Necessary Lies
MARCH 30, 2015 11:11 PM BY MICHAEL DEVOLIN30 COMMENTS
“That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of life.” –Nietzsche I couldn’t help but notice how the major media outlets avoided articulating into print what much of thinking humanity suspected after hearing the horrible news of Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately flying his plane into […]
UK: Muslim judge convicts Christian preacher of hate speech
MARCH 30, 2015 10:56 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER43 COMMENTS
Judge Shamim Qureshi, who heard this case, is also a judge at a Sharia court: “Overd’s case is being heard by a Muslim, Judge Shamim Qureshi, who also serves as the presiding judge at the Sharia law-based Muslim Arbitration Tribunal.” — Christian News, March 13, 2015 Qureshi complained that Overd “happily shouts out the negative […]
Islamic State publishes photos of jihadi “graduation”
MARCH 30, 2015 10:32 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER7 COMMENTS
Signaling that they’re planning to be there awhile, and to continue to consolidate and expand their caliphate. “Commencing jihad: ISIS tweets photos of military ‘graduation,’” by Malia Zimmerman, FoxNews.com, March 30, 2015: The Twitter photos show a “graduating class” of ISIS fighters. The black-clad graduates listened intently as speakers inspired them to change the world, […]
Bangladesh: Muslims hack another blogger to death for anti-Islam writings
MARCH 30, 2015 10:15 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER6 COMMENTS
The world yawns at this thuggery and bloodlust. Atheist writer Avijit Roy was murdered in Bnagladesh recently; the international media barely took notice. This second and similar murder will get even less notice. And it’s understandable — it isn’t as if “Islamophobia” were being committed. That would be news; but Muslims murder another writer who […]
Video: Catholic university officials approve club raising money for Islamic State
MARCH 30, 2015 2:05 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER83 COMMENTS
“Sympathetic Students in Support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” — why not? As everyone knows, poverty causes terrorism, so sending them money will stop it, right? This is an appalling video, but even more appalling is the the fact that the Project Veritas people pitched this pro-Islamic State club in terms that […]
Powerful lobby Sabeel trying to influence Church to delegitimize Israel
MARCH 30, 2015 11:07 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER20 COMMENTS
The forces of hatred and violence gaining power and influence everywhere. “Christian Icons of Propaganda – Sabeel and Desmond Tutu,” by Christine Williams, Gatestone Institute, March 29, 2015: A virulent global campaign by a powerful Christian lobby is trying to influence the Church and use it to delegitimize Israel. The lobbying group is the Sabeel […]
Austria: 14-year-old Muslim charged with plotting jihad mass murder attacks
MARCH 30, 2015 10:44 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER4 COMMENTS
He is “deeply radicalized and defended his beliefs.” In response, they sent him to psychological counseling. The Austrian authorities, like all Western authorities, have no idea how to deal with this problem. They think they can cure deeply held beliefs that Merkan thinks comes from the creator of the universe by having him indulge in […]
Malaysian Muslim cleric: Jews behind 9/11 attack
MARCH 30, 2015 10:25 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER14 COMMENTS
Of course! Who else could it be but those whom the Qur’an designates as the “most intense in hostility” toward the Muslims” (5:82)? “Jews were behind 9/11 attack, implies M’sian preacher,” Free Malaysia Today, March 30, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): MELBOURNE: Malaysian Islamic preacher Hussain Yee, a keynote speaker scheduled to speak […]
Assad: Turkey “logistically and militarily” supporting Islamic State fighters
MARCH 30, 2015 7:35 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER16 COMMENTS
There is nothing farfetched about this claim: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has his own designs on the caliphate. If the Islamic State can fight against some of his enemies, such as Assad and the Kurds, he has no problem with that — he hopes to move in later and reap the benefits. “Assad: Turkey […]
Islamic State wants “to control the entire world. To annihilate the infidels”
MARCH 30, 2015 8:46 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER20 COMMENTS
Note that he was in the Free Syrian Army (SFA) and then says, “Anyone who was with the SFA had to join the ISIS; both in Syria and Iraq.” The Free Syrian Army were the Obama-backed “moderates” whom we were told would fight the Islamic State. Note also his frank avowal of the Islamic State’s […]
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