Yesterday, on my regular weekly Jihad Watch segment on Michael Coren’s The Arena. Video thanks to Aloha Snackbar 01.
Turkey’s Erdogan to EU: Time to crack down on “Islamophobia”
Erdogan has never called upon Muslim countries to crack down on jihad terror. Nor does he distinguish “Islamophobia” as attacks on innocent Muslims, which are never justified, from “Islamophobia” as honest examination of how jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism. The conflation of those two distinct things by […]
Turkey: Janissary chases Santa out of town in anti-New Year’s celebration
In the Ottoman Empire, the Janissaries were an elite military group made up of men who had as children been taken forcibly from their Christian families and converted to Islam. The Janissaries were often used against their own ancestral people — for jihad attacks against Christian areas. Here, they have become a symbol of rapidly […]
Turkish imam joins the Islamic State
This imam was appointed to his post by Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate. Presumably he had years of training: study of the Qur’an, study of Muhammad, study of Islamic law. And yet now he has gone to join the Islamic State. Has John Kerry been notified of this? Somehow this imam missed all the many ways […]
Islamic State attacks Kobani from Turkey
“It is now clear that Turkey is openly cooperating with Daesh.” Turkey, meanwhile, won’t allow the U.S. to use its territory to fight against the Islamic State. The old Cold War web of alliances is badly outdated. Rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey is no friend of the United States. Turkey wants to take advantage of the chaos […]
Turkey’s science minister: Muslims discovered the earth is round
All this endless chest-thumping about Muslims having discovered this and invented that doesn’t really establish what it is intended to establish: that Islam makes for a great civilization. All it does is beg the question of why, if Muslims accomplished all this, they didn’t do anything with it. Muslims discovered the earth was round, and […]
Pope calls for fighting hunger and poverty as key to stopping jihadists
Alleviating hunger and poverty won’t end jihad terrorism. The Pope here is repeating the oft-refuted notion that poverty causes terrorism. CNS News noted in September 2013 that “according to a Rand Corporation report on counterterrorism, prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2009, ‘Terrorists are not particularly impoverished, uneducated, or afflicted by […]
US discussing training Free Syrian Army members with Turkey
The U.S. and Turkey are discussing Turkey’s training of 2,000 Free Syrian Army rebels — to fight the Islamic State. In July 2013, Free Syrian Army fighters entered the Christian village of Oum Sharshouh and began burning down houses and terrorizing the population, forcing 250 Christian families to flee the area. Worthy News reported that […]
Smuggler says he sends Islamic State jihadis to Europe via Turkey
“The Western world thinks there is no ISIS in their countries — that all the jihadis have gone to fight and die in Syria. But this man said, ‘No. We are sending our fighters to take their places.’” “Smuggler Says He Sent ISIS Fighters To Europe,” by Mike Giglio and Munzer al-Awad, BuzzFeed, November 11, 2014: […]
Turkish journalist: Charge of “racism” and “Islamophobia” are “accusations bullies always use to silence people who disagree with them”
Important truths enunciated by a courageous Turkish journalist. “The West’s Dangerous Enchantment with Islam: Muslim Women Thrown ‘Under the Bus,’” by Uzay Bulut, Gatestone Institute, November 9, 2014: The loudest voices in the West now seem to come from many progressives who say that criticizing of Islam is racist, intolerant, bigoted and Islamophobic. Injustices, they […]