
UK: Islington scraps pork from menus in all primary schools
FEBRUARY 12, 2015 11:14 AM BY ROBERT SPENCERLEAVE A COMMENT
“A council spokesman said ensuring Muslim and Jewish children were not eating the meat represented an ‘unnecessary cost at a time of tight budgets.’” But make no mistake: this isn’t happening because of the Jewish students. Jews have lived in the UK for centuries and neither demanded nor received such accommodations. This is all about […]

NYT: Houthis scream “Death to America” but “don’t mean it literally”
FEBRUARY 12, 2015 8:16 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER7 COMMENTS
Rod Nordland of the New York Times tells PBS that actually the Houthis are “trying desperately” to be friends with the United States. They seized the U.S. Embassy vehicles for “safe-keeping,” you see. This is the idiocy that befogs the mainstream and prevents Americans from seeing just how much the international situation is deteriorating. They […]

UK: Someone arrested for something in Liverpool
FEBRUARY 12, 2015 6:01 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER13 COMMENTS
This story is almost certainly about the arrest of an Islamic jihadist, but there is absolutely nothing in it to give the reader any indication of what kind of terrorism is involved here. The British press, like its American counterpart, is indefatigably dedicated to obfuscating the nature and magnitude of the jihad terror threat, no […]

Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Iowa Has Spoken: Islam Is Peaceful
FEBRUARY 11, 2015 7:47 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER32 COMMENTS
In PJ Media I discuss a new poll that shows how effective counterfactual propaganda can be: A new poll has shown that a majority of Republicans and an overwhelming percentage of Democrats who are likely participants in the Iowa presidential caucuses think Islam is peaceful. Now if we could ship them over to the Islamic […]

Harvard prof and Kerry adviser explains how Islamic State “distorts traditional teachings” of Islam
FEBRUARY 11, 2015 6:38 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER33 COMMENTS
Here we go again: yet another mainstream media attempt to ensure that Americans don’t think that the Islamic State’s atrocities have anything to do with Islam. 20,000 Muslims from all over the world have joined the jihad in Syria, but the mainstream media and academics like Jocelyne Cesari make no attempt to explain how what […]

Video: Robert Spencer on Sun TV on the Houthi takeover in Yemen
FEBRUARY 12, 2015 9:01 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER2 COMMENTS
Yesterday, on Sun TV’s Straight Talk with Jerry Agar. We also discussed Obama’s “plan” to fight the Islamic State. Video thanks to Aloha Snackbar 01.

Libya: 40 severed heads found at Islamic militia training camp in Benghazi
FEBRUARY 12, 2015 6:49 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER10 COMMENTS
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) These people may have been beheaded for fighting against this militia, and hence in the militia’s eyes making themselves into heretics or apostates — unbelievers. “Libya; sources, 40 severed heads found in Bengasi,” ANSAmed, February 11, 2015: (ANSAmed) – IL CAIRO, 11 FEB – Forty […]

Jordanian columnist: The Islamic State “did not invent a new Islam”
FEBRUARY 11, 2015 9:12 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER15 COMMENTS
The author of this article, Zaid Nabulsi, several years ago wrote a piece entitled, “Zionism is an Incurable Disease of the Mind.” So he is not exactly a sober, thoughtful reformer. And in this piece he is sure that the negative aspects of Islam don’t come from Muhammad, but he can’t seem to decide whether […]

NC murderer’s wife: “I can say with absolute belief that this incident had nothing to do with religion of the victims’ faith”
FEBRUARY 11, 2015 7:23 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER38 COMMENTS
Hamas-linked terror org CAIR and the families of the victims, however, are insisting that Craig Hicks hates Muslims, and targeted his victims because they were Muslims. Maybe Karen Hicks is lying, but the Chapel Hill Police said the same thing, although now they’re backtracking a bit under all the pressure. In any case, why would […]

AFDI Inaugural Muhammad Cartoon Exhibit and $10,000 Contest #JeSuisCharlie
FEBRUARY 11, 2015 4:23 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER47 COMMENTS
Pamela Geller has the story: “To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.” Abraham Lincoln Last Monday, a Muslim mob in Pakistan that was protesting against the Charlie Hebdo cartoons of Muhammad forced open the gates of a Christian school, smashed windows, destroyed property, and demanded that the school […]
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