He was “obsessed” with Islam, but according to the mainstream analysis, he got it terribly, terribly wrong. And of course we are also being told that he “had a long history of mental illness.” That was the favored explanation of the French government for jihad attacks several months ago, raising the ever-unanswered question of why […]
UK counter-terror police official was defender of the Islamic State who “despised Britain”
The story of Abdullah al Andalusi, aka Mouloud Farid, aka Wazir Leton Rahman, epitomizes the confusion and willful ignorance of the British political class. The British government wouldn’t be able to distinguish a “moderate” from an “extremist” if its life depended on it, and it does. The British intelligentsia will never, even to the point of […]
Robert Spencer in PJM: “Gay Marriage Can Defeat the Islamic State”?
In PJ Media today, I discuss one of the most ludicrous foreign policy recommendations ever to appear in Foreign Policy: For absurd foreign policy prescriptions, it’s hard to beat the Obama State Department. But Foreign Policy magazine gave them a run for their money: in an article entitled “Can Gay Marriage Defeat the Islamic State? […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Obama: “Ideologies Are Not Defeated with Guns”
Or with words, or with anything, apparently. My latest in FrontPage: Speaking at the Pentagon on Monday, Barack Obama once again proclaimed that victory over the Islamic State was just around the corner. He said that the Islamic State’s “recent losses in both Syria and Iraq prove that ISIL can and will be defeated. The […]
US only training 60 Syrian “moderates” to fight Islamic State, far below expectations
A previous report said: “The main problem thus far has been finding enough Syrian recruits untainted by extremist affiliations or disqualified by physical or other flaws.” And so currently there are only 60 men receiving this training. No one, however, is willing to examine the larger implications of this. The Pentagon is pouring money into […]
EU’s foreign affairs and security chief: “Islam is a victim…Political Islam should be part of the picture” in Europe
On the one side, you have people saying, “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah.” On the other side, you have the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy saying, “Any attempt to divide the peoples of Europe into ‘us’ and […]
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.” –Victor Hugo Frank Zappa famously said that “There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has a longer shelf life.” The stupidity of those who yet insist that Islam is a religion of peace—that Islam does not create the terrorist, that […]
London mayor: “Islamic State? This death cult is not a state and it’s certainly not Islamic”
“Rehman’s point is that if you call it Islamic State you are playing their game; you are dignifying their criminal and barbaric behaviour; you are giving them a propaganda boost that they don’t deserve, especially in the eyes of some impressionable young Muslims. He wants us all to drop the terms, in favour of more […]
Guardian: Motives of Muslim who beheaded man “remain unclear”
“He was overpowered by a firefighter as he was trying to prise open a bottle of acetone in an apparent suicidal bid to destroy the factory. Police then found the severed head of his boss, Cornara, tied to the gates of the factory near two flags on which were written the Muslim profession of faith.” […]
Australian PM: Islamic State “nothing to do with God…nothing to do with religion”
“This is the grim reality the world faces now, this is why it is so important that what’s being done by Daesh (IS) has nothing to do with God, it has nothing to do with religion…” In other words, it is “so important,” says Tony Abbott, to maintain politically correct fictions that prevent us from […]