The Sri Lankan Navy has arrested seven individuals and recovered 336 kg of heroin from their possession. All of them are Pakistani nationals who were using a multi-day fishing trawler for transporting drug consignments to other vessels. The stock of heroin recovered in an exhaustive operation after three weeks of surveillance and information sharing […]
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Afghanistan: Taliban bring back their Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice
They call it the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice, but the Taliban are actually reestablishing an empire of fear. In the empire of fear, people don’t dare step out of line, not out of an authentic understanding that the path of moral and ethical uprightness is preferable to the alternative, much less out […]
Taliban breaks into headquarters of all-female orchestra, destroys musical instruments
Today music died in Afghanistan. And with that a huge part of our culture died too. The once renowned all-female “Zohra Orchestra” was broken into and the Taliban attacked the insteuments. #Afganisthan pic.twitter.com/60lMpVza3g — Nahid Fattahi ناهید فتاحی (@NahidFattahi) September 9, 2021 Whenever I note that Islamic law forbids music (aside from nasheeds, a cappella […]
State Department concerned that Taliban government doesn’t include any women
The naivete and self-delusion of these “foreign policy experts” is apparently bottomless. “State Department voices concerns over all-male Taliban government,” by Celine Castronuovo, The Hill, September 7, 2021: The State Department on Tuesday expressed concerns over the makeup of the new interim Afghan government announced by the Taliban, including the lack of female leaders and […]
France: Cement corporation Lafarge paid $15,300,000 to jihad groups to keep Syria factory running
Financing the jihad for their short-term profit line. A policy that in the long run is nothing less than suicidal. “France’s Lafarge loses ruling in Syria ‘crimes against humanity’ case,” by Eleonore Dermy and Clare Byrne, AFP, September 7, 2021: France’s top court on Tuesday overturned a decision by a lower court to dismiss charges […]
EU: Taliban government not ‘inclusive,’ doesn’t reflect ‘the rich ethnic and religious diversity of Afghanistan’
What did these fond, self-deluded fools really expect? “EU Warns Taliban Govt Not ‘Inclusive And Representative,’” Agence France Presse, September 8, 2021: The European Union on Wednesday said the “caretaker” government unveiled by the Taliban in Afghanistan failed to honour vows from the new rulers to include different groups. “Upon initial analysis of the names […]
How the Associated Press Sanitizes Hamas Terrorists
Words matter. Those who describe Israel as a “colonial-settler state,” an “apartheid regime,” are attempting, by dint of repetition of such phrases, to blacken the image of the Jewish state. They have met, alas, with some success. Similarlly, those who describe every act of islamocriticism as “islamophobia” have been able to intimidate many islamocritics […]
Afghan resistance commander makes U-turn from agreeing to negotiate with Taliban to calling for national uprising
The Taliban is strong-arming its way to legitimacy, engaging in brutality similar to that which has been displayed by the Islamic State. But unlike the Islamic State, the Taliban is openly supported by Islamic countries such as Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Oman, and Iran, as well as by Hamas and even China. According to Al Jazeera, […]
Robert Spencer Video: Muslim Male ‘Refugees’ with Their Child Brides Come to America
With Anni Cyrus.
In the Run-Up to the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, Media Pushing Stories About How Muslims Were the Real Victims
My latest in PJ Media: Saturday marks twenty years since Islamic jihadis attacked New York City and Washington, and the establishment media is doing all it can to ensure that Americans grasp the true significance of those attacks: not that America was hit by a global jihad that has only gained in strength since […]