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Why Islam Leads to Violence
FRONTPAGEMAG.COM 16 May 2013
By Jack Kerwick
- As Robert Spencer, Pamela Gellar, and others have shown, as far as Islam is concerned, neither this infamous attack nor others before and since are anomalous. Rather, from its origins in the seventh century to the present, from Muhammad to bin Laden, Islam has been animated by a violent impulse
Authors defending this thesis invariably allude to the military conquests of the Prophet, the particularly harsh punitive measures by which Islamic societies deal with transgressors of Islamic law, and any number of passages from the Koran calling for the death of unbelievers. And to be sure, all of this supports their case. 
Turkey hit by Terrorism: Erdogan and Davutoglu only Interested in Anti Syria Rhetoric
Global Security News 16 May 2013
By Helmet Joachim Schmidt and Lee Jay Walker
Vast numbers of terrorist attacks have devastated many parts of Syria because of the collective policies of America, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Arab Christians suffer as Islamists rise to power
The Japan Times 16 May 2013
By Fiorello Provera
BRUSSELS – The recent abductions of Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim and his Greek Orthodox counterpart, Paul Yazigi, reflect not only the increasing brutality of
U.S.: "Certificate of Need” for Muslim-friendly surgery centre rejected
sheikyermami 16 May 2013
Nothing to worry about, what are you afraid of , Islamophobes? Surgeons would not stop in mid-surgery when a time of prayer came.
Tunisia bans Salafist group congress: ruling party
FRANCE 24 16 May 2013
The Tunisian government has decided to ban the congress of hardline Salafist group Ansar al-Sharia due to take place at the end of this week, the ruling Islamist party's
Islam and its Pipeline
Right Side News 15 May 2013
By Eliana Benador
Daniel Pipes once again delivered yesterday one of his masterful articles in his laudable search for a solution in the conflict initiated by Muslims and their belief,
BBC Whitewashes Islamist Antisemitism with Semantics
Algemeiner 15 May 2013
A reader has contacted BBC Watch concerning the reply received from the Middle East desk of the BBC News website following a complaint made with regard to the May
The "Essentialism” Devil and Daniel Pipes
AndrewBostom.org 15 May 2013
By Andrew Bostom
Daniel Pipes’ 5/13/13 essay in The Washington Times derides "those who focus on Islam itself as the problem”—identifying Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan, and Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders by name
Most of his essay re-affirms (but never establishes by dint of hard doctrinal and historical facts) the same glib, tired arguments Pipes has discussed before: Islam’s prophet Muhammad
UC Berkeley "Islamophobia" prof Hatem Bazian equates Boston jihad bombings with "Islamophobia"
jihadwatch 15 May 2013
The aptly-named professor Hatem Bazian some years ago called for an "intifada" in the U.S. Here, he completely ignores the fact that the Tsarnaev brothers were Muslims acting,
Saudis overtaking Qatar in sponsoring Syrian rebels
The National 15 May 2013
By Hassan Hassan
Last week, a 12-member delegation from the Syrian opposition visited Saudi Arabia, for an unprecedented two-day official meeting. Saudi authorities had consistently declined
Saluting Pamela Geller: a Champion of Liberty
americanthinker. 15 May 2013
By Amil Imani
Tragically, during these times of great peril, truth is sacrificed by the politically correct, the myopic self-serving in the liberally dominated media, and the ruling class
Against this backdrop, a women of great courage and integrity labors tirelessly in speaking the truth and in the defense of liberty Pamela Geller's work in objectively
How Syria Killed the "Arab Spring”
FRONTPAGEMAG.COM 15 May 2013
By Daniel Greenfield
The best evidence of the unlamented death of the Arab Spring (2010-2013) was the nervous response in Washington D.C. to the Syrian crossing of the Red Line. The Red Line had
Al-Qaradawi and the New Religious Conflict With Israel
Gatestone 15 May 2013
By Khaled Abu Toameh
Had the Muslim Brotherhood's al-Qaradawi visited the Gaza Strip to urge the Palestinians to recognize Israel's right to exist, he would have been received with shoes and rotten eggs
As US Secretary of State John Kerry pursues efforts to resume peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, the world's leading Islamic scholar of the Muslim
‘We Will Slaughter All of Them.’ The Rebel Behind the Syrian Atrocity Video
TIME 15 May 2013
By Aryn Baker / Beirut
News sites around the world have shown Khalid al-Hamad sink his teeth into what appears to be the lung of a dead Syrian government soldier. His fellow rebels have called for
Muslim Brotherhood: Convention to Protect Women is Anti-Islamic
clarionproject.org 15 May 2013
By Ryan Mauro
The Muslim Brotherhood’s official website in Arabic has published an article highlighting the comments of a senior Egyptian Islamist scholar criticizing the United Nations
'Hamas, Fatah to form unity gov't within 3 months'
JPost.com 15 May 2013
Fatah and Hamas agreed on Tuesday to form a unity government within three months, a senior Hamas official told Palestinian news agency Ma'an. Moussa Abu Marzouq, deputy
2013 World Press Pro-Hamas Propaganda Photo of the Year Exposed as Fraud
FRONTPAGEMAG.COM 15 May 2013
By Daniel Greenfield
Gaza and the West Bank are a propaganda photographer’s paradise. It’s the Pallywood entertainment center where fauxtography thrives and anyone can make up their own Zionist War
Cannibal Jihadist Khalid al-Hamad Defends Eating Heart of Dead Soldier
answeringmuslims 15 May 2013
A Syrian rebel who was filmed apparently cutting out and eating the organs of a soldier has defended his actions as revenge for regime atrocities, Time magazine reported on
Holocaust of Christians in the Muslim World on the Horizon
FRONTPAGEMAG.COM 14 May 2013
By Theodore Shoebat
Arrests and deportations of Christians in Sudan are becoming more momentous in Bashir’s government. On April 12, the Secretary General of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference was ousted out of North Sudan into South Sudan
As a church elder in Khartoum was praising God in his church, government officials from the Security Service (NISS) seized and interrogated him for information on Christian missionaries in North Sudan. He said:
Islam vs. Islamism
danielpipes.org 14 May 2013
By Daniel Pipes
N.B.: Washington Times title: "Islam and its infidels" What motives lay behind last month's Boston Marathon bombing and the would-be attack on a VIA Rail Canada train?
Leftists and establishmentarians variously offer imprecise and tired replies – such as "violent extremism" or anger at Western imperialism – unworthy of serious discussion. Conservatives, in contrast, engage in a lively and serious debate among themselves: some say Islam the religion provides motive, others say it's a modern extremist variant of the religion, known as radical Islam or Islamism.
