What could go wrong? I was ridiculed when some years ago in my book, Among Criminal Muslims: A Psychologist’s Experiences from Copenhagen Municipality, I claimed that many criminal Muslims were religious. More about me and my research here. Naser Khader, who was an MP when my book was published, reviewed the book with the words “Read […]
Saudi Arabia: Islamic State claims bombing that killed 20 in Shia mosque
The Islamic State continues to advance and strike with apparent impunity. They could be mounting attacks like this one in the U.S. before too long, and then Obama can boast about how there were fewer Islamic State strikes in the U.S. over the past six months than there had been in the previous six. “Saudi […]
Pakistan: Islamic State jihadis murder 45 Ismaili Shias in jihad attack on bus
The Ismailis provoked them by being Ismailis, you see. How dare they poke them in the eye in such a way? Didn’t they realize that their being Ismaili was offensive to these jihadists? They have no one to blame but themselves. So goes the reasoning of those who blame us for the jihad attack on […]
Islamic State declares caliphate in Yemen, vows to “cut throats of Houthis”
Iraq and Syria, Libya, Yemen, Nigeria, the Philippines — but nothing to be concerned about: Obama and John Kerry and David Cameron and every other Western leader assures us that it has nothing to do with Islam. “ISIS Says It’s Established A Caliphate In Yemen,” by Jamie Tarabay, Vocativ, April 24, 2015: Supporters of the […]
Sunni mosques in Yemen call for jihad against Shi’ite Houthis: “Allahu akbar! Rise for jihad!”
But surely they mean an interior spiritual struggle, or getting the kids to school on time, right? After all, Hamas-linked CAIR said that’s what jihad is all about, and they wouldn’t lie to us, would they? Anyway, as Lookmann, who sent this to me, “This cannot be. How can a “House of God,” a “House […]
Islamic State mass graves may contain corpses of 1,700 Shi’ite soldiers
“What savage barbarian could kill 1,700 persons in cold blood?” asked Khalid al-Atbi, an Iraqi health official. “Savage”? Careful, al-Atbi, or you will tarred as a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” And you should know that the Islamic State was only trying to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60). And why […]
Yemen: Al-Qaeda announces “Jihad against Shiites”
You thought this was already going on? So did everyone else. “Yemen : Al-Qaeda announces ‘Jihad against Shiites,’” Middle East Confidential, April 6, 2015: The crises in Yemen is slowly becoming a triangular affair after militants of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) took over large parts of Mukalla, the capital of Hadramawt province in […]
Imam of Mecca’s grand mosque calls for all-out war against Shi’ites and Christians
The imam of the grand mosque in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam? How did Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Sudais miss all the Qur’an’s peaceful teachings that Barack Obama, John Kerry, and David Cameron find so easily? “Muslim Cleric Calls for ‘All-Out War,’” by Riyadh Mohammed, The Fiscal Times, April 2, 2015: …Amid the ongoing Sunni-Shiite […]
Friedman’s Fantasy
“A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.” – Arthur Miller, from Death of a Salesman Writing of America’s relationship with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s Iran, Efraim Karsh recounts that, “So entrenched had the idea of this Iranian-American symbiosis become that successive US administrations came to view Iranian interests as indistinguishable […]
Saudis order imams to preach against Yemeni Shia as “enemies of Islam”
Because branding one’s foes “enemies of Islam” is the quicket and surest way to get the rank and file riled up. Sunni-Shi’ite Jihad Update: “Saudi Arabia Enlists Imams In Yemen War,” Vocativ, March 29, 2015: The Saudi Arabian government sent memos to mosques across the country this week ordering religious leaders to use their sermons […]