Of course it is. And others have asked similar questions before: “Why, we ask the western world, why not raise one’s voice over so much ferocity and injustice?” asked Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, the head of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI). The Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregory III has also said: “I do not understand why […]
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Geller: Jihad in America 2015
A chilling summary. “Geller: Jihad in America 2015: ‘The Danger to the Homeland Has Never Been Greater,’” Breitbart, December 29, 2015: Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, in September as he released a new report on the global jihad. In each of the past few years, I have done […]
Saudi author: The Islamic State “only reaps what has previously been sown”
Turki Al-Hamad says preposterously: “Our religion has been hijacked by many and has been made savage, so to speak.” But when he says, “ISIS is an organization that only reaps what has previously been sown,” he is absolutely correct: the Saudis have spent billions to propagate around the world an understanding of Islam that corresponds […]
Three Muslim countries — Somalia, Tajikistan, and Brunei — now banning Christmas celebrations
“The ban is ridiculous. It projects this image that Islam does not respect the rights of other religions to celebrate their faith.” Uh, yeah. “Christmas celebrations banned in Somalia, Tajikistan and Brunei,” Guardian, December 23, 2015: The governments of three countries – Somalia, Tajikistan and Brunei – have banned Christmas celebrations this year, with punishments […]
Mark Durie: “Anyone saying ‘Islam Is A Religion Of Peace’ needs to read this”
“One may well ask how ‘the religion of peace’ became a brand of Islam, for the phrase cannot be found in the Qur’an, nor in the teachings of Muhammad.” “Anyone Using The Phrase ‘Islam Is A Religion Of Peace’ Needs To Read This”, by Mark Durie, Independent Journal, December 17, 2015: Days after the ISIS-inspired terrorist attack […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Christian Arabs, Muslim Arabs (Part 1)
Sometimes it seems that almost all the news these days deemed fit to print has something to do with Islam and Muslims. Much of it is about internecine warfare: we receive reports of Sunnis fighting Shi’a in Iraq, of Shi’a fighting Sunnis in Syria, of Shi’a ruled fighting Sunni ruler in Bahrain, of Sunni tribesmen […]
Robert Spencer in Italy’s Libero: “Occidente remissivo fino al suicidio”
I was recently interviewed by Italy’s Libero: Here is the English text of their questions and the answers I sent them: 1) After the attacks in Paris, we can say that there is a war going on? What kind of war is? Certainly there is a war going on. The Islamic State has declared war […]
Medina—The First Muslim Refugee Resettlement Program
“Whether or not a particular group of refugees has been infiltrated by ISIS, there remains the fact that many refugees subscribe to the same general worldview held by members of the Islamic State. After all, they’ve been steeped in the same cultural-religious milieu that produced the terrorists.” “Medina—The First Muslim Refugee Resettlement Program,” by William Kilpatrick, Crisis Magazine, […]
Dearborn Muslims protest: “We are victims twice — by Islamophobia and ISIS”
There are thousands of Muslims in Dearborn; why did only 100 show up for this? This is not the first time that attendance at a Muslim rally against terrorism has been decidedly underwhelming. Earlier this month, only 30 Muslims protested against the jihad massacres in Paris. In July 2015, a Muslim rally in Ireland against […]
Roman Catholic bishop Robert Barron advocates strategy of submission to the Islamic State
This brilliant article sums up not only the myopia of Bishop Robert Barron’s approach to the Islamic State (and to the global jihad in general), but the weakness and wrongheadedness of the entire contemporary Catholic Church when confronted with jihadist savagery. There is today a wholesale confusion of weakness and submission with compassion and mercy, […]