Jul 05, 2014 02:46 pm | Robert Spencer
If
this turns out to be true, it will be a severe setback for the nascent
caliphate — but with the Islamic State’s hand against everyone and
everyone’s hand against it, surely not an unexpected one. Succession in
the historical caliphates was often a haphazard and violent affair, and
almost certainly will be in this […]
Jul 05, 2014 01:34 pm | Robert Spencer
His
call has thus far met largely with scoffing outside of his own domains,
and perhaps quietly inside them as well. It will only gain traction if
he is able to make his state a viable one — a possibility that analysts
and Muslim leaders are dismissing today, saying that a state born in
terrorism […]
Jul 05, 2014 08:43 am | Robert Spencer
The
photographs of the destruction “were part of an online statement titled
‘Demolishing shrines and idols in the state of Nineveh.’” Ordinarily
under Islamic law churches and other non-Muslim houses of worship of the
“People of the Book” would be allowed to exist as long as the
non-Muslims paid jizya to the Islamic state. Shi’ite […]
Jul 05, 2014 05:58 am | Robert Spencer
The
existence of jinns is taken for granted in many Qur’an passages, and
for numerous Muslims that is enough to establish that they exist. In the
Qur’an a group of jinns say upon hearing the Qur’an recited: “And among
us are Muslims, and among us are the unjust” (72:14). It is no
surprise, from the […]
Jul 05, 2014 05:45 am | Robert Spencer
video
platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player This shouldn’t come
as a surprise to anyone. Yasin Bhatkal thinks that he was performing an
act of righteousness in the Mumbai jihad murders. He thinks that what
he did was in accord with the commands of his god, and pleasing to his
god. Non-Muslim analysts do not like to […]
Jul 05, 2014 05:30 am | Robert Spencer
I was on Sun TV’s The Source with guest host Anthony Furey, discussing the Islamic State. Video thanks to AlohaSnackbar01.
Jul 05, 2014 05:15 am | Robert Spencer
As
noted in a previous report, “A sovereign sukuk is the centrepiece of
Prime Minister David Cameron’s bid to position London as a leading hub
for Islamic finance, as competition heats up with financial centres in
the Middle East and Asia.” This is what is behind the Cameron
government’s utterly supine response to Islamic supremacist […]
Jul 05, 2014 05:05 am | Robert Spencer
The
thugs at the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
suffer another setback. They will, however, never give up in their quest
to destroy every American who stands between them and their goals. They
relentlessly smear every foe of jihad terror and unapologetically
attempt to intimidate Americans into thinking that there is something
wrong with […]
Jul 05, 2014 04:52 am | Robert Spencer
In
my latest at PJ Media I discuss what is at stake in the global jihadist
challenge to freedom: Another Independence Day is upon us, and it
always bears repeating that the struggle for freedom has not changed,
and will not change. It is the eternal struggle over whether human
beings will live free, or […]
Jul 05, 2014 04:37 am | Robert Spencer
The
most ominous aspect of the Benghazi jihad attack for the long term
health of the United States as a free society was the Obama
Administration’s desire to blame it all on our freedom of speech.
Obama’s declaration that “the future must not belong to those who
slander the prophet of Islam” is essentially a […]
Jul 05, 2014 04:26 am | Robert Spencer
Alex
Pierson filled in for Michael Coren on this segment of my regular
weekly appearance on his Sun TV show. We discussed Calgary jihadi Farah
Mohamed Shirdon and the jihad scene in that city; Brampton jihadi
Mohamed Hassan Hersi, whose lawyer dubbed him a “non-violent terrorist”;
and the Islamic State in Iraq. Video thanks to […]
Jul 05, 2014 03:39 am | Robert Spencer
This
may be an indication that the Islamic State is unable to take Baghdad
at this point; if it could, why bother with these harassing attacks? On
the other hand, this attack could have been mounted by a freelance
jihadist whose quest for the virgins was unrelated to the Islamic
State’s aspirations. “Suicide bomber kills […]
Jul 05, 2014 03:32 am | Raymond Ibrahim
I recently appeared on Sun News’ “Byline with Brian Lilley” discussing my recent article, “Islam’s ‘Protestant Reformation.’” 
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