The Christian population in Iraq has now diminished to an alarming 50,000 to 250,000, compared with 1.4 million in 2003. They were either massacred by jihadists or abducted. Christians have faced being forced to convert to Islam, pay a high living tax (jizya, mandated in the Qur’an) to the Islamic State, or abandon their ancestral […]
Archives for 2016
Palestinian Authority funds mourning tent for jihadi who stabbed 13-year-old Israeli girl to death
Palestinian jihadists know no remorse. They kill children, teach children to kill, and celebrate the deaths of innocents. A Palestinian Authority (PA) official closely associated with President Mahmoud Abbas arrived at the mourning tent of the family whose jihadist son slit the throat of a 13-year-old Israeli girl in her bed. The official came to pay […]
Al-Quds Day speaker in Toronto calls for Israelis to be shot
Al-Quds Day speaker Ali Mallah issued an open call in Toronto, Canada for Israelis to be shot, after stating that Palestinians have the right to resist their occupation by any means necessary. Al-Quds Day is an annual event held on the last Friday of Ramadan; it was initiated by Iran during its 1979 revolution to […]
State Department: ISIS jihad attacks are signs of US success against ISIS
When the Islamic State jihadis lose they lose, and when they win, they lose, also — as long as the American people don’t catch on to how they’re being played for fools. The blinkered Blinken, and the Obama administration in general, almost certainly know better. They just hope you don’t. If Blinken is correct, the […]
Indonesia: Jihad-martyrdom suicide bomber blows himself up at police station
“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111) “Indonesia Probes Islamic State Links in Police-Station Bombing,” by Ben Otto, Wall Street Journal, July 5, 2016: JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesian authorities were investigating […]
India: Islamic State Muslims planned jihad massacre at police station
They pledged their allegiance to the man they believe to be the leader of all the Muslim believers. Then they plotted jihad mass murder. “Nabbed ISIS suspects from Hyderabad vowed to serve Baghdadi: NIA,” by Jitendra Bahadur Singh, India Today, July 4, 2016: Investigators probing the suspected Hyderabad module of the ISIS have discovered that […]
Muslims shocked! shocked! at attack on Baghdad during Ramadan
Here is yet another mainstream media “ISIS is not Islamic” story; this one has more substance than most, and is frankly deceptive, as well as unintentionally illuminating even as it does its best to conceal Islam’s violent doctrines. Note, first off, that the Muslims are shocked by the attack in Baghdad, and Tarek asks, “How […]
Islam is both a religion and polity, says leading Egyptian cleric
What is the role of Islam in Muslim society? Is it just a religion to be practiced privately, as Christianity is understood in the West? Or does it call for theocracy—governance according to the laws derived from it, also known as Sharia? Dr. Ali Abdel Raziq, whose 1925 book arguing against the caliphate caused an […]
Made in Our Image: The Allure of ‘Moderate Muslims’
One of the greatest problems with the much cherished “moderate/radical” Muslim dichotomy is that it’s entirely based on Western assumptions that have nothing to do with the realities of Islam. This came out in a study published in Arabic (my recent translation here): Islamic researchers are agreed that what the West and its followers […]
Jihad-martyrdom bombers hit 3 Saudi cities, including Muhammad’s mosque in Medina
“The attacks all seem to have been timed to coincide with the approach of Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that celebrates the end of the [Ramadan] fast.” The targets seem to have been Saudi security forces and Shi’ites: “In the only one of the three attacks that appeared to have caused many casualties, a suicide bomber […]