Fr. Murphy’s loving heart is admirable. All too often today, however, people confuse love with niceness, which in this case would mean not challenging the boy’s jihadist sentiments and trying to disabuse him of them. He will have to attend a “deradicalization” program, but those are predicated upon the false assumption that the true Islam […]
Ireland: Muslim teen who stabbed Army chaplain ‘holds a radical Islamist mindset’
Here yet again it must be asked: what efforts are Irish authorities making to ensure that no one in Ireland “holds a radical Islamist mindset”? Why, none. None at all. Like authorities all over the West, they’re just complacently expecting mosques and other Islamic institutions to teach moderation and loyalty to the secular state. On […]
Ireland: Muslim teen who stabbed Army chaplain was shouting about Irish military action against jihadis in Mali
The reticence about the fact that this young man was a jihadi continues. The establishment media all over the West thinks that it is of cardinal importance to ensure that no one think ill of Islam of jihad, and so citizens have to read tea leaves in order to determine what is going on. An […]
Ireland: Muslim teen who was ‘radicalized online’ stabs chaplain at army barracks
The Irish Times is the only source I saw that gives any details at all about the possible motive of the attacker. The details are these: 1. It’s a “suspected terrorist incident.” 2. The attacker was “radicalised online.” This is something that is frequently stated of Islamic jihad terrorists, with the unspoken corollary being that […]