1. Brian Lilley: Why can’t officials and journalists call it ‘terrorism’?
The next video on the absurd, ‘lone wolf’ label is also good
2. Israel: Palestinians’ number one enemy, Yehuda Glick, shot
3. Clare Lopez: Call it Jihad: ‘Terrorism’ Just Doesn’t Define This Threat
2014?s spate of Islamic terror attacks against Western targets leaves observers grasping for words to describe what’s happening. President Obama doesn’t want to deal with it at all, so after a Muslim convert beheaded a woman in Oklahoma, he thought it appropriate to send the beheader’s mosque (the Islamic Center of Greater Oklahoma City) warm greetings about “shared peace” and “a sense of justice.” (The occasion was the Muslim feast of Eid Ul-Adh, but the timing was awful.) U.S. national security agencies are no help either—under the tutelage of the Muslim Brotherhood, they were purged long ago of any vocabulary useful for dealing with jihad. “Lone wolf” gets a lot of play with the media, but as Michael Ledeen, Andrew McCarthy, and Patrick Poole (here, here, and here) have all pointed out, there’s nothing ‘lone’ about Muslim warriors, self-selected or otherwise, engaging in fard ‘ayn (individual jihad) in obedience to the doctrine of their shared faith.
4. US Military to hide their military identity in public.
(While Canada rightfully and courageously rescinded the order for Canadian forces to not wear the uniform in public, the US seems eager to appear to surrender to Islam at home)
5. A very depressing article on child abuse in one city in England, and the headline is the least problematic part of it.
6. Two arrested after pig’s head found dumped outside Islamic Cultural Centre
7. US Envoy: To Defeat ISIS, We Must Highlight ‘Our Profound Respect’ for Islam
(Why not just come out and say what they mean? That to stop islamic terror we just have to do what they say? Surrender to them and convert to Islam with all the destruction of our own cultures, religions, history and secular achievements that go along with it?)
8. Spanish Intelligence Intercepts Plot to Weaponise Ebola
Spanish intelligence has intercepted messages passed between jihadists online discussing the weaponisation of the deadly Ebola virus for use against the West, while a blackmailer in Prague has threatened to unleash the virus unless the Czech Republic pay him one million bitcoin, a volume of online currency worth over £200 million.
Thank you M., Buck, Richard, Yucki, DP111, TL., and all who sent in materials.
Boston appoints Moslem Chaptain
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/23/boston-police-department-first-muslim-captain-puts-priority-working-with-children/tTpzU3h2CYSkhIZGUSPtPK/story.html
Wanna bet he doesn’t have a religious agenda?
I can’t bear to read it. The “Boston Globe” is aka “Pravda”.
My father was here before an election hotly contested elsewhere. He read carefully, then asked, “Who’s running against Kennedy?”
The name of an opposing candidate never appeared in “Pravda”.
2/ Here’s another one, from our own Sultan:
Why Obama Hates Netanyahu
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/why-obama-hates-netanyahu/
The Sultan uses “passive aggressive” – still confusing concept for me – in a sentence I can understand in context.
He [Obama] knows that directly lashing out at Israel would alienate the Jewish supporters he still needs. Despite his effort to displace pro-Israel voices with J Street, the Jewish community is still pro-Israel. And so he resorts to passive aggressive behavior like snubbing the Israeli Defense Minister or anonymous officials in the administration taunting Netanyahu as a “coward” and “chickens__t” in the media.