Gatestone Institute Wherever U.S. leadership has helped Islamic jihadis topple secular autocrats in the name of “democracy and freedom,” indigenous Christian minorities are being forced to convert to Islam or die. Many are accepting death. Most recently, on August 28 near Aleppo, the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) tortured, mutilated, publicly raped, beheaded and crucified […]
Islamic State launches jihad attack on Libyan airport
“In June the IS affiliate seized the coastal city of Sirte, 450 kilometers east of Tripoli, vanquishing in the process one of strongest battalions, the 166th, from the militia-rich town of Misrata, a key backer of the Tripoli government.” But don’t be concerned: Barack Obama says they’re losing! “Islamic State Launches Attack on Libyan Airport,” […]
ISIS abducts 12 Egyptians in Libya
The Islamic State in Libya has abducted 12 more Egyptians. They were reportedly laborers preparing to return back to Egypt. According to RT Arabic, the Egyptians were abducted in Sirte, late in the evening of Sunday, September 13. Coptic Christians are among those kidnapped. The Egyptian ministry has not issued a statement either confirming or […]
Islamic State takes Libyan port city
Its “refugee” incursions into Europe will now only intensify. Among the “refugees” will be untold numbers of jihadis. There is no telling how many Europeans will die violent deaths as a result. “Black flags on Europe’s doorstep: Inside ISIS’s new capital Sirte on Libya’s coast,” by Tom Batchelor, Sunday Express, August 15, 2015 (thanks to […]
Islamic jihadists murder seven with car bomb as the Islamic State presses offensive to retake Derna
“It was not immediately clear whether Islamic State was responsible for the car bomb.” It could have been rival jihadists. In either case, this is the Libya that is Barack Obama’s legacy: his policies are responsible for the chaos there, as well as for the rise of the Islamic State there and elsewhere. “Car bomb […]
Islamic State executes another Copt in Libya?
According to sources in Libya, there are unconfirmed reports, including from the Libyan Herald, that on July 23rd, the Islamic State executed another Egyptian Christian they seized over a week ago at a road block near Nufaliya, an Islamic State stronghold southeast of the city of Sirte. Bekhit Nageh Efrank Ebeid, a 25 year old laborer, […]
Border walls rise across Mideast as jihad threat shakes nations
Will the UN denounce these security barriers as “apartheid walls”? Or does only Israel come in for such treatment? “Border walls rise across Mideast as jihad threat shakes nations,” Bloomberg News, July 23, 2015: CAIRO — As they confront the rising threat of modern jihadist violence, many of the nations most at risk are retreating […]
Islamic State in Libya kidnaps three Christian workers
Kidnapping infidels and releasing them for ransom or enslaving them, as well as killing them if that option is deemed most advantageous for the Muslims, is fully sanctioned in Islamic law: “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them […]
Islamic State in Libya puts up billboards ordering women to be fully veiled
Muslims must not wear anything that might “resemble the attire of unbelievers.” The Islamic State in these billboards insists that it wants all of life to be regulated according to Sharia, Islamic law. Yet Western leaders persist in insisting that the international Islamic State phenomenon, growing more lethal by the day, has nothing to do […]
FOIA docs prove Obama and Hillary concocted Benghazi video lie with jihadist help
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton charges that Benghazi attack-related documents do not support President Obama’s narrative of the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack: “We haven’t found any records or any intelligence that the video had anything to do with the Benghazi attacks.” The Obama administration held to the false Benghazi story until it was debunked […]