Investigative Project on Terrorism Indonesian News emerged a few weeks ago in Arabic media that yet another fatwa had called on practicing Muslim women to travel to Syria and offer their sexual services to the jihadis fighting to overthrow the secularist Assad government and install Islamic law. Reports attribute the fatwa to Saudi sheikh Muhammad al-'Arifi, who, along with … [Read more...]
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Persecution Myth? How the Present Explains the Past
Originally published by World Magazine One of the traditional purposes for studying History has been to learn from it, to see how past events can shed light on the present. This is possible assuming the history presented is true. Unfortunately, in our postmodern era of relativism, history has become a malleable tool to justify one’s philosophical and/or political … [Read more...]
An Islamic Declaration of War on Christianity
FrontPage Magazine While it is easy to confuse the recent jihadi attack on Egypt’s St. Mark Cathedral in Cairo as just more of the usual, this attack has great symbolic significance, and in many ways bodes great evil for Egypt’s millions of Christians. Consider some facts: St. Mark Cathedral—named after the author of the Gospel of the same name who brought Christianity to … [Read more...]
The Importance of ‘Witnesses’: Newly Translated Georgian Christian Martyrdoms Expose Islamic Jihad Continuity
By Ralph Sidway In the Eastern Orthodox Christian traditions, the lives of saints and the examples of martyrs and confessors are a rich source of theology. These are ones who “completed this life in faith,” and so their “witness” (the literal translation of the Greek word, “martyr”) bears considerable weight in the Church’s memory. In the mind of the Orthodox Church, martyrs … [Read more...]
The Threat of Islamic Betrayal
American Thinker A recent assassination attempt in Turkey offers valuable lessons for the West concerning Islamist hate—and the amount of deceit and betrayal that hate engenders towards non-Muslim “infidels.” Last January, an assassination plot against a Christian pastor in Turkey was thwarted. Police arrested 14 suspects. Two of them had been part of the pastor’s … [Read more...]
Egypt’s Salafi Party Objects to Banning Sex Slavery
Published in Jihad Watch Considering that the abduction, enslavement, rape, and trafficking of Coptic Christian girls, especially minors, in Egypt is at an all time high—according to U.S. lawyers, 550 such cases have been documented in the last five years—Egypt's Constituent Assembly to the Constitution met yesterday to consider the inclusion of a new article, #33, in the … [Read more...]
‘Rehabilitating’ Jihadis with Cage-Fighting?
UK officials have taken wishful thinking to a new level: not only are some of the most violent Islamic terrorists being released onto the streets; but in order to "rehabilitate" them, they are being trained by a former radical Muslim in one of the most violent forms of sports—cage-fighting, which even the Olympics refuses to acknowledge. CNN's "Cagefighter 'cures' terrorists," … [Read more...]
Who Is Telling The Truth About Islam?
by Wolff Bachner Inquisitr Once again, Americans are being told they have nothing to fear from Islam. Unfortunately, these reassuring words do not come from prominent Islamic clerics or the Qur'an. They come from American academics. On July 9, 2012, several "highly respected" researchers at the University of Arizona released a Defense Department funded study of Islamic … [Read more...]
Sodomy “For the Sake of Islam”
Originally published by the Gatestone Institute Translations of this item: Spanish Not only did the original "underwear bomber" Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri hide explosives in his rectum to assassinate Saudi Prince Muhammad bin Nayef—they met in 2009 after the 22-year-old Asiri "feigned repentance for his jihadi views"—but this "holy-warrior" apparently had fellow … [Read more...]
Parallel Betrayals: Iranian Revolution and Arab Spring
Published in FrontPage Magazine Many are the lessons to be learned between the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the current revolutions of the Arab world. Consider the issue of the hijab, the female "veil"—the proliferation of which, according to one former Islamistand associate of al-Qaeda's Ayman Zawahiri, is associated with a Muslim society's downward spiral into oppression … [Read more...]