Earlier on Pajamas Media (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I discussed how Ron Paul appears to be ignorant and naïve when it comes to the goals of the jihad: ignorant because his statements are not based on accurate knowledge and naïve because he thinks they are — more to the point, because he takes al-Qaeda’s propaganda at face […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Winning the Battle Against Al-Qaeda, Losing the War Against Jihad
Saturday on Pajamas Media (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I discussed how even if al-Qaeda were obliterated from existence, the terror threat to the West would remain, since al-Qaeda was never the source of terror — see Koran 8:60 for an idea on where terrorizing infidels originates — but simply one of its manifestations: So long as the […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Are We Safer 10 Years Later?
The Center for Security Policy just published “Are We Safer? An Online Symposium on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11.” My response follows: In order to decide whether we are safer today, a decade after the events of 9/11, we must first establish who “we” are. If “we” means the immediate us, you and me, this […]
Jihadists kidnap four European aid workers in Mauritania and Mali
They can do this sort of thing with impunity, because one thing they can be sure of is that the Europeans will never stop giving the aid. “Al-Qaeda ‘took French and Spanish hostages in Africa,’” from the BBC, December 8 (thanks to Twostellas): An offshoot of the al-Qaeda network has reportedly said its members kidnapped […]