Jan 06, 2015 08:32 pm | Robert Spencer
Videos like this are designed to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60) “Executed for the world to see, ISIS release footage of brave Iraqi police officers who infiltrated the Islamist group but were caught aiding coalition air strikes,” by Tom Wyke, Daily Mail, January 5, 2015 (thanks to Blazing […]
Jan 06, 2015 07:56 pm | Robert Spencer
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says: “We will emerge as victorious and the day our lands are liberated is nearing. Our goal … is that peace and prosperity prevail in Iraq and end this dark period in Iraqi history.” Baghdad Bob lives. “Islamic State attack kills 23 Iraqi troops, Sunni fighters,” Associated Press, January 6, […]
Jan 06, 2015 06:46 pm | Robert Spencer
Presumably to have looked too closely into Man Haron Monis’s claims would have been “Islamophobic.” Note also Amnesty International’s role in getting this jihad killer into Australia. “Lindt cafe guman Man Haron Monis given refugee status after fooling the Australian government into believing that he was working as an Iranian spy,” by Louise Cheer, Lillian […]
Jan 06, 2015 06:24 pm | Robert Spencer
Erdogan has never called upon Muslim countries to crack down on jihad terror. Nor does he distinguish “Islamophobia” as attacks on innocent Muslims, which are never justified, from “Islamophobia” as honest examination of how jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism. The conflation of those two distinct things by […]
Jan 06, 2015 05:58 pm | Raymond Ibrahim
[Via RaymondIbrahim.com] The video of Egyptian President Sisi discussing how Islamic “thinking is antagonizing the entire world” can be viewed below. If English subtitles do not appear click “CC” in bottom-right-hand corner.
Jan 06, 2015 01:09 pm | Robert Spencer
The “mental illness” that has been afflicting France lately now spreads to Italy. Symptoms include screaming Islamic phrases and attacking Infidels or, in this case, and Infidel house of worship. I look forward to the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) to list and classify this particular mental illness, and […]
Jan 06, 2015 12:32 pm | Robert Spencer
The speech that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recently made calling for Islamic reform is getting quite a bit of attention, and warrants close examination. Here are the excerpts that Raymond Ibrahim posted here at Jihad Watch a few days ago, with my comments interspersed: I am referring here to the religious clerics. We have […]
Jan 06, 2015 08:41 am | Robert Spencer
This epitomizes how out of touch and frankly stupid the State Department’s Think Again, Turn Away program really is. State Department analysts continue to misdiagnose the problem of the global jihad and apply solutions that only make it worse — and since the mainstream media is just as clueless and compromised, these failed analysts are […]
Jan 06, 2015 08:22 am | Robert Spencer
Not exactly what the Surgeon General had in mind when those warnings about smoking were first issued — but still, this is the Islamic State’s version of an anti-smoking message. “Syria: Isis chief executioner found beheaded with cigarette in his mouth,” by Gianluca Mezzofiore, International Business Times, January 6, 2015 (thanks to Anne Crockett): In […]
Jan 06, 2015 07:40 am | Robert Spencer
Two years after the French drove the Sharia regime out of power in Mali, the jihadists are still active. The fallacy of the analysts who predict that the “war on terror” (or whatever they call the defense against the global jihad these days) will last ten years, or twenty, or 100, is that they think […]