Iraqi officers have found Islamic State members fleeing Mosul and hiding among refugees, which should come as no surprise. The Islamic State vowed to infiltrate the refugee stream and also threatened that it was “coming to America.” Nonetheless, Western authorities and media continue to accuse anyone with valid concerns about this of being racist and […]
Video: Inside a devastated Orthodox church in Mosul
See the extent of what Christians in the Middle East have had to endure, while their fellow Christians in the West largely remain silent in pursuit of a futile and chimerical “dialogue.” This is an Orthodox church, but all Christians should have stood up and spoken out about what happened here. The Catholic Church in […]
Mosul: Burned UK passports found in abandoned Islamic State hideout
The remarkable thing is that if these jihadis decide that they want to return to Britain, they will be admitted, despite having burned their passports and waged jihad with a state that considers itself to be at war with Britain. British authorities are only interested in keeping foes of jihad out of the country, not […]
Islamic State throws man off roof for crime of homosexuality
Extremist? No. The Qur’an contains numerous condemnations of homosexual activity: “And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, ‘Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds? Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people.’…And We rained upon […]
Life in the Islamic State: “He told me to spit on a picture of the Virgin Mary and a crucifix”
“There is no compulsion in religion” (Qur’an 2:256) but in practice, all too often Islamic supremacists find room in that phrase for all manner of coercion. What constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. After all, the institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be […]
Islamic State forces 1,500 families to retreat with them, abducts 295 Iraqi Security Forces
They will now be killed, enslaved, ransomed or freed outright. Here is a salient passage on this issue from a Shafi’i manual of Islamic law: When an adult male is taken captive, the caliph considers the interests … (of Islam and the Muslims) and decides between the prisoner’s death, slavery, release without paying anything, or […]
Islamic State jihadis “WILL unleash attacks on Europe as payback for Mosul”
A counter-terrorism expert warns that Europe should brace itself for more terror attacks once the Islamic State has been crushed in Mosul. The IS has been long threatening to attack America “at its heart” and has vowed to revenge on the West for its strikes in Syria through lone wolf attacks. The intense hatred jihadists […]
Iraq PM to Erdogan: get out of Iraq or face possibility of regional war
As the operation to free Mosul from the self-proclaimed caliphate approaches, the potential vacuum left after the Islamic State loses the city could lead to serious complications for the region. One who is poised to take advantage is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has frequently been accused of wanting to establish his own caliphate, […]
Child in the Islamic State: “Oh black-eyed virgins, we will meet in Paradise…We implement the sharia”
“And fair women with large eyes, the likenesses of pearls well-protected, as reward for what they used to do.” (Qur’an 56:22-24) What does one have to do to get them? The Qur’an offers one guarantee of Paradise: to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111). For adolescent boys, this can be a powerful […]
Islamic State bans burqa for security reasons
UPDATE: This story turns out to have been Iranian disinformation. Our source below did not note the Iranian provenance of its information. ———- Well, the Islamic State has demonstrated that it is much smarter a group than Western leftists. They showed up every leftist supporter of the burqa by banning it for security reasons. Another […]