Turkey’s EU minister: using terms “Islamic State” & “Islamic terrorism” offends Muslims By Robert Spencer on Mar 21, 2015 11:53 pm
Of course, it is Islamic jihadists, not “Islamophobes,” who are responsible for creating the concept of “Islamic terrorism” by referring to Islamic texts and teachings to justify their acts of violence. And it is the Islamic State, not “Islamophobes,” who named it “the Islamic State.” Volkan Bozkir knows this. He just doesn’t want you to […] Read in browser »
Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul: Islamic State “dedicated to a contemporary holocaust” By Robert Spencer on Mar 21, 2015 11:43 pm
To call the Islamic State the Fourth Reich is to diminish it. The Islamic State is even more savage and barbaric than the Third Reich was. They just don’t have the means (yet) to commit mass murder on the scale they’d like. “A grotesque love of propaganda. Unspeakable barbarity. The loathing of Jews – and […] Read in browser »
Islamic State jihadi with engineering degree: “I am happy with my Jihadi work” By Robert Spencer on Mar 21, 2015 11:21 pm
“Except Tanki who was an HSC dropout, rest three were engineering students with well-to-do family backgrounds. Shaikh had a mechanical engineering degree from Kalsekar College in Panvel where Majeed and Tandel were students. Shaikh and Majeed’s fathers are doctors while Tandel’s father works in a reputed company in Mumbai and Tanki’s dad is a businessman.” […] Read in browser »
Afghan Muslim cleric defends lynching of woman for burning Qur’an By Robert Spencer on Mar 21, 2015 11:02 pm
“It was unclear whether she had actually burned a Koran, but during Friday prayers at a mosque in a smart area of Kabul, a cleric’s sermon broadcast by loudspeaker told devotees that the crowd had a right to defend their Muslim beliefs at all costs.” At a mosque? But didn’t all the moderates rise up […] Read in browser »
Nine Muslim medical students from UK working in Islamic State hospitals By Robert Spencer on Mar 21, 2015 10:46 pm
Medical students? What? But…but…John Kerry and Marie Harf told me that poverty and ignorance causes terrorism! “Nine British medical students believed to be in Syria – report,” Reuters, March 21, 2015 (thanks to Kenneth): (Reuters) – Nine British medical students have travelled to Syria, apparently to work in hospitals controlled by Islamic State, Britain’s Observer […] Read in browser »
Khamenei screams “Death to America” as Kerry hails progress on nuke deal By Robert Spencer on Mar 21, 2015 09:23 pm
How they must be laughing up their sleeves in Tehran at Kerry and the rest of the American fools so eager to give them everything they want on a silver platter. “Khamenei calls ‘Death to America’ as Kerry hails progress on nuke deal,” Times of Israel, March 21, 2015: Iran’s Supreme leader Ali Khamenei called […] Read in browser »
Tunisia museum jihad murderer started frequenting mosque last year By Robert Spencer on Mar 21, 2015 09:10 pm
He started frequenting a local mosque “where ultraconservative Salafists gave talks on jihad in Syria and Libya.” Why didn’t the vast majority of peaceful Muslims who understand the Religion of Peace properly rise up and cast these “ultraconservative Salafists” out of the mosque? “Tunisian took break from travel agent job to shoot tourists,” by Tarek […] Read in browser »
Boston Marathon jihad murderer jury questionnaire: “Do you believe the ‘war on terror’ unfairly targets Muslims?” By Robert Spencer on Mar 21, 2015 01:14 pm
“’Do you believe the United States government acts unfairly towards Muslims in this country or in other parts of the world?’ asks No. 60. ‘Do you believe the ‘war on terror’ unfairly targets Muslims?’ reads No. 61. ‘Do you believe the ‘war on terror’ is overblown or exaggerated?’ asks No. 62.” Apparently if you answer […] Read in browser »
Islamic State posts names and addresses of 100 U.S. service members By Robert Spencer on Mar 21, 2015 09:42 am
“Know that it is wajib [an Islamic religious duty] for you to kill these kuffar [unbelievers]! and now we have made it easy for you by giving you addresses, all you need to do is take the final step, so what are you waiting for? Kill them in their own lands, behead them in their […] Read in browser »
Canada: 17-year-old Muslim arrested for trying to join the Islamic State By Robert Spencer on Mar 21, 2015 08:58 am
How long are Western authorities going to pretend that all these young Muslims streaming into the Islamic State from the West, or trying to, were “radicalized on the Internet” or “misunderstand their peaceful religion”? These young people are trying to join the Islamic State because of the Islam they learned in their own mosques and […] Read in browser »
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