[Originally published by the Gatestone Institute] More reports of the brutal treatment that Christians and other minorities experienced at the hands of the Islamic State (SIS) emerged during May. One account told of a couple who, after their children were abducted by ISIS militants, answered their door one day to find a plastic bag on their […]
Islamic State celebrates Nice jihad slaughter with beheadings
Islamic State jihadists shed more blood to celebrate the Bastille Day massacre, and they videotaped it. The video, described as horridly gruesome — even by IS standards — incorporates music into its presentation. It shows badly wounded babies, followed by jihadists with serrated knives about to behead two terrified-looking captives in red, prison-like jumpsuits. They behead […]
Christians facing extinction in Iraq at the hands of jihadist warriors
The Christian population in Iraq has now diminished to an alarming 50,000 to 250,000, compared with 1.4 million in 2003. They were either massacred by jihadists or abducted. Christians have faced being forced to convert to Islam, pay a high living tax (jizya, mandated in the Qur’an) to the Islamic State, or abandon their ancestral […]
Jihadists kill their own relatives in Iraq but shove “Islamophobia” down our throats
Westerners who have bought into the victimology subterfuge of the “Islamophobia” narrative seem to have a mental block about how far-reaching jihadist violence is and the magnitude of the devastation experienced by its real victims. Jihadist victimization includes terrorism against the West, threats to the State of Israel, persecution of Christians, severe abuse of women […]
Islamic State publicly flogs women for violating Sharia dress code
A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “‘O Asma, when a woman reaches the age of menstruation, it does not suit her that she displays her parts of body except this and this,’ and he pointed to her face and hands.” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4092) “ISIS publicly flogging woman on charges of violating Sharia dress code,” by […]
The Islamic State blows up Mosul’s iconic Clock Church
This “Muslim-Catholic dialogue” is going great! Just look at how many churches it has saved from destruction — oh, wait… “ISIS blows up Mosul’s iconic Clock Church,” FoxNews.com, April 26, 2016 (thanks to Cecilia): Islamic State militants destroyed an iconic Iraqi church known for its soaring clock tower by blowing it up with explosives, media […]
Islamic State rocket attack kills US soldier in northern Iraq
The half-measures that Obama is pursuing against the Islamic State will never destroy it. The lives being lost there are being lost in pursuit of the cosmetic appearance of doing something, not in pursuit of genuinely damaging the Islamic State. “American soldier killed in ISIS rocket attack in northern Iraq, official says,” by Lucas Tomlinson, […]
Iraqi MP: Iraqi army doesn’t have “enough forces” to liberate areas of Iraq occupied by the Islamic State
The Islamic State will not be destroyed except by ground forces. Those who have them will not use them for this. Those who would use them for this do not have them. “Iraq runs out of money to take on Islamic State,” by Richard Spencer, Telegraph, March 13, 2016: Just as it is starting to […]
Islamic State stones four rape victims to death for “committing adultery”
From the perspective of Islamic law, if they tempted men to rape them, they are at fault, and must be punished. The rape must also have been public, since four male Muslim witnesses are required to have witnessed the act in order to establish it in Sharia court (cf. Qur’an 24:4, 24:14). “ISIS extremists stone […]
Islamic State razes to ground 1,400-year-old Christian monastery
Why did this happen? Did someone at the monastery draw Muhammad? Did some Iraqi cleric provoke the poor dears, poking them in the eye in some way, and failing to show proper respect for Islam? As far as Western Christian leaders are concerned, the Christians of Iraq have no one but themselves to blame for […]