FrontPage Magazine Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (above), the head or “caliph” of the Islamic State, is finally dead.  This is certainly welcome news—if only because someone like al-Baghdadi deserves his fate; and President Trump deserves much credit for eliminating this diabolical leader of ISIS. But while we can all celebrate this monster getting his just deserts, […]

Gatestone Institute The Trump administration recently called out and threatened to cut federal funding for the Consortium for Middle East Studies (CMES), a program run by Duke University and the University of North Carolina. It was accused by the U.S. Education Department of misusing a federal grant to advance “ideological priorities” and unfairly promote “the […]

FrontPage Magazine Saudi Arabia continues to demonstrate why it is the “world’s greatest hypocrite.” After Australia recently condemned the Islamic kingdom of human rights abuses, the latter launched an “extraordinary” tirade.  Saudi ambassador, Abdulaziz Alwasil, projected everything his nation does onto Australia.  He claimed that minorities, migrants and Muslims face “horrific violations of human rights” […]

FrontPage Magazine On September 20, Donald Trump asserted that “I defeated the caliphate…. I defeated the caliphate — ISIS. ” Is this true?  Considering that Trump can passingly say that the sky is blue before the media and various “experts” rush to insist otherwise, naturally various elements deny this latest claim as well.  The facts, however, […]

Donald Trump’s infamous assertion “Islam hates us,” which he made over three years ago while campaigning for president, continues to anger his opponents.  Most recently, Democratic presidential hopefuls Julián Castro and Bernie Sanders cited it in their efforts to court Muslim votes in Houston.  Soon after being introduced by his Muslim campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, […]

FrontPage Magazine Western women are to blame for being raped by Muslim men.  Such is the latest position—the latest apologia—being offered by those Western elements dedicated to exonerating undesirable Muslim behavior, particularly in order to continue taking in more Muslim migrants. According to an August 9, 2019 report, “in the Swedish city of Uppsala … four […]

FrontPage Magazine One of the longest standing apologias for Islam is that the Arabic word jihad does not mean “holy war,” as earlier scholars (mostly Orientalists) often translated it.  Rather, we are repeatedly reminded—especially by those notorious for whitewashing Islam—that jihad simply means to “strive” for something, with no necessary connotation of violence. While this […]

FrontPage Magazine The “all-seeing eye” and multi-tentacled reach of CAIR is again on display, signifying just how intrusive this terrorist-linked Islamic organization that poses as a civil rights group has become in the U.S.’s efforts to defend itself against terrorism. As previously noted, after inviting me to lecture on my recent book on the military […]

Gatestone Institute A captured Islamic State fighter recently confessed how, in an effort to terrorize America on its own soil, the Islamic terror group is committed to exploiting the porous US-Mexico border, including through the aid of ISIS-sympathizers living in the United States. Abu Henricki, a Canadian citizen of Trinidadian origin, told researchers with the […]