Because Islam gets criticized for many things — from hostility to modernity and democracy to calls for theocratic rule, radical “patriarchy,” misogyny, and draconian punishments, to name a few — it is helpful to step back and distinguish between those (many) doctrines that affect Muslim society alone, and those that extend to and affect Western […]
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Chain migration imported 120,000 foreign nationals from terrorist-funding countries since 2005
Nearly 120,000 foreign nationals have been allowed to enter the United States since 2005 despite coming….from the three countries that the State Department recognizes as state-sponsors of terrorism: Iran, Syria, and Sudan. It happened through “chain migration,” by which “new immigrants can bring an unlimited amount of foreign family members with them to the U.S.” […]
Hamas spokesman calls Trump “racist” and “hateful,” calls for “blessed intifada”
Hamas spokesman Abdullatif Al Qanoua has called Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “racist” and “hateful,” and is calling for a “blessed intifada.” His appeal echoed the order of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, who summoned an organized uprising “in the face of the Zionist enemy.” What’s racist and hateful is that Hamas does […]
Hungarians overwhelmingly reject ‘Soros Plan’ for mass migration in National Consultation
The Hungarian public has overwhelmingly rejected the “Soros Plan” for mass migration to Europe in a National Consultation that saw “millions of notorised responses…poured in by post alone.” This news is important and welcome for Hungary in its ongoing battle with the EU and Soros over mass migration. A Soros-backed “human rights” group reportedly tried […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: ISIS: The Caliphate Dream Is Over
But the killing isn’t. My latest in FrontPage: The caliphate is dead. Last Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced that the Islamic State (ISIS) had been driven out of Iraq: Today, our troops were able to purge islands of Nineveh and Anbar in full, and they (the forces) are now fully controlling the Iraqi-Syrian […]
Germany: Muslim migrant who raped and murdered EU official’s daughter is 33, not a teenager as he claims
Hussein Khavari was “arrested and sentenced to ten years for attempted murder in Corfu in 2013 before coming to Germany seeking refuge in 2015.” He entered Germany as an unaccompanied minor. He was 31 years old. He is a symbol of the abject indifference of German officials to the protection of their own citizens. “Defendant […]
UK: Muslim dentistry student had bomb-making material and video on tactics for stabbing and beheading
Where did Mohammed Awan learn his understanding of Islam? Has his mosque been investigated? Almost certainly not. Doing so be “Islamophobic.” “First picture of Sheffield dentistry student found guilty of terrorism offences,” by Sarah Marshall, The Star, December 13, 2017: This is the Sheffield student who was this afternoon found guilty of three terrorism offences […]
Robert Spencer Video: Why Has ISIS Threatened to Behead “the Pope of Islam”?
In this new video, I discuss the recent threat from the Islamic State (ISIS) to behead Pope Francis, explaining how anomalous it is in light of his many statements downplaying and denying the reality of jihad terrorism.
Al-Shabaab kept women as sex slaves, subjected them to gang rapes and forced abortions
Why have we seen not just the Islamic State, but also Boko Haram and now al-Shabaab take sex slaves? Because it is sanctioned in Islamic law. The seizure of Infidel girls and their use as sex slaves is sanctioned in the Qur’an. According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” […]
NYC subway jihad bomber wrote “O America, die in your rage” in his passport
But as everyone knows, it would have been racist, bigoted and “Islamophobic” to prevent him from coming here. “Port Authority Subway Bombing Suspect Faces Court Hearing,” CBS New York, December 13, 2017: NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The man accused of setting off an explosion in a subway passageway under the Port Authority Bus Terminal is […]