Free Republic

The mass beheadings of their enemies, including rival Muslim sects, the mass murders of captured soldiers and Christian civilians, the suicide bombers, including those who explode their vest bombs in places crowded with unsuspecting, innocent civilians, the kidnapping and forced bondage of girls and women to be used as sex slaves, are all common practices of the radical Islamist groups active today. Here in America, we’ve seen so-called “honor killings”, beheadings, and single and mass murders in various parts of the country, all committed by Muslims in the name of Islam.

This makes our prisons veritable training grounds — petri dishes, if you will — for fanatic killers of the type of the Oklahoma suspect, not to mention recruitment centers for whatever murderous Islamic sect happens to be in vogue that week or month. The only difference between New York and Oklahoma prisons would be one of scale.

On September 26, Afghan officials said ISIS-linked militants launched an offensive into Afghanistan's Ghazni province, killing over 100 persons -- 15 of whom were beheaded. The ISIS-linked militants launched the offensive alongside Taliban fighters. NBC News reports that the persons beheaded were all "family members of local police officers." 60 homes were set on fire in addition.

Last week, with information suggesting attacks were imminent, Australian police mounted the largest counterterrorism raids in that country’s history. The raids came after ISIS commander Mohammad Ali Baryalei instructed his followers in Australia to execute specific attacks which local police believed would have resulted in mass casualty events and beheadings. 800 officers in multiple cities fanned out and arrested 15 terror suspects, resulting in mass protests from Australia’s Muslim community. The raids did not, however, preempt violence. In a scenario out of a law enforcement officer’s nightmare, on Australian officer was forced to shoot and kill an 18-year-old when the...

Via Breitbart, another dim attempt by the White House to keep this new Iraq intervention in Americans’ rhetorical comfort zone. “Wars” are long, involve vast numbers of fighters on both sides, and absorb much blood and treasure; our “victories” in war lately tend to be unsatisfying and ephemeral too. “Counterterrorism,” though, is lightning fast, typically involves a small number of military assets, and is usually decisive. (It also conveniently doesn’t require a new AUMF.) The Bin Laden raid is the supreme example. By the White House’s own reckoning, rolling back ISIS will take three years at least, already involves a...

I hate to sound like a recording glitch, but on several occasions I have attempted to point out that the people with whom we are in conflict in the Middle East don’t think like we think. The most dramatic evidence of this was the recent beheading of two journalists by ISIS, or ISIL, (whatever the current label) terrorists. Make no mistake, these are not patriots, freedom fighters or defenders of liberty; they are terrorists, pure and simple.

Britain faces the “greatest and deepest” terror threat in the country’s history, David Cameron warned as he pledged emergency measures to tackle extremists. The UK threat level was raised to “severe” — its second highest — meaning that a terrorist attack is “highly likely” in light of the growing danger from British jihadists returning from Iraq and Syria. The Prime Minister said that the risk posed by Isil (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) will last for “decades” and raised the prospect of an expanding terrorist nation “on the shores of the Mediterranean”. He disclosed that Isil had...

In the middle of the melee, Twitter started lighting up with messages of solidarity from Palestinians in Gaza, some of them sending advice for how to resist police or deal with the effects of tear gas. Inas Safidi, whose Twitter profile says she lives in “Palestine,” began with a message of support for the protesters: https://twitter.com/InassSafadi/status/499748028962467842 https://twitter.com/InassSafadi/status/499750502435803136 Mariam Barghouti, who also says she’s from “Palestine,” offered both words of encouragement and practical advice for her comrades in Ferguson:

Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, has long been hard for the central government to control because of its combustible mix of Arabs and Kurds. The first time I visited Mosul was in August 2003 when a tenuous calm was maintained by the 101st Airborne Division. Its commander, a then-obscure two-star general named David Petraeus, had on his own initiative opened the Syrian border to trade, struck deals with Syria and Turkey to provide badly needed electricity, restored telephone service, and held elections to elect local leaders. Along the way he also managed to kill Saddam Hussein’s poisonous offspring Uday and Qusay.

When the government of Great Britain banned Pamela Geller and me from entering the country for the crime of speaking unwelcome truths about the jihad threat and supporting Israel a bit too vocally, I thought that Britain was a bit too anxious to appease its increasingly aggressive and demanding Muslim minority. When British Prime Minister David Cameron said, “I want London to stand alongside Dubai as one of the great capitals of Islamic finance anywhere in the world,” Britain’s surrender to Sharia became an even more pressing concern, as Cameron will discover that Sharia finance cannot be separated from the...

A legal expert whose work includes religious rights is warning that America needs to recognize the threat of jihad before it’s too late. “Under Obama, we refuse to call what happened at Fort Hood terrorism and try to blame Benghazi on a video,” said Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel. “This administration is absurd. Obama will go down in history as the president who most jeopardized our national security,” he said. A Muslim at Fort Hood, Texas, killed more than a dozen and injured many more after shouting “Allahu Akbar” and firing on his victims. The Obama administration classified it...