Are we stuck in a time warp? For years it has been patently obvious that there are no “moderate” forces among the Syrian “opposition.” Even the New York Times acknowledged this, almost four years ago: “Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of.” (New York Times, April 28, 2013) Nothing has […]
Sam Harris and the collapse of the counter-jihad Left
A few years ago, atheist writer Sam Harris became one of the very few high-profile figures on the Left to break ranks with the Left’s general denial of the jihad threat and willingness to ignore or even excuse the most inhumane Sharia oppression. His calling Islam “the mother lode of bad ideas” on a famous […]
Mosul civilians and children tortured with hammers by US-backed Iraqi “liberators”
As I have pointed out many times, the Obama-backed Syrian “rebels” are not Jeffersonian Democrats. They are jihadis as much as the Islamic State is. They’re just competitors: they want the Islamic state to be theirs. They are unlikely to be outmatched by the Islamic State in brutality and bloodthirstiness in pursuit of Sharia adherence. […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: St. Louis Muslims Put Up Misleading ‘HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK’ Billboard
Outspoken “moderate” U.S. Muslims, finally? No, not at all. My latest in PJ Media: A new billboard in St. Louis proclaims: HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims. Life is sacred. Koran 5:32. At last, is this the moderate Islamic movement that the U.S. and the Western world have been so eagerly waiting for? The seemingly […]
Imam beaten with shoe live on Egyptian TV show for saying Muslim women don’t have to wear veil
Here is yet another indication of why we don’t see more genuine and sincere Muslim reformers. “Shoes and Chairs Go Flying in Egyptian TV Studio When Debate Turns into ‘Freestyle Wrestling,’” MEMRI, September 26, 2016: TV host Mohamed Al-Ghiety complained of exhaustion and of low blood pressure after his two guests, Egyptian lawyer Nabih Al-Wahsh […]
Is Obama Waging a “Narrative Battle” against ISIS or Reality?
According to White House press secretary Josh Earnest, “When it comes to ISIL, we are in a fight—a narrative fight with them. A narrative battle.” Earnest said this the day after two separate bombings occurred in New York, and an ISIS-linked Muslim went on a stabbing spree in Minnesota. Obama’ spokesman later elaborated: … remember […]
Video: American troops forced to flee from US-backed Syrian jihadis screaming “Allahu akbar” and “Death to America”
The Free Syrian Army, according to the Obama administration, is made up of “vetted moderates.” Here are his “vetted moderates” screaming “Allahu akbar,” “Death to America,” “Christians and Americans have no place among us. They want to wage a crusader war to occupy Syria” and “The collaborators of America are dogs and pigs. They wage […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: A Tunisian Moderate Remains, Alas, A Defender of the Faith
“Nobel laureate: Don’t ‘muddle up’ terrorism with Islam,” by Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press, September 2, 2016: Nobel Peace Prize winner Wided Bouchamaoui urged people everywhere on Thursday [September 1] not to “muddle up” terrorism with Islam. The Tunisian businesswoman, who co-founded the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet which won the 2015 peace prize, said Muslims […]
GWU’s “ex-jihadist” Jesse Morton wants to dismantle “entire counterterrorism component of military-industrial complex”
He is “deradicalized,” he has renounced al-Qaeda, he’s comfortably “moderate” now. Now blames the U.S. for jihad terror, wants to dismantle the U.S.’s entire counterterrorism apparatus (such as it is), and wants to provide “holistic socio-pschological [sic] -political-economic alternatives based in the shariah” to fighting against jihad activity. And this man is teaching at George […]
Iraq expels Saudi ambassador for refusing to denounce Islamic State cousin
Saudi Arabia and the Islamic State enforce the same Islamic law. Saudi Arabia has spent uncounted billions spreading around the world the understanding of Islam that the Islamic State teaches. Most Western authorities and counterterror analysts assume that if Muslims are not active members of jihad groups, that they reject jihad violence and are “moderate” […]