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Islamic State celebrates Nice jihad slaughter with beheadings

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Islamic State jihadists shed more blood to celebrate the Bastille Day massacre, and they videotaped it. The video, described as horridly gruesome — even by IS standards — incorporates music into its presentation. It shows badly wounded babies, followed by jihadists with serrated knives about to behead two terrified-looking captives in red, prison-like jumpsuits. They behead […]

Hugh Fitzgerald: The Berbers and Islam as a Vehicle for Arab Supremacism (Part I)

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In Algeria, before the Arab invasion and conquest in the seventh century, the population was almost entirely Berber, and along with those who followed traditional Berber religious practices, a considerable Christian population (St. Augustine, he of Hippo, was a Berber) flourished. When the Arabs swept in, subjugating the Berbers, they brought with them an Islam […]

Egypt: Top Islamic institution preaches “religious freedom” to West, while supporting death penalty for apostates at home

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In a statement titled, “The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Calls on Al Azhar’s Sheikh to Renounce His Remarks Which Contradict Religious Freedom and Support Violent Extremism,” the institute blasted Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb’s recent remarks concerning apostasy, first reported in the English here. Though Tayeb is often portrayed as a “moderate” and “reformer,” the […]

England had 5,700 recorded cases of FGM in 2015-16

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Cases of female genital mutilation are skyrocketing in England not because English women are deciding that they wish to be mutilated. FGM is skyrocketing because the Muslim population is skyrocketing, and since it continues to do so, FGM is not going to be stopped in Britain. Instead, it will increasingly become the norm. An NSPCC […]

EU marks record-high number of terrorist attacks in 2015

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This data is strange: the article says there were 211 terror attacks in 2015, with 65 being “separatist terrorism” and 17 being jihad attacks. What were the other 129? Probably what they consider to be “right-wing extremism,” given this quote: “The overall threat is reinforced by the substantial numbers of returned foreign terrorist fighters that […]

Answer to jihad challenge isn’t “the gutless multiculturalism of Western elites”

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So what is it? A model may be found in the Cold War. Although the West’s response to the jihad threat is hamstrung today by the continuance of empty and counterproductive Cold War alliances such as those with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, that doesn’t mean that no lessons from that period apply to today. G.M. […]

Saudi Arabia revives a 15-year-old anti-Pokemon fatwa

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Jihad Watch recently reported on the Muslim cleric who condemned Pokemon Go as un-Islamic. Abbas Shuman, deputy head of the Al-Azhar Islamic institution, referred to the game as “a ‘harmful mania’ which was similar to drinking alcohol.” Now, Saudi Arabia has revived a 15-year-old fatwa to prohibit Pokeman “in response to public calls for guidance on […]

Germany: Sikh temple blown up by Islamic State jihadis “not terrorism”

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Not terrorism, say the German authorities. They persist in the same myopia that afflicts leaders in all Western countries: they refuse to acknowledge that we are in a war. Each jihad terror attack is carried out by people who hope to weaken and ultimately bring down the free world, so that they can impose Islamic […]

Europe waking up, now turning to Israeli technology for ways to stop lone-wolf jihadis

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Last week’s truck rampage in France and Monday’s axe attack aboard a train in Germany finally have raised enough concerns in Europe about jihadist lone wolf attacks that now counter-terrorism intelligence specialists are looking to Israel to learn about technologies that might preempt such attacks. Israel has been afflicted by violent Palestinian lone-wolf street attacks, often by young jihadists […]

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