Despite Trump’s criticized temporary “Muslim ban” and the American Civil Liberties Union launching a legal challenge to the ban in federal court, “tens of thousands” of Middle Eastern refugees and their families are headed to America over the next few years: The first group of 1,250 mostly male Middle Eastern refugees is expected to soon […]
Al-Qaeda wants Trump “dead or alive” for “crimes against Islam”
Pope Francis and H.R. McMaster are on their way to Pakistan now to explain to Ayman al-Zawahiri that al-Qaeda has nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with Islam. “‘Dead or Alive’: President Trump Appears on Al-Qaeda Wanted Notice,” by Jack Moore, Newsweek, September 19, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Al-Qaeda has had a resurgence […]
Robert Spencer: Why Trump Shouldn’t Have Signed the Resolution Condemning ‘Hate Groups’
Anyone the SPLC decides to target now could be at risk. My latest in PJ Media: On Thursday, President Trump signed a congressional resolution about the events that took place in Charlottesville, VA, in August: Resolution … expressing support for the Charlottesville community, rejecting White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other […]
Trump announces new entry restrictions on Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen
This is fine, since there are only two choices: keep out some harmless people or let in some harmful people. Trump is choosing the former, but if he really wants to keep jihadis out, he is going to have to extend the restrictions eventually to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. “Trump administration announces new travel restrictions,” […]
London’s Muslim mayor says Trump’s rhetoric is like that of the Islamic State
Khan to Trump: “They [the Islamic State] say that there is a clash of civilisations, it is not possible to be a Muslim and a westerner, and the west hates us. And you are inadvertently playing their game, you are helping them.” This is a straw man. Trump has never said that it is not […]
Trump administration considering dropping Pakistan as an ally
Long overdue and much needed. “US weighs dropping Pakistan as an ally,” by Katrina Manson, Financial Times, September 15, 2017: The Trump administration is considering dropping Pakistan as an ally as it examines tough measures to quell more than 20 terrorist groups it says are based in the country. Officials familiar with the Pakistan prong […]
Iran decries “cowboy” Trump’s “ignorant hate speech” at UN
The Islamic Republic of Iran and the international Left both term honest discussion of the jihad threat and determination to counter it “hate speech.” “Iran Lashes Out at ‘Cowboy’ Trump After U.N. Speech,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, September 20, 2017: Senior Iranian leaders verbally attacked President Donald Trump late Tuesday and early Wednesday […]
Trump at UN: “We will stop radical Islamic terrorism”
“We will stop radical Islamic terrorism because we cannot allow it to tear up our nation, and indeed, to tear up the entire world.” A good sign that he has not, as has been widely suspected, turned against the principles that got him elected. Will he now allow law enforcement and intelligence agencies to study […]
Trump to sign resolution condemning “White nationalists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups”
Great idea, right? No sane person supports the Klan and neo-Nazis. But here again we see the palsied hand of the Southern Poverty Law Center. When perfectly legitimate organizations are falsely classified as “hate groups” and lumped in with the KKK and neo-Nazis by that well-heeled hate and smear machine, against whom will “all available […]
McMaster sparked a row with the Israeli delegation at a White House meeting on Hizballah
Why Trump keeps McMaster on is a mystery. But clearly the General has won the day, and turned the President from his earlier resolve to confront the jihad threat realistically. The denial and willful ignorance regarding the motivating ideology of the threat, which has prevailed now for sixteen years, continues. It is the pathway to […]