“They saw ‘no evidence that the UK Government carried out a proper analysis of the nature of the rebellion in Libya.’” Of course it didn’t. There was no way that it could have. Its denial and willful ignorance regarding the motivating ideology behind the rebellion in Libya foredoomed its analysis to failure. It underestimated the […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Why the War On Terror Has Taken 15 Years, and Will Take Much Longer
In PJ Media I explain some of the failures that have gotten us into this fix: This war has gone on for a very long time, and last Sunday, the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 jihad attacks, among all the reminiscences, and eulogies, and encomia, virtually no one attempted to explain why. There’s […]
Gilles Kepel: Keep Those Muslims Satisfied, Keep Europe For Them A Big Rock Candy Mountain
“Islamic Scholar: Europe May Be Heading Toward Civil War,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, September 11, 2016: A French scholar of Islam has a dire warning for Europe, claiming that the third generation of young Muslim men are being increasingly radicalised and may lead the continent into a civil war. “Radicalized” for Gilles Kepel means “Wahabist” […]
On this day, December 7, 1956
This war has gone on for a very long time, and today, in all the reminiscences, and eulogies, and encomia, and lamentations, virtually no one has explained why, for the simple reason that essentially no one among the political and media elites knows why. Yet even the most dire estimates of exactly how long this […]
Hillary: Islamic State saying, “Oh, please, Allah, make Trump president of America”
“We’ve made a judgment, based on a lot of research, that bringing Islam into the definition of our enemy actually serves the purpose of the radical Jihadists, and there’s a lot of evidence of that.” In reality, there is no such research, and could not be: the idea that naming the enemy would play into […]
Hollande: “Nothing in the idea of secularism opposes the practice of Islam in France”
The question is this: is there anything in the idea of Islam that opposes the practice of secularism in France? The answer to that one will surprise Hollande, but he will discover it eventually. “France’s secular laws can accommodate Islam: Hollande,” AFP, September 8, 2016: President Francois Hollande insisted Thursday that France’s strict laws separating […]
Letter to Rachel Maddow: Massive failure on the left
I sent this letter to Rachel Maddow three times over a period of two months (slight edits in each iteration) and have received no response from Maddow or her team. Dear Rachel, In your program on the Orlando terror attack, you made the incredibly important point that Muslims don’t have a lock on bigotry. You […]
Islamic State claims Copenhagen shooting, shooter “sympathized” with jihadis, cops say no evidence it was Islamic State
Nowadays even when jihadis say it was jihad, Western authorities say it wasn’t. What does a poor mujahid have to do these days to get recognized? “IS group claims gun attack in Danish drug neighborhood,” Associated Press, September 4, 2016 (thanks to Lookmann): HELSINKI (AP) — Danish police say they have no evidence that a […]
DHS Secy to Hamas-linked ISNA: “Your story is the quintessential American story”
“You have heard us, before multiple audiences of different political stripes, refuse to bend to the political pressure to call terrorism ‘Islamic’ extremism. We know that ISIL, though it claims the banner of Islam, occupies no part of your religion, which is founded on peace.” He knows that? How does he know that? “Your story […]
Military brass told numerous US soldiers in Afghanistan to ignore child sex abuse by Afghan “allies”
Women are so despised and devalued in Islamic culture that it leads to this sort of thing. And even though this article says that Muslim clerics and the Taliban object to the practice, the Qur’an says that in Paradise, the blessed will be attended not only by the famous virgins, but by boys like pearls […]