Hmmm. What has changed that has made jihadis feel more emboldened? It’s a real head-scratcher… “First big suicide attack in Baghdad for 3 years kills at least 32,” Reuters, January 21, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): BAGHDAD — Two men blew themselves up in a crowded Baghdad market on Thursday, killing at least […]
Shi’ite Hizballah Brigades ‘advisors of the Islamic resistance’ offer to train ‘liberation movements’ inside US
Iran and its Shia proxies are more emboldened and brazen than ever before, in anticipation of the billions of dollars that will soon be coming to the Islamic Republic after the Biden administration reenters the Iran deal and lifts sanctions. Jihad training camps are nothing new in America. What is new, however, is the boldness […]
Baghdad: Iran-backed militia breaks coronavirus restrictions to hold ‘million person march’ honoring Soleimani
Austere coronavirus shutdown measures in Iraq crippled the economy over the holiday season, much the same as everywhere else: “Iraqi officials had banned all gatherings on New Year’s Eve and recently shut down travel into Iraq from eight nations with high levels of coronavirus cases, including Iran. Restaurants and other ‘social’ businesses cannot currently operate due to […]
Iran to host ‘Heroes of Global Counter-Terrorism’ festival celebrating Soleimani and Muhandis in Iraq
Of course the terror leaders are heroes of global counter-terrorism, just as the quintessential Washington establishment swamp rat is going to bring reform to the U.S. government. Come on, man! “Festival on ‘Champions of world Counter-Terrorism’ will be held in Baghdad,” Ahlul Bayt News Agency, December 28, 2020 (thanks to Henry): AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): […]
Pope Francis Plans Visit to Lebanon, Iraq, and South Sudan
Pope Francis has announced plans to soon visit – though no dates were given – Lebanon and South Sudan – but without explaining why these two countries are being singled out. He has already scheduled a visit to Iraq at the beginning of March. The report on his plans is here: “Pope promises to visit […]
Rockets likely fired by Iran-backed jihadis hit US Embassy in Baghdad’s Green Zone
The mullahs of Iran would like to welcome His Fraudulency President-select Joe Biden to the Oval Office, and to put him on notice that he better be ready to jump to do their bidding, or else. “Rockets fired at U.S. embassy land inside Baghdad’s Green Zone, damaging compound,” by Ahmed Rasheed and Hesham Abdul Khalek, […]
Iraq: Islamic groups firebomb 14 Baghdad alcohol shops, ‘these groups want the last Christians to leave the country’
Alcohol is considered haram in Islam (Quran 2:219, 4:43 and 5:90-91). The “booze bombings” have, however, sparked discussions about whether they are because of “turf wars for control of the lucrative niche trade in the Muslim majority country,” or are the work of Sharia morality police. “Most businesses are run by Christians or Yazidis, minorities […]
Muslim cleric: ‘We welcomed the takeover of ISIS because they wanted to implement the Sharia’
We are constantly told in the West that jihad terrorists, and the Islamic State (ISIS) in particular, have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, and that Sharia is completely compatible with the freedoms Western societies have historically protected. So how did Shifa al-Nima get the crazy idea that ISIS was implementing Sharia properly? Will Noah […]
Iraq: Iran-backed jihad terror groups cheer prospect of Biden presidency
Assured by the mainstream media coverage declaring Democratic candidate Joe Biden winner of the U.S. presidential race, Iran-backed terrorist groups in Iraq feel emboldened. The prospect of President Donald Trump leaving the White House, as portrayed by the U.S. and world media, comes as a relief to Iraq-based pro-Iranian terror militias. The Iranian regime is […]
Archbishop of Mosul decries EU’s silence on persecuted Christians, ‘I am more afraid for Europe than I am for Iraq’
Archbishop Najeeb Michaeel Moussa of Mosul, Iraq states in this important and incisive interview that “the European Union has undoubtedly lagged behind the European peoples who have courageously mobilized to express their solidarity with the Christians of the East in general and the Christians of Iraq in particular.” He also states: “I think that the […]