Marquez got the killers their rifles and attended the same mosque that they attended. This was a jihad terror cell that appears to have been attempting to expand its ranks via marriage fraud. “FBI arrests brother of San Bernardino terrorist and 2 others on marriage fraud charges,” by Richard Winton and James Queally, Los Angeles […]
Revive Clear Thinking and the Jihad Dies
Because it is my field of study, one would expect I’d have much to say immediately after jihadi attacks of the sort that recently occurred in Brussels (35 killed), or San Bernardino (14 killed), or Paris (130). Ironically, I don’t: such attacks are ultimately symptoms of what I do deem worthy of discussion, namely, […]
Why you should side with Apple, not the FBI, in the San Bernardino iPhone case
“What the FBI wants to do would make us less secure, even though it’s in the name of keeping us safe from harm. Powerful governments, democratic and totalitarian alike, want access to user data for both law enforcement and social control. We cannot build a backdoor that only works for a particular type of government, […]
San Bernardino jihad murderer’s iCloud password changed while iPhone was in government possession
“The FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on [the shooter’s] iPhone,” Cook added. “In the wrong hands, this software — which does not exist today — would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone’s physical possession.” It appears […]
Obama: No “specific and credible information about an attack on our homeland”
Watch out for those right-wing extremists, but otherwise relax. Jihad? Pah! It’s a Religion of Peace! In September 2014, the Islamic State issued a lengthy communiqué calling upon Muslims in the West to murder non-Muslims. It included the exhortation to “strive to your best and kill any disbeliever, whether he be French, American, or from […]
Islamic Jihad — Symptom of a Western Cause
As someone specializing in Islamic jihadism, one would expect I’d have much to say immediately after jihadi attacks of the sort that recently occurred in San Bernardino, or Paris, or Mali, where a total of about 180 dead. Ironically, I don’t: such attacks are ultimately symptoms of what I do deem worthy of talk, […]
Obama: After SB attacks, we must affirm that we love our Muslim neighbors
Prejudice and discrimination are indeed never justified, and should always be rejected. And Obama does say that “Muslims around the world have to keep rejecting any twisted interpretation of Islam,” but he devotes only half a sentence to that, without going into any specifics such as calling on them to institute programs in mosques to […]
Obama to NSC & FBI: “Downplay” jihad terror angle of San Bernardino
“This source added that as soon as the shooting took place, Obama convened a meeting with the National Security Council and the heads of other federal enforcement agencies to discuss a public relations strategy.” So his immediate concern after the jihad massacre was not for the victims or their families. He took no pains to […]
The Ideology of the Cancer Cell
The mass murder in San Bernardino, California—a terrorist attack the most prudent of us expected and saw coming—is proof that, no matter where Islam takes root, no matter how moderate and benign the perpetrators of these mass murders previously projected themselves, there remains for every Muslim a jumping off point: the option of jihad. As […]
Obama: We can’t let “this fight be defined as a war between America and Islam”
The “millions of patriotic Muslim-Americans who reject their hateful ideology” are not doing anything to counter it. There is no program in any mosque or Islamic school in the U.S. teaching young Muslims why they should reject the understanding of Islam that the Islamic State propagates. Obama’s solicitude for these patriotic Muslim-Americans rules out any […]