In a statement to the court, Succarieh said as a young Muslim man he felt targeted by authorities, particularly after his brother’s death. Note the same victimology narrative we have seen in so many cases: a jihadi claims that he was unjustifiably targeted by authorities deemed to an enemy to the jihad cause. Omar Succarieh’s […]
Archives for 2016
Force and Fanaticism — Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond
Note: In what follows, Raymond Ibrahim reviews Force and Fanaticism: Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond, by Simon Ross Valentine. A shorter version of the book review first appeared in the Middle East Quarterly (Fall, 2016, vol. 23, no. 4). Valentine, a British Methodist pastor and teacher who taught in Saudi Arabia, has written a useful book about […]
Gaza: Christians continue to be forced to convert to Islam
The plight of Christian living in Gaza under the Palestinian authority continues to worsen. According to a new Arabic language report, recent years have “witnessed a critical upsurge against the Christians,” who only amount to approximately 2,500 people—surrounded by approximately 1.5 million Muslims. Local authorities have abandoned the tiny minority to Islamist elements who have […]
Switzerland: Police raid Islamic State-linked mosque, arrest imam who said Muslims should be killed for not praying
Why would a mosque get involved with the Islamic State, which Pope Francis and John Kerry and all our other learned authorities tell us has nothing to do with Islam? It is a great mystery! No doubt Francis is on his way to Zurich right now to set these Muslims straight about their misunderstanding of […]
Iranian military leader: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps “will be in the U.S. and Europe very soon”
The IRGC is the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, not “the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps” as in this article, but apparently even the Free Beacon is given to the prevailing politically correct whitewashing. Anyway, this article shows that Obama’s claims that Iran has been neutralized or pacified by the nuclear deal are just more deceptive nonsense. […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: A Saudi Princess In Paris
In France this September, a Saudi princess had her bodyguards seize her Parisian decorator simply because he took, as part of his work, a photograph of her flat. She then had him beaten and bound, threatened with death (“Kill the worthless dog!”), and forced to kiss her feet in a sign of craven submission. Here’s […]
UK Muslim spokesman Mohammed Shafiq: Louis Smith ban for “Islamophobia” fuels “Islamophobia”
It’s not surprising that Islamic supremacists would try to claim victim status on both sides of the Louis Smith controversy. Criticism (or, in Smith’s case, mild mockery) of Islam is to be treated as a criminal act, in accord with Sharia blasphemy laws, and proscribed so as to protect Muslims who are supposedly discriminated against […]
“Journalist” Cathy Young, after repeatedly defaming foes of jihad terror, now enraged as SPLC does same thing
Last year, after Islamic jihadis tried to murder Pamela Geller and me in Garland, Texas, “journalist” Cathy Young published not one, but two lengthy and mendacious rants attacking us (here and here) — and those followed several other broadsides against me over the years: Young is a determined and longtime apologist for jihad terror. Yet […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Feel Safe? Here Are 3 Times Hillary Apparently Took Bribes From Terror Funders
Imagine: a commander-in-chief who sells you out to jihadists. That is, another commander-in-chief who sells you out to jihadists. My latest in PJ Media: Despite the old and new scandals swirling around her, Hillary Clinton still has a better chance of being elected president of the United States next week than anyone else. Once installed […]
As Geert Wilders again goes on trial for “hate speech,” European media campaigns furiously against him
Geert Wilders has yet again gone on trial in the Netherlands for “hate speech,” and this time the case against him is especially flimsy: as Europe is roiled by the criminal activity of Muslim migrants, he is being accused of “hate speech” for saying that the massive influx of immigrants from Morocco (from which most […]