Qasim Rashid: War is deceit Fair and balanced. Can you imagine Fox, or any other news outlet, running a piece like this proselytizing for Christianity? Exhorting people to revere and follow Pope Francis? Media Matters would be in an uproar, it would be all over the networks, and Fox would remove the piece and apologize. […]
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Putin vows to fight terrorists until their “total destruction”; Obama spokesperson offers help against “folks who want to cause mischief”
The shirtless horseman is unlikely to need the helmeted bike rider’s help. “Russia’s Putin Vows to Fight Terrorists Until Destroyed,” from the VOA News, December 31 (thanks to Kenneth): Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to fight terrorists until their “total destruction,” following the two suicide bombings in the southern city of Volgograd on Sunday […]
Pakistan: Islamic jihadists gun down health worker supervising polio vaccination campaign
The Times says that the Taliban “accuses the United States of using a drive to eradicate polio in the country as a cover for spying,” but that isn’t the only reason why they’re murdering polio workers. A Pakistani Muslim cleric has said that polio vaccinations are un-Islamic. And such “extremist” clerics are not just in […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage Magazine: The Jihadist Cleansing of Christianity from Muslim Countries
In FrontPage this morning, I explain why no one cares. Fox News reported that in Iraq, “Christians are afraid to put up a Christmas tree or other decorations, according to one Christian pastor in Iraq. Such displays of faith in an increasingly extremist nation can bring threats and violence, say human rights groups. Christian churches […]
Merry Christmas in a time of persecution
The Byzantine icon above is the work of the 16th-century iconographer Theophanes the Cretan. Many Muslims around the world today would consider it offensive and insulting to Islam. Muslims in Crete just last month vandalized churches and burned icons like this one for precisely that reason. Why would such Muslims think that an icon like […]
Pakistan: Muslims gun down polio supervisor
This is becoming a global problem. There is a polio outbreak in Syria because Pakistani jihadis are bringing the virus from home. A Pakistani Muslim cleric has said that polio vaccinations are un-Islamic. And the Taliban have for some time been murdering people who were administering the polio vaccine in Pakistan. And it isn’t just […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage Magazine: Jihad in Wichita
A jihadist tries to strike, and the usual denial ensues. My latest in FrontPage: If an Islamic jihadist in Kansas had gotten his way, jihad would have struck again in America on Friday. Instead, Terry Lee Loewen, an avionics technician at Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport, was arrested that morning as he tried to drive a van that he […]
US Attorney on Wichita jihadi: “Those who plan or carry out terrorist acts in the name of Islam have twisted that faith to unrecognizable extremes”
Grissom “In announcing Loewen’s arrest, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom and FBI Special Agent in Charge Mike Kaste made the important point that Loewen’s alleged actions in no way should reflect on any religious group. Too many continue to forget that those who plan or carry out terrorist acts in the name of Islam have twisted […]
Pakistan: Islamic jihadists murder three people in attacks on polio teams
Haram This is becoming a global problem. There is a polio outbreak in Syria because Pakistani jihadis are bringing the virus from home. A Pakistani Muslim cleric has said that polio vaccinations are un-Islamic. And the Taliban have for some time been murdering people who were administering the polio vaccine in Pakistan. And it isn’t […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Lifestyle: Nelson Mandela and the Left’s Self-Congratulatory Preening
Why the invocations of human rights in the wake of an icon’s death ring hollow. My piece over at PJ Lifestyle today: The death of Nelson Mandela has been the occasion for a great deal of self-righteous preening. Barack Obama cribbed from Edwin M. Stanton in his statement, declaring that Mandela “belongs to the ages,” […]