A doctor? But…but…poverty causes terrorism! He just needed some economic opportunities and all would have been well! “NHS doctor who became Taliban commander killed ‘in drone strike,’” by Robert Verkaik and Robert Mendick, the Telegraph, March 14, 2015 An NHS doctor who skipped bail to join the Taliban has been killed in a counter-terrorism offensive […]
Pakistan Taliban: “Muslims are commanded by Allah to keep their enemies terrorized”
Here is a justification of terrorism, argued on the basis of the claim that it is a strategy of warfare, universally practiced, and that it is commanded in the Qur’an and was practiced by Muhammad. The article makes reference to Muhammad’s beheading of 600 Jews of the Qurayzah tribe — an incident Islamic apologists in […]
State Department refuses to say if Taliban attack on Americans was a terrorist attack
The Obama Administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that the Taliban is a terrorist group, because it knows that with the reduction of the American presence in Afghanistan will come an increase in the Taliban’s power. The more Americans remember that we went in there to fight the Taliban, the more the whole enterprise will look […]
White House: Taliban not a terrorist group
You may recall, even though it was so very long ago, that before 9/11, the Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan and was known to be involved in training jihad terrorists for mass murder plots outside Afghanistan. There were al-Qaeda training camps in Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan. The Taliban has blown up girls’ schools […]
Taliban crow over “the defeat of the infidel Western military alliance”
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said: “Isaf rolled up its flag in an atmosphere of failure and disappointment without having achieved anything substantial or tangible.” That is certainly true. The Taliban also said: “It should be emphasized that due to the blessed Jihad most of the involved nations excluding America have withdrawn all of their troops […]
Pakistan agrees on new antiterrorism plan, pledges to “eradicate Taliban”
Maybe the Peshawar jihad massacre really has awakened the Pakistani leadership, and maybe the Pakistanis really will take effective action against the Taliban now. But the jury is still out. After all, Pakistan’s ISI spy service planned jihad terror attacks on U.S. and Israeli consulates in India, and has been involved with other jihad attacks. […]
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 […]
Taliban spokesman: “The Peshawar attack is in complete accordance with the Prophet’s teachings”
According to Hindol Sengupta, the Editor-at-Large at Fortune India, Taliban spokesman Muhammad Khorasani has justified the Peshawar jihad massacre by likening it to Muhammad’s massacre of the Jewish Qurayzah tribe. Khorasani says: “The Mujahideen were instructed to only kill the older children. The Peshawar attack is in complete accordance with the Prophet’s teachings because when […]
Pakistan school: Jihadis screamed “Allahu akbar” as they murdered children
They believed that in murdering these children, they were pleasing their bloodthirsty god who commands them to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60) and to kill apostates, heretics, those who sow corruption, and so many other groups of human beings. “‘I saw death so close,’” AFP, December 16, 2014: […]
Pakistan: Jihadis burn teacher alive in front of students, behead children
The death toll is now over 130. The jihadis set off a jihad-martyrdom suicide bomb that killed a number of students, while beheading others and making students watch as a teacher was burned alive. They believe that all this pleases their god, because it “strikes terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an […]