Sep 05, 2014 11:29 pm | Robert Spencer
If
Sunni states do take up arms against the Islamic State, it will not be
because “that’s not what Islam is about,” but because it is not in the
interests of states like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey to acknowledge a
caliph and give up their sovereignty, and because significant elements
of the populations of […]
Sep 05, 2014 09:28 pm | Robert Spencer
On Wednesday
I wrote a response to a piece in Aleteia, “Does the Quran Command
Beheading?,” by Fr Dwight Longenecker. Now Fr. Longenecker has doubled
down: “Does the Quran Justify Beheadings?,” by Fr Dwight Longenecker,
Aleteia, September 5, 2014. My comments are interspersed below. The
famed expert in Islam, Robert Spencer, has taken me and […]
Sep 05, 2014 07:41 pm | Robert Spencer
I’ve
never been a believer in Ed Husain. He founded the Quilliam Foundation,
the enormously influential “moderate Muslim” group in the U.K. At the
time of Quilliam’s founding, Husain went out of his way to launch a
gratuitous attack on Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ibn Warraq and me. At that time I
had been quite interested […]
Sep 05, 2014 06:46 pm | Robert Spencer
Hamas-linked
CAIR’s Nihad Awad says that we must not call the Islamic State “the
Islamic State.” This is because the Islamic State presents Hamas-linked
CAIR with a massive problem: for years Awad and his sinister henchmen
have been spreading smooth deceptions about Islam in the mainstream
media, claiming that only greasy Islamophobes think that any […]
Sep 05, 2014 05:05 pm | Robert Spencer
The
defeated al-Qaeda just announced the opening of a new branch in India.
“Obama: We will defeat ISIS like we did al-Qaeda,” AFP, September 5,
2014: US President Barack Obama said Friday
he was confident he could gather a broad international coalition to
defeat Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria, following two days of
[…]
Sep 05, 2014 04:22 pm | Robert Spencer
On
the ropes! “Al Qaeda Opens New Branch on Indian Subcontinent,” by Ellen
Barry, New York Times, September 4, 2014 (thanks to Traveller45): NEW
DELHI — Al Qaeda has released a video announcing the establishment of a
new branch on the Indian subcontinent, saying it is meant to revive
jihadist activity in a region that […]
Sep 05, 2014 03:55 pm | Robert Spencer
This
is based on exactly the same principle that fuels the jihad against
Israel: any land once governed by the Muslims belongs by right to the
Muslims forever: “And kill them wherever you find them and drive them
out from wherever they have driven you out…” (Qur’an 2:191) “Jihadists
want Al-Andalus back, says Spanish terrorism […]
Sep 05, 2014 03:24 pm | Robert Spencer
We
have also seen Sharia vigilantes in Britain. In both Britain and
Germany, authorities cracked down on them. But time is on the side of
the Sharia patrols. In a few years, they will be able to start up
operations again, with non-Muslim authorities too weak and compromised
to do anything to stop them. “Police […]
Sep 05, 2014 12:33 pm | Robert Spencer
This
is interesting: in this, the Islamic State and the United States aren’t
all that different. People aren’t allowed to attend counter-jihadist
rallies in the U.S., either. Those who do won’t be publicly executed and
crucified (yet), but they will be excoriated as “bigots” and
“Islamophobes,” and the Center for American Progress and the Southern
[…]
Sep 05, 2014 09:58 am | Robert Spencer
Abousamra
is a Muslim from the Boston area. He is the son of a doctor. He is a
computer expert, a graduate of Northeastern University, where he made
the dean’s list. If only we could alleviate the grinding poverty and
social marginalization of young men like this, they wouldn’t turn to
jihad. “The American computer […]
Ex-Muslim and son of imam: Islamic State following “steps of Islam’s prophet Muhammad to the letter”
Sep 05, 2014 09:42 am | Robert Spencer
It
is unlikely that Obama will heed the information Rachid gives here.
More clear-eyed and honest people should not fail to do so.
Sep 05, 2014 08:54 am | Robert Spencer
And
many of them are going to come home. Cameron wants to revoke their
passports, but he faces a stiff fight in making that happen, and he
seems already to know that he is not going to be able to do that, as he
is also recommending that returning jihadis be forced to attend
“deradicalization […]
Sep 05, 2014 08:41 am | Robert Spencer
Previous
jihad epicenters, in Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, all attracted
foreign jihadis from the world over. However, the number of Muslims from
Western countries going to Syria and Iraq to wage jihad for the Islamic
State seems to be larger than the number that ever went to join
al-Qaeda. That is probably because of the […]
Sep 05, 2014 07:51 am | Robert Spencer
Here’s
the scenario: a welfare state brings in a massive influx of immigrants
who hold to a belief system that tells them they have a responsibility
to wage war against and subjugate those who don’t believe in that belief
system, and that the non-believers have the responsibility to pay them
tribute. Many of these immigrants […] 
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