Feb 01, 2015 04:01 pm | Robert Spencer
99.9% of Muslims, Obama says, reject the terrorists’ understanding of Islam. That still leaves 1.3 million jihadis or jihad sympathizers, but never mind that for now — where is this 99.9%? Where are the Muslim organizations that are dedicated to working against the jihadists? Where are the Muslim marches and protests against al-Qaeda, the Islamic […]
Feb 01, 2015 03:47 pm | Robert Spencer
The Saudis are by no means the only hypocrites. How many Leftists in the U.S. shouted “Je suis Charlie” and then applauded the defacing and destruction of the AFDI ads in San Francisco? “‘Saudi Arabia says ‘I am Charlie’ but it is not': Charlie Hebdo cartoonist attacks hypocrisy of leaders who marched in name of […]
Feb 01, 2015 03:18 pm | Robert Spencer
We are so much enlightened in the free world. In the free West, no one gets jailed for insulting Islam. Instead, you just get forcibly silenced with vandalism, while the intelligentsia cheers on the vandals. We are so very much more enlightened here than they are in Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, Raif Badawi remains in prison, […]
Feb 01, 2015 03:00 pm | Robert Spencer
Well, he has one up on Obama, who has never been “infuriated” by jihad murders. But in response, Abe vowed to “persist with [Japan’s] non-military support for fighting terrorism.” I am sure the caliph is quaking in fear over that. This is just the sort of pusillanimous response that the Islamic State is counting on […]
Feb 01, 2015 02:33 pm | Robert Spencer
Predictably, the UK’s far-Left Guardian is thrilled that authoritarian thugs defaced Pamela Geller’s AFDI ads calling attention to Islamic Jew-hatred in San Francisco buses. They either do not realize or do not care that once the principle is established that an unpopular group’s freedom of speech can be forcibly silenced, it can be turned on […]
Feb 01, 2015 01:47 pm | Robert Spencer
Boko Haram, whose official name is the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, can act with apparent impunity in Nigeria, with the government (despite its boasts) unable or unwilling to stop them. “Maiduguri under fresh terrorist attack,” by ‘Jola Sotubo, Pulse, February 1, 2015: Boko Haram insurgents have launched a […]
Feb 01, 2015 01:34 pm | Robert Spencer
Terrorism should not be associated with Islam, says the Dalai Lama, because all Muslims are “neither terrorist nor its sponsorer.” Sponsorer? Anyway, the Dalai Lama is right that all Muslims are neither terrorists nor “sponsorers” of terrorism, but he says nothing about the texts and teachings of Islam. What if they contain exhortations to “slay […]
Feb 01, 2015 08:45 am | Robert Spencer
They are following in the illustrious footsteps of the caliph Umar, who is supposed to have said when ordering the ancient, fabled library of Alexandria to be burned: “If the books agree with the Qur’an, they are superfluous. If they disagree with it, they are heretical.” “Iraqi libraries ransacked by Islamic State group in Mosul,” […]
Feb 01, 2015 08:31 am | Robert Spencer
British taxpayers have been funding their efforts against deportation. Meanwhile, the Home Office makes sure that people like me who stand against jihad terror are banned from the country — and Britain continues its race to ruin. “Human Rights Act has helped 28 terrorists to stay in UK,” by Robert Mendick, the Telegraph, January 31, […]
Feb 01, 2015 08:13 am | Robert Spencer
Now we have seen rallies against the Charlie Hebdo cartoons in Chechnya (800,000 people), Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Ingushetia, Niger (45 churches torched), Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. Nary a single Muslim rally anywhere in support of the freedom of speech and denouncing the killing of the cartoonists. “About 1,000 Attend ‘I Am Not Charlie’ Rally In Kyrgyzstan,” […]
