohol might have an effect on the reviewers’ ratings.

    “Coca Cola has replaced champagne and there’s plenty of water, but no wine. All alcohol is strictly forbidden.”

  2. Papa Whiskey says

    May 6, 2015 at 11:40 am

    For the luxury traveler who wants to get ahead.

    • RG says

      May 6, 2015 at 3:55 pm

      Yeah, but it’ll cost you an arm and a leg – or is that a “hand” and a “foot”?

      P.S. I hope they have parking for the camels, wouldn’t be complete w/o camel piss to drink, now would it?

      • Judi says

        May 7, 2015 at 6:02 am

        LOL!

  3. Caroline says

    May 6, 2015 at 11:53 am

    Tennis court? Isn’t that a bit frivolous? I thought having fun was forbidden, on threat of death.

    • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

      May 6, 2015 at 8:41 pm

      And no un-clitoridectomized women allowed. FUN COULD OTHERWISE BE HAD.

    • Hindu American says

      May 7, 2015 at 6:41 am

      What about elevator music? Any of that? You can’t have a resort with elevators but no elevator music. That would be a bummer.

      • JamesonRocks says

        May 7, 2015 at 8:08 am

        Perhaps they will pipe-in Cat Stevens…

        • RG says

          May 7, 2015 at 10:58 am

          Well yeah, except that they don’t allow music of any kind, do they? Well, maybe Cat Stevens – surely they would allow him. After all he did sing about “little boy blue” (dead jihadi cadaver) and “the man in the moon” (their allah-god idol)!

  4. Diane Harvey says

    May 6, 2015 at 11:56 am

    Hey, don’t forget Bishop McManus who’ll be more than excited to book his Interfaith Dialogue traveling show for a 3-day convention.

    • Belle says

      May 6, 2015 at 3:00 pm

      Perhaps Bishop McManus will inspire Bill O’Reilly and Dennis Miller to bring the “Don’t be a Pinhead Tour” and the “Killing Mohammed” book signing to the Islamic State resort as well.

  5. Westman says

    May 6, 2015 at 12:03 pm

    We provide the finest accommodations any Jihadi could desire. A little sampling of Jannah. Bring your own slave, or, a woman with a Nikah al-Mutah certificate can be provided for the evenings entertainment. For your thirst we have the finest Infidel product, Coca-Cola. We think of it as drinking the enemy. And, for a limited time, one night free for each infidel head.

    • Westman says

      May 6, 2015 at 7:51 pm

      For Laura Ingraham, Alisyn Camerota, and Greta van Susteren: please don’t bring your dog, they are haraam here. They will be killed.

      And here’s an example of what to expect when the Muslim population reaches 10% in America: Muslims Declare Jihad on Dogs in Europe. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2796/muslims-ban-dogs-europe

      You’ve made us think you don’t care what happens to your fellow citizens, but ladies, WHAT ABOUT YOUR LITTLE COMPANIONS? Maybe they matter?

      • Arthur says

        May 7, 2015 at 12:23 am

        Thanks for the link to the outrageous story about Muslim attempts to outlaw dogs.

        What is one to do when the religious freedom of the non-Muslim to own a dog conflicts with the religious freedom of the Muslim to live in a world without dogs??? I guess we have to decide who gets to be free-est, the Muslim or the non-Muslim. Funny this is not a problem with any other religion….

    • Livid Pork Lover says

      May 7, 2015 at 10:43 am

      Yes they have your choice of ice cold coca-cola and warm camel piss on tap at the newly renovated bar.

  6. Jack Diamond says

    May 6, 2015 at 12:16 pm

    A 5 star hotel is all very fine but most jihadis I know prefer the local
    Behead and Breakfast.

    • G179 says

      May 6, 2015 at 12:50 pm

      LOL!

    • Firebug says

      May 6, 2015 at 1:08 pm

      Class. 10/10 🙂

    • RG says

      May 6, 2015 at 3:49 pm

      Actually I think they call it the “Behead and Break-neck”.

  7. BuckDePublick says

    May 6, 2015 at 12:35 pm

    “72 virgins in every room and hot & cold running camels are just some of the pleasures that await the faithful servant of Mohammed when he returns from a hard day of slaughtering infidels. And don’t forget the complimentary clitoral circumcisions for your daughters!”

    • Peggy says

      May 6, 2015 at 7:46 pm

      Do the female camels have to be virgins as well?

  8. jimbosdca says

    May 6, 2015 at 12:46 pm

    Progressives get a 50% discount and if they have an Islamic Automobile Club or Automobile Club of the Islamic State card that will be an additional 10%. This should offset the jizya tax.

  9. Lookmann says

    May 6, 2015 at 1:10 pm

    No booze, dancing, smoking, music . What kind of ‘Star’ hotel is this? But ‘porn’ may be there , After all from the late Khomeini to local jihadis , they are fanatical porn video addicts,

    There is no fun in Islam ( except porn)

    • Sarah says

      May 6, 2015 at 1:52 pm

      Yes there is porn but since they are Muslims, no Jizzya.

    • katnis says

      May 7, 2015 at 2:48 am

      Let’s think about this…

      – Pool (but not for the ladies)
      – Gym (but not for the ladies. Ladies get their own gym)
      – Tennis (see above)
      – No bar (but alcohol will exist – “we” simply just claim to have no alcohol)

      Look at the photo. Read the text. Help me understand. If I come to this *luxury* resort, I am not free to do as I please. Why is this luxurious?

  10. PRCS says

    May 6, 2015 at 2:02 pm

    Greta accused those who set the contest up of LURING people into a dangerous situation (or some such).

    By that ridiculous logic, there should be no future Super Bowls lest some whackjob tries to detonate a bomg in the parking lot.

    BHO should go into hiding–for the same reason.

    Bye bye, Boston Marathon–lest the crowd be ‘lured’ into a repeat bombing.

    Ditto any public event–anywhere in the country–for which police and security personnel are routinely hired for any reason at all.

    Police services were provided at Garland to protect attendees from the possibility that religious fanatics might do what they did.

    No one was ‘lured’ into that situation, Greta.

  11. Angemon says

    May 6, 2015 at 2:06 pm

    It may look like any other top resort in Iraq, but the Ninawa International Hotel in Mosul has one major difference. It is the first 5-star hotel for Islamic State jihadists. It includes a swimming pool and tennis court… but no bar.

    Is there a stable for the goats or do they just share a room with their husbands?

    • RG says

      May 6, 2015 at 3:45 pm

      That was ba-ha-ha-ha-hd!

  12. Beagle says

    May 6, 2015 at 2:38 pm

    People like Greta, O’Reilly, and Ingraham are going to have to choose one, and only one:

    1) Islam is basically peaceful. There is no particular danger from the ordinary peaceful Muslims who dominate the religuon.

    2) Islam is so filled with those simmering with anger and waiting to explode in an orgy of extreme violence that it is totally foreseeable that a cartoon contest in Garland, Texas will draw Muslim assassins wanting to commit mass murder.

    It can’t be both. Now pick one.

    • gravenimage says

      May 6, 2015 at 5:47 pm

      Very important point, Beagle.

  13. Don McKellar says

    May 6, 2015 at 2:45 pm

    Somebody blogger with a profile really ought to book them some rooms and make a public joke out of them.

    • Whiskey and Pork Rinds says

      May 6, 2015 at 4:13 pm

      Hotel Islamic State. You can check in but you can’t check out.

    • PRCS says

      May 6, 2015 at 4:51 pm

      Write it up on YELP.

  14. john spielman says

    May 6, 2015 at 2:50 pm

    I sure have lost my respect for many of Fox new commentators esp O’ Reilly, Greta v, Laura I etc. When faced with this massive demonic antichrist murderous criminal group called ISLAM they turn tail, piss themselves and run away!

  15. vlparker says

    May 6, 2015 at 2:50 pm

    Hey, this is perfect timing! Now Bill O’Reilly, Laura Ingraham, Alisyn Camerota, Greta van Susteren and all the others who have been denouncing our “provocative” free speech contest in Garland, Texas can travel over to the Islamic State and defuse the volatile situation we have created by assuring the caliph (if he is still alive) and his men that they have nothing but “respect” for Islam.

    You stole my thunder. When I saw the headline I was going to suggest O’Reilly and Trump take a vacation there. Hell, it wouldn’t surprise me if Trump had it built. Trump Towers, IS. How quaint.

  16. JeffS says

    May 6, 2015 at 3:21 pm

    Well I WAS planning to go to Maine for my vacation this summer, but now…

  17. Whiskey and Pork Rinds says

    May 6, 2015 at 4:16 pm

    I know they don’t have a bar but do they at least have a comedy club?

  18. RG says

    May 6, 2015 at 4:17 pm

    “a luxury hotel in conquered territory” – Probably built by the blood money of Saddam Hussein. Yeah, well, we all know that nobody in the Middle East nowadays would have the time to build this thing – what, with all they have to do killing Christians and their fellow muzzies who have differing opinions of islam! Can’t wait to see what this thing looks like 5 years from now, with slime and piss in the pool and dead bodies (of the infidels who tried to assimilate) locked away in the freezers! WHAT A JOKE! Hahahahaha!

  19. Bartender says

    May 6, 2015 at 4:22 pm

    I guess I can’t get a job there.

    • RG says

      May 7, 2015 at 11:04 am

      @Bartender. Well yeah… maybe, but only if you know how to mix drinks made with camel piss and dead infidel blood! P.S. You might have to behead the infidel first!

      • RG says

        May 7, 2015 at 11:16 am

        P.S. Sometimes they do make exceptions to the rule, but only if you promise to blow yourself up! OH, BTW, you probably should keep a ready supply of gasoline on hand, just in case you need to make a Molotov COCKTAIL!

      • RG says

        May 7, 2015 at 11:23 am

        Talkin’ ’bout a real BLOODY MARY!

  20. gravenimage says

    May 6, 2015 at 6:10 pm

    Islamic State opens 5-star resort in Iraq
    ……………………………..

    What would that even entail? Can you get sex slaves and “pearly boys” sent up to your room, or maybe some captives to behead if you’re feeling stressed?

    Trip Advisor has taken down their listings for the Ninevah International Hotel, but South Travels is still up. They have a banner reading “Super Discounted Whole Sale Rates Available!!!”, which is grimly hilarious. They note that all the rooms come with mini-bars.

    http://www.southtravels.com/middleeast/iraq/ninevehinternationalhotel/index.html

    The hotel is still listed with Travel Weekly, as well.

    All I can say is always call ahead, because information on line may not be up-to-date—to put it mildly…

  21. JamesonRocks says

    May 6, 2015 at 7:10 pm

    Five stars? Simply not possible… One star would be too much for this IS Sh*t-Hole. Send in the drones!

  22. abad says

    May 6, 2015 at 7:29 pm

    Ballroom?

    Knowing that dancing and music is prohibited in Islam what are they going to use it for? Goat humping sessions?

    • RG says

      May 7, 2015 at 11:19 am

      Hey, now there’s a thought!

  23. Porky The Crusader says

    May 6, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    There is any party of beheadings in the conference hall?

  24. mr clem snide says

    May 7, 2015 at 4:19 am

    and goats, lot’s of goats

  25. Plutachus7 says

    May 7, 2015 at 11:51 am

    BEWARE OF ISIS’ FIVE STAR HOTEL!

    It’s modeled on the Black Flag Roach Motel: you check in but never check out.

    Click http://www.apollospeaks.com for my inspirational piece: Pam Geller’s Free Speech Event and the Hand of God’s Providence.

  26. Prinz Eugen says

    May 7, 2015 at 3:58 pm

    Just as Arnett, Shaw and the CNN Saddam PR term stayed at the hotel in Bagdadh, now Leprechaun, McCallum, Ingrapham, Tingles, the Donald and other advocates for sharia here can check into this new building.. They will feel right at home there. Just do not bring crosses, dogs, Bibles, or anyh anti-islamic thoughts etc.

    Thought Bush 41 should have hit that Bagdadh hoptel when the bombing began — why allow the enemies PR staff to continue subversion?

    Now Sultan Barry has no excuse there is nothing to bomb in Isis! When will be start the “degrading and defeating” of Isis, his beloved allies?

  27. Elaine says

    May 7, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    You and I think alike. When I read about this luxury hotel opening (Sharia compliant), I thought about all the liberal, left, progressive, anti-American, pro-Sharia, pro-Islam members of our government and media who could certainly use a nice, comfy, vacation where they could get away from us Islamophobes, Zionists, and pro 1st Amendment/Constitution types here in America.

    No liquor, no smoking, bikinis ??, prayer 5 times a day, and just all around surveillance to make sure no one is offending allah. What more could Bill, Laura, Alisyn, or Greta dream about?

  28. Mike Holt, CEO RestoreAustralia says

    May 7, 2015 at 6:47 pm

    So, apparently the irony of drinking Coca Cola, a drink manufactured by their arch enemy, is ok to drink!

    You couldn’t make this stuff up, could you?

    Why aren’t they drinking camel piss? That’s all they deserve.

    • Jack Diamond says

      May 7, 2015 at 7:36 pm

      “The Americans lead lavish lives and they are afraid of death. We are not afraid of death. The Americans love Pepsi Cola, we love death.”–Maulana Inyadullah

      Coke, though, is apparently halal. I can see the next commercial: “I’d like to teach the world to fear with perfect harmony…”

  29. laalacey says

    May 8, 2015 at 2:40 am

    come on people ,give them a break, they are trying to be normal ,however impossible ,top floor ,gay bashers ,doe,s any one know when they arte going to be on booking.com

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