Recent assertions by State Dept. spokesperson Marie Harf expose how the Obama administration continues to operate under wildly false -- if not ludicrous -- premises in its approach to combating the Islamic State. During an interview with Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball, Harf said: We’re killing a lot of them, and we’re going to keep killing more of them. So are the … [Read more...]
Islam’s ‘Good Cop/Bad Cop’ Routine
PJ Media French Yet one more piece of evidence tying the United States to the Islamic State recently came to light. In a new video interview, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the most authoritative clerics in the Muslim community who has his own program on Al Jazeera and is chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, asserted that the leader of the … [Read more...]
Islamic State Atrocities: Products of ‘Grievances’?
French FrontPage Magazine While many have rightfully criticized U.S. President Obama’s recent assertion that the Islamic State “is not Islamic,” some of his other equally curious but more subtle comments pronounced in the same speech have been largely ignored. Consider the president’s invocation of the “grievances” meme to explain the Islamic State’s success: “At this … [Read more...]
Islam’s ‘Rule of Numbers’
Fox News Translations: Danish Last week in London, two Muslim men shouting jihad’s ancient war-cry, “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a British soldier with a cleaver—in a busy intersection and in broad daylight. They boasted in front of passersby and asked to be videotaped. As surreal as this event may seem, Islamic beheadings are not uncommon in the West, including the U.S. In … [Read more...]