Hoover Institution’s Strategika The best way to understand the Islamic State (ISIS) is to see it as the next phase of al-Qaeda. All Sunni Islamic jihadi groups—Boko Haram, ISIS, Taliban, al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda, even Hamas—share the same motivations based on a literal and orthodox reading of Islamic history and doctrine: resurrecting a caliphate (which existed in various forms … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2016
Egypt: Coptic Christian Tombs Turned into “Garbage Dumps”
Coptic Solidarity As often happens to Christian cemeteries in Muslim nations -- whether at the hands of "ISIS" or the hands of "angry youth" -- “the tombs of the Copts [Egypt's indigenous Christians] are being turned into garbage dumps.” This was the urgent and recent message from Fr. Ayoub Yousef, who heads the Coptic Catholic church of St. George in the village of Dalga, … [Read more...]
The Islamic Rape and Murder of Christian Boys
FrontPage Magazine A group of Muslim men recently went into a Christian district in Pakistan, abducted a 7-year-old boy, and took turns gang raping him before finally strangling him to death with a rope. Locals found the child’s body dumped in a field the next day: [T]he body was sent for post-mortem examination which revealed that the 7-year-old was killed after being … [Read more...]