The historian Lyn Julius has just published a piece on “Remembering the Farhud.” Far too few people – perhaps one in a thousand – has ever heard of the Farhud, the two days of mass slaughter of Jews by Arabs in Baghdad on June 1 and 2,1941. This was one of many such mass killings of Jews […]
Bush Terror Plot Shows Why Iraq Travel Ban Was Needed
A travel ban from Islamic terror states made a lot of sense. It just didn’t go far enough. As this latest case shows. An Iraqi citizen living in Columbus, Ohio, has been charged federally with an immigration crime and with aiding and abetting a plot to murder former United States President George W. Bush. Shihab Ahmed […]
The situation of Yezidi survivors of the Islamic State’s genocide in Iraq
“I have taken on the role of father and mother to my younger sisters,” says Yezidi survivor “Hala Safeel,” who lives with her family in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Hala Safeel fled from the grip of the Islamic State (ISIS), , which committed genocide against her Yezidi people, […]
Iraqi Kurdistan: Muslim stabs his sister 28 times for marrying against the will of the family
In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So we intended that their Lord should substitute for […]
George W. Bush Hits the ‘Wholly Unjustified and Brutal Invasion of Iraq. I Mean, of Ukraine.’
New in PJ Media: It was just a slip of the tongue. Or was it? Like so many such slips, it was revealing. Speaking at an event at his presidential center at Southern Methodist University on Wednesday, former President George W. Bush praised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, likened him to Winston Churchill, and then said, “In […]
The Yezidis in Iraq: the government’s neglect is still ongoing
The current number of Yezidis in Iraq is estimated, according to unofficial statistics, to be more than 700,000 people spread over three main regions: Sinjar (Shingal), the largest Yezidi city in Iraq and in the world; the Nineveh plain, which encompasses several areas for Yezidis, of which the most important is Sheikhan, the site of […]
Christian Aid Worker Kidnapped and Held Captive as a Spy in Iraq
New in PJ Media: “Who are you, and what did you come to do here in Iraq?” “We’re a humanitarian organization, and we work to help communities that are victims of war.” “No! You are spies.” Alexandre Goodarzy wasn’t really a spy at all. He was a genuine humanitarian worker, working with a Christian group, […]
Iraq is building a concrete wall along its Syrian border to keep out Islamic State jihadis
Oh, the racism! Oh, the apartheid! “SOHR: Iraq building Syria wall to stop ISIS infiltration,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, March 28, 2022 (thanks to Henry): Iraq is building a concrete wall along part of its border with Syria to stop “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (ISIS) elements from infiltrating, an Iraqi military source […]
Iraq: Islamic State jihad blows up his aunt’s house after she refuses to let him marry her daughter
Here is yet another manifestation of the culture of violence that arises from religious texts which sanction the beating of disobedient women (Qur’an 4:34) and calls upon believers to do violence to those who do not believe (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, 9:5, 9:29, 47:4, etc.). The aunt and her daughter are likely Muslims, but by refusing the […]
Advisor to Iran’s Negotiating Team Celebrates Missile Attack at U.S. Consulate
While Biden tries to cut a deal with Iran, the Islamic terror state keeps amping up the terror with repeated attacks on Americans. As I noted back in January, “On January 3rd, two suicide drones were aimed at the State Department’s Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center near the Baghdad International Airport. Two more terror drones targeted American forces […]