Breitbart reported last week that “the US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), Al Nusra Front, and the Islamic State have paired together in order to fight President Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian Armed Forces, according to statements from multiple commanders from within the FSA. ‘We are collaborating with the Islamic State and the Nusra Front by attacking the […]
Obama: “The American forces do not and will not have a combat mission” against the Islamic State
So who does? Apparently he expects the friends and allies of the Islamic State to fight against the Islamic State. “Obama reaffirms opposition to US combat in Iraq,” by Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press, September 17, 2014: TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama reaffirmed Wednesday that he does not intend to send U.S. troops into […]
Holder announces pilot programs to counter “violent extremism”
Holder apparently never explained what kind of “violent extremism” he hopes to counter. Susan Jones of CNS News writes that it “sounds like he wants law enforcement and community leaders to meet regularly, to share information on people who may have traveled overseas to join ISIS, or on people who may be plotting attacks right […]
Obama’s “not Islamic” Islamic State claim ridiculed
As well it should be. The disconnect between the statements of the administration — and the government and media establishment in general — and reality is increasingly large, and Americans are noticing in increasing numbers. “Obama’s ‘not Islamic’ Islamic State Claim Ridiculed,” IPT News, September 11, 2014: President Obama’s assertion Wednesday night that the Islamic […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: 9/11 and the Fog of Denial
In FrontPage Mag this morning, I explain why we are in a more precarious position than ever, thirteen years after 9/11. Thirteen years after 9/11, there is one thing that virtually all our politicians, law enforcement officials, and mainstream media guardians of opinion know: that attack had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, and neither […]
Obama: The Islamic State “is not ‘Islamic'”
“No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL’s victims have been Muslim.” It is good of Obama to try to explain exactly how the Islamic State is not Islamic, especially with Muslims from the U.S. trying to go to Iraq and Syria and join it. One of those supporters of […]
Obama and Turkey’s Erdogan discuss the importance of “combating the scourge of anti-Semitism”
When two staunch foes of Israel like Obama and Erdogan discuss combating anti-Semitism, they are either performing for the cameras or mean that they need to put yet more pressure on Israel. For in the view of Leftists and Islamic supremacists, if there is any anti-Semitism, it is because of the alleged misdeeds of Israel. […]
Obama: Jihadist ally of Islamic State will confront Islamic State militarily
More fantasy-based policymaking from Obama. He says that the Free Syrian Army will provide the ground troops to fight the Islamic State. He (and everyone else in Washington) ignores the fact that the Free Syrian Army is working with the Islamic State. “Obama to Present Case for Broader U.S. Mission Against Militants,” by Julie Hirschfeld […]
Obama: Sunni states should fight Islamic State because “that’s not what Islam is about”
If Sunni states do take up arms against the Islamic State, it will not be because “that’s not what Islam is about,” but because it is not in the interests of states like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey to acknowledge a caliph and give up their sovereignty, and because significant elements of the populations of […]
Obama: We will defeat the Islamic State like we did al-Qaeda
The defeated al-Qaeda just announced the opening of a new branch in India. “Obama: We will defeat ISIS like we did al-Qaeda,” AFP, September 5, 2014: US President Barack Obama said Friday he was confident he could gather a broad international coalition to defeat Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria, following two days of […]