There was a great deal of mainstream media frenzy over the last few days about “heavily armed protesters” supposedly set to menace and harass innocent people at mosques nationwide. The media treated these protests as if it were absolutely gratuitous and offensive to hold protests at mosques, without making any mention, of course, of the […]
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Islamic State in West Africa murders 33 with jihad suicide attacks in Chad
Reuters doesn’t know it, but Boko Haram renamed itself the Islamic State in West Africa last April, after pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. They carried out these attacks in an area where there are many Nigerians who have earlier fled from them. “Suspected Boko Haram suicide attacks strike Chad,” AFP, October 10, 2015: Five […]
Reuters fail: doesn’t know Boko Haram has renamed itself Islamic State in West Africa, thinks they’re distinct groups
Oh, this is embarrassing. Boko Haram renamed itself the Islamic State in West Africa last April, after pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. But the renowned and revered Reuters news organization doesn’t know that, and thinks that Boko Haram and the Islamic State in West Africa are two distinct groups: “President Muhammadu Buhari had blamed […]
Obama serves up cliches and falsehoods as his anti-ISIS strategy
Over at PamelaGeller.com I dissected Obama’s grand strategy for defeating the Islamic State. Platitudes, self-righteousness, distortions, tortured reasoning, self-promotion — that’s right, it’s another major speech by Barack Obama. Comments interspersed below. “Remarks by President Obama at the Leaders’ Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism,” United Nations Headquarters, September 29, 2015: PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good […]
Australia: Muslim linked to efforts to send money and men to the Islamic State
The man is identified only as “white” in this story, but as with all such stories, race is completely irrelevant. If his Indonesian wife is a devout Muslim, then he had to convert to Islam to marry her. That’s the salient point, because he wouldn’t have gotten involved in sending money and men to the […]
Cameroon: Muslims murder 30 in jihad martyrdom suicide attacks at market and military camp
This is probably the work of Boko Haram, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and changed its name to the Islamic State in West Africa. “Double suicide attack kills 30 in north Cameroon,” AFP, September 3, 2015: At least 30 people were killed in the far north of Cameroon on Thursday in two […]
New York: Propagandist for lone wolf jihad attacks gets 22 years
“AQAP leaders trained Babafemi in the use of weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles, and taught him the importance of AQAP’s English-language media operations to its mission of inspiring “lone-wolf” style attacks abroad in the name of AQAP. Babafemi assisted in AQAP’s English-language media operations, which include the publication of the online Inspire Magazine, and worked […]
Islamic State in West Africa slits the throats of 16 Christian fishermen
Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State last February and changed its name to the Islamic State in West Africa last April. The murder of these 29 Christians will pass unnoticed by their brethren in the West, since, you know, talking about it could harm “Muslim-Christian dialogue.” The weak and pusillanimous Christian leaders of […]
Islamic State executes another Copt in Libya?
According to sources in Libya, there are unconfirmed reports, including from the Libyan Herald, that on July 23rd, the Islamic State executed another Egyptian Christian they seized over a week ago at a road block near Nufaliya, an Islamic State stronghold southeast of the city of Sirte. Bekhit Nageh Efrank Ebeid, a 25 year old laborer, […]
U.S. State Dept. Bars Christians from Testifying about Persecution
Gatestone Institute During the height of one of the most brutal months of Muslim persecution of Christians, the U.S. State Department exposed its double standards against persecuted Christian minorities. Sister Diana, an influential Iraqi Christian leader, who was scheduled to visit the U.S. to advocate for persecuted Christians in the Mideast, was denied a visa by the U.S. […]