Tagged with "jihadism"

New Islamic Caliphate declares Jihad on … Muslims

The fanatics in ISIS regard Israel and the Jews as less of a threat than what we in the West call Islamic "moderates". There's a major lesson here that we would do well to learn
by Raymond Ibrahim - 18 July 2014
Sex Jihad fatwa permits incest in Syria

The maxim, “necessity makes the prohibited permissible,” which is beloved by the jihadis, is responsible for any number of seeming contradictions: Muslim women must chastely be covered head-to-toe -- yet, in the service of jihad, they are allowed to prostitute their bodies, even it seems to relatives
by Raymond Ibrahim - 4 May 2014
Turkey and the new Jihad on Christian Armenians

Years, decades, and centuries go by. Yet the same story, the same enmity --Turkish to Armenian, or more distilled yet, Muslim to Christian -- lives on even if in different contexts and formats
by Raymond Ibrahim - 30 March 2014
Relentless jihad against Christians, in life and in death

How the Christian victims of jihad continue to be hounded, even beyond the grave, and using ways and means so cruel it is hard to bear, by Raymond Ibrahim
by Raymond Ibrahim - 13 January 2014
BBC confusion over Jihadists, especially African ones

The BBC might prefer a caution or a fixed penalty ticket for blowing up supermarkets, but in Kenya they do things differently. And guess what: the West, Britain especially, is also to blame!
by Robin Mitchinson - 22 December 2013
Historic revisionism justifies Islamic terrorism

In the real world, the Islamic “freedom fighters” are slaughtering, raping, beheading, persecuting and plundering -- just as they have been for nearly fourteen centuries
by Raymond Ibrahim - 31 October 2013
Jihad and terror: listen to what they're telling you

Listen to what the top Islamic scholars say about terrorism, not what some fluffy BBC or CNN type urges you to get complacent about
by Raymond Ibrahim - 16 October 2013
Saving the West: Remember the Battle of Tours

In the year 732, on or around October 10, one of history’s most decisive battles took place, demarcating the extent of Islam’s western conquests and ensuring the survival of the West
by Raymond Ibrahim - 10 October 2013
Killing off the Christians. We won't ignore it. Will you?

We're quite happy to get the slating we do in Britain for highlighting Jihadi massacres. In fact, we're going to round up the latest and ask you to share. Just to put it in the PC crowd's face
by the commentator - 1 October 2013
Jihadi slaughter; that was last weekend. This?

Amid Nairobi it was very easy to miss last weekend's slaughter of Christians elsewhere. Pray for this weekend, and for all subsequent ones, because it seems that no-one on Earth cares
by Raymond Ibrahim - 27 September 2013
They were Muslims. They were Islamists. They were jihadists. They were extremists.

The BBC coverage of the plot to blow up an EDL rally has been lacking at best, and intentionally misleading at worst
by The Un-Jihadist - 30 April 2013
Owen Jones’s anti-colonialism reflects a dead ideology

Owen Jones's Independent article today confirms that the old Left wing notion of anti-interventionism still rules the roost in some circles. That ideology is dead, explains Raheem Kassam
by - 14 January 2013
Pakistan's secret war in Baluchistan

Certain conflicts are fashionable to follow, others are not. The on-going and increasingly brutal conflict in Baluchistan falls strictly in the latter category
by Ghaffar Hussain - 2 January 2013
Jihadist perceptions of the 'Arab Spring'

Has the 'Arab-Spring' dealt a death blow to the jihadist movement or provided an enormous boost?
by Ghaffar Hussain - 30 November 2012
Al-Qaeda gaining ground in Yemen

NATO success against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan has made Yemen the new stronghold for al-Qaeda internationally
by Ghaffar Hussain - 22 May 2012