Aug 25, 2014 10:04 pm | Robert Spencer
What?
An Islamic state wouldn’t respect all religions? Is Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono some kind of Islamophobe, willfully misunderstanding the
Religion of Tolerance? “Indonesian president says Islamic State
‘embarrassing’ Muslims,” AFP, August 21, 2014: The president of the
world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, Indonesia, on Thursday called the actions of Islamic State militants “embarrassing” to the […]
Aug 25, 2014 08:00 pm | Robert Spencer
This
shows how low the U.S.’s stock has fallen in the Middle East. The
Egyptian government knows that the Obama Administration strongly favored
the Muslim Brotherhood regime that it replaced and fought against. The
Egyptian government knows that the Obama Administration aided jihadist
elements in Libya. So it isn’t hard to see why they decided […]
Aug 25, 2014 06:00 pm | Robert Spencer
Hussein
bin Mahmoud invokes Qur’an 47:4: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike
the necks…” It would be refreshing if Barack Obama or the Archbishop of
Brisbane or one of the many other non-Muslim authorities who have
insisted that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam would
explain how he is misunderstanding that verse. […]
Aug 25, 2014 05:47 pm | Robert Spencer
One
of my most controversial books (okay, they’re all controversial), Did
Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry Into Islam’s Obscure Origins, has just been
published in paperback by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. This
edition is not only handy, portable, and paper-bound, but it also
contains a brand new Foreword by Ibn Warraq, in which he surveys the […]
Aug 25, 2014 05:04 pm | Robert Spencer
Now
where did they get this idea? Haven’t they been listening to Barack
Obama and David Cameron, the Pope of Rome and the Archbishop of
Brisbane, who tell them that the Islamic State has nothing to do with
Islam, and to all the Muslim groups in the West who have condemned (in
vague, non-specific terms) […]
Aug 25, 2014 01:30 pm | Robert Spencer
Today on MidPoint with Ed Berliner.
Aug 25, 2014 01:19 pm | Robert Spencer
The UN: the world’s foremost purveyor of “Palestinian” jihad propaganda.
Aug 25, 2014 12:40 pm | Robert Spencer
Islamic
jihadists worldwide know that the war against Israel is part of the
global jihad — indeed, the foremost part. The only people who don’t know
this are Western analysts and diplomats. “Black Terror Flag Flies Over
Paris Anti-Israel Rally [VIDEO],” by Jamie Weinstein, Daily Caller,
August 25, 2014: PARIS — At an anti-Israel protest […]
Aug 25, 2014 12:01 pm | Robert Spencer
It’s
perfectly clear to Barack Obama, John Kerry, the Pope, the Archbishop
of Brisbane, Australia, David Cameron, and so many other non-Muslim
authorities that Islamic jihadists are misunderstanding and
misinterpreting the true, peaceful teachings of their religion. Yet
there are so very many misunderstanders; now, why is that? “Terrorism
trial underway for men accused of […]
Aug 25, 2014 11:34 am | Robert Spencer
Muhammad
commanded: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him”
(Bukhari 9.84.57). This is still the position of all the schools of
Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi,
the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated:
“The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet
they […]
Aug 25, 2014 11:12 am | Robert Spencer
“There
is a suspicion among the US intelligence community that Britain has
been and still is a soft touch for jihadists.” No kidding, really?
Things must be really bad in Britain if the politically correct and
willfully ignorant FBI, which is forbidden to examine Islam and jihad in
connection with terrorism, is a step up […]
Aug 25, 2014 10:36 am | Robert Spencer
“Allah
has granted us success in Gwoza because we have risen to do Allah’s
work.” Muslim leaders in the West insist that Shekau, despite his
anxiousness to do Allah’s will, is actually a misunderstander of Islam,
but they never quite get around to explaining exactly how he is
misunderstanding Islam, or what they’re doing to […]
Aug 25, 2014 10:02 am | Robert Spencer
This
article is followed by a condemnation of the Islamic State by a Muslim
group in the UK (not reproduced here), which like other Muslim
condemnations of the Islamic State is non-specific, without any
challenge to the interpretation of Islamic texts and teachings that the
Islamic state uses to recruit people like al-Britani. That is […]
Aug 25, 2014 09:03 am | Robert Spencer
That
this is a news story for the Jerusalem Post at all shows how widespread
the misunderstanding of the current conflict really is. Western
analysts continue to discount religious motivations and goals, when for
someone like Abu Khalid al-Kanadi they are the only spur to get him from
Canada to Syria. He would welcome Israeli […]
Aug 25, 2014 07:42 am | Robert Spencer
This
will be interesting. Will these forces actually do what they have to do
to topple the Islamic State, or will they be hampered by impossible
politically correct rules of engagement that hamstring their ability to
do much of anything beyond act as a shooting gallery for local jihadis,
as in Afghanistan? And will Muslim […] 
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