Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is never happy unless he is promoting his own neo-Ottomanism, has come up with a new way to maintain Turkey’s hold over Turkish citizens living abroad. He wants to establish a series of Turkish schools in France that will follow the curriculum of schools in Turkey..These schools will be open to […]
Muslim Terrorists Plotted Beach Attack in Israel
To stop an Islamic terror attack, you need some kind of control over the area. Once Israel surrendered control over the terrorist occupied territories, that became very difficult. This is one of those unusual incidents in which the perpetrators were based in Jerusalem. Indictments have been filed against three residents from east Jerusalem who planned […]
Turkey: Muslims chase Santa Claus, he converts to Islam after discovering it’s a religion of peace
This little fantasy scenario is quite revealing of the Islamic supremacist mindset. Santa Claus, who stands here for Christianity and the Christian West, is debauched, celebrating the birth of Jesus by “wearing red clothes and drinking alcohol.” He is also hostile, thinking Turks are “barbaric,” but when he learns that Islam rejects “barbarism and violence,” […]
UK: Three Muslim teens arrested on way to join Islamic State
Not that this has anything to do with Islam. But that leads to the question: if the Islamic State really has nothing to do with Islam, why does it have this unprecedented appeal among young Muslims in the West? The learned analysts don’t even try to offer an explanation for that. “UK arrests 3 teens […]
Islamic State attacks Kobani from Turkey
“It is now clear that Turkey is openly cooperating with Daesh.” Turkey, meanwhile, won’t allow the U.S. to use its territory to fight against the Islamic State. The old Cold War web of alliances is badly outdated. Rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey is no friend of the United States. Turkey wants to take advantage of the chaos […]
Turkey’s science minister: Muslims discovered the earth is round
All this endless chest-thumping about Muslims having discovered this and invented that doesn’t really establish what it is intended to establish: that Islam makes for a great civilization. All it does is beg the question of why, if Muslims accomplished all this, they didn’t do anything with it. Muslims discovered the earth was round, and […]
Pope calls for fighting hunger and poverty as key to stopping jihadists
Alleviating hunger and poverty won’t end jihad terrorism. The Pope here is repeating the oft-refuted notion that poverty causes terrorism. CNS News noted in September 2013 that “according to a Rand Corporation report on counterterrorism, prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2009, ‘Terrorists are not particularly impoverished, uneducated, or afflicted by […]