Plenty of Ramadan left. “‘An attack upon the nests of fornication, vice and disbelief in God’: ISIS’s chilling words after Tunisian massacre which killed 38 as they warn ‘worse is to follow,’” by Flora Drury, Mailonline, June 27, 2015: ISIS extremists have claimed the massacre which left 38 dead was an ‘attack upon the nests […]
Archives for June 2015
Guardian: Motives of Muslim who beheaded man “remain unclear”
“He was overpowered by a firefighter as he was trying to prise open a bottle of acetone in an apparent suicidal bid to destroy the factory. Police then found the severed head of his boss, Cornara, tied to the gates of the factory near two flags on which were written the Muslim profession of faith.” […]
Islamic State marks gay marriage ruling by throwing 4 gay men off a roof
Yet gay activists in the West tend to side with Leftists who consider resistance to jihad terror to be “Islamophobia.” Suicidal short-sightedness. Apparently the Islamic State was not moved to repentance by photos of gay marriage supporters — which will come as a surprise to the editors of Foreign Policy. “Horrific moment ISIS kill four […]
California: Mortars discovered, highway shut down
“In a joint bulletin, the FBI, the National Counterterrorism Center and the Department of Homeland Security did not warn of any known active plot, but did warn that extremists could launch attacks tied to Independence Day or in reaction to perceived defamation of the Prophet Mohammed.” Where did the mortars come from? They might not […]
US officials warn of Islamic State July 4 attacks
“It will be big. We will hit the kuffar (unbelievers) hard InshAllah.” Not that this has anything to do with Islam, as everyone from Obama to Cameron to Tony Abbott tell us. Can the West survive this refusal to face reality? “US Officials Warn of ISIS Attacks on July 4,” by Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu, Jewish Press, […]
“Islamic State in Palestine” tells Christians to leave by Ramadan’s end or be killed
Good thing the Vatican recognized the “State of Palestine.” Pope Francis can call in these good folks and explain to them that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” Abashed, they will lay down their arms. “A Chilling Message Was Sent to Christians from the ‘Islamic […]
Nigeria: Muslim murders five with suicide bombing at leprosy hospital
Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, and the Islamic State recently called on Muslims everywhere to make this Ramadan “calamity for the infidels … Shi’ites and apostate Muslims. Muslims everywhere, we congratulate you over the arrival of the holy month. Be keen to conquer in this holy month and to become exposed […]
France: Jihad murderer took selfie with the severed head of his victim
This kind of thing helps recruit other Muslims who are inclined toward jihad, as it shows them that the followers of the Islamic State takes seriously the Qur’an’s command: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (47:4). “TIMED OUT: French terror suspect took selfie with beheaded victim,” by Philippe Sotto, Associated Press, June 27, […]
Australian PM: Islamic State “nothing to do with God…nothing to do with religion”
“This is the grim reality the world faces now, this is why it is so important that what’s being done by Daesh (IS) has nothing to do with God, it has nothing to do with religion…” In other words, it is “so important,” says Tony Abbott, to maintain politically correct fictions that prevent us from […]
The Triumph of the Islamic State
The murder of 27 tourists in Tunisia, the spectacle of the beheaded French citizen, who worked at an industrial plant near Lyon in France (he was known to his attacker, so a personal motive should not be excluded, but the methods chosen are those of ISIS, and the killer was on the police watchlist for […]
Islamic jihadists murder four with bombs at Baghdad street markets
Ramadan is in full swing not just in France, Kuwait, and Tunisia, but in Baghdad, less than 100 miles from the domains of the Islamic State. “Bomb attacks kill four people at Baghdad street markets,” Egypt Independent, June 27, 2015: Four people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics […]
Tunisia jihad murderer: “There was no sign he was an extremist, he just looked like a normal young man.”
The Islamic State’s manual How to Survive in the West teaches Muslims “how to live a double-life, how to keep your Secret life private, how to survive in a threatening land, how you can Arm and strengthen the Muslims when the time for Jihad comes to your country, and neighborhood….If you are a convert to […]
Offer for Rod Dreher of The American Conservative: A Free One-Way Ticket to the Islamic State
Rod Dreher of The American Conservative writes: “I am more concerned today, in 2015, post-Indiana and post-Brendan Eich, with secularist threats to religious liberty and religious tolerance than I am with Islam in America — and if you’ve been reading me for a while, you know that’s a big shift for me.” Indeed it is. […]
Foreign Policy thinks tweeting photos of gay marriage supporters will defeat the Islamic State
It is much, much more likely that the Islamic State will see the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage as evidence of the U.S.’s decadence and societal decay, and that will only serve to embolden and encourage them. But there is another glaring fallacy in this “analysis”: “That’s the lesson of history,” Rosa Brooks asserts: […]
Australia: Muslim teen in touch with Islamic State allegedly compiled hit list of people he wanted to behead
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” — Qur’an 47:4 One might almost get the impression that all this had something to do with Islam, were it not for all our wise and learned leaders assuring us to the contrary, and feeding us a steady diet of Kardashians so that we stay fat, happy, […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Michigan Professor Juan Cole Thinks the Charleston Race Murders Are My Fault
In PJ Media I take apart the latest farrago from a leader of the academic left. …University of Michigan professor Juan Cole, showing an imaginative reach that would arouse envy in J. K. Rowling, blames Roof’s murders on … Pamela Geller and me. He reveals how uninterested in truth and rational analysis the academic Left […]
France, Kuwait, Tunisia attacks followed IS call to make Ramadan “calamity” for “infidels, Shi’ites & apostate Muslims”
“If the attacks were indeed an answer to ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani’s recent call for savagery,” the unnamed Fox News writer assures us, “it would represent a hideous perversion of Islam’s most holy period, which began June 17 and ends July 17.” Why is Fox editorializing in this manner in the middle of what […]
Tunisia plans to close 80 mosques for inciting violence after hotel jihad attack
Tunisia’s government can recognize that preaching in mosques can incite violence. The government of the United States cannot. To do so would be “Islamophobic.” “Tunisia government says to close 80 mosques for inciting violence, after hotel attack,” Reuters, June 26, 2015: TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia plans within a week to close down 80 mosques that […]
Strategies of Denial Revisited (Part II)
One of the ways, paradoxically, to deny or minimize the threat of Islam is to focus only on the Qur’an, and then on selective quotation from the handful of verses that appear to reassure, not threaten. There is 2.256 (“no compulsion in religion”) and 5.32 (an injunction against murder) without the considerable modifying of that […]
U.S. troops face eating, drinking restrictions during Ramadan
Do U.S. troops fast during Yom Kippur? Lent? No? Why not? “U.S. Troops Face Eating, Drinking Restrictions During Ramadan,” by Jeryl Bier, Weekly Standard, June 26, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller): A top commander in southwest Asia reminded U.S military personnel stationed in Muslim countries in the Middle East of the restrictions placed on them […]