The half-measures that Obama is pursuing against the Islamic State will never destroy it. The lives being lost there are being lost in pursuit of the cosmetic appearance of doing something, not in pursuit of genuinely damaging the Islamic State. “American soldier killed in ISIS rocket attack in northern Iraq, official says,” by Lucas Tomlinson, […]
Islamic State’s female police force whips, bites women who get out of line
The sex slavery has Qur’anic justification (see “the captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50), as does the easy divorce — however, if it is accurate that women are “‘divorced’ by an Islamic cleric and married to another fighter for a week,” this would seem to violate the Qur’an’s prescribed waiting period after […]