Nadir Soofi was, by all accounts, the junior partner in the Texas Terror jihad attack. His roommate Elton Simpson was a “known wolf” who was very much on law enforcement’s radar screen, which is giving rise to some awkward questions about why counter-terrorist agencies could manage little more than a last-minute heads-up to the Garland police.
Despite government action to unseat Islamist radicals attempting to exert control over Birmingham schools, those responsible have merely moved to other positions of influence and continue to harass schools and “preach nonsense”. Birmingham Perry Bar MP Khalid Mahmood, who was
If more Americans had the guts of Pamela Geller, every city in our country would be holding their own Mohammed Art contest next weekend.
Last week, six writers serving as table hosts for the PEN American Center gala withdrew to protest the Freedom of Expression Courage Award given to Charlie Hebdo magazine. Now six new writers, including graphic novel legends Neil Gaiman and Art Spiegelman, have stepped forward to take their places. Their gesture is more important and appreciated than ever, in light of the anti-free speech attack in Texas on Sunday night.
There are no qualifiers necessary here, no “nuance,” no shades of grey, no weak-kneed dissertations on whether drawing a cartoon of Mohammed is rude. The right of Americans to draw those pictures, and be protected from violent reprisals, is absolute. If you’re not ready to stand up and be counted, then America doesn’t need you right now. Sit quietly and await further instructions from those who demand your submission.
Almost immediately after two men armed with AK-47s tried to shoot up Islamist awareness activist Pamela Geller’s Mohammed art exhibit, widely-respected left-wing Salon and Alternet columnist and Islamic apologist Ziad Jilani used Twitter to blame the shooting on “anti-Muslim bigots.”
Christians in the Egyptian village of Al Our are looking to build a new church in honor of the Coptic Christians beheaded by ISIS in Libya, a mass-murder outrage captured in a viral video circulated by the Islamic State. 13 of the 21 Christians slaughtered in the video hailed from Al Our; they had gone to Libya in search of employment. A church in their hometown would seem like a fine way to remember them.
Saudi Arabia’s new king, Salman bin Abdulaziz, openly discussed “Islamized terrorism” in his statement to an Organization of Islamic Conference entitled “Islam and Combatting Terrorism.”
President Obama accused those who note that the Islamic State is an Islamic organization of providing the group with recruitment rhetoric in a speech on Thursday.
A State Department spokesperson wonders why the world isn’t focused on Joseph Kony these days. But the reason is simple: African atrocities tend to be ignored, in part because there are a lot of them.
Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, host of the free-speech conference in Copenhagen that came under attack this weekend – and quite possibly the primary target of the attackers, as he spent the last eight years living under an Islamist death sentence for drawing a cartoon of Mohammed – gave an interview to France24 after the attack, in which he declared he was not intimidated by the violence.
Liberals would do well to listen to Gov. Bobby Jindal, rather than continuing to attempt to defend President Obama’s anti-Christian comments at the National Prayer Breakfast.
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld argued that President Obama’s comments on Christianity during the National Prayer Breakfast show “Islamism is the slowest runner in a millennium marathon” on Friday’s broadcast of “The Five.” “Talk about a slight, comparing modern
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher argued that Americans should “stop respecting” Islamic radicalism’s “medieval bullsh*t” on Friday. Maher, reporting on President Obama’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia, said “he went to Saudi Arabia to shake hands, I mean, to
When the mayor of Paris threatened to sue Fox News for “slandering” her city by reporting on Muslim-dominated “no-go zones,” liberal media outlets forgot their own years of reporting on those zones to bash their hated right-leaning cable news adversary. Among the longtime observers who pushed back against no-go zone denialism is author Mark Steyn, who has mentioned these hostile, unassimilated communities in his columns and books for years.
The outgoing head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. General Michael Flynn, is not leaving quietly. The Daily Beast characterizes his departing comments as “slamming” and “unloading on” President Obama’s foreign policy, which Flynn sees as a timid, confused, politicized approach to a global threat that should be met with a Cold War-style campaign against an enemy as committed to “the destruction of freedom and the American way of life” as the Soviet Union ever was.
A Twitter hashtag supporting a Palestinian terrorist has begun to trend on Twitter after thousands took to the social media outlet to use the hashtag — a play on another hashtag in support of victims of Islamist terrorism — to support an Islamist terrorist.
French government officials have confirmed to the media that up to ten of its former soldiers “have defected to the Islamic State. Among those defectors is at least one member of an elite fighting unit with advanced training.
For many years, we have been hearing reports of insular Muslim communities in Europe, particularly in France and the UK, which became known as “no-go zones” because non-Muslims were not welcome there. Islamic clerics were given autonomous authority, and government agents were hesitant to assert themselves.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, often mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for president, will address the Henry Jackson Society in London on Monday, speaking about foreign policy, terrorism, and immigration.
Long after the great Charlie Hebdo rally had been held in Paris, and Barack Obama’s absence had been painfully noted by the entire world, Secretary of State John Kerry finally chugged into France–with 70s soft-rock crooner James Taylor in tow–for a performance of “You’ve Got a Friend” that Kerry described, along with the entire visit, as a “big hug” to Paris.
Printed with $300,000 in assistance from Google, Charlie Hebdo returned to the stands with a post-attack edition that sold out before dawn on the day it was released, leading to an increased print run of 3 million copies – more than fifty times the previous weekly circulation of the magazine.
Last week, we witnessed multiple atrocities carried out by French home-grown jihadis. The Kouachi brothers purportedly made clear in communications during their warehouse siege that they wished to be “martyred.” There was speculation among commenters here on Breitbart and elsewhere
Dr. Qanta Ahmed, a Muslim and author of “In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom,” argued that Americans should stop avoiding the term “Islamist” to describe terrorists on Wednesday’s “New Day” on CNN.
The Associated Press reports Cameroon’s government claims it killed 143 Boko Haram militants in a single five-hour firefight, when a Cameroonian military camp in Kolofata came under attack.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defied any number of weak, equivocal political narratives underfoot this Sunday in his statements at the Grand Synagogue, clearly stating: “The truth and righteousness are with us. Our common enemy is extreme Islam – not Islam, not regular extremists, but extreme Islam.”
“We are Charlie!” the leaders of the civilized world declared in Paris on Sunday. “I am off the clock,” muttered Barack Obama.
The first step in rehabilitation ought to be to admit that there is a colossal number of Muslims–and, yes, they are Muslims, and, yes, they practise Islam–who are quite relaxed about acts of violence in the name of Allah.
Our response should be hope: hope that ridicule and not retaliation is our response. Because in the bleak twilight of French grief, when it seems that nothing could ever make good on the loss and violation that these animals have unleashed in one of the world’s great capital cities, what ought to ring out loud and true are not the echoes of gunfire—but guffaws at the proposition that subhumans with submachine guns will undo the achievements of our civilisation.
Dhimmi literally means “protected person,” and the term was originally applied to non-Muslims who capitulated willingly to Islamic expansionism between 638 and 1683, and who lived in Muslim countries as craven second-class citizens. A bit like the French in World War
On Wednesday, the official Twitter page of the Muslim Brotherhood, Ikhwanweb, condemned the jihadi attack on Charlie Hebdo’s office in Paris, to disappointment of its followers.
Following the bloody carnage that ensued after at least two masked gunmen opened fire on the the Paris-based offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12, supporters of ISIS (Islamic State), al Qaeda, and other extremist groups took to Twitter brandishing their praise for the killings in the name of Allah.
First, he promised to build a new, “religious generation.” Now, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to be going one step further: creating, too, a new generation for jihad.
