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SC Muslim teen, Islamic State supporter, plotted to murder U.S. soldiers
By Robert Spencer on Apr 22, 2015 12:16 am
The cognitive dissonance is enormous. We are constantly told, and the mainstream media and political elites reinforce it daily (as it is so weak it needs reinforcing), that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam. All the Muslim groups in the U.S. condemn it — and yet there is a steady stream of […]
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AFDI free speech victory: NYC MTA must run ad about Islamic Jew-hatred
By Robert Spencer on Apr 21, 2015 09:13 pm
It is good that we keep winning these free speech battles. It is not so good that we have to fight them at all: it indicates how poorly the importance of the freedom of speech is understood today, and how much public officials take for granted as axiomatically true what is actually the libeling of […]
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To Yearn for Ignorance
By Michael Devolin on Apr 21, 2015 02:08 pm
“…to yearn for ignorance is to embrace the wishful thinking of a child.” -Greg Iles, from Natchez Burning In his recent article in Canada’s National Post, Tom Blackwell reveals that the “tobacco industry has been waging a sort of religious war for decades, recruiting Islamic scholars and crafting theological arguments to counter a feared Muslim […]
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Pentagon denies that Islamic State’s caliph has been wounded
By Robert Spencer on Apr 21, 2015 01:59 pm
So the claim that he has been wounded turns out to be yet another false report from the mainstream media — doubtless a projection of their wishful thinking, since the Islamic State is so very inconvenient to them, posing a daily challenge to their narrative that Islam is a Religion of Peace that has been […]
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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: The Brownshirts Are Back. And They’re In Our Universities.
By Robert Spencer on Apr 21, 2015 01:41 pm
Over at PJ Media, I ask why we must keep repeating the mistakes of history. It is not news that virtually all American universities are decidedly leftist institutions. Few Americans, however, are aware of how inhospitable they have become to free inquiry and free discourse, and how hostile they are to anyone who stands up […]
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Alabama Muslima who joined Islamic State exhorts Muslims: “Go on drive-bys and spill all of their blood…Kill them”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 21, 2015 01:25 pm
She was “radicalized via the Internet after she left high school, abandoning her family’s moderate Islamic views for the extremist brand of the faith that is embraced by the Islamic State.” Has anyone investigated and verified that her family and her mosque actually teach “moderate Islamic views”? Or is everyone just taking their word for […]
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Islamic State, Taliban declare jihad against each other
By Robert Spencer on Apr 21, 2015 01:07 pm
When takfiris devour one another, they turn their attention away from the Infidel, at least for a time. “ISIS, Taliban Announce Jihad Against Each Other,” Khaama Press, April 21, 2015: Mashaal Radio has published a report stating that Daesh and Taliban group have announced Jihad against each other. Nabi Jan Mullahkhil, police chief of southern […]
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Somalia: Islamic jihad suicide bomber murders at least ten at Mogadishu restaurant
By Robert Spencer on Apr 21, 2015 12:53 pm
Reuters, like all of the mainstream media, can’t bring itself to say that Islamic jihadists did this, and so their headline has the car bomb killing ten people, as if the car decided on its own to sow murder and mayhem. “At least 10 killed by car bomb at Mogadishu restaurant: police,” Reuters, April 21, […]
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Islamic State’s caliph Ibrahim, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, again reported seriously wounded
By Robert Spencer on Apr 21, 2015 12:43 pm
UPDATE: Yet another false alarm. —— We have heard this before: Iraqi Isis Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘Severely Injured and Flees to Syria’ International Business Times, July 5, 2014 ISIS terror chief ‘believed dead’: Iraqi military confirm warlord WAS injured in US-led airstrike as speculation grows feared jihadist perished in attack,” Daily Mail, November 9, […]
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Alabama Muslima joins Islamic State, Hamas-linked CAIR spokesman says family “extremely traumatized”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 21, 2015 10:01 am
Hassan Shibly of Hamas-linked CAIR says that “for them this is worse than losing the life of a child, to have them join such a horrible, horrible gang of violent extremists.” So apparently one of the first things they thought to do while in their “extremely traumatized” state was contact the leader of a Hamas-linked […]
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Jerusalem: Muslim who rammed car into Jews says “I sought to kill Jews”
By Robert Spencer on Apr 21, 2015 08:00 am
You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers to be the Jews…” — Qur’an 5:82 Generally in the real world that verse and other antisemitic verses in the Qur’an have the effect of making the most intense of the people in animosity toward the Jews to be the […]
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