UPDATED 9:30PM EST – NBC News announces one suspect may be a man named “Sayed Farook”. On CNN, Former CIA case officer Robert Baer said “the most disturbing aspect of the deadly San Bernardino shooting is that it was carried out using tactics that are employed in the Middle East.” NBC reports name of one […]
Turkey denies widespread report that intel chief advocated establishing consulate for ISIS
The disputed report reads, in part, “Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization… said that it is imperative that ISIS must set up a consulate or at least a political office in Istanbul,” and “we must stop Putin from crushing the Islamic revolution.” Even if the report is false, it highlights global concerns over Turkey’s […]
Putin: Turkish leadership purposefully supports Islamization of country
Putin has also accused Erdogan of being an “accomplice of terrorists.” Hard to deny that. Turkey’s rapid re-Islamization under Erdogan has been documented by Robert Spencer here at Jihad Watch for a decade or more now. For Putin to target Turkey’s Islamist shift demonstrates yet again the Russian leader’s clarity and toughness, as juxtaposed with the West’s politically correct myopia and […]
Islamic State video threatens Georgians with beheadings, caliphate
The nation of Georgia is home to one of the earliest Christian churches, with apostolic roots in the 1st century, its formal founding dating from the early 4th century. The Georgians have a long memory, and are likely thinking back to when Muslim invaders conquered Tbilisi in 1227. The Islamic State video references that slaughter — infamous for […]
Italian Police: Muslim Migrants Threw Christians Overboard
This crime is identical to this story from back in April 2015. How many such Muslim attacks on migrant Christians go unreported? I wrote at that time: The Muslim attack on Christians in a migrant boat crossing the Mediterranean is a sign of our times, a dark symbol and metaphor for a future which is […]
Assyrians of Paris: ‘There are now many jihadists in France. We have the impression of being invaded…’
“The entire Assyrian community is hugely disappointed and angry with the French Government. Government inaction has resulted in the problems in Syria and Iraq coming to France. The French authorities have been entirely reactive, not proactive. They have not anticipated, but waited until the problems were on their doorstep… We made public protests last year. […]
Mark Durie: Paris attacks not ‘nihilism’ but ‘sacred strategy’
One of the most important Christian writers on Islam and the global Muslim persecution of Christians, Anglican pastor and theologian Mark Durie, weighs in on the struggle to accurately render the meta-narrative concerning the Paris Jihad Attacks. For a variety of reasons, there are a great many policymakers, media analysts, elected officials and ordinary citizens who are […]
Avenging the Defeated Caliphate: The Significance of November 13 in the Paris Attacks
Did the Muslim jihadists in Paris choose November 13 for its symbolic value in planning their attacks? Over at Terror Trends Bulletin, a brief but weighty post conveys what to most of us is a forgotten historical footnote (Thanks to Emanuel): The Historical Significance of November 13th in Islam: On November 13, 1918 the Allied troops […]
Maronite Patriarch of Antioch: Muslims want to conquer Europe with ‘faith and the birthrate’
The cardinal said that “Muslims look on Christians as weak and believe that since they have no children and barely practice their faith, Islam will easily conquer them. Sadly, Muslims take their faith more seriously than most Christians, and they are gaining ground because of it.” And the weaker Christians and Westerners look, the more conquering […]
Jerusalem Mufti denies Temple Mount ever housed the Jewish Temple
Islamic “Replacement Theology” in its most extreme form, courtesy of an Abbas-appointed cleric. “Jerusalem mufti: Temple Mount never housed Jewish Temple,” by Ilan Ben Zion, The Times of Israel, October 25, 2015: Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein says Al-Aqsa Mosque has been atop disputed holy site ‘since creation of the world’ The grand mufti of Jerusalem, […]