My latest at PJ Media: If you’re sensitive to overt displays of “Islamophobia,” avert your eyes: the Turkish publication Daily Sabah reported Tuesday that “U.S. rapper and business mogul Jay Z was spotted exiting a restaurant in Santa Monica, California last week.” This would have been a trivial event of interest only to Jay-Z fans had […]
Kenya: Muslims murder five people, injure dozens as bus drives over roadside IED
Al-Shabaab does this in order to strike terror in the enemies of Allah, which is meant to lead to their submission to the Muslims and Sharia. “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah and your […]
Kenya: In four-day period, five churches in one village burned in arson attacks and smeared with feces
Who could have done this? Is Kenya filled with “right-wing extremists”? Or might it have to do with the people whose holy book teaches them that Christianity is a perverted version of the true teachings of Jesus, that Christians are unbelievers for believing Jesus to be divine (Qur’an 5:17, 5:72), that Jesus is not the […]
‘O Allah kill the disbelievers’: Jihadis in Kenya release video of raid on US base, vow more attacks on US targets
Old Joe has emboldened jihadis not just in Iran, but all over the world. But what is with all the Islamic terminology in the communiques from al-Shabaab quoted below? Don’t these guys know that they have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam? John Kerry should fly his private jet over to Kenya and explain the […]
Kenya: County governor warns that jihad terror group ‘has taken control of over 50 per cent of Northern Kenya’
There is no doubt that al-Shabaab is operating with increasing impunity inside Kenya; see, for example, here and here. Al-Shabaab is also flush with cash, collecting more every month than the Somali government. That means that even if Roba is exaggerating, al-Shabaab is emboldened, and will be even more by the weakness and appeasement of […]
Kenya: Muslims flag down bus looking for Christians, find none, ransack the bus and let it go
The jihadis apparently planned to execute the Christians on the bus, only there weren’t any. This is reminiscent of other incidents, including when the Muslim in Minnesota who asked mall shoppers if they were Muslim and then stabbed non-Muslims. In the Philippines in February 2019, Muslims murdered a man for failing to recite Qur’an verses, while releasing six […]
Kenya: Christians hail mosque named ‘Mosque of Jesus Christ,’ saying it will ‘build peaceful coexistence’
Unfortunately, these Kenyan Christians don’t seem to realize, or don’t wish to, that the naming of this mosque is less a gesture of peaceful coexistence than it is a declaration of supremacism and a manifestation of replacement theology. For the Qur’an in numerous passages presents itself as purporting to correct Christian doctrine. Among those passages […]
Kenya: Muslims open fire on bus, try to separate passengers by religion but discover they’re all Muslims
The jihadis apparently planned to execute the Christians on the bus, only there weren’t any. This is reminiscent of other incidents, including when the Muslim in Minnesota who asked mall shoppers if they were Muslim and then stabbed non-Muslims. In the Philippines in February 2019, Muslims murdered a man for failing to recite Qur’an verses, […]
Kenya: ‘Avoid demonising Muslims and Islam in news stories by using such terms as Islamic terrorists and jihadists’
The problem with this is that Islamic jihadists themselves call themselves jihadists. They may even consider what they do to be terrorism, in line with the Qur’an’s command to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (8:60). To call Islamic jihadists “Islamic jihadists” is not to demonize all Muslims, no matter how often this is […]
Kenya: Muslims defy lockdown for Ramadan, flood into Somalia, where mosques remain open
Kenya now has concerns about an outbreak of the coronavirus, despite having stuck to lockdown rules. That’s because Kenya left its borders open. “Somalia has kept its mosques open during Ramadan despite the coronavirus pandemic, attracting a flood of faithful Kenyans from across the countries.’” This points to the reality of the risk to any […]