The news accounts on Netanyahu’s remarks are full of historians dismissing his statements. The problem with that is that no one really knows: much of the planning of the Holocaust was not written down, as even the Nazis apparently knew what a great evil they were perpetrating and didn’t want a paper trail showing the […]
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Video: Robert Spencer on Newsmax TV on the jihad violence in Israel
Today I was on Newsmax TV’s Steve Malzberg show, discussing the recent increase of jihad violence in Israel.
Germany: Muslim gang stole from churches to fund the Islamic State
The German churches should redouble their efforts at “Muslim-Christian dialogue.” Surely that will fix this problem right up in a hurry, won’t it? Otherwise, with hundreds of thousands more Muslims now streaming into Germany, there is going to be more of this kind of thing. “Cologne gang ‘stole from churches to fund Isis’,” The Local, […]
Who’s Oppressing Palestinian Christians? Georgetown Lecture Blames Israel
Amid widespread and ongoing Islamist attacks against Christians in the Middle East, Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek, co-founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, informed an audience at Georgetown University that “the government of Israel” and Israeli “settlers” pose the greatest threat to Palestinian Christians. A Palestinian Anglican priest now living in the U.S, Ateek’s claims […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Justin Trudeau: Canada’s Obama
In FrontPage today I explain why the next Prime Minister of Canada will get along fine with the President: For years, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has served as a welcome counterpoint to Barack Obama, and the object of wistful musings about what a fine President of the United States he would have been, if […]
Clock boy Ahmed Mohamed meets Obama, decides to move to Qatar
I know how you feel, Ahmed. If I ever met Obama face to face, I am sure I would want to leave the country as well. Seriously, Ahmed Mohamed didn’t build anything. He just fit existing clockworks into a pencil box. His arrest was a hysterical overreaction, but not “Islamophobia”: school officials nationwide have acted […]
Canada imam: “Islam in its essence calls for a division between faith and state”
“Mohamad Jebara is the Chief Imam, resident scholar at the Cordova Spiritual Education Centre.” His claim that “Islam in its essence calls for a division between faith and state” is extraordinary, since throughout the history of Islam there never was a division between faith and state until the advent of secular Turkey in the twentieth […]
Germans forced from their homes to make way for Muslim migrants
The video is in German, but its import is clear. It is also abundantly clear that German officials have a positive preference for the migrants, and are determined to settle them in Germany. That makes Germany’s future clear as well. “VIDEO: Working-Class Germans forced from their homes to make way for Muslim migrants who are […]
Nigeria’s VP says he has seen rich people become jihad terrorists
This would be an obvious point, just like the fact that Islam is not a religion of peace, were it not so often denied. CNS News noted in September 2013 that “according to a Rand Corporation report on counterterrorism, prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2009, ‘Terrorists are not particularly impoverished, […]
Turkey: Opposition leader accuses government of “protecting” Islamic State
There is no reason why this couldn’t be true. Erdogan has notably dragged his feet in attacking the Islamic State, and when he did say he was going to do so, he attacked the Kurds instead. It is possible that he wants to use the Islamic State to clear away some of their common enemies. […]