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Virginia Muslim leader says it’s “Islamophobic” and “hate” to use words such as “Islamist extremist” “Islamist extremist” is itself a phrase that attempts to distance Islam from the violence perpetrated in its name and in accord with its teachings. So is “Radical Islam.” But as far as Esam Omeish is concerned, any speech that suggests that there is any connection between Islam and jihad violence must be stigmatized and silenced. This is the clearest example yet of how the New Zealand massacre is being exploited in order to shut down any criticism, no matter how mild, of jihad terrorism and...

A 12 year old kid tried to set of a bomb in Ludwigshafen, Germany during a Christmas market.  Focus magazine said the boy is "strongly radicalized" and was instructed by a militant Islamic group to possibly commit martyrdom. The kid was born in Germany and is too young to be criminally held responsibility. So no formal proceedings can done to him. OpinionHis parent need to be hauled off to jail for child neglect and abuse. The child needs to be put into a mental institution for a full physiological evaluation. Finally Angela Merkel needs to get off her dead... butt and realize...

For more than a decade, Suleiman Anwar Bengharsa has served as a Muslim cleric in Maryland, working as a prison chaplain and as an imam at mosques in Annapolis and outside Baltimore. He gave a two-week course in 2011 on Islamic teachings on marriage at the Islamic Society of Baltimore, where President Obama made a much-publicized visit this year. But in the last two years, Imam Bengharsa’s public pronouncements have taken a dark turn. On Facebook, he has openly endorsed the Islamic State, posted gruesome videos showing ISIS fighters beheading and burning alive their enemies and praised terrorist attacks overseas....

Last year at a Vaughan Foods processing plant in Moore, Oklahoma, self radicalized jihadist Alton Nolon beheaded a woman named Colleen Hufford, a grandmother, and attempted to do the same to another. They were his co-workers and he had been recently fired. Nolen was stopped when CEO Mark Vaughan shot him with a rifle on hand. Now the woman who survived the attack, Traci Johnson, is speaking out in an interview with Megyn Kelly. She describes the horrific experience and talks about how she was a millimeter away from death. "He got a millimeter away from my jugular cord," Johnson...

Barack Obama has one final year to realize that the National Prayer Breakfast just isn’t a good venue for him. Obama’s track record at the annual function has been little other than disastrous, and another president—one with a more hostile media and a less dedicated constituency—would have been ruined already by previous catastrophes.Obama’s problems with the National Prayer Breakfast began in earnest in 2012, when the keynote speech at the affair was given by author Eric Metaxas. The speech Metaxas gave in advance of Obama’s own address was a tour de force and an indictment, though a polite one, of...

Ben Affleck's recent turn on Real Time with Bill Maher - his ranting, nonsensical and history-altering tripe during a smart, reasoned and valuable conversation about Islam and the world - exposes a myriad of truths about the actor and director, and about Liberalism.The conversation between Maher and author Sam Harris started off reasoned and clear; Liberals need to stand up for liberal principles, and Liberals need to be honest about these principles when speaking about the Muslim world. After just 60 seconds of conversation between the two, Affleck interjected with his first of many caustic statements. His demeanor was aggressive...

because there were no qurans or books about Islam on the shelves In Busalla, a small town of 5,700 inhabitants, in the province of Genes, in Liguria, a 24-year-old Senegalese Muslim man went to the town’s public library looking for the Quran and books about Islamic culture but found none. So he went mad and started beating up the two staff members, a 43-year-old woman and a 64-year-old man. Then he ransacked the library, knocking over shelves and throwing down all the books, while shouting “ALLAHU AKHBAR!” (Senegalese Muslims are among the hordes of North African boat people who keep...

(Balkanalysis.com Security & Intelligence Brief 9) The knife-wielding attacker who terrorized young Macedonian women in the Albanian-majority city of Tetovo during June is not the deranged lunatic as some of the media has portrayed him to be, says a high security services source in Skopje. According to this source, the attacker (allegedly, a young Albanian male from Tetovo) is a known Wahhabi sympathizer. Islamist groups in Tetovo and Skopje with financial and ideological links to Saudi Arabia reportedly paid the man to prowl the streets by night and terrorize young women wearing Western attire not deemed to be sufficiently modest...

Today the United American Committee appointed Angel DiNardo the Texas UAC State Coordinator! In the ongoing battle against Islamic extremism in America, and a growing UAC member base in the state of Texas, the UACs Texas Chapter has now been founded. The United American Committee (http://www.UnitedAmericanCommittee.org) was founded to awake America to the threats which we face, and to awake Washington to the Islamofacist threat. The organization is currently working on legislature to introduce at the national level, and will be working to promote state legislature in Texas which stands strong against our Islamist enemies and those who support them....

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — An extremist Islamic group with alleged Al Qaeda (search) links has set up a relief camp on Indonesia's tsunami-stricken Sumatra island, raising concerns it could stir up sentiment against U.S. and Australian troops helping distribute aid.