A whole lot of rocket launcher orders just got put on hold. “State Department freezes Obama’s $221m gift to Palestinians,” World Israel News, January 25, 2017: The Trump administration has frozen Obama’s parting gift to the the Palestinians. Former US President Barack Obama, in his waning hours, quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority […]
Imam at Trump’s prayer service recited Qur’anic condemnation of Jews and Christians
The final two verses of the Fatiha ask Allah: “Guide us to the straight path, the path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked anger or of those who are astray.” The traditional Islamic understanding of this is that the “straight path” is Islam — cf. Islamic apologist […]
Trump expected to order ban on immigration from jihadi hotspots
Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. This is common sense in order to defend the U.S. from jihad terror, but Hiroshi Motomura at UCLA School of Law says that “legal arguments could claim the executive orders discriminate against a particular religion, which would be unconstitutional.” That is not necessarily true. The Constitution doesn’t […]
Trump affirms support for Egypt’s fight against terror in phone call with Sisi
Sisi’s regime isn’t perfect. Muslims are still brutalizing Christians in Egypt, and the government has done little to protect this despised and defenseless minority. At the same time, Sisi is a bulwark against political Islam in the Middle East. With Turkey rapidly re-Islamizing and the Islamic State still in the picture, that is important. So […]
Robert Spencer: Trump’s History-Changing Vow to Eradicate ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism’
Honest discussion of the truth, not a moment too soon. My latest in PJ Media: President Trump first said it during his inaugural address: We will … unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth. The establishment media has been too involved with comparing […]
Pope likens Trump to Hitler, warns of “walls and barbed wire”
Mr. Bergoglio, tear down that Vatican wall! The Pope said these things as Trump was being inaugurated. His point was unmistakable. He said: “The Germans at that time also wanted to protect themselves with ‘walls and barbed wire so that others cannot take away their identity.’” This is an extraordinarily strained analogy. Hitler after 1940 […]
Berlin: Anti-Trump non-Muslim feminists chant “Allah akbar” at Women’s March
Not “Allahu akbar,” but “Allah akbar,” which was the indication that the one doing the chanting was non-Muslim. These Leftist women think that by chanting “Allah akbar,” they are standing in solidarity with Muslims, whom they think are oppressed in the U.S., or about to be oppressed by President Trump. They either don’t know or […]
The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America’s Ominous Post-Election Statement
Introduction The purpose of this article is to decipher the ominous, but heavily camouflaged language embedded within the English text of a recent scholarly document, published on the website of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA), which is entitled Post-Election Statement: Principles and Roadmap (aka the Roadmap). As a 40-year specialist in the […]
Trump at CIA: “We have to get rid of ISIS. We have no choice….This is a level of evil that we haven’t seen”
“We have to get rid of ISIS. We have no choice. Radical Islamic terrorism, and I said it yesterday, has to be eradicated, just off the face of the earth. This is evil. This is evil….This is a level of evil that we haven’t seen. And you’re going to go it and you’re going to […]
Fighting for willful ignorance: Obama allies working to undermine Trump’s national security team
As I noted here, the attempt to restore sanity and truth to the U.S. response to the jihad threat is going to encounter fierce resistance from the forces of obscurantism and willful ignorance. “Obama Allies Working to Undermine Trump’s National Security Team,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, January 21, 2017: Democrats loyal to former […]