Category Archives: Islam

Gunman kills prominent Jordian writer Nahed Hattar outside Amman court where he was facing charges over Facebook posting “offensive” anti-ISIS cartoon

AL JAZEERA Jordan: Nahed Hattar shot dead ahead of cartoon trial September 25, 2016 A gunman has shot dead prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar outside a court where he was facing charges for sharing a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam. Hattar … Continue reading

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“The goal of the president and his closest aides is to convince the Iranians that we would meet our commitments to them while confusing and obscuring the real reasons behind the president’s …nonintervention in Syria”

TABLET MAG Obama’s Syria Policy Striptease by Tony Badran September 21, 2016 America’s settled policy of standing by while half a million Syrians have been killed, millions have become refugees, and large swaths of their country have been reduced to … Continue reading

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Guilty plea in ISIS plot to behead Pam Geller. Would-be beheader is a “vulnerable young man who fell deep into a rabbit hole of extremist ideology”

BOSTON HERALD Man to plead guilty in plot to behead blogger for IS group by Associated Press September 21, 2016 A Rhode Island man charged with conspiring to help the Islamic State group has decided to plead guilty to charges … Continue reading

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“Horrific new clip released by Islamic State shows eight-year-old blond child assisting in executions”

CLARION PROJECT Horrific ISIS Clip Shows Young Blond Child Help Executions by Elliot Friedland September 21, 2016 The latest ISIS clip is entitled “If You’ll Come Back, We’ll Come Back 3,” the third in a series. At the start of the … Continue reading

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Bret Stephen’s Israel stint taught him “democracies rarely muster their full reserves of determination until they’ve been bloodied one time too many”

WALL STREET JOURNAL Life During Wartime by Bret Stephens September 19, 2016 Long after I returned to the U.S. after living in Jerusalem I kept thinking about soft targets…What’s the lesson here for Americans? This past weekend’s terrorist attacks hold … Continue reading

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Iran said, “Give us Cash”; Obama replied, “How much ?”…”$400 million cash payment was part of a larger $1.7 billion settlement with Iran, the remainder of which was also delivered in cash”

POLITICO U.S. wire payments to Iran undercut Obama by Louis Nelson September 18, 2016 The United States made at least two separate payments to the Iranian government via wire transfer within the last 14 months, a Treasury Department spokesman confirmed … Continue reading

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Hamas threatens Americans, who were warned by State Department to leave Gaza “as soon as possible”

THE TOWER Hamas Threatens Americans After State Dept. Labels Another Leader “Terrorist” by Staff September 19, 2016 A Hamas militant issued a thinly-veiled threat against Americans after the State Department officially designated a Hamas leader as being an international terrorist, The Jerusalem … Continue reading

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“Instead of worrying about Islamist terrorism and Molenbeek, Brussels’ nest of jihadists, there are racists in Europe who want to crush Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East”

GATESTONE The “Virtuous” New Nazis by Giulio Meotti September 17, 2016 …”In Nazi Germany,” noted Brendan O’Neill in the Wall Street Journal, “it was all the rage to make one’s town Judenfrei….Now a new fashion is sweeping Europe: to make … Continue reading

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Scrutiny of Muslim refugees is not analogous to refugee Jews

JIHAD WATCH PBS introduces lesson plan claiming that Muslims in U.S. are “targets of nativism” by Robert Spencer September 16, 2016 “…Muslims are [not] the new Jews,” Bill Maher noted: “Jews weren’t oppressing anybody. There weren’t 5,000 militant Jewish groups…there … Continue reading

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“Israeli military demonstrated on Tuesday that it takes seriously Hezbollah’s repeated threats to “take over the Galilee” with massive drill aimed at evacuating civilians under attack near Lebanon border”

DEFENSE NEWS Israel Heeds Hezbollah Threats, Drills Mass Evacuation of Civilians Near Border by Barbara Opall-Rome September 13, 2016 …Described as “the biggest drill of its kind until now,” Col. Eyal Forman, chief medical officer in the Israel Defense Forces … Continue reading

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