India’s spy agency warns of threat from Islamic State’s Af-Pak group
The Islamic State now has a presence not just in Iraq and Syria, but in Libya, Nigeria, the Philippines, Egypt, Yemen, and Afghanistan and Pakistan. Its influence is spreading rapidly among Muslims worldwide while Western leaders wave it away and insist that it has nothing to do with Islam. “Islamic State’s Af-Pak Group a Cause […]
Turkey: Historic 12th-century church to be reopened as a mosque
Turkey’s rapid re-Islamization and assertion of Islamic supremacism continues. “Historic Hagia Sophia in a Turkish province to be re-opened as mosque,” by Serdar Korucu, Hürriyet Daily News, May 1, 2015: A ruined Hagia Sophia dating back to the 12th century in the western border province of Edirne will be renovated as a mosque, despite former […]
Online jihadis call for jihad murders of cartoonists in US, Australia
Foreign Policy follows a generally dhimmi line, but the clueless Obama-era FBI reads it to gather its “intelligence,” so it is worth looking into occasionally. Here is a piece on ongoing attempts to intimidate the West into silence by calling for the murder of those who violate Islam’s blasphemy laws. It is precisely to show […]
AFDI challenges MTA ban on free speech
Last Wednesday, angry at being ordered by a federal court to run our ad criticizing Hamas and Islamic antisemitism, the New York City MTA voted to ban all political ads. Pamela Geller was there; she has a full account here, and you can see her own impassioned and eloquent remarks in defense of the freedom […]
Georgian jihadi: “All Muslims believe that they have to go to jihad”
And so he went to wage jihad in Syria. He didn’t think his obligation to go to jihad was fulfilled by taking the kids to school or going to the gym. This looks like a job for Hamas-linked CAIR: to disabuse young Ali of his misunderstanding of Islam! No doubt Ahmed Rehab and Ibrahim “Honest […]
Robert Spencer’s Blogging the Qur’an: Sura 5, “The Table”
Newly revised edition up at PJM: Allah spends most of Sura 5, “The Table,” castigating the Jews and the Christians for their various sins and offenses. If you think he was angry with them in suras 2-4, you ain’t seen nothing yet. This sura dates from the Medinan period (as do suras 2-4) — according […]
3,000 more foreign jihadis join the Islamic State
The lure of the concept of the caliphate continues to be ignored and dismissed. The mainstream media is too busy declaring victory: A CNN headline asked in November 2014: “Has ISIS peaked? Terror group suffers setbacks in Iraq.” The Atlantic announced in January 2015: “ISIS Is Losing Its Greatest Weapon: Momentum: Evidence suggests that the […]
Robert Spencer in PJM: Has Baghdad Bob Become Secretary of Defense?
Over at PJ Media I explain how we’re getting nowhere with the Islamic State, but you wouldn’t know that by listening to this administration: Remember Baghdad Bob? During the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, or “Baghdad Bob,” kept us laughing by repeatedly declaring that the Iraqi Army was humiliating […]
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