He said “radical Islamic terrorism,” and he should have said “jihad,” but nonetheless, this is all true, and it needs to be said, and said again. “BEASTMODE Cruz: You Can’t Defeat Radical Islamic Terrorism if Admin Can’t Utter Those Words,” Washington Free Beacon, December 2, 2014: Straight-shooter Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Tex.) went BEASTMODE on […]
Church of England bishop says Qur’an should be read at Charles’ coronation
What a great idea. Here are some readings that would go over great at Charles’ coronation, and show who is the boss in the Brave New Britain: Christians have forgotten part of the divine revelations they received: “From those, too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a covenant, but they forgot a good part […]
UK officials can’t stop battle-hardened jihadis from returning from Islamic State
Foes of jihad terror — Pamela Geller and I — are not allowed to enter Britain. But the British authorities cannot figure out how to bar jihad terrorists from returning from the Islamic State. More absurdity as Britain gallops toward ruin: “Battle-Hardened Terrorists Will Return to The UK, And There is Nothing we Can do […]
Elliot Abrams: When presidents say Islam is a religion of peace, “the average American thinks this is crap”
It is good to see that this discussion took place at all, as usually it is foreclosed with charges that even to broach it is “Islamophobic.” But as usual, it was held on a quite superficial level, with Michael Gerson throwing out knee-jerk moral equivalence arguments that don’t appear to have been addressed adequately. Neither […]
Video: Robert Spencer on Is the Islamic State Islamic? And Why It Matters
Last night I spoke at a New Hampshire synagogue for the excellent group NH4Israel. The topic was “Is the Islamic State Islamic? And Why It Matters.” There was a lively Q and A — video of it will follow at a later date. Thanks to Brad Amante for this video.
UK: Birmingham City Council hid links between Muslim cabbies and child sex victims for 23 years
In British media Newspeak, “Asian” means “Muslim” and “white” means “non-Muslim.” British authorities persist in seeing this as a racial issue, when in fact these cabbies only preyed upon these girls because they were non-Muslims, and thus eligible to become “captives of the right hand” (cf. Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50) and used as sex […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: More Beheadings, More Denial
In FrontPage today I discuss the predictable jihad and the predictable reaction to it: All you have to do is change the name of the victim, and this could be a story from August, or September, or October: the Islamic State has beheaded yet another hostage, this time Peter Kassig, aka Abdul-Rahman Kassig, and Barack […]
Obama: Islamic State’s “actions represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith which Abdul-Rahman adopted as his own”
“Least of all.” So apparently it is far more likely that the beheading of Abdul-Rahman Kassig represented the Buddhist faith, or the Baptist faith, or the Jain faith, or the Methodist faith, than that it represented the Muslim faith. This is despite the fact that the man who actually beheaded Kassig stood over his severed […]
U.S. prison was ‘terrorist university’ for Islamic State
This is because the U.S. does nothing in these prisons to try to change the mindset of the prisoners. The guards treat the Qur’an, which is of course distributed to all the prisoners, with exaggerated reverence. Any attempt to change their way of thinking would immediately be denounced by groups such as the terrorist organization […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Brookings Institution’s Old New Ideas
In “Brookings Institution’s New Idea: Try Failed Solutions Again” at FrontPage, I discuss the latest nonsense from the influential Qatar-funded think tank: Bruce Riedel, senior fellow and director of the Brookings Institution’s Intelligence Project, published a piece in the Daily Beast last Sunday with the provocative title, “Why’s Al Qaeda So Strong? Washington Has (Literally) […]