Most Clicked This Week
- Pensacola Saudi gunman's Twitter account "condemned US support for Israel and included a quote from Al-Qaeda’s deceased leader, the Saudi Osama bin Laden"
- Israel to no longer bar travelers from US and UK
- CBS, NBC Bash Netanyahu on Election Night; ‘Could Destroy’ Chances for Peace with Obama, Palestinians
- An otherwise positive story from #NYT about Israel's battle against coronavirus "marred by its opening" which has now been changed online
- 49 US Republican senators say they will not back new #Iran nuclear deal. This Isn’t #Obama’s Iran Deal. It’s Much, Much Worse.
- Harold Rhode: Critical thinking on Islamic Law was shut down by Sunni leaders 1000 years ago. This meant the end of progress, situation continues to this day
- “Most radical leftists believe this noxious legacy foretells our future and will continue unabated unless American politics is fundamentally overturned”
- As small but growing numbers of Haredi men enlist in the Israeli military, attitudes in their strictly observant communities start to shift
Tag Archives: ISIL
A Beheading Ends All Illusions About Islam
FRONT PAGE by Daniel Greenfield August 27, 2014 In August 2012, James Foley retweeted a link to a CNN story asking “Right-wing extremist terrorism as deadly a threat as al Qaeda?” The article concluded that indeed it was. Three months later, … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged CNN, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, James Foley, Jihadists, Lebanon, Peter Bergen, Syria, Turkey
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Chuck Hagel: ISIL ‘beyond anything that we’ve seen’
POLITICO by Jeremy Herb August 21, 2014 The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is “beyond anything that we’ve seen” and poses a greater terrorism threat than Al Qaeda, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday. “ISIL is as sophisticated … Continue reading
The New Romantics, or “Being Fair” to Terrorist Groups
GATESTONE by Denis MacEoin August 14, 2014 ……What sort of pink-tinted spectacles do you need to march while chanting, “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the Gas”?…..Hitler was not a good-looking man, not tall, not prepossessing, not particularly intelligent, not a great … Continue reading
If We Want to Beat Al Qaeda, We Have to Stop Arming It
FRONT PAGE MAG by Daniel Greenfield June 30, 2014 Obama’s call for $500 million to arm and train Syrian Jihadist fighters couldn’t have possibly come at a more inappropriate time as Al Qaeda in Iraq menaces both countries. It wasn’t … Continue reading
ISIS Risks Everything to Declare a Caliphate
THE DAILY BEAST by J.M. Berger June 29, 2014 After months of gaining territory, weapons, and cash, ISIS is putting its global credibility on the line in a play that could backfire spectacularly. On Sunday morning, the Islamic State of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, Caliphate, ISIL, ISIS
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Next Goal for ISIS : Jordan. And Then?
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS by Dr. Mordechai Kedar June 26, 2014 Israel is going to face a tough choice if and when ISIS tries to take over Jordan. And the countdown has begun…A clear and razor-sharp choice will then face Israel … Continue reading
ISIS Takeovers in Iraq: Biggest Islamist Victory Since 9/11
CLARION PROJECT by Ryan Mauro June 15, 2014 The West needs to understand that ISIS’ motivation is explicitly ideological, Islamist and anti-democratic. The takeover of about one-third of Iraq by the “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” (ISIS) terrorist group … Continue reading