On April 13, 2016, I spoke in Ottawa about the Muslim migrant influx and the West’s willful ignorance about Islam and the jihad threat. Here is the full video, courtesy of Vlad Tepes.
Belgian minister equates jihad killers hiding in Brussels with Jews in World War II
Jambon, Jambon, have you heard? Jews during World War II weren’t plotting massacres and boasting of imminent conquest. You are equating the modern-day predator with the World War II-era (and modern) prey. “Belgian Minister Equates Islamic Terrorists Who Hid In Brussels To Jews During WWII,” by Simon Kent, Breitbart News, April 14, 2016: A Belgian […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Minneapolis ‘Moderate Muslim’ Tries to Join ISIS
In PJ Media today I show how the mainstream media is drawing all the wrong conclusions from the case of Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame: The Obama administration, deeply invested in the theory that poverty and lack of economic opportunity cause terrorism, has established a federal program intended to help young Muslims feel less “alienated.” The administration […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Get Him Rewrite, Or Yves Goldstein Reconsiders
A piece in The New York Times (April 7, 2016), about Muslims in Brussels, reported the views of city official Yves Goldstein. The original text is offered (in blockquotes), with interpolated suggested edits (not blockquoted), by way of a taking-to-task rewrite: BRUSSELS — Yves Goldstein makes no excuses for Belgium’s failure to find Salah Abdeslam […]
Algerian PM: “Algeria, while fighting terrorism, doesn’t associate it with Islam”
“The menace of terrorism poses a threat to civilization and Algeria, while fighting terrorism, doesn’t associate it with Islam,” said Sellal. Good. Now if only he could convince the terrorists themselves not to do so. But in that effort, he faces some obstacles: “We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve for […]
Freedom House: Democracy in Europe threatened by “Islamophobia”
Back in 2005, Freedom House issued an important study of Saudi-funded U.S. mosques, finding these mosques to be filled with publications stating that “it is a religious obligation for Muslims to hate Christians and Jews and warn against imitating, befriending, or helping such ‘infidels’ in any way, or taking part in their festivities and celebrations. […]
New Mexico: “Understanding Islam” event at Lutheran church spreads falsehoods about Islam
“Islam, Christianity and Judaism all look to Abraham as the father of our faith traditions,” Carson said. “Understanding one another’s traditions is important to share peace and understanding in our community.” “Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was one inclining toward truth, a Muslim. And he was not of the polytheists.” […]
FBI top dog: Rise of “Islamophobia” a “concerning issue”
On “Islamophobia,” see here. On pandering to the Muslim community in Detroit and counting on Muslims there to aid in counterterror efforts, remember that Hamas-linked CAIR has more than once advised Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. In January 2011, its San Francisco chapter featured on its website a poster that read, “Build A […]
German intel top dog says analysts didn’t expect jihad terrorists to sneak into Europe with migrants
He doesn’t seem to have been kidding, either. This is the level of willful ignorance and incompetence among European elites. They all need to be replaced. Why? In February 2015, the Islamic State boasted it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. Apparently Maassen and his colleagues thought they were issuing an […]
Was Islam Really More Tolerant Than Christianity?
I received an email from “Stan,” who wrote to respond to my article “Donald Trump and Counter-Jihad.” Through Google I discovered that Stan is an Ivy-League-educated PhD. “Counter-jihadists,” Stan wrote, “deny that Islam was indeed more tolerant from the end of the 11th century down to the 17th.” Catholic Church teaching during that period “was […]