“How do you pray?” Not that this has anything to do with Islam. Remember: this is all really about a “radical interpretation of Islam” that has “nothing to do with the religion.” “Questions Rebels Use to Tell Sunni From Shiite,” by Alissa J. Rubin, the New York Times, June 24, 2014 (thanks to The Religion […]
UK: Muslims jailed for Sunni-Shi’ite street brawls
This is the future of Britain, courtesy David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Theresa May, Jacqui Smith, Jack Straw et al. There will be more Sunni-Shi’ite violence on British streets, and more jihad violence in general, because of them and their feckless and short-sighted policies. “Hate mob of Islamic extremists jailed over street brawls,” Daily […]
Iran’s Supremo: ISIS and USA have common goal “to create a war in Muslim world”
He might be right about the Sunnis of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, whom he terms “takfiris” — that is, Muslims who declare other Muslims to be infidels. But he is certainly incorrect about the U.S., which is so far from trying to create a war in the Muslim world that it is […]
Petraeus: “This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias”
Petraeus said: “This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.” He is half-right. If the U.S. did intervene, it would indeed be acting as the air force for Shia militias, and for the weak Shia regime in Baghdad. However, the conflict in Iraq […]
ISIS jihadists besiege Iraq’s largest oil refinery
“Some 275 armed American forces are being positioned in and around Iraq to help secure U.S. assets” — this absolutely ridiculous, as 275 troops aren’t going to be able to do anything against either ISIS or the Iranians. The Sunni-Shi’ite jihad is going to play out in Iraq. American intervention to prop up the Maliki […]
Fight breaks out on al-Jazeera; Iraqi Sunni says U.S. “cannot do a thing. Noble Iraqis view the Americans as less than worthless.”
It’s noteworthy that the al-Jazeera host, Faysal Al-Qassem, repeatedly blames the pro-Maliki spokesman, Abu Firas Al-Hamadani, of starting the fight, when clearly the foe of Maliki, Najeh Al-Mizan, is the one who did so. Al-Jazeera, after all, is a Sunni channel. In any case, Najeh Al-Mizan’s words here demonstrate the disgust that Iraqi Sunnis have […]
ISIS jihadi: “Praise to Allah, I killed him. I killed a Shia! I killed a Shia!”
The beliefs that would lead a man to think that he was pleasing his god by committing murder would seem to be a matter of concern to the world, as such beliefs could lead to widespread violence, were they held by a sufficient number of people. But we all know that to examine that belief […]
Hassan Rouhani says Iran ready to aid Shi’ites in Iraq, “can think” of cooperating with U.S.
In other words: “Sure, we’ll accept help from the Great Satan to defeat the Sunnis in Iraq. And Barack Obama just might be fool enough to fall for this, thinking he is pulling off something that he can sell to his media as an act of great statesmanship, turning a decades-long adversary into an ‘ally.’ […]
Pakistan: Sunni Muslim jihadists murder 23 Shia Muslim pilgrims in Baluchistan
Note the headline on the PTI story: “Pakistan: Militants kill 23 Shia Muslim pilgrims in Baluchistan.” The victims’ religion is identified, but the attackers are identified only as “militants.” The mainstream media determinedly portrays Muslims only as victims, never as perpetrators of any misdeed. My headline above is the one that PTI should have dared to […]
Iraq’s Shi’ite Prime Minister calls for jihad against Sunni jihadists
The U.S. did all it could to paper over Sunni-Shi’ite hostility in Iraq, but now it is stronger than ever, exacerbated by the conflict in Syria, which has morphed from being an anti-Assad operation into a Sunni-Shi’ite jihad. American analysts, true to form, underestimated how difficult it would be to heal a 1,400-year-old antagonism. “Iraq […]