And the moderate Muslims? I don’t hear anything from them. ============ BAGHDAD (AP) — Residents of Mosul have watched helplessly as extremists ruling the northern Iraqi city blew up some of their most beloved landmarks and shrines to impose a stark vision of Islam. Next up for destruction, they feared: the Crooked Minaret, a more than 840-year-old tower that leans like... Read more
Archive for the ‘Radical Islam’ Category
The Christian Purge From Mosul
July 22 | Posted by mrossol | Radical Islam, Religious PersecutionWhy isn’t the west; why isn’t Obama speaking out?! Why aren’t “moderate” Muslims speaking out??? ============ Imagine if a fundamentalist Christian sect captured the French city of Lyon and began a systematic purge of Muslims. Their mosques were destroyed, their crescents defaced, the Koran burned and then all Muslims forced to flee or face execution. Such an event would be unthinkable today,... Read more
Hamas’s Civilian Death Strategy
July 22 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, Radical IslamWhere are the “reasonable, peace-loving 90% of Muslims”? Why don’t they speak out against this strategy? Or am I missing something? ============ Let’s state the obvious: No one likes to see dead children. Well, that’s not completely true: Hamas does. They would prefer those children to be Jewish, but there is greater value to them if they are Palestinian. Outmatched by Israel’s... Read more
Insurgents in Iraq Seizing Advanced Weaponry
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle East, Radical IslamI don’t show the image, but doesn’t anyone (press?) find it interesting that the ‘Islamist militants’ always have their faces masked? Is it because they are so humble that they don’t want to take credit for the good they are doing? ======= BAGHDAD—As Iraqi soldiers dug in three weeks ago to defend the northwestern city of Tel Afar, they were shocked to... Read more
Abandoning Afghanistan…
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, Radical IslamJonathan Foreman writing on Afghanistan in the July/August issue of Commentary magazine: [T]he truly awful aspect of this retreat is that America may be about to abandon Afghanistan just when it seems to have turned a corner—when a new leader is about to take power after a peaceful democratic process, when economic growth is transforming life for millions, and when... Read more
The Abyss Between Two Heinous Episodes
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Radical IslamAs America approached its national holiday this year, Israel and world Jewry were plunged into mourning for three students who were abducted and murdered by members of the Palestinian terror group Hamas. Thirty-eight years ago, on July 4, 1976, jubilation greeted the news that an Israeli commando raid had freed 102 fellow citizens held hostage by Palestinian terrorists at an... Read more
