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Iranian artist and activist Atena Farghadani, who was charged with “insulting members of parliament through paintings” for a caricature she drew lampooning debate on a bill that would outlaw some forms of contraception, has reportedly been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison.

Details out of Iran are still sketchy and few international media outlets have picked up the sentencing story as of this writing, but the Washington Post’s Michael Cavna discussed the case with representatives from Cartoonists Rights Network International, including board member and Iranian cartoonist in exile Nikahang Kowsar, who has first-hand experience with what Farghadani is going through now. Kowsar was imprisoned in 2000 for drawing a crocodile with a name similar to a powerful Ayatollah’s.

Just a reminder — if one is needed — that Freedom of Speech is NOT a Muslim value.

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The dramatic footage was filmed by terrified passengers looking on in horror from a coach waiting behind.

In it a tour guide can be heard trying to reassure the shocked passengers, telling them: “Don’t panic guys, we have locked all of the doors. Try not to panic guys.”

A leading haulage expert who viewed the footage today was in disbelief as he asked: “Where are the authorities?”

What do the French care about parasites wanting to go to Britain? I’m sure they’re helping them every way they can, since they have their own immigrant problems.

British lorry drivers have said they fear for their lives every time they travel through the notorious port, with migrants resorting to increasingly violent tactics in a desperate bid to reach the UK.

The situation is so bad that drivers now refuse to work the Calais route and many freight companies are close to pulling out of the UK market all together.

The town’s mayor has blamed Britain’s generous benefits system for the chaos, with more than 4,000 refugees now living in squalid camps near the port.

Reacting to the footage Don Armour, from the respected Freight Transport Association, said such scenes were a daily peril for lorry drivers using the port.

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The footage emerged as a top UN official said that Britain should be forced to take in more migrants.

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Until the tragedy that came early in August 2014, the people who call themselves the Dâseni were little known to Westerners. These are the Yezidis, who mainly live in Iraq. Reviled as “devil worshippers” for centuries by their Muslim and Christian neighbors, they have endured 72 attempted genocides since 630 CE. After the predations of the “Islamic State” that number has increased to 74.

A Kurdish people in ethnicity, the Yezidis practice a distinctive religion that is neither Christian nor Muslim. Tradition states that it is one of the oldest in the world, and that they have been a presence in Mesopotamia “for more than 6,700 years.” During that long span of time Yezidism has incorporated elements of other faiths: Christian, Jewish, Muslim (Sufism), Zoroastrian, and Mandaean Gnostic. Like Hindus, the Yezidis have a caste system. Their tradition is hereditary and does not allow converts.

Most Muslims do not regard them as “People of the Book” since their traditions are oral, although some Iranians describe them as such based on their link to Zoroastrianism. Their apparent non-scriptural status is changing, however, as their core oral ‘texts’ (hymns or qawls) are written down “effectively transforming Yezidism into a scriptural religion,” according to a Yezidi source.

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I have been hanging on to this video by Dr. Bill Warner of the Center for the Study of Political Islam for a while now, waiting for the Crusades to come back into the news. Which hasn’t happened. So here it is. Dr. Warner’s point, which he makes persuasively, is that the Crusades were a mere blip compared to the centuries-long, and nearly successful, assault on Christendom by Islamic armies bent on conquest.

It is frankly ludicrous for contemporary Muslims to whine about the Crusades.

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ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) has been updating its online training manuals to make it easier for potential recruits who want to join either in an ISIL controlled area or as a holy warrior in another country, including where they now live. Among the useful information available is advice on how to hide the fact that they are Moslems while in a non-Moslem country. This is vital if the recruit is to avoid arrest while preparing to travel to an ISIL base. The advice covers essentials, like appearance, meaning no beard or traditional Islamic clothing, always praying in private, training inconspicuously (paintball is particularly useful) and not wearing military clothing. Women are advised to wear a colorful headscarf (as the black one marks you as hard core). Much useful advice is given on how to raise money illegally and how to get it to ISIL without getting caught.

Practical and proven information on obtaining or making weapons is given as well as emphasis on how important physical and weapons training is. Potential recruits are urged to get in shape and learn martial arts if possible. There is also a lot of practical information about how to transport weapons and other contraband in such a way that is not noticed or if there is a search the hidden items are not discovered. There is also a lot of information on how to detect if you are being watched and how to escape surveillance. This includes useful information on obtaining and using false ID.

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In this portion of the briefing, Maj. Coughlin focuses on The Quranic Concept of War by a Pakistani brigadier general named S. K. Malik. Gen. Malik’s book lays out the scriptural basis for war against the infidel as a perpetual mandate for Islam.

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The publicly-funded University of Bath has hosted what it calls a conference on “Understanding Conflict,” featuring a number of controversial speakers. They include Norman Finkelstein, who has publicly stated that “every victory by Hezbollah over Israel is also a victory for liberty and a victory for freedom,” and Moazzam Begg, the leader of the infamous CAGE group, which called ISIS murderer Jihadi John a “beautiful young man.”

The three-day conference, which began on Monday, was opened by David Miller, whose now-defunct NeoConEurope website previously hosted anti-Semitic articles. Miller is also the sometime editor of the SpinWatch website, which draws together a broad conspiracy theory about ‘NeoCons’ and ‘Zionists’ – coincidentally, two core themes of the University of Bath conference this week.

Speakers at the conference, which was hosted in the Chancellors’ Building, travelled from all across the world. It is unclear whether public money was spent on flights and accommodation for the speakers, though it is common practice for the hosting organisation to cover such costs.

This means the likes of Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo detainee, and Anas Al-Tikriti, the president of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Cordoba Foundation, may be on the receiving end of taxpayer- and tuition-funded hospitality.

When only one side is fighting a war, guess who wins?

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That’s a mighty fine Religion o’ Peace you got there, fella, mighty fine.

Valdet Gashi, who is married with two children, said he wanted to “do something good and to die while doing it”.

I guess ‘responsibility’ isn’t a Muslim vertue.

The former refugee arrived in Germany at the age of six from Albania.

You’re welcome, I guess.

Enver Gashi, the jihadi fighter’s father, pleaded for his son to return.

He said:”Valdet’s place is with us – with his children, his wife and his parents.”

Evidently not.

He added: “Someone must have planted these ideas in his head.”

I think the name you’re looking for is ‘Muhammad’. I hear he wrote a book about it.

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Armed men have stormed the Tunisian consulate in Libya’s capital Tripoli and are holding 10 employees hostage, Tunisia’s foreign ministry says.

That’s a mighty fine Religion o’ Peace you got there, fellas, might fine.

It is not clear which armed group is involved in the siege.

I know the feeling.

Libya has been in turmoil since the Nato-backed removal of former leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

Be careful what you wish for….

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Maj. Stephen Coughlin is a retired U.S. Army officer and one of the foremost experts on Islamic law in the United States. For years he was well-known inside the Beltway for his “Red Pill” briefings of military commanders and defense officials on the topics of jihad and sharia. He was so effective in his work that the Muslim Brotherhood successfully arranged to have him pushed out of the Pentagon.

More recently, he is the author of Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad, which incorporates material from the “Red Pill” brief, as well as much additional material on the Muslim Brotherhood’s penetration of Western governments, transnational bodies, NGOs, and the “interfaith” industry.

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The incident, which took place in Sargodha, Pakistan, happened when two men, later identified as Ghulam Rasul and Muhammad Sultan, were sitting on street benches.

The pair were having a conversation which quickly turned into an argument and then a fight.

It was during the fight that a bomb one of the men was carrying exploded.

No one else was hurt during the incident on Saturday.

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The Pakistani courtroom proceedings were secret. Despite what reporters were previously told this past April (that ten men had been convicted), Pakistani authorities secretly acquitted eight of the men charged with conspiracy and attempted murder in the case of teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted because she wanted girls to receive an education.

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Since the new president (Muhammadu Buhari) took over on May 29 ^th there have been a dozen Boko Haram attacks leaving nearly a hundred dead. The Islamic terrorists seem eager to show they have not been eliminated in the northeast. Buhari is depending on the army and police to keep the pressure on Boko Haram while he is also investigating the security forces for corruption, incompetence and a long history of murdering civilians during operations. Because of the participation of so many foreign troops in the recent defeat of Boko Haram it was possible to gather more evidence of civilians killed by soldiers and police who simply shot at every young man in sight or rounded up men and killed many of them when they could not provide any information about Boko Haram, or simply to “avenge” recently killed soldiers or policemen. Boko Haram got its start, in part, because of this murderous behavior by the security forces and general knowledge of this has increased public pressure to force the security forces to change their ways. The new president agrees that it is time, but how do you do that in the middle of a war?

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Muslim loyalty is to the Ummah first and only incidentally to whatever country they happen to be living in.

As widely reported in the media about ten days ago, a special forces commander in Tajikistan named Gulmurod Khalimov recently defected to the Islamic State. Col. Khalimov has now made a propaganda video for ISIS calling on his Tajik co-religionists, especially soldiers, to give up their positions and make hijra to the Caliphate. He makes a special point of targeting his ethnic comrades who are serving in the Russian military.

And this is not just some inconsequential no-account soldier: Gulmurod Khalimov was in a high-level position with the Tajik government before he defected, and had been trained in the United States.

“Experts” say that Col. Khalimov is “likely not an immediate threat to coalition forces.” However, they are overlooking what is actually going on here: the erstwhile OMON commander is aiming his call directly at ethnic Tajiks in both Tajikistan and the Russian military. That is, it is not an invasion by ISIS that is the “immediate threat”, but a sudden explosion of jihad within the ranks of our “staunch ally” Tajikistan — or in the Russian army.

By the way: do you think Gulmurod Khalimov is a “moderate Muslim”? He must have been when he was stationed in Baton Rouge — otherwise we wouldn’t have been training him, would we?

But he’s working for ISIS now. Does that make him an “extremist”? If so, how was he radicalized? On the Internet, right?

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This is a war between Sunni and Shia forces over the ruins of the regional order. It is a war which is unlikely to end in the wholesale victory of one or another of the sides. Rather, it will end when the two forces exhaust themselves. What the region will look like when this storm passes is anyone’s guess.

When Muslims are killing other Muslims rather than killing us, my dominant emotion is relief.

In the Revolutionary Guards Corps and its Qods Force, the Iranians possess an instrument perfectly designed for the current moment in the region. This force is a gathering of professional revolutionaries whose specific trade is the mobilizing and direction of proxy political-military organizations.

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Hint: The Muslim lied. (I know: what a shock.)

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Ironically, as the PR campaigners put out posters telling the world that Turkey was “Home of Christianity,” crowds of Islamic religious “imam school” graduates gathered in Istanbul and issued a press statement demanding that the historic Hagia Sophia Church function as a mosque:

The Hagia Sophia, for us, is not just a prayer house; it symbolizes, together with the Conqueror’s (Sultan Mehmed II) heritage, our independence… Without it being opened to (Muslims) prayers, there is no way we, the Turkish nation, can be fully independent.

The story of Hagia Sophia is a sad one. Its Christian builders could never imagine that the country that would host it centuries later would never feel “independent” unless it was converted into a mosque.

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Well, that’s a good start, but it doesn’t appear to be getting the job done.

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Funny how many of the victims of Islamic terrorism are other Muslims.

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Cheating already? According to an IAEA report released Friday, Iran’s nuclear stockpiles have grown by 20 percent over the last 18 months, despite the Obama Administration’s claim that Tehran’s program was “frozen” during that time. The Administration now finds itself with an even harder sell to make: convincing Congress and America’s wary allies that Iran will get rid of 96 percent of its stockpile in only a few months following the conclusion of a deal.

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For ISIL even the threat of civilian losses to air strikes had proved a valuable asset in Syria and Iraq. In this respect ISIL is benefitting from pioneering work done by the Afghan Taliban to make it more difficult for Western air forces to use their smart bombs and superior sensors to find and cripple Islamic terrorists on the ground. American, Iraqi and other Arab leaders are complaining that the restrictive American ROE (Rules Of Engagement) are and how these rules severely limits the number of targets that can be hit. As a result ISIL can move around more freely despite the constant presence of coalition aircraft overhead.

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Considering what Arabs — and Turks — have done to Kurds over the last, oh, three hundred years, it’s hard to blame them.

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Muslim demands for non-Muslim “infidels” to pay jizya on pain of death are growing, even as the West fluctuates between having no clue what jizya is and thinking that jizya is an example of “tolerance” in Islam.

‘Nice home and family you’ve got there, dhimmi. Be a shame if anything happened to it.’

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A Catholic church in Brampton, a suburb west of Toronto, was vandalized by a culturally enriched young fellow named Iqbal Hessan. Based on surveillance videos, Mr. Hessan damaged and desecrated St. Catherine of Siena church. And he also told police investigators that he wanted to kill a priest.

So what did the magistrate do? Why, he let the miscreant out on bail, of course!

Ah, those wacky Canadians.

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The Ontario high school system has a rule: if you’re a girl who can compete successfully in a sport that’s normally all-boys, and your school doesn’t have a girls’ team for that sport, you may participate on a boys’ team.

Sounds sensible. Unless you’re a Muslim, that is. Then it violates your freedom of religion, and opposing teams must remove the girls from their ranks so your boys won’t be made unclean by contact with them.

The sidelining of the girls on this high school soccer team was actually voluntary — the coach didn’t force the girls to sit out the game, he just played on their sense of guilt by invoking the welfare of the team. Which is actually worse, in a way: as Vlad points out, the coach, like other cultural and political leaders throughout the West, is pre-emptively surrendering to Islam by complying with the tenets of sharia law.

I guess dhimmitude trumps feminism. Who knew?

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Someone organized a protest outside a Phoenix mosque today. Jon Ritzheimer has been critical of Islam, and says that criticism led to death threats, so he organized a protest outside of a mosque in Phoenix tonight, asking supporters to come armed but remain peaceful. That protest may include a draw Mohammed contest. Phoenix’s mayor condemned the contest and protest as “purposefully provocative,” saying he wasn’t happy it was happening while admiting protesters had the right to free speech. Would he have made the same comment if a Slut Walk were organized in his city?

Of course not.

Counter-protesters showed up for a “love in,” and the cops showed up to stand in the middle and “keep the peace.”  Authorities say they’re not worried about the protest getting violent, unless outsiders infiltrate it, a common refrain.  A group of bikers was supposed to meet a nearby Denny’s before joining the protest, so the Denny’s closed. Police say they’ve installed cameras around the mosque to monitor the protest.

What, no Muslims traveling across country to shoot the place up? Well, there’s one difference.

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In his report yesterday on the latest OSCE conference, Henrik Ræder Clausen included this summary of a dominant meme among ideological leaders in the West:

Panel members stressed the importance of not calling the Islamic State the “Islamic State”, for doing so could give the impression that Islam motivates people to war, terrorism and other crimes.

The avoidance of the I-word seems to have become a fixation in the revolving-door world of NGOs and state functionaries, particularly in Europe. It’s as if all the participants have been mysteriously hypnotized, and now wander around glassy-eyed, muttering the phrase “nothing to do with Islam” over and over again, their repetitive chant forming a background susurrus at every international function where important people assemble to hand down momentous policy decisions.

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The Syrian war has been good for Hezbollah in that respect. They’ve cleaned out Assad’s depots and brought the goods back to Lebanon.

The Israelis can’t afford a war of attrition with Hezbollah. The Iran-backed terror group has the ability to saturation bomb Israeli civilians with 1,500 projectiles a day, every day, for over two months. They will try to bring down Tel Aviv’s skyscrapers with ballistic missiles. They will try to fly suicide drones into Israel’s nuclear reactor. They will try to detonate Israel’s off-shore energy infrastructure. They will try to destroy Israeli military and civilian runways. And – mainly but not exclusively through their tunnels – they will try to overrun Israeli towns and drag away women and children as hostages. Israeli casualties would range in the thousands to tens of thousands.

And so the Israelis will have to mobilize massive force to shorten the duration of a future war. One of the things they’ll do is immediately is move to eliminate as much of Hezbollah’s vast arsenal as possible. Hezbollah is counting on the resulting deaths of their human shields – and they’ve guaranteed to that the body count will be significant – to turn Israel into an international pariah. But the Israelis can’t let Hezbollah level their entire country with indiscriminate rocket fire and advanced missiles, just because no one in Lebanon is willing or able to expel the group from Shiite villages.

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Mayor Bart De Wever of Antwerp has been threatened with death if he does not convert to Islam. His response? To hire a bodyguard.

But he’s the mayor, for crying out loud! You’d think he could send an armed police battalion to roust all the usual suspects out of certain culturally enriched neighborhoods. He could then make sure that they fully understood their status in his city, and keep them on their best behavior — or else.

But this is Europe we’re talking about, and that’s not how they do things in Modern Multicultural Belgium…

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The demographic profile of Iranian Azerbaijan reveals the ethnic diversity of Iran. The country is not entirely Persian, as many outsiders believe. Turkic, Kurdish, and other non-Farsi languages are spoken by large minorities.

The recent turbulence in Mahabad began as such urban troubles often do, with an alleged abuse of power, a death, and rapid communication through the streets. According to the English-language web portal of the Kurdish newspaper Rudaw, which is professional and reliable, in the first week of May a Kurdish woman, Farinaz Khosrawani, aged 25, died after she fell, jumped, or was pushed from the fourth floor of the Tara Hotel in the city. Ostensibly, the victim, while employed at the hotel, sought to escape a rape attempt by an Iranian state official.

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The following news story concerns a Somali man in Arizona who forced a young girl to “marry” him, and then locked her up and assaulted her when she resisted the arrangement. Because the “groom” had cut a deal with the girl’s parents — presumably involving money — the media reports refer to the young woman’s predicament as an “arranged marriage”.

In his commentary, Vlad points out that the correct terminology for these nuptials is “forced marriage”, since the girl was dragged into unholy matrimony against her will. Furthermore, to be forcibly confined and compelled to commit sexual acts under the threat of violence is to be a slave — a sexual slave, as has been the lot of so many women in Islamic cultures over the past 1400 years.

If political correctness were not in control of our public discourse, the word slavery would be prominently featured in all these news stories.

By the way — this incident has a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.

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By now, I hope our readers are collecting a library of necessary books on Islam in all its stunted unvarying horror. It is imperative to know the truth — even if learning it makes you miserable at first — in order for your children and our culture to survive.

Thus, we have Edward Cline’s newest offering on Islam. This latest one, A Handbook on Islam, is so new it contains Bosch Fawstin’s prize-winning illustration.

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In the following video, you’ll see a young man executed for making war against the Islamic State. His crime was to attack the IS with an RPG, so he is being executed by RPG. As the translator points out, this summary punishment is administered according to the sharia doctrine of qisas, the Islamic version of “an eye for an eye”.

If any civilized country did this, the outcry would ring around the world. Muslims? Eh, not so much.

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The typical method of shutting down a Mohammed cartoon event is analogous to the “heckler’s veto”. However, it goes beyond a guy at the back of the room shouting at the top of his lungs, forcing the speaker to give up and leave the mike. And it’s far more effective than a bunch of leftist boneheads standing around blowing whistles, drowning out the speaker.

All you have to do is spread the word that people are going to show up with AK-47s and perforate everyone who attends the event. That guarantees that the authorities will shut it down.

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A TURKISH teenage talent sensation who has been starring on the country’s equivalent to the X Factor has been shot in the head while rehearsing at home.

Mutlu Kaya, 19, is in a critical condition after the brutal attack as she practised for the national TV talent show, according to reports.

Ms Kaya had allegedly received death threats for appearing on the singing contest, which is frowned upon by some in her conservative home region of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey.

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Good luck with that.

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Last Saturday Gavin Boby of the Law and Freedom Foundation spoke at a demo sponsored by MARIAS (Mothers Against Radical Islam and Sharia) at Downing Street in London. He discussed the Islamization of Britain and the rest of Europe, paying particular attention to rape gangs, Jew-hatred, and seditious mosques.

As he says, “The problems with Islam are not a by-product of the policy: they are the policy.”

Richard Fernandez points out what our Ruling Class cannot see.

But like the monster in the movie, it’s taken “three billion electro-volts of energy and it’s still coming on”!  Why have none of the previous heavy blows slowed ISIS or any of the affiliated rebel groups down?  Why is the jihadi organism inexplicably resistant to leadership disruptions, whether caused by drone strikes or the murderous work of rivals from other factions? How can it stand against the Olympian thunderbolt? This is an important question to answer.

It’s resistant because it is not a state.

No it’s not made of “solid nuclear material”.  But unlike a state, headed by an Emperor of Japan or Fuhrer, Islamic militancy has the apparent ability to reconfigure itself on the fly; to find energy from catastrophes that would delegitimize ordinary state institutions.   The Syrian rebel scene is a case in point.  It’s a constellation of merging and splitting groups with fanciful names like “Defenders of Jerusalem”, “Knights of Justice”, “Shields of Revolution”, “Sham Legion”, “Knights of Constantinople” and “Euphrates Volcano”.  It’s a regular Legion of Doom.

In this environment a damaged Al-Qaeda evolves into ISIS or spawns an al-Nusrah, like a Hydra sprouting heads or water groping a path down a slope.  Groups are constantly dividing, consolidating and taking each other over.  Instead of dying under the blows of the administration, the collective organism mutates; it has now acquired the unnerving capacity to engage in “united front” tactics with governments and rival armed groups in Iraq and Syria.

Islam is not an enemy; it’s a disease, and must be faced as such.

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The Church of Santa Maria della Misericordia in Venice is being used by Muslims for prayers, without the authorization of either the Patriarchate or the property owners.

Now, just imagine the reaction of the Lamestream Media to the discovery that Christians had been using a mosque as a church.

Oh, wait, you don’t have to imagine it — it already exists. (Note that this church was originally a Christian church before the Muslims stole it and converted it into a mosque — but, apparently, once a mosque, always a mosque.)

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Although it is unlikely that they will defeat either government (at least any time soon), their presence on both sides of the so-called Durand Line that is the official Af-Pak border, has in places rendered it as meaningless as the Syrian-Iraqi border straddled by Islamic State.

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Can’t say that I blame them — I mean, have  you ever been to Minnesota?

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My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sue surprised.

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Lately, there have been reports that Sunni regional allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia have been planning a joint military offensive against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Damascus, a Nusayri [Alawi] nemesis for both Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The reports claimed that the planned operation would involve both ground troops and air strikes.

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It’s one of those headlines that sounds like a bad joke, but it isn’t. It’s not exactly a serious complaint, either, and it isn’t coming from actual Muslim students in any event. “Baffled Catholic University officials say they have never received a complaint from any of the schools Muslim students,” writes BeliefNet.

In fact, the university expressed its bafflement in a full-length statement: “Catholic University’s faithfulness to our Catholic tradition has also made us a welcome home to students of other religions. No students have registered complaints about the exercise of their religions on our campus. We understand that a professor unaffiliated with Catholic University has made public allegations claiming that we are discriminating against our students on religious grounds, but we have not seen any legal filing – and will respond to them if we do.”

Probably another case of overly-sensitive SWPL busybodies being offended for their favorite victims.

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For the third time this year, Islamist radicals in Bangladesh hacked a secular writer to death in public.

Four masked men chased down Ananta Bijoy Das Tuesday morning as Das left his home in Sylhet. They hacked him with machetes after running him down.

Richard Fernandez blows the whistle.

Perhaps Samuel Huntington’s most famous assertion comes his 1996 book The Clash of Civilizations in which he argues that “Islam’s borders are bloody and so are its innards.” The Western world is likely to remember the “borders” yet apt to forget the “innards”.  Yet it is the innards which is generating the greatest misery.  The quarrels of Islam are spewing out broken people at a near historic rate. There are more refugees in the world today than at any time since the Second World War: fifty million, according to the UNHCR.  Most of them are Muslims.

Gee, there’s an echo in here….

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More often than not, the targets of Muslim violence are other Muslims.

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No one who reads Seyyid Qutb’s book Milestones could be in any doubt that the destruction of ancient monuments by ISIS or the Taliban is perfectly in keeping with Islamist thought. Milestones is an important book not because of its merits, either intellectual or literary, but because of its influence. It was one of the founding texts of modern Islamic fundamentalism (if that is not an oxymoron) and is worth studying not for itself but for the light it sheds on a certain mentality, namely that of Moslems who believe themselves in possession of the highest truth yet find themselves permanently sunk in moral, economic and social squalor.

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My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

I wonder when the U.S. government will realize that Pakistan is an enemy, not a friend.

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Judging by most of the news coverage I’ve seen, I’m not prepared to say that they’re wrong.