PJ Media Do you know the difference between a supremacist grievance and an egalitarian grievance? This is the key to understanding the widely held claim that Muslim grievances are the source of Muslim violence. Take the latest Muslim attack on U.S. soil. Last week, Abdul Razak Ali Artan -- an 18-year-old Muslim refugee from Somalia, who was receiving aid from Catholic … [Read more...]
The Connection between Al-Qaeda and Black Lives Matter
FrontPage Magazine Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri made a new video that appeared on September 9. It offers little that is new: 9/11 is again praised and portrayed as a product of Muslim grievances and payback for Western crimes; he vows a “thousand more” 9/11s and warns against apostates being more dangerous than original infidels. Only one angle stands … [Read more...]
Impervious Hubris: How U.S. Intelligence Failures Led to ISIS
PJ Media Over a decade after U.S. leadership declared a “war on terror,” all it has to show for it is the creation of the Islamic State—an Islamic body that has taken terror and atrocities to a whole new level. How did this happen? A key factor often overlooked is the intelligence community’s failures concerning what fuels the jihadis. Consider Michael Scheuer, … [Read more...]
Raymond Ibrahim on Radio: “Why Do They Hate US?”…
I was recently interviewed on the Denice Gary Pandol Show. Among other topics, we discussed recent revelations concerning what truly fuels jihadi violence against the West -- political grievances or Islamic teachings? Click here and fast forward to the 23-minute mark to listen. … [Read more...]
Confirmed: Islam, Not ‘Grievances,’ Fuels Muslim Hate for the West
An old (and tiresome) debate appears to have been settled by those best positioned to settle it. According to Andrew Gripp, a former political science professor: Since 9/11, one of the defining fault lines in American and Western politics has concerned whether jihadist groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS are motivated by their religion or by politics – or more specifically, by … [Read more...]