ISIS is battling a brand new enemy in Libya: Music
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, June 2, 2016 – In its own way this ISIS story is rather humorous. After all these years of fighting the war on terror, British special forces have found a new way to drive extremists crazy…music. And not just any music. It’s Bollywood music from northern India. Who’d a thunk it? After […]
Is ISIS Islamic?
The BBC’s head of religion said last week despite what many international politicians and commentators have said since the Islamic State group rose to power, the terror organization is in fact motivated by Islamic beliefs. Aaqil Ahmed, the first Muslim to hold the top religion post at the U.K. media organization, made the comments to […]
Hayden: Trump ‘feeding their recruitment’
Former NSA head Michael Hayden says Donald Trump is threatening national security by helping ISIS recruitment. “The jihadist narrative is that there is undying enmity between Islam and the modern world, so when Trump says they all hate us, he’s using their narrative,” Michael Hayden said during a talk at the Hay Festival, according to […]
ISIS-Claimed Car Bomb Kills at Least 50 in Baghdad
A car bomb claimed by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) left at least 50 people dead on Wednesday and wounded more than 70 others in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad. A vehicle loaded with explosives detonated in a market in Sadr City during the evening rush hour in the Iraqi capital, killing dozens, […]
Islamic State Bombs Kill 80 In Deadliest Baghdad Attacks This Year
Three suicide bombings claimed by Islamic State across Baghdad killed at least 80 people on Wednesday, Iraqi police and hospital sources said, in the deadliest attacks in the Iraqi capital this year. Security has gradually improved in Baghdad, which was the target of daily bombings a decade ago, but violence against security forces and Shi’ite […]
ISIS: “Accentuate the negative – eliminate the positive”
CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 10, 2016 – Since its inception, ISIS has perpetuated its barbaric activities to unmentionable extremes. But those extremes extend far beyond rational thinking in a multitude of areas. Just how far is mind-boggling. Consider, for example, the Islamic State’s changes to social, educational and cultural institutions in the places it controls. Whether […]
Mother of Calgary ISIL fighter told police her family was devastated by her ‘not religious’ son’s actions
TORONTO – The mother of an ISIL fighter from Calgary told police her family was devastated by the actions of her son, whom she described as “not religious” until shortly before he left for Syria, according to a court document obtained by VICE News. Nura Jama said in statements to counter-terrorism investigators in Alberta that […]
Where ISIL came from (and where it’s going next)
In June, 2014, Barack Obama dismissed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as the terrorist equivalent of a junior varsity basketball team. He remarked that “If a j.v. team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.” In other words, nothing there for Americans to worry about. A few weeks […]
Daesh calls for murder of British-Pakistani cabinet member
The Islamic State has named British-Pakistani baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the first Muslim woman to sit in the United Kingdom’s cabinet, on a “kill list”, while describing her as a “politically active apostate”.Published in the militant group’s magazine, Dabiq, IS called for the murder of so-called apostates, including presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin and […]
The Islamic State was created by the United States and the West
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 15, 2015 – In the Middle East almost everything is slightly off center. Weekends are on Thursdays and Fridays, calendars are lunar rather than solar, reading is done from right to left instead of the other way around and there are dozens of other examples where nothing is quite the way it […]