Jihad Watch has been warning about the threat of jihadis developing radiological WMDs and “dirty bombs” since at least 2004, when it was reported that global theft and smuggling of radiological materials had increased more than six-fold from 1996 to 2003. Just last September, the U.S. State Department set aside for a moment its top priorities of […]
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William Kilpatrick — ‘Needed: A New Church Policy toward Islam, Pt. 2’
In our times and culture, speaking truth is so radical a concept that the following sounds almost revolutionary. As with Part 1, these questions and discussions apply to all Christian communions, and indeed all free peoples: “Church policy should at least be redirected toward telling the truth to fellow Catholics. Right now, Catholics are being […]
William Kilpatrick — ‘Needed: A New Church Policy Toward Islam, Pt 1’
The below article, by the ever-incisive William Kilpatrick, is written for a Roman Catholic audience, but the questions raised apply to all Christians. Secular leaders, too, can profit by his patient reasoning. Part One of a Three Part Series. Needed: A New Church Policy Toward Islam By William Kilpatrick, Crisis Magazine Part 1: The Dilemma In a […]
Freedom, Provocation and Targets
The Muslim predisposition towards jihad means “no cartoons required.” The recent Muslim jihad attack at a Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland Texas has generated strong reactions across the political spectrum. Four of us in my church recently had a fairly rigorous discussion of some of the issues involved, with two believing the cartoon […]
Robert Spencer, PJM: Obama: Climate Change Causes Jihad
Over at PJ Media I discuss the recent appalling and fact-free statements by Obama: State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf was widely ridiculed in February for saying of the Islamic State (ISIS): We cannot win this war by killing them, we cannot kill our way out of this war. We need, in the longer term, […]
U.S. State Dept. Invites Muslim Leaders, Denies Christians
Gatestone Institute Late on the evening of May 8, Newsmax TV announced that pressure from Americans acquainted with Sister Diana Momeka’s visa rejection has just caused the State Department to reverse its decision and permit her entry into the United States. Until then, however, she and others were barred. After inviting a number of foreign religious leaders, mostly Muslim, […]
UK rejects nearly 200 army recruits for fear of jihadist infiltration
How did all these army recruits come to an understanding of Islam that British authorities assure us has nothing to do with Islam? British authorities remain uncurious about that. “Almost 200 recruits withdrawn from army’s basic training amid jihadists fear,” by John Ward, Daily Star, May 10, 2015: DANGER: Senior Ministry of Defence figures admit […]
India’s spy agency warns of threat from Islamic State’s Af-Pak group
The Islamic State now has a presence not just in Iraq and Syria, but in Libya, Nigeria, the Philippines, Egypt, Yemen, and Afghanistan and Pakistan. Its influence is spreading rapidly among Muslims worldwide while Western leaders wave it away and insist that it has nothing to do with Islam. “Islamic State’s Af-Pak Group a Cause […]
Radio Iran: Islamic State’s caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead of injuries from airstrike Pentagon denies hit him
Now al-Baghdadi is supposed to have been killed in the airstrike that the Pentagon denies even injured him. This is very strange: it would be a major success for the airstrikes if al-Baghdadi were wounded or killed in one, so why the denial if it happened? And if it didn’t happen, where are these stories […]
Al-Shabaab mulling switching allegiance from al-Qaeda to Islamic State
Thinking about backing the strong horse. “Why is it a surprise to hear that Shabaab may join the Islamic State? All Muslims have to unite against their enemy,” said a Shabaab commander. This statement, however, will be completely ignored by most analysts, secure as they are in their delusion that all this has nothing to […]