“The Nusra Front arrested U.S.-supplied fighters belonging to FSA’s 30th division last summer and seized their weapons in a major embarrassment to the U.S. government’s train-and-equip program which was meant to support carefully vetted ‘moderate’ rebels,” says this report. That echoes the President’s language: “We have a Free Syrian Army and a moderate opposition that […]
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Iraqi MP: Iraqi army doesn’t have “enough forces” to liberate areas of Iraq occupied by the Islamic State
The Islamic State will not be destroyed except by ground forces. Those who have them will not use them for this. Those who would use them for this do not have them. “Iraq runs out of money to take on Islamic State,” by Richard Spencer, Telegraph, March 13, 2016: Just as it is starting to […]
Video: Robert Spencer on CTV News on the jihad massacre in Ivory Coast
This segment is from earlier today, before al-Qaeda claimed responsibility. I speculated in the segment that Boko Haram, aka the Islamic State in West Africa, was behind the attack. In either case, the global jihad advances.
Al-Qaeda claims Ivory Coast jihad mass murder attack
Vying with Boko Haram, the Islamic State in West Africa, to see who can murder more Infidels. “Twelve dead in raid on Ivory Coast beach,” AAP, March 14, 2016: Fourteen civilians and two soldiers have been killed in the Ivory Coast beach resort of Grand Bassam when gunmen stormed the popular weekend retreat and opened […]
AP “corrects” Trump for saying Islam treats women badly
The Qur’an likens a woman to a field (tilth), to be used by a man as he wills: “Your women are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth as you will” (2:223). It declares that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man: “Get two witnesses, out of your own men, […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: New York Times Portrays Islam More Negatively Than Cancer, Study Claims
Over at PJ Media I discuss yet another in an endless stream of attempts to rule honest reporting about the jihad threat beyond the bounds of acceptable discourse: It’s a “Major Study,” declares leftist site AlterNet: 416 Labs report states that there is a “significant bias” against Islam and Muslims in the New York Times […]
Ukraine: “Palestinian” Muslim indicted for plotting jihad mass murder attacks against Israelis
Seduction jihad: “One set of attacks included a Ukrainian woman seducing a senior IDF officer into coming with her to Taba in the Sinai Peninsula, where he would be kidnapped to Gaza. Alternately, the defendant planned to kidnap and murder the officer in Ukraine if he refused to go to Sinai. His personal documents would […]
Shock horror in UK: Muslim parents find pork in cheese and onion rolls bought at supermarket
Once I was in a restaurant and ordered hummus and got baba ghanouj instead. I called no reporters, and none would have done anything if I had called except laugh. Why was Chris Young of the Bradford Telegraph and Argus so interested in this that he made it a news story? He is trying to […]
Tajikistan seeks to tackle Islamic “extremism” with new classes for teenagers
The subhead to this article is: “Experts doubt the teaching will stop radicalisation.” No kidding, really? In the West, our leaders are staking our future on the success of such programs, even though they have never worked anywhere. A student says: “There are young people in the world who have joined extremist organisations. The main […]
Ivory Coast: Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” open fire at beach resort, murdering at least 12
A site popular with European tourists. “Ivory Coast shooting: ’12 dead including four Europeans’ in gun attack on Grand-Bassam beach resort popular with Western tourists,” by Samuel Osborne, Independent, March 13, 2016 (thanks to Steve): Several people are feared dead after at least four heavily armed gunmen attacked a beach resort in the Ivory Coast. […]