The Islamic State is certainly at war with the U.S. But the U.S. is doing its level best to minimize that war. The Obama Administration’s luck in that regard, unfortunately, is unlikely to hold indefinitely. But Kerry has other priorities: after all, Jesus wants us to go to war against global warming. “Kerry: U.S. not […]
US “terror expert”: Islamic State “not bound by the structures of traditional Islamic warfare”
In yet another attempt to absolve Islam of any responsibility for the crimes of the Islamic State, the hard-Left publication Think Progress has published this piece centered on the wit and wisdom of Will McCants, the puerile and silly counter-terror “expert” who is involved with the State Department’s laughable Think Again Turn Away social media […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: 9/11 and the Fog of Denial
In FrontPage Mag this morning, I explain why we are in a more precarious position than ever, thirteen years after 9/11. Thirteen years after 9/11, there is one thing that virtually all our politicians, law enforcement officials, and mainstream media guardians of opinion know: that attack had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, and neither […]
Kerry: Islamic State’s “hateful ideology has nothing do with Islam”
“ISIL claims to be fighting on behalf of Islam but the fact is that its hateful ideology has nothing do with Islam.” How did this happen? How did the misunderstanding of Islam become so widespread that now misunderstanders of Islam govern a territory the size of a nation? What are Muslim groups doing to teach […]
Australia: Police raid Islamic bookstore, two Muslims face terror charges; official says, “This has got nothing to do with Islam”
Of course it doesn’t. Probably Omar Succarieh and the other Muslim arrested in this raid on an Islamic bookstore got all fired up to commit terrorist acts by reading about the French Revolution. Or maybe they were enraged by the illegal Zionist occupation of Kuraby and Baronia Heights. A politically correct Keystone Kop like Neil […]
Guardian: Don’t look to the Qur’an to understand the Islamic State – look to the French revolution and European Christianity
The anxiousness of Western non-Muslims to establish that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam continues, with ever more farfetched explanations of how they came about. Kevin McDonald, a professor of sociology and head of the department of criminology and sociology at Middlesex University, is not the first to ascribe the evils of […]
Kerry: Anti-Islamic State coalition means “demolishing the distortion of one of the world’s great peaceful religions”
This is why we must fight the Islamic State: so that people won’t misunderstand Islam. Because as Kerry’s boss would say, the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. “Remarks on the Formation of the Iraqi Government,” remarks by John Kerry, September 8, 2014 (thanks to Jerk Chicken): As we […]
Former global counter-terrorism director of MI6: UK should encourage “ex-extremists” to “come home” from Iraq and Syria
Has it occurred to this genius that if this is done, all British jihadis in the Islamic State have to do in order to get back into Britain is say that they’re repentant? And what will Richard Barrett say when one of his “ex-extremists” mounts a jihad terror attack “back at home”? “War is deceit,” […]
State Dept vid tries to dissuade Muslims from joining Islamic State by arguing it’s un-Islamic
This asinine State Department video, part of its silly “Think Again Turn Away” program, tries to dissuade American Muslims who are considering joining the Islamic State by pointing out that the Islamic State destroys mosques and kills Muslims — in other words, this outfit is un-Islamic, doncha know, so don’t be fooled. The obvious rejoinder, […]
Catholic priest insists: Qur’an doesn’t justify beheadings
On Wednesday I wrote a response to a piece in Aleteia, “Does the Quran Command Beheading?,” by Fr Dwight Longenecker. Now Fr. Longenecker has doubled down: “Does the Quran Justify Beheadings?,” by Fr Dwight Longenecker, Aleteia, September 5, 2014. My comments are interspersed below. The famed expert in Islam, Robert Spencer, has taken me and […]