Shinzo Abe, the just-murdered former Prime Minister of Japan, has been recognized by Benjamin Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett, Benny Gantz, and many other Israelis and Jewish leaders around the world as a friend both of Israel and of the Jewish people. Prime Minister Yair Lapid said in a statement that “Abe was one of the most […]
Japanese PM “infuriated” by Islamic State’s murder of Japanese hostage
Well, he has one up on Obama, who has never been “infuriated” by jihad murders. But in response, Abe vowed to “persist with [Japan’s] non-military support for fighting terrorism.” I am sure the caliph is quaking in fear over that. This is just the sort of pusillanimous response that the Islamic State is counting on […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Islamic State Makes New Demand on Japan
In FrontPage I explain why it is still never wise to negotiate with terrorists. Having murdered one of its Japanese hostages, Haruna Yukawa, the Islamic State issued an audio recording purportedly of the other, Kenji Goto, pleading for his life and making a new demand. Yukawa had been “slaughtered,” said the man claiming to be Goto. […]
Islamic State demands release of jihad murderer to spare Japanese hostage
“The voice of a person claiming to be Goto speaks over the image, saying in English that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to blame for Yukawa’s death.” Of course. Islamic jihadists don’t believe that they are ever to blame for anything. Everything they do is the fault of the Infidels. And all too many […]
Japanese PM: “Extremism and Islam are completely different things”
The imam Not-Quite-Honest Abe joins his fellow imams Barack Obama, John Kerry, Joe Biden, David Cameron, Theresa May and others in explaining that what the Islamic State is doing has nothing to do with Islam. The Islamic State jihadis would beg to differ, of course, and have convinced unprecedented numbers of young Muslims in the […]
Islamic State threatens to kill 2 Japanese hostages unless Tokyo pays $200 million
This is precisely in accord with Islamic law. “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the […]