Dec 14, 2014 01:46 am | Robert Spencer
The mayor said “it’s pork or nothing” on the grounds that France is a
secular republic that does not give religion a place in state
institutions. Now this will be even more severely challenged than it has
been in recent years. The challenge will proceed on the basis that this
mayor is being hateful and […]
Dec 13, 2014 11:58 pm | Robert Spencer
Can the UK get more insane? Can the world? Will this revelation cause
it to change its policies? You know the answer to that last one. “UK
foreign aid millions helped Iran hang 3,000… including women and
children: Shocking report reveals how drugs war cash funded reign of
terror,” by Ian Birrell, Daily Mail, December […]
Dec 13, 2014 11:53 pm | Robert Spencer
Clearly the Islamic State has been crippled by those U.S. airstrikes.
“Islamic State Storms Town in Western Iraq, Kills 19 police: Officials,”
Reuters, December 13, 2014: Islamic State fighters stormed a town in
Iraq’s western Anbar province
on Saturday, killing at least 19 policemen and trapping others inside their headquarters, in the latest attack in […]
Dec 13, 2014 11:43 pm | Robert Spencer
It’s blazingly obvious that this garb can be and has been used to
conceal wanted criminals and commit crimes. But to ban it in the West
would be “Islamophobic.” “Yemen kills ‘al-Qaeda militants disguised as
veiled women,'” BBC, December 13, 2014 (thanks to Ali): Several
suspected al-Qaeda militants, disguised as fully veiled women, have
reportedly […]
Dec 13, 2014 11:40 pm | Robert Spencer
This imam was appointed to his post by Turkey’s Religious Affairs
Directorate. Presumably he had years of training: study of the Qur’an,
study of Muhammad, study of Islamic law. And yet now he has gone to join
the Islamic State. Has John Kerry been notified of this? Somehow this
imam missed all the many ways […]
Dec 13, 2014 11:25 pm | Robert Spencer
“The effect of the ambulance-chasing lawyers and the play-it-safe
judges is that we have got to the point where we have lost our
operational capability to do tactical questioning. That in itself brings
risks to the lives of the people we deploy.” Yes. And as I have said
before, many, many people in Britain, as […]
Dec 13, 2014 11:23 pm | Robert Spencer
“…raising fresh concerns about the extremists’ ability to attack
aircraft amid ongoing U.S.-led coalition airstrikes.” Indeed. “European
airlines including Virgin Atlantic, KLM and Air France, U.S. carrier
Delta Air Lines and Dubai-based Emirates changed their commercial flight
plans over the summer to avoid Iraqi airspace.” Before too long they’ll
be having to change their commercial […]
Dec 13, 2014 11:10 pm | Robert Spencer
“It’s a deeply disturbing phenomenon,’’ said Foreign Minister Julie
Bishop. But does she have any interest in exploring why it is happening,
and coming to grips with the appeal of the concept of the caliphate?
Probably not, as that would require acknowledging that the Islamic State
had something to do with Islam, and that is […]
Dec 13, 2014 09:20 pm | Robert Spencer
The 70 must have been Shi’ites. According to Islamic tradition, Aisha
and Ali were at odds. When she was accused of adultery, Ali told
Muhammad that he could easily just get another wife — she never forgave
him for that. In 656, when Uthman was murdered and Ali was chosen as
caliph, Aisha went into […]
Dec 13, 2014 03:19 pm | Robert Spencer
This bulletin seems a bit tardy, as there has already been lone wolf
domestic terrorism recently — the axe-wielding jihadist in New York
City, the Oklahoma City beheader, and more. But of course, it isn’t
about jihadis at all. The FBI and DHS aren’t warning about lone wolf
Islamic jihadists — rather, they’re concerned about […]
Dec 13, 2014 05:43 am | Robert Spencer
Britain’s Channel 4 is credited in this report with revealing this
man’s identity, but it didn’t actually name him. In any case, here is
yet another blow for the common assumption that poverty causes terrorism
and will be cured by transfers of money to populations likely to
produce terrorists: Mehdi Masroor Biswas was a prosperous […]
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