“Nearly 30,000 foreign recruits have now poured into Syria, many to join the Islamic State, a doubling of volunteers in just the past 12 months and stark evidence that an international effort to tighten borders, share intelligence and enforce antiterrorism laws is not diminishing the ranks of new militant fighters.” But don’t be concerned. The […]
Salon: “We are at war with an imaginary Islam”
From Salon comes this particularly lengthy and turgid exercise in Leftist denial of reality. “The United States is at war with a very different, mythic Islam of its own making that has nothing at all to do with this Islam of the Qur’an,” says Raymond William Baker, without bothering to examine the Qur’an at all […]
Pope Francis: “We know that no religion is immune from forms of individual delusion or ideological extremism”
Gary Emerling of U.S. News and World Report thinks he has discovered a double standard: “Obama’s comments were criticized as ‘offensive,’ ‘wrongheaded’ and detached from present-day reality. Of course, it’s more politically acceptable to criticize the president then the pope – time will tell if Francis’ remarks draw a similar response.” Happy to oblige, Gary: […]
Washington Post quotes Islamic apologists’ taqiyya to “prove” Ben Carson wrong about taqiyya
The Washington Post, as credulous and eager to be misled by Islamic supremacists as ever, offers up taqiyya about taqiyya from some of the nation’s leading taqiyya artists. Qur’an 3:28 warns believers not to take unbelievers as “friends or helpers,” “unless that you but guard yourselves against them.” This is a foundation of the idea […]
U.S. soldiers ordered to ignore Afghan allies’ abuse of boys
What are we in Afghanistan for, if not to stand for our own values and the principles of human rights? Instead, U.S. officials are aiding and abetting the destruction of these boys’ lives — and in the case of Lance Corporal Buckley, sacrificing our own troops. This is beyond shameful. “Those are the ones brought […]
For $42 million, “4 or 5” US-trained Syrian “moderates” fighting Islamic State
Why couldn’t U.S. officials find the 5,400 “moderate” fighters that they wanted to train? If the worldwide Muslim condemnations of the Islamic State were genuine, Muslims would be flocking from all over the world to fight against the Islamic State, instead of flocking from all over the world to join it. The abysmal failure of […]
What we have learned since 9/11
Fourteen years have gone by, and what have we learned? Almost immediately, we learned that Islam was a religion of peace. We learned that, despite the explicit statements of the 9/11 hijackers and plotters explaining and justifying their actions by reference to the Qur’an and Muhammad’s example, those hijackers and plotters were not actually motivated […]
“What disturbs people is not the Pope’s authority for his views but his seeming unawareness of opposing evidence”
Will the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops call Fr. Schall on the carpet and demand that he not speak this way? After all, the USCCB works actively and without any apparent sense of shame to silence and discredit those who tell the truth about the jihad threat and the root causes of Muslim persecution of […]
Feds offer youth leadership opportunities to keep young Muslims from joining jihad
“Big Brothers Big Sisters has developed a mentorship program for Somali youth…” This seems to be based on the proposition that young men join the jihad because they lack trusted older people with whom they can talk. That seems to be a stretch. And as for the youth leadership opportunities, no details are given, but […]
Fox’s Shepard Smith: Kim Davis supporters “same crowd that says, ‘We don’t want Sharia law'”
So apparently in Shepard Smith’s ideal world, we have both gay marriage and Sharia. What will Shep says when supporters of Sharia start throwing gays off of tall buildings, as they do in the Islamic State, and in accord with Sharia? Will he continue to deny reality and find some new way to blame “right-wing […]