As Christians and other minorities continue to be purged in the Middle East in general under the Islamic State and other jihadi organizations in particular, France sponsored an open UN Security Council meeting on March 27 to discuss “The Victims of attacks and abuses on ethnic and religious grounds in the Middle East. ” While several Western nations sent high ranking … [Read more...]
CIA Says Muslims Join ISIS Because of … Economics
PJ Media Speaking at the Council of Foreign Relations on March 13, CIA Director John Brennan said that “the Islamic State had ‘snowballed’ beyond Iraq and Syria, estimating that at least 20,000 fighters from more than 90 countries have gone to join the militant group, several thousand of them from Western nations, including the United States.” “Left unchecked, the group … [Read more...]
CIA Chief John Brennan’s Deceptions About Islam
FrontPage Magazine By constantly projecting Western standards on Islamic jihadis, CIA head John Brennan has come to epitomize the U.S. intelligence community’s intellectual failures concerning the true sources of the jihad. Last Friday, March 13, Brennan insisted that Islamic State (IS) members are not Islamic. Instead, “They are terrorists, they’re criminals. … [Read more...]
Raymond Ibrahim on NewsMax TV: ISIS and Christian Persecution
Earlier today I was interviewed on NewsMax TV's "America's Forum with JD Hayworth" via Skype. Topics included the Islamic State's persecution of Christians, the West's response, and Egypt's supplication for America to help combat Islamic terrorism. The 10-minute clip appears in two 5-minute parts below: Part 1 Part 2 … [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...]