By William Kilpatrick Crisis Magazine In a recent column, I suggested that one of the best ways to fight terrorism is by undermining the terrorist’s ideology. For example, by undercutting the belief that seventy-two virgins await the young martyr in paradise, you simultaneously undermine the will to fight. That’s not to say that the standard method of fighting terrorists—with … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2014
Loyalty and Enmity: Parallels between Islam and the Mafia
FrontPage Magazine Editor’s note: The following is Part Two of a three-part series examining the many parallels between Islam and the mafia following Bill Maher’s recent exclamation that Islam is “the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.” Click here for Part One. Death … [Read more...]
Obama Terrorism Advisor’s Book Confuses and Distorts
Reading CDR Youssef Aboul-Enein’s book, Militant Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat, published by the Naval Institute Press (2010), one can see why U.S. leadership is far from “understanding the global threat”; why the Obama administration is supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood; and why so many U.S. politicians rose up in condemnation when one obscure pastor … [Read more...]
McCain and the Caliph?
Did Senator John McCain meet with and possibly even support the current leader of the Islamic State known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi -- who was released from a U.S. detention camp in 2009? Consider the above picture. Is the man circled in red in a 2009 meeting with McCain and other Islamists, al-Baghdadi? Compare to the frontal picture in a beige shirt, which is a known picture … [Read more...]
The Islamic State and Islam
PJ Media Danish What relationship does the Islamic State have to Islam? “Absolutely nothing” is the answer almost every Western politician gives. For example, U.S. President Obama adamantly stated in a televised speech that the Islamic State “is not Islamic.” This begs the question: How does one determine what is—and is not—Islamic? The traditional answer, the … [Read more...]