In FrontPage today I speculate on why Obama fired Hagel: Chuck Hagel is out at the Department of Defense, and one administration official explained that it was because “the next couple of years will demand a different kind of focus” – apparently one that doesn’t shed such a bright light upon the smoking ruin that […]
Pakistan: Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy files last-ditch appeal
In a sane society, Asia Bibi’s story would be front-page news, with Presidents, Prime Ministers and Popes appealing for her release, the United Nations condemning Pakistan, and all foreign aid halted until she was released and blasphemy laws repealed. Instead, the world “human rights community” looks the other way and devotes its energies to hunting […]
Video: Robert Spencer on Sun TV on Israel and Iran’s nuclear program
Yesterday I was on Straight Talk with Pat Bolland on Sun TV, discussing Iran’s nuclear program and what Israel may do to stop it.
UK Law Society apologizes and withdraws Sharia guidelines
“The Law Society has withdrawn controversial guidelines for solicitors on how to compile ‘Sharia compliant’ wills amid complaints that they encouraged discrimination against women and non-Muslims.” There is no doubt that when the Law Society adopted these guidelines, it had no idea that Sharia discriminated against women and non-Muslims; and if Law Society members had […]
Islamic State training children to be jihad killers
“We’re going to kill you, O kuffar. Insha’allah we’ll slaughter you.” Kuffar = Infidels. Insha’allah = Allah willing. Not that this has anything to do with Islam. “Children of the Jihad: ISIS Behead Kurdish Children; Train Kazakh Children to Fight,” by Donna Rachel Edmunds, Breitbart, November 24, 2014: New horrific evidence of ISIS embroiling children […]
Professor Mia Bloom, Univ. of Mass.-Lowell, approvingly cites Nazi site’s depiction of Robert Spencer as “rat boy for Israel”
Mia M. Bloom is a Professor of Security Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. I had never heard of her until October, when she told a Jihad Watch reader that I would lose a debate with anyone “educated in the field,” and he suggested that she and I debate. I agreed to do so, […]
Obama makes Chuck Hagel the scapegoat for his foreign policy failures
Chuck Hagel is out at the Department of Defense, and one administration official explained that it was because “the next couple of years will demand a different kind of focus” – apparently one that doesn’t shed such a bright light upon the smoking ruin that is Barack Obama’s foreign policy. Hagel may have sealed his […]
Muslima who called for burning of Robert Spencer book threatens legal action over Spencer quoting her
This morning I received an email from a woman named Sharissa who, several years ago, called for one of my books to be “torched” — whereupon I offered to see if she could get a bulk rate on multiple copies, which she could torch to her heart’s content. The email said: A few years ago […]
2 Jewish men wounded outside Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate in suspected jihad terror attack
Time for a fresh UN condemnation of Israel. “2 Jewish men wounded outside Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate in suspected terrorist attack,” by Daniel K. Eisenbud, Jerusalem Post, November 24, 2014: A Jewish man in his 40s is in moderate-to-serious condition after being stabbed in the upper torso Monday evening, while another man sustained light wounds, police […]
Karen Armstrong on Harris and Maher: “It fills me with despair, because this is the sort of talk that led to the concentration camps”
Remember all those Jewish terror plots? Jews shouting “Shema Yisrael” as they blew themselves up in crowds of non-Jews and flew planes into buildings? Remember those captured internal documents of Jewish organizations saying they were working toward “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within” so that “the religion of Moses was victorious over other religions”? […]