
What we fight — Obama: “Violent extremism”; Cameron: Those “perverting Islam”
JANUARY 17, 2015 11:09 AM BY ROBERT SPENCERLEAVE A COMMENT
Cameron is winning praise for daring to suggest that the foe we face has anything to do with Islam. At the same time, however, he continues to maintain that the jihadis are “perverting” their peaceful religion. That is an unproven assertion and not a harmless one: it forces law enforcement and intelligence officials to waste […]

Muslim mob on Temple Mount burns French flag in cartoon rage
JANUARY 17, 2015 10:32 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER2 COMMENTS
The Muslim leaders in the West who claim that there is no incompatibility between Sharia and free societies should not only condemn the cartoon rage protests, but should institute programs to teach Muslims in mosques and Islamic schools why they should accept the freedom of speech and not riot or kill over cartoons of Muhammad. […]

Pakistan: Anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters fire on police, 3 injured
JANUARY 17, 2015 9:57 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER4 COMMENTS
The freedom of speech under violent assault. But this would never happen in the free West. Here they’ll just mock you as a bigot and shut down your website with DDoS attacks. But in both Pakistan and the U.S., the motive and goal is the same. “Clashes at Charlie Hebdo protest in Karachi, three injured,” […]

Video: Robert Spencer on Sun TV on the jihad against free speech
JANUARY 17, 2015 6:19 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER1 COMMENT
Thursday on Michael Coren’s The Arena with guest host Marissa Semkiw.

Foes of free speech take down Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs with a huge denial of service attack
JANUARY 16, 2015 3:30 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER95 COMMENTS
I keep checking my colleague Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs website every few minutes, thinking that surely it will be back by now, but now for the better part of yesterday and all of today it has been down due to a massive DDOS attack. It’s ironic that on the eve of her Rally for Free […]

Jihadis plotting attacks on Germany’s anti-Islamization movement
JANUARY 17, 2015 10:45 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER5 COMMENTS
Angela Merkel has condemned Pegida, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident, as “racist.” What race is Islamization? This and other mainstream news stories on the movement calls it “far right.” Why is it “far right” to defend the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the equality of rights of all people before […]

Niger: Muslim mobs ransack churches, burn French cultural center, in cartoon rage
JANUARY 17, 2015 10:17 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER6 COMMENTS
The Western intelligentsia’s response to this savagery will likely be to call for voluntary self-censorship so as not to offend Muslims — rather than to call for a robust defense of the freedom of speech and resolute stand against these violent attempts to make the non-Muslim world conform to Sharia blasphemy laws. “Niger protests over […]

Obama warns U.S. Congress against more sanctions on Iran
JANUARY 17, 2015 6:28 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER15 COMMENTS
No more sanctions! They could upset the process of making disastrous and irreversible concessions to a bloodthirsty regime with genocidal aspirations! “Obama warns U.S. Congress against more sanctions on Iran,” by Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton, Reuters, January 16, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann): WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama warned lawmakers on Friday not […]

French PM: “The charge of ‘Islamophobia’ is used to silence people”
JANUARY 17, 2015 12:48 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER48 COMMENTS
Valls also says, ““It is very important to make clear to people that Islam has nothing to do with ISIS.” How exactly he proposes to do that is unclear, at least if he intends to be honest, since what the Islamic State does all has foundation in the Qur’an and Sunnah. But he is absolutely […]

India: Muslim cleric says what Charlie Hebdo jihadis did “was completely legitimate as per Sharia laws”
JANUARY 16, 2015 3:08 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER57 COMMENTS
“Whoever curses a Prophet, kill him. Whoever curses my Companions, beat him.” — Muhammad Muhammad asked: “Who is willing to kill Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?” One of the Muslims, Muhammad bin Maslama, answered, “O Allah’s Apostle! Would you like that I kill him
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