“Trump’s executive order plays right into the ISIS narrative. It says that there’s a clash of civilizations. It says that all of Islam is our enemy. ISIS, which has perhaps, that has a few hundred thousand followers dreams of convincing all of Islam — dreams of convincing 1.5 billion Muslims that they are at war […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Flying Pig Alert: A DEMOCRATIC Congressman (From CA!) Admits ISIS is Islamic
Over at PJ Media, I discuss some recent strange remarks from Rep. Brad Sherman: It’s absolutely unprecedented: Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) has become the first notable member of the Democratic Party to depart from the Obama administration’s official line and admit the obvious. Sherman has admitted that the Islamic State — ISIS, or ISIL, as […]
Robert Spencer Moment: Could a Ham Sandwich Stop ISIS?
[Subscribe to The Glazov Gang’s YouTube Channel.] This special edition of The Glazov Gang presents the Robert Spencer Moment with Robert Spencer, the Director of JihadWatch.org and the author of the new book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS. Robert discusses Could a Ham Sandwich Stop ISIS?, focusing on Congressman Brad Sherman daring to acknowledge […]
Congressman: photo of Islamic State caliph al-Baghdadi “eating a ham sandwich” would “undermine ISIS”
“We have a State Department with people who think that you can show the evil of al-Baghdadi if you can show him personally executing a defenseless Yazidi. We need people who understand that if you can just get a picture of him eating a ham sandwich, that would undermine ISIS and its recruiting ability.” As […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: 5 Recent Inspirational Uses of the Qur’an
In PJ Media I explore five recent examples of the inspirational power of the Islamic holy book. Last Tuesday, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) declared that the State Department “ought to hire one or two experts in Islamic jurisprudence,” so as to refute the ideology of the Islamic State. “One must be able to turn to […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Rep. Sherman’s big idea
In FrontPage I discuss Representative Brad Sherman’s great idea: we should combat the Islamic State ideology. Indeed so, but he demonstrates that he holds a key (and common) false assumption. Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) had a great idea Tuesday: the U.S. needs to combat the Islamic State not just militarily, but ideologically. Speaking at a congressional hearing, he […]
Congressman: State Dept should hire Muslim scholars to combat Islamic State ideology
“Sherman stressed the need to find Islamic–rather than secular or humanitarian–justifications against the brutality of the Islamic State to appeal to Muslims worldwide.” It is certainly true that only showing that the Islamic State is wrong on Islamic grounds will keep some Muslims from supporting it. Sherman is, of course, assuming that Islam is a […]