Sep 24, 2014 11:57 pm | Robert Spencer
Denial, willful ignorance, wishful thinking: the hallmarks of our age. My latest in FrontPage: Boston’s WCVB.com reported Monday
that “the federal government is targeting Boston and two other American
cities to shut down what they are calling the U.S.-Jihad pipeline to
ISIS in an attempt to stop Americans from joining the terrorist
organization.” Boston apparently […]
Sep 24, 2014 11:18 pm | Robert Spencer
Herve
Gourdel was beheading just after the Islamic State called for attacks
“especially” against the “spiteful and filthy French.” The Soldiers of
the Caliphate in Nigeria unaccountably misunderstand Islam in the same
way as the Islamic State does, and sympathize with it. “Beheading of
Frenchman in Algeria won’t deter France, Hollande says,” by Kim
Willsher, […]
Sep 24, 2014 10:56 pm | Robert Spencer
The
airstrikes are meant to save Obama’s poll ratings, and the Democrats’
prospects in November. They are not meant to do any serious damage to
the Islamic State, and they are not doing any. “Islamist fighters
advance in Syria despite U.S. strikes,” by Kinda Makieh and Jonny Hogg,
Reuters, September 24, 2014: (Reuters) – U.S. […]
Sep 24, 2014 06:02 pm | Robert Spencer
The
political and media elites are so avid to find “moderates,” and they
know so little about Islamic doctrine, that this kind of thing happens
rather frequently. “Obama Praises Muslim Cleric Who Backed Fatwa on
Killing of U.S. Soldiers,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon,
September 24, 2014: President Barack Obama favorably quoted and praised
[…]
Sep 24, 2014 05:18 pm | Robert Spencer
“Second,
it is time for the world – especially Muslim communities – to
explicitly, forcefully, and consistently reject the ideology of al Qaeda
and ISIL.” As if they knew he would say this today (did they?), an
international group of Muslim scholars today issued a purported
refutation of the Islamic State’s understanding of Islam. Unfortunately,
[…]
Sep 24, 2014 04:57 pm | Robert Spencer
“It
has few other options.” How about this: don’t arm or aid any of
America’s enemies. Speak realistically about the jihad threat, and seek
to prevent jihad terror attacks at home. Or else go in with ground
troops that aren’t crippled by politically correct Rules of Engagement,
and crush the Islamic State, and then leave, […]
Sep 24, 2014 04:11 pm | Robert Spencer
The
Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Fiqh
Council of North America held a press conference in Washington today at
which they declared that they had refuted the religious ideology of the
Islamic State. They issued this lengthy “Open Letter” (not,
interestingly enough, a fatwa) addressed to the Islamic State’s caliph
Ibrahim, Abu […]
Sep 24, 2014 08:25 am | Robert Spencer
This
week’s Glazov Gang was guest-hosted by the nonpareil Ann Marie Murrell,
Editor-in Chief of PolitiChicks.com and the co-author of the new book,
What Women Really Want. Ann-Marie was joined by Shillman Journalism
Fellow Daniel Greenfield, who came on the show to discuss the rise of
the Islamic State, analyzing Obama’s policy of fighting jihad […]
Sep 24, 2014 07:52 am | Robert Spencer
He
is fourteen years old. He was a passenger in the car. Who was driving?
It is likely that he is reflecting the culture of his home and
community. Is anyone looking into that, or is he being treated as if he
were a space alien set down in the midst of an earth family, […]
Sep 24, 2014 07:40 am | Robert Spencer
And now, a musical interlude, courtesy Rob Trueman. 
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