In opening his inaptly named White House Countering Violent Extremism Summit, President Obama wrote in the pages of the Los Angeles Times that he sought to “continue to lift up the voices of Muslim clerics and scholars who teach the true peaceful nature of Islam.”
As the White House Countering Violent Extremism Summit is entering its second day, the names of some of the participants are leaking out and raising concerns. This is especially true of the Boston delegation – one among those from three cities that the Obama Administration has labelled a pilot for how religious leaders can work with law enforcement to counter violent threats.
President Obama’s defenders are floating a theory that he didn’t have to say anything in Paris because the U.S. military has already spoken for him in Iraq and Afghanistan. There’s so much wrong with this dopey bit of excuse-making that it’s hard to know where to begin.
“Those who committed these acts have nothing to do with the Muslim religion,” French president Francois Hollande declared on Friday, referring to the massacre of a dozen people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine followed by an intense manhunt that ended with two simultaneous hostage crises during which four more were killed.
A teenager who missed out on a space at university because he missed the deadline for sending in applications forms is the latest PR story by Islamic State fighters. IS say that a white British teenager joined the militant terror
Egyptian authorities have raised their terror alert status to the highest level and are reportedly prepared for potential attacks on Christmas and New Year’s Eve from radial Islamic groups in the nation’s places of worship.
The hostage situation in an Australia cafe carried out by an Iranian gunman should galvanize America and her allies against the threat of Islamic extremism, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) says. “What we’ve witnessed in Sydney
The Catholic Education Service (CES) is demanding an apology from school of inspectors Ofsted after one of its schools was placed on a blacklist of schools which were failing to prepare students for “life in modern Britain”. The school remains
Leaders of energy-rich Gulf monarchies meet on Tuesday to hammer out a common strategy to fight the threat from Islamic extremism and plunging oil prices. The newly reconciled Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is gathering for its annual summit in Qatar,
The head of Sweden’s Security Service has told a television network that the country was experiencing a rapid rise in numbers heading to Iraq and Syria to fight for Islamic State. Anders Thornberg who heads Säpo, told STV to suggest
A former double-agent who spent decades feeding information on Islamic extremists to Western intelligence agencies has blasted those same organisations for ignoring his warnings about Jihadis coming to the streets of Europe until it was too late. Reda Hassaine, who
In Istanbul Sunday morning, Pope Francis employed some of his strongest language against Islamic extremism to date, condemning jihadist violence against the weak and defenseless as “a profoundly grave sin against God.” Francis spoke of the “plea” coming from the
Kuwait’s National Assembly Speaker, Marzouq Al-Ghanim, met with Pope Francis at the general audience on Wednesday. Al-Ghanim said the visit had special importance, as it comes amid fears of terrorism “and reports by foreign media seeking to link terrorism to
The New Jersey chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) released a statement demanding that a rabbi apologize for “extremist” remarks he made last week. Teaneck-based Rabbi Steven Pruzansky wrote in his blog: “the Arab-Muslim animals that span
Universities will be forced to ban hate preachers under new rules issued by the Home Secretary. The announcement,
A self-described ISIS sympathizer and extremist threatened to behead former Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor to President George W. Bush and President of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Fran Townsend over social media site Twitter on Friday. The news of
Greedy Euro MPs are demanding billions in cash from national governments in budget talks. The eight per cent increase wanted by parliamentarians is to settle unpaid bills and works out at £5.4bn. £680million of this would come from British tax
In a recent essay, Rev. Susan Russell compares Muslims who “behead journalists” with Christians “who blow up women’s health clinics.” In doing so, she disingenuously attempts to make readers believe that Islam and Christianity are equally susceptible to violent extremism.
Another idiot American sympathetic to ISIS, or Islamic extremism, has been accused of pushing ISIS’ agenda and conspiring to offer “to help an undercover agent get a friend into Syria to join the extremist group.” Heather Elizabeth Coffman made her
100 years ago today, on November 14, 1914, the last “Caliph” of the Islamic world declared a holy war on all non believers. Just a few months later, a jihadist genocide of Christians occurred on a massive scale, resulting in
British jihadists who travel to fight for Islamic State and other terror groups will be banned from returning to the UK for at least two years, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced. The Prime Minister announced the new policy as
The Church of England has hit back at the government for imposing a “narrowly focussed” set of ‘British Values’ on schools in the wake of the Trojan horse scandal. The measures are designed to combat Islamic extremism but could instead
As expected, Democrats are blaming everyone from the Tooth fairy to Santa Clause, for their election night debacle. One of the most vocal liberal Democrats, Rep. Alan Grayson, is blaming the losses on a “Obama-hatred” which has apparently gripped the
The Egyptian Minister of Education, Mahmoud Abo El-Nasr, visited the city of Minya in Upper Egypt on Tuesday, to personally verify that administrative posts in public education are not occupied by jihadists linked to Islamist groups. This latest purge of
The report by Sharia Watch UK, which we reported on yesterday, highlighted a number of individuals who have spoken at, or been invited to speak at British universities. The group believes that universities have been turned into “hotbeds of Islamic
