So, does anyone still say “friend and ally?” “Pakistan says U.S. drones in its air space will be shot down,” from MSNBC, December 11: ISLAMABAD — Pakistan will shoot down any U.S. drone that intrudes its air space per new directives, a senior Pakistani official told NBC News on Saturday. According to the new Pakistani […]
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A badly invented people
In “A Badly Invented People” at the Sultan Knish blog, December 11, the estimable Daniel Greenfield exposes the utter spuriousness and jihadist motivation of the Palestinian claim to nationality: In the post-news environment, media no longer exists to report, it exists to disseminate glib talking points that sound good at first, but don’t stand up […]
State Department meeting with OIC to discuss free speech restrictions
Shameful indeed: the Obama State Department is meeting today with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to discuss ways to sweep away our fundamental protection against tyranny: the freedom of speech. More on this story. “A Shameful State Department Initiative,” by Pamela Geller in the American Thinker, December 12: Today the Islamized State Department will be […]
Last Call on Action Alert: High school students forced to listen to Islamic supremacist Reza Aslan
NOTE Monday 1:00AM Pacific Time: I am reposting this Action Alert, which originally ran on Saturday, to ask those of you who have not yet done so to contact Douglas Hale of Mercersburg Academy at haled@mercersburg.edu today. Please notify him, politely and courteously, of Reza Aslan’s allegiances, agenda, and abject intellectual incompetence, as noted below. […]
We tried to tell you: Hamas sets up forward bases, rocket production facilities in Sinai
Sinai threatens to become an intentional blind spot and site of selective sovereignty within Egypt, perhaps not unlike Pakistan’s frontier provinces. As described below, the area is largely demilitarized according to the Camp David Accords, but this situation may at some point be used to make Israel choose between an area “militarized” by jihadists, or […]
One wounded in southern Lebanon by rocket fired toward Israel that didn’t quite make it
Hallmark doesn’t make a “Thanks for Understanding, We Were Aiming at the Infidels” card. It would have to have a tidy little pocket for diyya, or blood money allowed under Sharia. “One person wounded in south Lebanon by rocket,” from Reuters, December 11: BEIRUT (Reuters) – One person was injured in southern Lebanon Sunday when […]
Report: Hamas makes tactical retreat from Sharia-enforcing thuggery
For the moment, the Muslim Brotherhood wing known as Hamas appears to be aligning its behavior more closely with its increasingly influential big brother next door, where gradualism is the name of the game. “Hamas in Gaza says it’s learning from Arab Spring,” by Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh for the Associated Press, December 11: […]
Nigeria: Jihad against soccer fans
But not just soccer: “The explosions occurred in predominantly Christian areas of the city.” “Bomb blasts targeting football fans kill one in Nigeria,” from Agence France-Presse, December 11: Three bomb blasts, targeting bars as fans watched a Spanish football match on television, rocked the Nigerian city of Jos officials said Sunday, with one death and […]
Robert Spencer Q and A session after Melbourne, Australia talk, November 24, 2011
The Q and A session was lively. And here, in case you missed it, is the main talk again: This was the first of the talks I gave during my recent Australia speaking tour. Videos thanks to Vlad Tepes.
Study Shows U.S. Mosques Repositories of Sharia, Jihad, and Muslim Brotherhood Literature and Preachers
In 1998, Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, a Sufi leader, visited 114 mosques in the United States. Then he gave testimony before a State Department Open Forum in January 1999, and asserted that 80% of American mosques taught the “extremist ideology.” Then there was the Center for Religious Freedom’s 2005 study, and the Mapping Sharia Project’s […]