
His mother was a U.S. citizen at the time of his birth, though his father was not. Under U.S. law at the time, he was automatically a U.S. citizen. And according to the most widely-accepted interpretation of the U.S. Constitution’s “natural-born citizen” requirement, the populist, conservative leader is also eligible to run for President of the United States.
by Joel B. Pollak7 Jan 2016, 5:18 AM PST0

The BBC’s Jimeh Saleh returned to Maiduguri, Nigeria, where he was born, and traveled into Boko Haram territory with the Nigerian Army.
by Mary Chastain6 Jan 2016, 12:03 PM PST0

JAFFA, Israel – A Saudi bus driver was reportedly sentenced to imprisonment and flogging for allowing women to smoke, sing and dance in his vehicle, the Saidi-based SABQ news site reported on Wednesday. The male driver, who drove female students from
by Ali Waked6 Jan 2016, 4:42 AM PST0

Kenya’s Garissa University officially re-opened on Monday, nine months after al-Shabaab terrorists stormed the campus, killing 148 people and deliberately targeting Christian students.
by Frances Martel5 Jan 2016, 7:30 PM PST0

Beijing will welcome the head of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), an umbrella group of Syrian opposition groups, this week to discuss political solutions to the ongoing civil war in Syria.
by Frances Martel5 Jan 2016, 6:39 PM PST0

It’s refreshing when statements issued by the President of the United States correspond to reality – as in President Obama’s 2015 Christmas statement, when he acknowledged that Christians and other religious minorities are persecuted because of their faith.
by Faith J. H. McDonnell5 Jan 2016, 12:26 PM PST0

American and other Western volunteers fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria recently told the Kurdish outlet Rudaw they were gearing up for a new offensive against the jihadists in the new year. One American volunteer recalled how thousands demanded photos with him on a routine visit to a mall in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
by Frances Martel5 Jan 2016, 10:29 AM PST0

The government of Kuwait has become the latest to downgrade its diplomatic relations with Iran after a mob burned down the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran following the execution of Shiite cleric Nimr Baqir al-Nimr.
by Frances Martel5 Jan 2016, 7:00 AM PST0

A former head teacher at one of the so-called Trojan Horse schools has become the first teacher in the UK to be banned from the profession for exerting an “undue amount of religious influence” on his pupils. The Department for Education
by Liam Deacon5 Jan 2016, 3:16 AM PST0

Four days after the November 13 Paris attacks, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the U.S. will have “absolutely no choice” but to close down mosques where “some bad things are happening.” He suggested people need to—and are finally starting to—understand this.
by James Zumwalt4 Jan 2016, 1:56 PM PST0

The British secret intelligence services are looking into the identity of the new Islamic State chief executioner after a new murderous propaganda film featured speech in recognisably British accents. After ‘Jihadi John’, the British citizen turned Islamic State executioner was “evaporated”
by Oliver Lane4 Jan 2016, 5:20 AM PST0

Twitter seems to think 2016 is 1984. It has welcomed in the New Year with a change in the rules governing all of its accounts that is reminiscent of Orwellian thought-control. Or at least that practiced by another, non-fictional totalitarian system: the Islamic supremacist program known as shariah.
by Frank Gaffney3 Jan 2016, 9:05 PM PST0

Beirut (AFP) – Arab and Kurdish forces have killed at least 16 fighters from the Islamic State group during fierce clashes north of the jihadists’ stronghold of Raqa, a monitor said Sunday.
by AFP3 Jan 2016, 9:38 AM PST0

January 1, 2116 — From the vantage point of one hundred years, we can see more clearly the achievements of the new island-nation known as Islamotopia.
by James P. Pinkerton1 Jan 2016, 4:00 AM PST0

In the aftermath of Islamic terrorist (e.g., jihadists) attacks in Paris, France and San Bernardino, California, U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump created a political and media firestorm by provocatively suggesting the U.S. is fighting a ‘politically correct’ war, and since jihadists ‘don’t care about their lives…so you have to take out their families.’
by Fred Gedrich31 Dec 2015, 8:01 AM PST0

At every turn, it seems, the weak and uncertain leadership of the West is submitting to the strength and evil certainty of radical Islam, of which Winston Churchill warned more than a century ago “no stronger retrograde force exists in the world.” History shows that strength attracts followers. The latest example that confirms this maxim is the recent report that the Islamic terrorists at ISIS are actively planning to increase their attacks on innocent civilians in the West, in an attempt to provoke one final, huge decisive battle.
by Michael Patrick Leahy31 Dec 2015, 5:32 AM PST0

The Nigerian government is claiming that it has kept its promise to eradicate Boko Haram by the end of December, though the group has staged suicide bombings this week that have killed dozens.
by Frances Martel30 Dec 2015, 2:27 PM PST0

A Reuters story about an ISIS “fatwa” (i.e., Islamic “religious” edict) regarding female sex slaves appeared online.
by Andrew G. Bostom30 Dec 2015, 6:12 AM PST0

“The danger to the homeland has never been greater”: so said Michael McCaul, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, in September as he released a new report on the global jihad.
by Pamela Geller29 Dec 2015, 11:31 AM PST0

LONDON (AP) — A husband and wife interested in helping Islamic State extremists have been convicted of planning a large-scale bombing of civilian targets in London to mark the 10th anniversary of the July 7, 2005, attacks on the city’s
by AP29 Dec 2015, 10:39 AM PST0

Chinese state media are promoting a more prominent role for the communist country in resolving the civil war in Syria, with a column in the People’s Daily suggesting China could “build on the basic consensus reached by the international community that the Syrian crisis should be solved politically.”
by Frances Martel29 Dec 2015, 10:11 AM PST0

While the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group has developed a reputation for successfully recruiting using social media, this week, a call from “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—demanding more Muslims join the jihadist group—was met with a chorus of mockery and jeers.
by Mary Chastain28 Dec 2015, 9:16 PM PST0

Members of the female Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) brigade mutilated and butchered a mom who breastfed her child in Raqqa, Syria, according to reports.
by Mary Chastain28 Dec 2015, 7:50 PM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan decapitated four members of a militia group controlled by a prominent Afghan lawmaker. They had been taken hostage during a gunfight Saturday. In retaliation, the Afghan militia beheaded four ISIS jihadists.
by Edwin Mora28 Dec 2015, 1:07 PM PST0

If there’s one overarching theme you can stamp all over the ass of this exiting year, it’s denial. We saw experts denying political phenomena, politicians denying apocalyptic threats, activists denying facts (replaced by mob-approved figments), students denying their own adulthood, in favor of infantile regression. In sum, 2015 was a horrible year, mainly because we denied what was making it so horrible.
by Greg Gutfeld28 Dec 2015, 12:52 PM PST0