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Turkish Barbers See Boom as ‘ISIS Has Damaged the Beard Fashion’

As their nation continues its airstrike campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS)), Turkish barbers are seeing a spike in the number of men turning to them to maintain a clean-shaven look that keeps them from looking like members of the jihadist group. The new trend recalls another clean-shaven boom in 2014, when Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists in the southeast targeted bearded men for attack.

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Nuke Deal Provides ‘Historic Opportunity’ to Confront Israel, Iran FM Tells Hezbollah Terror Chief

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif met Wednesday in Lebanon with Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah, in which the two discussed how the nuclear deal recently agreed upon between Iran and the United States and world powers creates an opportunity for Tehran’s regional allies to “face threats posed by the Zionist entity,” Hezbollah’s Al Manar media outlet reported.

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Saudi Arabia Rejects Russia’s Plea to Involve Assad in Anti-ISIS Fight

The Russian government has failed to convince anyone to work Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), with the latest rejection coming from Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, who told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov his country will not ally themselves with Assad.

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Unapologetic Muslim Prof Denounces ‘Dirty Jewish Zionist Thugs’

Kaukab Siddique, an associate professor of English at Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania, has called me and other defenders of free speech “dirty Jewish Zionist thugs” – and of course, he refuses to retract. On the contrary, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports Kaukab Siddique spewed, “I would say it again.”

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ISIS Executes Taliban ‘Apostates’ by Forcing Them to Kneel on Bombs

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has developed a new method for murdering prisoners: forcing them to kneel on buried explosives. That is the treatment ISIS militants gave to ten “apostates,” according to the UK Daily Mail. Even more disturbing, these executions were carried out not in Iraq or Syria, but Afghanistan, where ISIS has been working to establish a presence.

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Obama Refuses to Diagnose an Ailing Islam

In the aftermath of the July 16th Chattanooga murders claiming the lives of five U.S. servicemen and the FBI’s findings concerning the killer’s motivation, we desperately need a correct diagnosis to be made as to cause. Unfortunately, both the media and our government refuse to give it.

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Peshmerga Fighter Claims Turkish Airstrikes Killed His Family as He Fought ISIS

A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter named Mamend Rasul claims that, while he was off fighting against ISIS, serving as a company commander, a force supported by the Western powers and heavily relied upon to keep the rapacious terror state in check, Turkish F-16s bombed the Iraqi village of Zergaly where his family lived, killing his 63-year-old sister, 61-year-old brother, and a cousin.

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Obama’s Syrian Rebel Force Goes AWOL and MIA

As mentioned last week, President Obama’s desultory attempt to influence the bloody chaos in Syria with a mere handful of U.S.-trained and equipped Syrian rebels brought contempt and stunned disbelief from across the Arab world.