This epitomizes how out of touch and frankly stupid the State Department’s Think Again, Turn Away program really is. State Department analysts continue to misdiagnose the problem of the global jihad and apply solutions that only make it worse — and since the mainstream media is just as clueless and compromised, these failed analysts are […]
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Living on Mars is un-Islamic, and five other weird fatwas from 2014
This post could be entitled The Wacky Side of Sharia were it not for the unaccountable human suffering caused by #2 (and the beliefs that it echoed and reaffirmed) in the Islamic State, as well as in Nigeria. “Six weirdest fatwas of 2014,” Egypt Independent, December 30, 2014: “God’s agents” — that was the term […]
Only Muslim Schoolchildren Lives Matter?
[Via FrontPage Magazine] Earlier we looked at “how Western mainstream media enable Islamic terrorism,” specifically by employing an arsenal of semantic games, key phrases, convenient omissions, and moral relativism to portray such violence as a product of anything and everything—political and historical grievances, “Islamophobia,” individual insanity, poverty and ignorance, territorial disputes—not Islam. Another strategy that […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Why Robert George Is the Chris Christie of Conservative Intellectuals
Over at PJ Media I discuss the all-too-predictable blind spot of “this country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker”: Princeton Professor Robert P. George is a leading American conservative thinker, with some undeniably outstanding accomplishments. The New York Times has hailed him as “this country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker.” But as is the case with […]
13-year-old girl: My father gave me to Boko Haram to be a suicide bomber
Nothing better expresses the spirit of Christmas than heart-warming stories like this one. “13-year-old girl: My father gave me to Boko Haram to be a suicide bomber,” Associated Press, December 25, 2014 (thanks to all who sent this in): KANO, Nigeria — A 13-year-old says her father gave her to Boko Haram extremists and that […]
Biden tried to lecture Hirsi Ali about Islam
Even though Ayaan Hirsi Ali was raised a Muslim in a Muslim country, and Joe Biden has almost certainly never opened a Qur’an, Biden believed he knew more about Islam than she did. Why? Because her opinion of the religion was negative, and the possibility that such a view could have any merit whatsoever is […]
Islam — Built on the Blood of (Christian Child) Martyrs
[Via FrontPage Magazine] In a recent interview on CBN News, Andrew White, an Anglican priest known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” tried to recount the horrific atrocities Christians in Iraq are suffering at the hands of the Islamic State. After explaining how Christian minorities fled Baghdad to Ninevah when Islamic militants began terrorizing them and […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: 5 Recent Inspirational Uses of the Qur’an
In PJ Media I explore five recent examples of the inspirational power of the Islamic holy book. Last Tuesday, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) declared that the State Department “ought to hire one or two experts in Islamic jurisprudence,” so as to refute the ideology of the Islamic State. “One must be able to turn to […]
Nearly 18,000 people died in terrorist attacks in 2013 — 66% by Taliban, Boko Haram, al Qaeda, and the Islamic State
“Four groups – the Taliban, Boko Haram, al Qaeda, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which is also known as the Islamic State – accounted for 66 percent of all fatalities.” Those right-wing extremists! Something has got to be done! “Nearly 18,000 people died in terrorist attacks in 2013, new global report […]
Elliot Abrams: When presidents say Islam is a religion of peace, “the average American thinks this is crap”
It is good to see that this discussion took place at all, as usually it is foreclosed with charges that even to broach it is “Islamophobic.” But as usual, it was held on a quite superficial level, with Michael Gerson throwing out knee-jerk moral equivalence arguments that don’t appear to have been addressed adequately. Neither […]