In a piece in Human Events this morning I discuss the lessons that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab should have taught the learned analysts: Bravo for life’s little ironies. Last Monday, Bill Clinton attributed the recent jihad violence in Nigeria to poverty. Referring obliquely to the attacks that the jihadist group Boko Haram (A group that preaches […]
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A New Year of ‘Dhimmitude’ for Egypt’s Copts
Over at Stonegate Institute (via RaymondIbrahim.com), I list the many instances of how Egypt’s Copts are increasingly being reduced to dhimmis: For Egypt’s Christian Copts, the New Year began with threats that their churches would be attacked during Christmas mass (celebrated on January 7). Because many were eyeing the situation””several Coptic churches were previously attacked, […]
Spencer: Sentencing the Underwear Bomber — and the persistent unreality of jihad analysis
In FrontPage today I discuss the underwear jihad bomber and the prevailing fantasies about jihad and Islam: On Monday, Former U.S. President Bill Clinton ascribed the recent jihad violence in Nigeria to poverty. Referring obliquely to the attacks that the jihadist group Boko Haram (Western education is Sin) has carried out, Clinton ascribed them to […]
Underwear bomber misunderstands Islam, says he was “proud to kill in the name of Allah”
Where are the moderate Muslim spokesmen explaining that Umar Farouk has gotten Islam all wrong, wrong, wrong? Why do the Misunderstanders of Islam all misunderstand it in the same way? Why does no one in the mainstream media ever, ever ask such questions? How many more times will I have to ask them here before […]
Underwear jihadist gets life of prison dawah
An “unrepentant would-be mass murderer who views his crimes as divinely inspired and blessed.” “Nigerian underwear bomber gets life in prison for trying to blow up jetliner on Christmas 2009,” by Ed White for the Associated Press, February 16 (thanks to all who sent this in): DETROIT – A Nigerian man on a suicide mission […]
Clinton Blames Jihad on Poverty
Bill Clinton recently demonstrated the tenacity of those liberal/leftist/materialist paradigms that have all but blinded the West to reality. According to the Associated Press: Former U.S. President [and current spouse of the U.S. Secretary of State] Bill Clinton warned Monday that the rampant poverty that plagues oil-rich Nigeria””felt most acutely in its Muslim north””is fueling […]
Failed underwear bomber says life sentence for attempted mass murder would be cruel and unusual
He had the intent to kill 289 people, and has certainly shown no remorse, but wants to be let off easier because he happened to fail. “Underwear bomber challenges life sentence,” by Tresa Baldas for the Associated Press, February 13 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): DETROIT — Confessed underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is […]
Radio Vatikan on Bosnia and the ethnic cleansing of Catholics
“Radio Vatikan. The Voice of the Pope and the World Church,” the German-language division of Vatican Radio, is not as politically correct as the Pope himself — who became very quiet after apologizing for quoting the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologos, who said in 1391: “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and […]
Pakistani foreign minister: Islam is the most misunderstood religion in the world
How, then, pray tell, is Islam so consistently “misunderstood,” across geographical areas and schools of jurisprudence, with respect to jihad warfare, and the rights of women and non-Muslims, from Great Britain to Nigeria to Algeria to Tunisia to France to Egypt to Germany to Turkey to the Palestinian territories to Lebanon to Syria to Saudi […]
Jihad — When Elections Fail
The Obama administration supports “democracy” and “self determination” in the Middle East””two euphemisms that, in the real world, refer to “mob-rule” and “Islamic radicalization,” respectively. Yet, as Jimmy Carter recently put it: “I don’t have any problem with that [an “Islamist victory” in Egypt], and the U.S. government doesn’t have any problem with that either. […]