Here is a clear explication of an issue that has been enflamed by partisanship and hatred of the man in the White House. The President is pursuing the America-First agenda on which he campaigned. It should be the case that every President has America’s interests first in every situation, but that hasn’t been the case […]
Don’t Romanticize the Kurds
Uninformed savants across the political spectrum have pilloried President Trump for his eminently rational decision to draw down the U.S. troop commitment (initially, only 25, as it turns out!) to the Syrian morass (whose “dynamic” has remained largely unchanged since the late 1940s). Most of the ire directed at Mr. Trump has to do with […]
Islamic State rigs cows with explosives in jihad attack on Iraqi forces
It looks as if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal plan to commit a mass murder of cows in order to save the planet was right all along. How could we ever have doubted her? (Yes, you subliterate SPLC fools, that’s sarcasm. I do not actually favor a mass killing of cows, however many are pressed […]
Iraqi Kurdistan: “Hitler Restaurant” closed by authorities despite happy and enthusiastic clientele
“Even when I started the paperwork seven months ago to register my restaurant’s name, I did not receive any negative reactions from the government or security forces. It was quite normal.” Sure, although that has now changed: the international publicity that the restaurant has received has led Kurdish authorities to close it until the owner […]
Syria: Islamic State jihadis getting art therapy in prison
“If I sentence a man to death, I am spreading hate. We want to give people reasons to trust us. If you take revenge, people will be radicalized. But with reconciliation we are sure we can finish the problem.” Good luck with that, but it’s more likely that many of these jihadis will take their […]
Kurds in Iraq besieged by Arabs yet again
The greatest divide within the world-wide Ummah, the community of Muslim believers, is that between the Arabs, who are 20% of the world’s Muslims, and non-Arab Muslims, who constitute 80% of Muslims world-wide. Arabs have long believed, and acted, as if they are superior to non-Arab Muslims. And many non-Arab Muslims appear to share that […]
Iran and Turkey join forces against the Kurds
Last year, 90,000 mosques prayed Qur’anic “conquest” prayers for victory against the Kurds, calling on Muslims to be “ruthless against unbelievers,” right before Erdogan’s thousands of soldiers were dispatched to “decimate” the Kurds. Now the Turkish Interior Ministry has announced that Turkey and Iran have joined forces “against Kurdish separatist militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ […]
Turkey vows to “fight terrorism until the end”
“Turkish national defense minister on Saturday reiterated that Turkey continues its fight against terrorism.” By this, he does not mean Islamic jihad; he means those groups and people that Turkey deems to be “terrorist,” such as Israel, evangelical Christians, Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units. Unfortunately, many Western counterterror analysts will […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: When Iran Fired Missiles at Kurds in Iraq, It Sent a Message — But to Whom?
The September 8 Iranian missile attack on Kurdish leaders meeting in Koya in northern Iraq was widely described in the press at the time as “a warning to Washington, Riyadh, and Jerusalem.” For it was taken as a demonstration of Iran’s military prowess. The attack included seven Fateh 11-B missiles, and apparently they hit their […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: In Syria, Who’s On First?
President Trump surprised and dismayed many when he announced in late December that he would be pulling out the last remaining American troops — 2,000 Special Forces — from Syria. He said at a the time that ISIS in Syria had been defeated, and that it was time to bring the troops home. Many of […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Erdogan Cracks Down on the Kurds
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is livid at the United States for allowing Kurdish forces to fight against the Islamic State (ISIS). And meanwhile, Turkey is still cracking down on the Kurds: Turkish police detained 90 people on Tuesday over suspected links to outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels, the government said, and the main pro-Kurdish […]
Turkey shells US-backed Kurdish militia positions in Syria
Whether or not it is wise for the US to be backing the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), this shows yet again that the old Cold War alliances have far outlived their usefulness, and the US needs to reconfigure its international relationships on the basis of the new realities of the global jihad. This has […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Even the Kurds Now Impose a Disguised Jizyah
The recent news that the Kurdish government in northern Iraq has imposed a variety of special taxes and fees on those who live in the town of Ankawa should raise an eyebrow or two. Business owners in Ankawa — but nowhere else within the Kurdish-run area — will now have to pay a fee to […]
UK: 2nd man arrested for fighting against ISIS, “significant portion” of returned ISIS jihadis are free
UK: May government admits “significant portion” of returned ISIS jihadis free, “no longer of security concern” — February 7, 2018 UK: Man faces terrorism charge for fighting against the Islamic State — February 8, 2018 And now this. Will the May government adopt Sharia outright, or leave that to its successor? “Profumo nephew Jamie Janson […]
Ex-prisoner of ISIS: “Europe must not be naive. The Islamic State is everywhere”
“He describes how he, after his release in a prisoner’s exchange, fled to Germany and, once in Europe in 2016, looked around in bewilderment: he met former Syrian IS members who still preach violent jihad. ‘A man who proudly told me in a prison that he had given the IS coordinates for a particular attack, […]
Turks moving slowly in Afrin to avoid “causing even one person’s nose to bleed; after all, this is Islam’s order”
“Our Muslim soldiers are undertaking their fight in line with Islam’s principles. That is why they are moving slowly in Afrin. They are moving with the conscience of not causing even one person’s nose to bleed; after all, this is Islam’s order.” In reality, the Turks are moving slowly in Afrin because of mountains and […]
UK: Man faces terrorism charge for fighting against the Islamic State
How low will Theresa May’s government go in its shameless Islamopandering, its endless courting of the Muslim vote? There seems to be no bottom limit. “Briton who fought against ISIS now faces terrorism charge,” Associated Press, February 7, 2018: LONDON — A British man who fought with Kurdish militia against the Islamic State is now […]
Free Syrian Army jihadis screaming “Allahu akbar” mutilate, desecrate body of Kurdish female fighter
“’The footage,’ explains Kurdish outlet Rudaw, ‘captured on a mobile phone, shows the woman’s body spread out on a concrete floor surrounded by gunmen in military fatigues. Her bloodstained clothes have been partially removed exposing her breasts and genitals, parts of which appear to have been cut off.’ The men can be heard shouting ‘allahu […]
Turkish leader declares jihad on Kurds, dispatches soldiers to “decimate” them
Erdogan launched what Islamists are openly calling a jihad against the Kurdish YPG faction. Thousands of Turkish soldiers, along with tanks and artillery, have blasted their way across the Turkish border into Syria. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the model of a clever jihadist leader who employs a combination of stealth and violent means to attain his expansionist dreams […]
Iraq: Christians who just returned home forced to flee again amid skirmishes between Kurds and government
According to Premier, the Kurdish Pershmerga has been heeding Muhammad’s dictum, “War is deceit”: “The Iraqi Christian Relief Council reported on Twitter that: ‘Kurdish Peshmerga have been shooting indiscriminately…to make it appear as though the Iraqi Army is injuring civilians’. They added: ‘Three Christian children were caught in the crossfire and injured while playing soccer. […]