Jan 24, 2015 07:27 pm | Robert Spencer
Just don’t call it a no-go zone, you greasy, right-wing Islamophobe. “Kippah-wearing Swedish reporter assaulted in Malmo,” JTA, January 23, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller): (JTA) — A Swedish reporter who walked around Malmo while wearing a kippah to test attitudes toward Jews was hit once and cursed at by passersby before he fled for […]
Jan 24, 2015 05:41 pm | Robert Spencer
David Greenfield is right: this isn’t simply opposition to Israel, which all too often is born of Jew-hatred in any case. This is open anti-Semitism. The Council was discussing a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The protesters were identifying with the Auschwitz murderers. “VIDEOS: Pro-Palestinians Disrupt City Council Meeting Over […]
Jan 24, 2015 02:15 pm | Robert Spencer
This story lists two bounties, one for 100 million Pakistani rupees and the other for 10 million rupees. 100 million rupees is slightly less than a million US dollars, so the total bounty amounts to just under $1,100,000 dollars. Where is the global condemnation of this bloodlust and thuggery? “Sacrilegious caricatures: Bounties announced on Charlie […]
Jan 24, 2015 01:33 pm | Robert Spencer
Every day the death count grows, and every day our leaders continue to dissemble about what is causing all this — which only ensures that will not do anything effective to counter it. “Explosion in Philippines kills 2, leaves 54 wounded,” Associated Press, January 24, 2015 (thanks to Jerk Chicken): MANILA, Philippines – A powerful […]
Jan 24, 2015 01:20 pm | Robert Spencer
Not that this has anything to do with Islam. “Spanish Police Arrest Brothers Suspected of Planning Jihad,” Reuters, January 24, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller): MADRID — The police in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta arrested four men on Saturday suspected of belonging to a militant Islamist network that may have been planning an […]
Jan 24, 2015 12:31 pm | Robert Spencer
“He didn’t care about his safety because he believed he and people of IS would be able to understand each other, as members of the global community.”… No one who understands the Islamic State would ever have said such a thing. “Video purportedly released by IS claims to have beheaded one of two hostages,” i24news, […]
Jan 24, 2015 12:14 pm | Robert Spencer
Amatullah Conley’s parents were aware of their daughter’s conversion to Islam, but didn’t know about her interest in extreme Islam or jihad.” They were not prepared for the possibility that their daughter could become interested in “extreme Islam or jihad,” because they’ve been barraged for years with proclamations from the highest officials that Islam is […]
Jan 24, 2015 11:33 am | Robert Spencer
Yet the Western media still tells us that the vast majority of Muslims abhor the massacre of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and support the freedom of speech. Where are they marching? “Charlie Hebdo protests erupt across southern Asia,” by Khurram Shahzad, AFP, January 23, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann): Tens of thousands across Afghanistan, Pakistan and […]
Jan 24, 2015 11:02 am | Robert Spencer
This report identifies Sayfildin Tahir Sharif only as an “Edmonton man.” Is the fact that Sayfildin Tahir Sharif lived in Edmonton really the salient aspect of his biography that will help readers understand his plans to “kill Americans abroad” and provide “material support to a terrorist conspiracy to kill Americans abroad”? Is Edmonton at war […]
Jan 24, 2015 10:49 am | Robert Spencer
Thursday, on Michael Coren’s The Arena. Topics included Obama’s denial of the Islamic character of the jihad against on the West, and the “Palestinian” celebrating the stabbing of Israeli civilians with the #IAmKnife hashtag. Video thanks to Aloha Snackbar 01.
Jan 24, 2015 10:20 am | Robert Spencer
What Sirajul Haq said here could actually approach some truth: the Muhammad cartoons and the West’s freedom of speech could actually lead to an escalating global conflict, if Muslims continue to riot and kill in reaction to them. But it is much more likely at this point that the whole situation will be pacified by […]
Jan 24, 2015 09:33 am | Robert Spencer
“But some Shiite scholars think differently about the matter, believing that Abdullah’s death will mark the beginning of a chain of great events that will shock the world.” That could well be true, even without “the rise of Imam Mahdi.” The main concern for non-Muslims is that all too many Shi’ite (and Sunni) end-times scenarios […]