FrontPage Magazine In light of the ongoing nightmare that is the Islamic State, Foreign Policy, a magazine somewhat reflective of the establishment, has published an article that once again demonstrates why U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is a disaster: because analysts and policymakers, unable or unwilling to grapple with foreign concepts, opt to articulate them … [Read more...]
Willful Blindness to Global Jihad: Raymond Ibrahim on Secure Freedom Radio
Raymond Ibrahim was recently interviewed on Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy. Split into four 10-minute segments, the 40-minute interview follows: PART 1: How ISIS plays into the bigger picture of global jihad America’s willful blindness to the fact that to defeat an enemy, one must know the enemy The American … [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...]
Islamic State creates jihad video game to inspire and train jihadis; characters scream “Allahu Akbar” and behead opponents
French Jihad Watch According to Arabic media, the Islamic State’s media wing just announced that it has created a new video game where players consist of jihadis battling Iraqi and American forces. Among other things, the purpose of the game is to “raise the morale of the mujahedin and to train children and youth how to battle the West and to strike terror into the hearts … [Read more...]