[From the Gatestone Institute:] Islamic hostility for Christmas was on full display as documented here: on Christmas Day, Muslims in Bethlehem set a Christmas tree on fire and greeted the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem with a hail of stones; Muslim “refugees” set fire to a public Christmas tree in Belgium; Muslim jihadis attacked churches during […]
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ISIS — The Latest Phase of the Jihad
The best way to understand the Islamic State (ISIS) is to see it as the next phase of al-Qaeda. All Sunni Islamic jihadi groups—Boko Haram, ISIS, Taliban, al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda, even Hamas—share the same motivations based on a literal and orthodox reading of Islamic history and doctrine: resurrecting a caliphate (which existed in various forms from […]
New study claims that the Bible is more violent than the Qur’an
Problems with this study: 1. Tom Anderson used an English version of the Qur’an, which often obscure the martial meaning of words such as jahada, strive or struggle, which is the verbal form of jihad. Translating this word as “strive” is common, but obscures the violent import. 2. The study seems to have simply counted […]
Islamic State preaches Qur’an to Christians after collecting Qur’anic tax on non-Muslims
How dare the Islamic State collect the jizya from Christians! Don’t they know there’s a Muslim-Christian dialogue going on? When is the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops going to send one of the bishops over to Raqqa to explain to the Islamic State leaders how they’re misunderstanding their religion, and that it is peaceful at […]
US Catholic Bishops launch National Catholic-Muslim Dialogue, partnering with groups linked to Hamas and MB
“The current regional Catholic-Muslim dialogues are the Mid-Atlantic (partnering with the Islamic Circle of North America), Midwest (partnering with the Islamic Society of North America) and West Coast (partnering with the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California and the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County). Each is co-chaired by a bishop and a Muslim leader […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: The Washington Post Tells Us ISIS Is Losing, Again
In PJ Media today I discuss how the mainstream media parrots the Democratic Party line on the Islamic State, just as it did last year when it falsely claimed that it was losing. The Washington Post published some terrific news last Saturday: The Islamic State’s recent defeats on the battlefield signal that its once-vaunted militia […]
NBC makes a point of identifying killer of Robert Kennedy as “Christian”
Sirhan Sirhan is indeed, or was, a Christian, but contrast this prominent identification of him as a “Christian-born Palestinian” with the mainstream media’s reticence about identifying jihad killers as Muslim. Sirhan didn’t murder RFK because Christianity teaches “Slay the Kennedys wherever you find them”; he killed him because he, like many Arab Christians, had imbibed […]
Video: Muslim NHL player threatens to slit the throat of opposing player
Read his lips. Nazem Kadri is threatening to murder Mark Giordano. Certainly he was caught up in the heat of the moment and isn’t really going to kill him, but as a Muslim, his cultural frame of reference is interesting. When you grow up hearing “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4) […]
Australian convert to Islam: “I want to do an Islamic Bonnie and Clyde on the kaffir”
Auburn Uniting Church Reverend Veitinia Waqabaca said: “I am surprised (she converted) but…our people can take on another religion but we have to ask them what it is that they find attractive. We can only sit them down, these kids are very clever and help them see all the terrorism in the world and point […]
Robert Spencer in FP: Syrian Archbishop to West: “Why Are Your Bishops Silent?”
Silent about a threat that is theirs today as well. My column in FrontPage today: Jean-Clément Jeanbart, the Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo, gave a recent interview with a French reporter, in which he was highly critical of the mainstream media and even of his fellow bishops for ignoring the Muslim persecution of Middle […]