Here again we see why Western "elites," including the highest echelons of the U.S. military, are clueless and incapable of acknowledging -- much less responding to -- Islam: Modern sexism is rooted in the Bible, U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, according to a Pentagon-approved seminar. In a presentation prepared by the Defense Equal Opportunity … [Read more...]
‘Devotion to Islam’ — Not Unemployment — Root Cause of Jihad
In light of the State Dept's recent assertion that economics is what attracts Muslims to join the savage Islamic State, consider the following excerpt from Understanding Terror Networks, by Marc Sageman, a former CIA officer who worked closely with jihadi groups in Afghanistan (emphasis mine): There was a definite shift in degree of devotion to Islam in adulthood by the … [Read more...]
Useful Video-Map of Crusades and Jihads
Speaking of the Crusades (as Obama recently did ), Dr. Bill Warner of the Center for the Study of Political Islam has created a nifty video (below) that maps out the location and amount of jihads throughout the centuries versus the location and amount of crusades throughout the centuries. The sheer volume and ubiquity of jihads radically dwarfs the much more maligned crusades … [Read more...]
Islamic State: “Great Reward” for Killing Coptic Christians
The following excerpt from the Islamic State captures well the perverse logic that its many members and even more sympathizers operate on. It recently appeared in an Islamic State report explaining why the jihadis already did -- or soon will -- execute 21 Coptic Christian workers abducted in (post-"Arab Spring") Libya. The justification begins by positioning the 2010 Islamic … [Read more...]
The Truth about the Crusades
Were the Crusades a reflection of the "terrible deeds [done] in the name of Christ" as U.S. President Obama recently warned, or were they a reflection of something else, namely, centuries of Islamic jihad? In the following essay, one of the top historians of the Crusades definitively answers the question. Thomas Madden -- former Chair of the History Department at Saint Louis … [Read more...]