“Security forces raid a small southern town known as one of the recruiting centres that have sent hundreds of French youths to fight in Syria and Iraq.” Lunel is a town of 30,000 and it has sent hundreds of “French youths” — that is, young Muslims who have no allegiance to France at all — […]
Sydney siege jihadi to packed house at mosque: “Society should behave in an Islamic manner”
This story is an interesting example of how the mainstream media tries to obscure and downplay the nature and magnitude of the global jihad, and particularly to deny its Islamic character. We’re told that Man Haron Monis gave a lecture to a “packed prayer hall in Western Sydney.” Yet we’re also told that he was […]
UK: Neighbor says people at house raided by counter-terror police “go to the mosque every Friday”
“They go to the mosque every Friday.” What? But David Cameron has told the UK’s Muslims that jihad terrorism has nothing to do with Islam. How could they have misunderstood the teachings of that renowned imam? And why didn’t the vast majority of peaceful Muslims in the Bedford mosque rise up against these jihad terror […]
Oklahoma City beheader’s mosque imam claims he has a “certificate of ‘Apostolic Succession'”
Apostolic succession is a Christian doctrine: it is the idea that the bishops are successors of the apostles and derive their authority from those apostles. Catholicism and Orthodoxy, as well as the ancient Oriental Churches and some others, hold that only those bishops who hold a valid succession from an apostle have any legitimate authority […]
Pakistan: Muslim cleric says fight against Taliban is “un-Islamic”
Now wait a minute. In the West, both Muslim and non-Muslim leaders constantly tell us that groups like the Taliban are un-Islamic, and that anyone who dares to suspect otherwise is a racist, bigoted Islamophobe. Now Abdul Aziz is saying the exact opposite. Is he ignorant of the contents of the books he is waving […]
As jihadis took hostages in Sydney cafe, police were doing outreach at mosque
Bitter irony. One thing you can be sure of is that these police officers who were touring the Lakemba mosque were not challenging Muslim leaders to teach against the ideology of the Islamic State that they ostensibly reject. As the hostage situation in Australia began, many Sydney police officers were busy conducting outreach in a […]
Madrid’s largest mosque was jihad recruitment center led by ex-Gitmo prisoner
A mosque? What? A center of peaceful worship in accord with the peaceful Qur’an of the Religion of Peace? How could this be? Why didn’t the vast majority of peaceful Muslims rise up and throw out these misunderstanders of Islam who were busy twisting and hijacking their peaceful religion? “Madrid mosque was used to recruit […]
Germany: Police close mosque for spreading Islamic State ideology
The mosque’s management is accused of “promoting ISIL values and encouraging young Muslims in the city to travel to Syria and Iraq, and join the ranks of the group, along with Al-Nusra Front.” Egyptian Human Rights Activist Ahmad Harqan recently said that the Islamic State and Boko Haram are following the Qur’an doing “what the […]
Austria: Police raid mosques, arrest 13 for jihad recruitment
Recruiting for the Islamic State was going on in mosques? One might almost get the idea that the Islamic State had something to do with Islam. But of course, that would be “Islamophobic.” “Austrian police arrested 13 men targeting suspected jihad recruiters,” AFP, November 28, 2014: VIENNA (AFP) – Austrian police arrested 13 people and […]
Bulgaria: Mosque raided in jihad incitement probe
A mosque? What’s that? A mosque full of misunderstanders of Islam who somehow got the crazy idea that the Islamic State had something to do with Islam? Has John Kerry or David Cameron heard about this? “Bulgarian mosque raided in jihad incitement probe,” AFP, November 25, 2014: Bulgarian authorities raided a mosque in the south […]