“Sri Lanka has expelled over 600 foreign nationals, including around 200 Islamic clerics, since the Easter suicide bombings blamed on a local terror group, a minister told AFP Sunday….Home Affairs Minister Vajira Abeywardena said …’we have reviewed the visas system and took a decision to tighten visa restrictions for religious teachers’”. Kudos to Sri Lankan […]
Canada: Trudeau government omits all references to “Islamist extremism”
“The government has again revised a report that is supposed to update Canadians on the major terrorist threats they face, removing all references to Islamist extremism.” Robert Spencer rightly referenced Justin Trudeau as “Canada’s Obama” upon the Trudeau’s election in 2015. “While the report, first released in December, had initially identified attackers “inspired by violent […]
Sri Lanka: jihadist Easter church bomber spent hours praying in mosque before attack
“Chilling new footage shows the final hours of one of the Sri Lanka bombers as he prepared to carry out a devastating terror attack on Easter Sunday”. Mohammed Nasar Mohammed Azar spent “hours before the attack readying himself in a nearby mosque” and praying; no surprise given the nature of jihadist holy war. Sri Lanka […]
Australia: Jihad-linked group teaches rejection of national anthem, diversity and tolerance in conference
A community hall conference held in Sydney, Australia by Hizb ut-Tahrir, a well known jihadist organization which has been “campaigning for Sharia law”, discouraged children from singing the national anthem and refused to condemn the Islamic State. The event was replete with: gender segregation, the declaration that the national anthem was oppressive to Muslims, support […]
Italy: Salvini proposes security services do more to monitor Islamic cultural centers
“Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has outlined proposals for the security services to do more to observe and root out extremism in the country’s Islamic cultural centres.” It is high time that a Western leader set such an example. The Muslim community should be eager to help and expose jihadist elements and hate preaching from […]
Sri Lanka: authorities seek prominent chief Islamic cleric who justified Easter church bombings in internet broadcast
Authorities in Sri Lanka are searching for a Chief Islamic Cleric “of Vavuniya and Chettikulam divisional mosques” who released an internet video “justifying the Easter bomb attacks”. The cleric reportedly “cited an example from the life of Muhammad to justify the attack”. The global war on terror is rooted in Islamic doctrine. It is a […]
What Makes a Jihadi?
Secular Western analysts of Islamic militancy typically miss the boat when seeking the root causes spurring Muslims to engage in violent jihad. Since the analysts themselves have no galvanizing religious faith upon which they build their lives, they can’t imagine that religious faith could be a serious motivator for anyone else — they are blinded […]
Former resident says of Islamic State: “Of course there were beheadings. It’s based on the Quran.”
It’s really quite straightforward: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) Yet it is still taken for granted among the political and media elites in the West that the Islamic State had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. Those who dissent are defamed, deplatformed, and silenced. It’s a phenomenon we have seen […]
Iran: Grand Ayatollah says Allah has given the worldwide Muslim community “dignity as a result of jihad”
The Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Nouri Hamadani made a new call for Muslims to wage jihad: Referring to the spirit of sacrifice and jihad among the people nation of Iran, His Eminence stated, “Wherever in the world where there is a war is taking place, people with worldly motives go to the frontlines but the martyrs […]
Muslim cleric: “Jihadist doctrine can be traced to specific tenets of orthodox, authoritative Islam”
“The senior member of the world’s biggest Muslim organisation has insisted that Islamophobia is not rooted in racism and that the distrust of Muslims in many countries is a result of Islamist extremism and terrorism throughout the world…..He called for a rejection of Islamic orthodoxy, condemning it as ‘obsolete and problematic’ and ‘fuelling violence on […]