Oct 27, 2014 09:07 pm | Robert Spencer
In
October 2011, the Obama Administration banned all mention of Islam and
jihad in connection with terrorism from counterterror training, for the
FBI as well as other agencies. Three years later, the former Director of
the National Counterterrorism Center laments that we don’t have enough
FBI agents who understand Islam. But that is what the […]
Oct 27, 2014 08:55 pm | Robert Spencer
If
the bombing in Jurf al-Sakhar was indeed the work of the Islamic State,
it is a tacit admission of weakness: they were not able to hold the
town, so instead content themselves with striking “terror into the
hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60). “Car bombings in Iraq
kill at least 38 people,” […]
Oct 27, 2014 06:01 pm | Robert Spencer
In
any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized
man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad. “Jerusalem Terrorist’s Mother:
‘Praise Allah He’s a Martyr,'” by Shimon Cohen and Ari Yashar, Arutz
Sheva, October 27, 2014: The mother of Abdelrahman Shaludi, the Hamas
terrorist who last Wednesday murdered three-month-old Chaya Zisel Braun
hy”d and […]
Oct 27, 2014 05:19 pm | Robert Spencer
Yet
another convert to Islam misunderstands his new religion and gets the
crazy idea that it has something to do with violence against
unbelievers. Yet another convert to Islam gets the strange notion that
he has ceased to be a citizen of his nation, but has instead become its
enemy. If only Barack Obama or […]
Oct 27, 2014 05:09 pm | Robert Spencer
Presumably
it will not bear his name because if it did, it would, in the words of
MP Nick Raynsford, attract “undesirable interest from extremists.” There
is no telling which “extremists” Raynsford had in mind. Did he mean
Islamic jihadists and supremacists who might see a memorial to a victim
of jihad violence as an […]
Oct 27, 2014 03:21 pm | Robert Spencer
Not
that the murder he committed had anything to do with Islam, of course.
“Michael Zehaf-Bibeau threatened to act ‘in the name of Allah in
response to Canadian foreign policy': source,” Canadian Press, October
27, 2014: The country’s top Mountie says it’s his hope to “someday”
release to the public a video left behind by […]
Oct 27, 2014 02:52 pm | Robert Spencer
Curses,
the plot is exposed! This kind of paranoia only fosters the us vs. them
mentality that ultimately feeds into the jihad imperative. Conspiracy
Paranoia Update from modern, moderate Malaysia: “Halloween a ploy to
make Muslims godless, says Isma,” by Syed Jaymal Zahiid, Malay Mail
Online, October 25, 2014: BANGI, Oct 25 — Halloween celebrations […]
Oct 27, 2014 12:29 pm | Robert Spencer
“Free
Speech, Not Hate Speech”: this is the mechanism that today’s Leftist
and Islamic supremacist authoritarians are using to shut down any free
and open discussion of how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings
of Islam to justify violence and oppression. This slogan was thrown at
me last May when I spoke at Cal […]
Oct 27, 2014 11:53 am | Robert Spencer
This
is akin to the common and oft-repeated claim that “Muslims are the new
Jews,” i.e., opposition to jihad terror is exactly equivalent to
genocidal anti-Semitism. It is a peculiar malady that we see ever more
frequently on the Left: no matter how many jihad terror attacks there
are, no matter how many Islamic supremacist […]
Oct 27, 2014 11:36 am | Robert Spencer
A
few weeks ago stories about how the Kurds were sending women to fight
the Islamic State, because the Islamic State jihadis were afraid that
they would not be able to enter Paradise if they were killed by a woman,
circulated widely. They were nonsense. This story reflects the grim
reality: the Islamic State jihadis […]
Oct 27, 2014 10:16 am | Robert Spencer
“A
security guard accused him of racism and called the police, saying he
was upset by the remark.” Why is a shrinking violet like that working as
a security guard? Apparently a well-crafted quip could reduce him to a
blubbering pile of goo. But in any case, this ridiculous incident shows
how far Britain is […]
Oct 27, 2014 09:06 am | Robert Spencer
“If
Muslims do not critique their own atrocities, then people on the
outside will and their message will not be listened to simply because of
who they are.” “An open letter to Ben Affleck,” by Eiynah, Pakistan
Today, October 25, 2014 (thanks to Anne Crockett): Your heart was in the
right place, but… Dear Ben, […]
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