
“I could chop you up into little pieces and put you in the Thames”
JANUARY 3, 2015 10:30 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER1 COMMENT
“I could chop you up into little pieces and put you in the Thames right now and no one will find out.” Those words were spoken by a Muslim uncle to his ex-Muslim nephew. This article tells the stories of several ex-Muslims, but it doesn’t explain why it has proven so difficult for them to […]

Muslim cleric killed fighting for the Islamic State
JANUARY 2, 2015 9:36 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER18 COMMENTS
How did a Muslim cleric get the idea that he should fight with the Islamic State? Doesn’t he know that what they do has nothing to do with Islam? Did he miss the Qur’an’s peaceful and tolerant passages? “Saudi IS cleric killed in northern Syria,” Associated Press, January 2, 2015: BEIRUT (AP) — A Saudi […]

Turkey: Janissary chases Santa out of town in anti-New Year’s celebration
JANUARY 2, 2015 8:33 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER32 COMMENTS
In the Ottoman Empire, the Janissaries were an elite military group made up of men who had as children been taken forcibly from their Christian families and converted to Islam. The Janissaries were often used against their own ancestral people — for jihad attacks against Christian areas. Here, they have become a symbol of rapidly […]

Florida Muslim had letter that talked about “uniting a Muslim army under one flag to wage Islamic war”
JANUARY 2, 2015 6:55 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER16 COMMENTS
I trust that John Kerry or Joe Biden is on his way to Broward County to explain to Sheheryar Alam Qazi and Raees Alam Qazi how they’re misunderstanding the Religion of Peace. “Accused Oakland Park Terrorist’s Phone Conversations Can Be Used as Evidence, Feds Say,” by Chris Joseph, BrowardPalmBeach.com, January 2, 2015: Oakland Park brothers […]

Georgetown Panel Promotes One-Way Interfaith ‘Dialogue’
JANUARY 2, 2015 3:50 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER36 COMMENTS
Georgetown Panel Promotes One-Way Interfaith ‘Dialogue’ By Andrew Harrod Princeton University professor Robert P. George lauded Imam Hamza Yusuf, the radical president of Berkeley, California’s Zaytuna College, as “my beloved friend, my brother” at a recent Georgetown University day-long conference. George, a Catholic conservative luminary, was disturbingly uncritical of the Islamic apologetics that suffused the […]

General Allen: US must “defeat the idea” of the Islamic State
JANUARY 3, 2015 8:12 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER25 COMMENTS
There is no indication that General Allen has any idea of what he is talking about. What “idea” does he propose to defeat? He probably means that he is going to destroy the idea that the Islamic State constitutes the new caliphate — which is no doubt one reason why the media establishment keeps churning […]

Islamic jihadist says slavery biggest honor for non-Muslim women
JANUARY 2, 2015 9:02 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER45 COMMENTS
According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils of […]

Islamic Republic of Iran: Police arrest 50 women for “un-Islamic” dress
JANUARY 2, 2015 7:19 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER32 COMMENTS
“According to police, they were guilty of wearing “shameful and immoral dress in public,” not in accordance with the Islamic code, which was put in place by Ayatollah Khomeini in the beginning of 1981. He ordered covering all the parts of the body except the face and wrists.” Khomeini didn’t originate that. It comes from […]

Robert Spencer in PJ Media: The 10 Most Important Jihad Stories of 2014
JANUARY 2, 2015 4:11 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER12 COMMENTS
Over at PJ Media I recap ten of the year’s lowlights: Here are the most significant advances made by Islamic supremacists this year. 10. The abduction of the Nigerian schoolgirls Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian jihad group named the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad and better known […]

Egyptian government accused of having double standards and failing to protect Copts in Libya
JANUARY 2, 2015 3:26 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER4 COMMENTS
This is no surprise. It is in line with the fact that the churches that Muslim mobs burned in Egypt last year, and that the government promised to rebuild, are still in ruins. Even though the Egyptian government has moved strongly against the Muslim Brotherhood, there are still very many people in Egypt, and in […]
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