Powerline By John Hinderaker From Pakistan, another in a long series of horrifying news stories: because of a (presumably false) rumor that they had burned pages of a Koran, a Christian couple was burned alive by a mob of Muslims: Sajjad Maseeh, 27, and his wife Shama Bibi, 24, were set upon by at least 1,200 people after rumors circulated that they had burned verses from the … [Read more...]

FrontPage Magazine By Bruce Thornton The jihadist murderers are dead, after killing five more Parisians, but many Westerners, long drugged by bad ideas and received wisdom, continue to sleepwalk through the war against jihadism. This means that after all the brave words and feel-good marches, little significant action will be taken to prevent such atrocities from happening … [Read more...]

Newsmax By Todd Beamon In a bold yet little-reported speech, The President of Egypt has directly confronted Islamic leaders in his country and challenged them to stand against extremism in their religion. "We are in need of a religious revolution," President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi told imams on New Years Day at al-Azhar University in Cairo. The speech commemorated the birthday … [Read more...]

CNN By Daniel Burke Paris. Nigeria. Pakistan. Australia. Somalia. Turkey. Iraq. Canada. All are sites that suffered attacks committed by Muslim extremists in recent months. Expand the time frame, and the list lengthens. Even as the vast majority of Muslims condemn terrorism, the frequency and cruelty of the assaults have led many people to ask tough questions about the … [Read more...]

Washington Post By Jennifer Rubin It was a harrowing and eventful week. In the midst of the horrific killings in France, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gave a speech which, via a translation from Raymond Ibrahim’s Web site, included this: It’s inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of … [Read more...]