Authorities, adamantine in their determination to ignore Islamic jihad, are still searching for a motive. “In Chattanooga, a Young Man in a Downward Spiral,” by Manny Fernandez, Alan Blinder, Eric Schmitt and Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times, July 20, 2015: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The last time family members here saw Mohammod Abdulazeez was last Tuesday, […]

An imam? What? How did someone who has dedicated his life to understanding the Qur’an properly miss all its peaceful teachings — the ones that are so blazingly obvious to non-Muslims like John Kerry and David Cameron? “US authorities allege Oregon imam assisted radicals,” by Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press, July 20, 2015 (thanks to […]

He faces charges that he “raised money and recruited fighters for a foreign terrorist organization battling the Afghan government and its allies, including U.S. troops.” So many misunderstanders of Islam! “Dutch-Turkish man appears in U.S. court on terrorism charges,” Reuters, July 20, 2015: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Dutch-Turkish national accused of raising funds and recruiting […]

Kidnapping infidels and releasing them for ransom or enslaving them, as well as killing them if that option is deemed most advantageous for the Muslims, is fully sanctioned in Islamic law: “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them […]

Leaflets vowing, against all appearances to the contrary, that “freedom will come.” Leaflets! The Islamic State jihadis must be trembling with fear! “U.S.-led airdrops shower leaflets over Islamic State territory,” by Bassem Mroue, The Associated Press, July 19, 2015: BEIRUT — A U.S.-led coalition dropped new leaflets over the de facto capital of the Islamic […]