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...]
Today in History: The Battle of Tours
Precisely 100 years after the death of Islam’s prophet Muhammad in 632, his Arab followers, after having conquered thousands of miles of lands from Arabia to Spain, found themselves in Gaul, modern day France, facing a hitherto little known people, the Christian Franks. There, around October 10-11, in the year 732, one of history’s most decisive battles took place, demarcating … [Read more...]
Does Obama Need ‘Time’ to Defeat or Forget ISIS?
FrontPage Magazine During U.S. President Obama’s televised speech on his strategies to defeat the Islamic State, he said, “Now, it will take time to eradicate a cancer like ISIL” (a reference to the Islamic State, “ISIS” or “IS”). Now, why is that? First, we know by “cancer” he is not referring to Islamic ideology—since he does not acknowledge that Islam has anything to … [Read more...]
Raymond Ibrahim on Rino Hour of Power
Yesterday I was interviewed on a number of topics dealing with the Middle East on "The Rino Hour of Power with host Rick Moran." The 40-minute interview follows: Check Out Politics Conservative Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with Rick Moran on BlogTalkRadio … [Read more...]
Ben Affleck: Portrait of Islam’s Clueless Apologetics
PJ Media The value of actor Ben Affleck’s recent outbursts in defense of Islam on HBO’s Real Time is that here, in one 10-minute segment, we have all the leftist/liberal bromides used whenever Islam is criticized. In what follows, Affleck’s main arguments are presented and then discredited. Relativism and the Islamic Heterogeneity Myth At the start, when author Sam Harris … [Read more...]