“Veterans, troubled by rhetoric, rally support of Muslims” reads the headline to a story in the print edition of today’s Boston Sunday Globe (online yesterday it was “Local veterans hold rally in support of Muslims.”) It described a group, Veterans for Peace, that felt it simply had to stand up on behalf of Muslims in […]
UK journalist decides not to report Islamic State sympathizer to police because he was so nice
“Also, considering the state we now find ourselves in, we cannot go crying to the police about every little IS sympathiser we come across on the high street. The system wouldn’t be able to cope.” That should have set off warning alarms for her and others in Britain, but it didn’t, and won’t. And so […]
Bishop of San Diego challenges Catholics to combat “anti-Islamic bigotry”
Bishop McElroy assures us: “‘I want to underscore that it is not bigotry to fear or to combat the violence and terror which some Muslims in the world have unleashed in the name of faith,’ he explained, while acknowledging that some Christians also have attempted to use their faith to justify acts of violence.” Which […]
Belgium: 100 Muslims riot at migrant reception center over woman’s refusal to wear headscarf
The Belgian Secretary of State for Asylum, Migration and Administrative Simplification, Theo Francken, said: “I find it totally unacceptable that some young Afghans find it necessary to tell Syrian girls to wear a headscarf and that they should not dress like western girls. They come here, they are guests here. We are not theirs. They have […]
5,000 active Islamic State jihadists at large in EU, Europol top dog says no evidence jihadis using refugee crisis to enter Europe
“There is no concrete evidence terrorists are systematically using the flow of refugees to infiltrate Europe.” Then where did these 5,000 come from? Were they all born and raised in Europe? If so, you’ve got a much bigger problem on your hands than you think, Wainwright. “5,000 ISIS jihadists at large in the EU: Europol […]
Belgium: Muslim teen rapes woman two weeks after attending course on how to treat Western women
What? The course on how to treat Western women didn’t convince him that he should discard his Islamic beliefs about Infidel women and uncovered women — beliefs that he believes derive from commands of the creator of the universe? It’s utterly unexpected! “Teenage Afghan migrant, 16, ‘rapes worker at Belgian asylum centre two weeks after […]
John Kerry meets with Hollywood studio chiefs to discuss the Islamic State
Kerry tweeted that the meeting was about how to counter the Islamic State’s narrative. So apparently there will now be movies that make the point that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam: pious Muslim clerics fighting nobly and indefatigably against the Islamic State, and the like. During World War II, Hollywood educated […]
Pope and Patriarch of Moscow decry persecution of Mideast Christians, don’t name persecutor, call for dialogue
The Pope and the Patriarch of Moscow met in Havana. What an interesting choice for a meeting place. Were they reporting to their superiors? Anyway, while there, they decried the Muslim persecution of Middle Eastern Christians. To them, however, it isn’t the Muslim persecution of Christians, but just the persecution of Christians by some mysterious […]
US Catholic Bishops launch National Catholic-Muslim Dialogue, partnering with groups linked to Hamas and MB
“The current regional Catholic-Muslim dialogues are the Mid-Atlantic (partnering with the Islamic Circle of North America), Midwest (partnering with the Islamic Society of North America) and West Coast (partnering with the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California and the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County). Each is co-chaired by a bishop and a Muslim leader […]
Robert Spencer in FP: Syrian Archbishop to West: “Why Are Your Bishops Silent?”
Silent about a threat that is theirs today as well. My column in FrontPage today: Jean-Clément Jeanbart, the Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo, gave a recent interview with a French reporter, in which he was highly critical of the mainstream media and even of his fellow bishops for ignoring the Muslim persecution of Middle […]