Aug 11, 2014 08:42 pm | Robert Spencer
“We
believe the West Bank, too, should be armed just like Gaza…” This will
come, if Barack Obama and John Kerry get their way. “Iran Calls on West
Bank Palestinians to Take Up Arms Against Israel, Encourages Violence,”
by Joshua Levitt, Algemeiner, August 11, 2014: Brigadier General Massoud
Jazzayeri, Deputy Chief of Staff of the […]
Aug 11, 2014 07:23 pm | Robert Spencer
This
makes sense. After all, the threat of terrorism is a thing of the past.
There are no viable terror threats today. As Barack Obama said in June,
“The world is less violent than it has ever been.” Why would the U.S.
need a counter-terrorism institute in these calm, peaceful times?
“Oklahoma Counter-Terrorism Institute To […]
Aug 11, 2014 06:32 pm | Robert Spencer
Robin
Harris argues here for increased U.S. and U.K. military action,
combined with active aid to trustworthy local factions. The problem with
this is that no local factions favor pluralism and Western-style
republican rule. Massive military intervention would just be a holding
action postponing the fighting of various Sunni and Shi’ite factions, as
it was […]
Aug 11, 2014 03:19 pm | Robert Spencer
As
far as the mainstream media is concerned, this doesn’t matter. The only
thing that matters is that Barack Obama is made to appear as if he is
doing something for the Yazidis and against the Islamic State. That he
actually do something effective is not required. “Iraq crisis: ‘It is
death valley. Up to […]
Aug 11, 2014 03:07 pm | Robert Spencer
Not
to worry: the two boys will “receive the necessary training before
being sent to the battlefield.” And they certainly have their father’s
consent to engage in jihad activity. So what are you concerned about,
you ethnocentric Islamophobe? Affirm multiculturalism! “Saudi father
smuggles sons to Syria, joins ISIS,” Al Arabiya, August 11, 2014: A
Saudi […]
Aug 11, 2014 02:51 pm | Robert Spencer
Do
any mosques or Islamic schools in the United States have programs to
teach converts to Islam why they should reject the Islamic State and
embrace American secularism and pluralism? Why, no, nary a one has such a
program. But authorities are unconcerned. They know it’s a Religion of
Peace, and that only greasy Islamophobes […]
Aug 11, 2014 02:33 pm | Robert Spencer
It
is astonishing that the Trademark Office would reject our trademark
because the concept of resisting Islamization is supposedly demeaning to
Muslims, when millions of Muslims in Egypt last year successfully stood
up against Islamization and threw off the Muslim Brotherhood regime.
The mainstream media regularly referred to their resisting Islamization,
only considering the term […]
Aug 11, 2014 01:35 pm | Robert Spencer
Here
is the full interview. Some have suggested that this is satire, and
that the person being interviewed is not actually Omar al-Shishani. That
may be, but if so, the satirist has a comprehensive knowledge of the
Islamic State’s beliefs, motives and goals — a better knowledge, in
fact, than that of most Western intelligence […]
Aug 11, 2014 12:04 pm | Robert Spencer
Come
for the chicken. Stay for the jihad. The Islamic State recruits in
modern, moderate Indonesia: “ISIS magazine Al Mustaqbal being handed out
at Indonesian mosques along with ‘vouchers for fried chicken,’” by
Freya Noble, Daily Mail Australia, August 10, 2014 (thanks to Jerk
Chicken): Images showing an ISIS magazine being circulated in Indonesia
have […]
Aug 11, 2014 11:30 am | Robert Spencer
Once
again the mainstream media insults a convert to Islam by refusing to
refer to him by his Muslim name — an indignity the media would never
dream of according to Muhammad Ali or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. But when a
Muslim plots evil in the name of Islam, suddenly the media doesn’t quite
notice his Islamic […]
Aug 11, 2014 11:09 am | Robert Spencer
Why
Carlsberg? Probably because it is a Danish firm, and it was in Denmark
that those infamous cartoons of Muhammad were published a few years ago.
To the Islamic State, that’s blasphemy, and blasphemers must be
murdered. Note also that the reach of the Islamic State appears to go
well beyond Iraq and Syria. “Isis […]
Aug 11, 2014 10:15 am | Robert Spencer
Just
days ago, Barack Obama claimed that Mahmoud Abbas was “sincere in his
desire for peace.” Yet Abbas is the head of Fatah. Surely the President
couldn’t be wrong, or ignoring the facts about this, could he? “Fatah
brags it killed 11,000 Israelis,” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media
Watch, August 10, 2014: Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah […]
Aug 11, 2014 09:41 am | Robert Spencer
Crucifixion:
“The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and
strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or
crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or
will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in […]
Aug 11, 2014 09:05 am | Robert Spencer
“Even
the human rights lawyers should be embarrassed, it’s so ridiculous.”
What isn’t ridiculous about the British government these days? Did
someone slip something into the water of the Thames — something that
induces suicidal madness in politicians and public officials? “Walking
free, the terrorist we can’t deport… because he’s kept his NAME secret
for […]
Aug 11, 2014 08:07 am | Robert Spencer
The
good news, class, is that you will be dismissed early today. “Isis
suicide bombing instructor blows up his own class by accident,” by
Christopher Hooton, Belfast Telegraph, August 11, 2014 (thanks to
Twostellas): An Isis commander at a terrorist training camp north of
Baghdad accidentally detonated a belt packed with explosives during a
demonstration […]
Aug 11, 2014 07:54 am | Robert Spencer
One
might have thought that all these moderate Muslim leaders would have
applauded General Leahy’s remarks and assured the Australian government
that they shared Leahy’s determination to defend freedom against these
Muslims who ostensibly misunderstand and misapply their religion.
Instead, they’re complaining about “right-wing extremism” and “bigotry,”
and complaining that resistance to jihad will only […]
Aug 11, 2014 07:18 am | Robert Spencer
“The
position of the American president Obama only to give military
assistance to protect Erbil is disappointing,” said Chaldean Patriarch
Louis Sako. Sako, and the rest of the world, know that the U.S.
airstrikes are only a cosmetic gesture to help Barack Obama save face,
not a genuinely effective action against the Islamic State. “Iraq […]
Aug 10, 2014 11:33 pm | Robert Spencer
Not
to worry. Obama’s airstrikes will solve this problem forthwith.
“Genocide of Christians Happening, Family Shot in the Faces in Refusal
to Convert,” by Athena Yenko, International Business Times, August 10,
2014 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur): A fearful genocide of Christians is
happening in Iraq as one family with eight members was shot in […]
Aug 10, 2014 11:17 pm | Robert Spencer
The
Qur’an says that “there is no compulsion in religion,” (2:256), but
what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. The
institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular
humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple
price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. Remember
Steve Centanni […]
Aug 10, 2014 05:28 pm | Robert Spencer
Teaching
children savagery and hatred. Meanwhile, in the West the intelligentsia
teach children that war can always be prevented by negotiation and
accommodation, that it is always wrong to fight, and so on. How will the
children of the West who have been taught that it is wrong to defend
their homes and families stand […] 
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