“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) “When you gonna wake up, and strengthen the things that remain?” (Bob Dylan, echoing Revelation 3:2) This is denial and willful ignorance on a scale so massive as to spell nothing less than a doomed society. “Woman beheaded ‘with machete’ in north London garden,” by […]
‘Frustration and confusion’ among US troops over mixed message on Islamic State
“Chase them to the Gates of Hell? How the [f—] are we going to do that when we can’t even leave the front gate of our base!?” Indeed. And how are we going to do that when we continue to pretend that they are not what they are, and that they do not and cannot […]
Kerry: “The real face of Islam is a peaceful religion based on the dignity of all human beings”
The dignity of all human beings? Kerry ignores the fact that the hadith he cites is restricted to Muslim treatment of other Muslims, per the command of the Qur’an itself: “Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who follow him are merciful to one another, but harsh to the unbelievers” (48:29). The sharp dichotomy between […]
Catholic priest: Islamic State misunderstands Islam, Qur’an doesn’t command beheading
Not only the Islamic State, but also Saudi Arabia, a kingdom that loudly proclaims its absolute fidelity to the Qur’an and Islamic law, regularly performs beheadings. Why so many misunderstanders of Islam? In this piece in Aleteia, Fr. Dwight Longenecker claims that it all comes from a misinterpretation of Qur’an 8:12: “Remember when your Lord […]
Slain Islamic State fighter worked for Delta at Minneapolis Airport
KMSP-TV Of course he did, and no one there would have dared ask him about his loyalties, or investigate him in any way, because to have done so would have been “Islamophobic.” We can be grateful that he didn’t decide to wage jihad right there at the Minneapolis Airport, but our luck may not always […]
Obama: The Islamic State has “already failed”
The thing is, he says “we will not be intimidated,” but the American government and military establishment is already intimidated, and Obama himself has been a chief agent of that intimidation. He shows that he is intimidated when he makes the wild and ridiculous claim that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam, […]
Alabama Congressional candidate: “Actions of Republicans in congress are worse than #ISIL”
This witless moral equivalence is common among Leftists, and demonstrates that they have no idea what life in the Islamic State is really like, or what kind of threat it poses to the U.S. Backtracking after his initial tweet, Smith explained: “I am not saying that the Republican Party is beheading people in the streets, […]
Video: State Department refuses to label Islamic State beheading of second US journalist an “act of war”
What would be? A jihad bomb obliterating the White House and Washington, DC? Probably not even that. Thanks to Pamela Geller.
Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: FBI zeroes in on Puerto Rican nationalists, ignores Islamic jihadists
In “The FBI’s Islamic Terrorism Denial” at FrontPage today, I discuss the latest follies of the politically correct Keystone Kops at the FBI: The Washington Free Beacon revealed Friday that “the FBI’s most recent national threat assessment for domestic terrorism makes no reference to Islamist terror threats, despite last year’s Boston Marathon bombing and the […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: 5 Non-Muslims Who Know More About Islam than the Caliph of the Islamic State
Oh, and by the way, the caliph Ibrahim, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has a PhD in Islamic Studies. But the West’s mythologizing about Islam roars ahead regardless. My latest at PJ Media: They call themselves the Islamic State. They claim to be the restorers of the caliphate, the ones who have finally fulfilled the most cherished […]