Author: Robert Spencer

The wealthy and powerful Islamic states of the past, including the great caliphates as well as the Mughal empire in India and others, weren’t great centers of manufacturing or agriculture, or of mercantile acumen. Rather, they gained their wealth and power through jihad. The Qur’an tells Muslims to fight unbelievers……

For the entirety of the early part of the twenty-first century, Westerners have been consistently lectured about the superior morals and history of the culture that has given rise to numerous deadly terror attacks. Most recently we have gotten this from the likes of Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly. Yet it is a demonstrably false narrative. Even as Muslims grow daily more assertive and aggressive in North America, and many European states appear to be on the verge of becoming Islamic republics, the fact is clear: Islam is a failure.

The smarmiest and most self-righteous of all FBI directors, James Comey, has been indicted again. Fox News reported Tuesday that “the charges appear to be in relation to a May 2025 Instagram photo of an ‘86 47’ shell formation on a beach.” Comey claims that he didn’t know what “86” meant. His explanation of why he shared the photo, however, doesn’t stand up to even the most superficial scrutiny.

Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, we had what the great Tom Wolfe indelibly dubbed “radical chic”: the tendency of rich leftists to support causes that, if they triumphed, would destroy their comfortable benefactors utterly. We’re way beyond that now. Today, rich leftists don’t just support the Marxist revolutionaries who would destroy the comforts of society that those leftists take for granted; they’re actually joining them in small criminal and anarchic acts, all while the intelligentsia cheers them on from the pages of the New York Times.

As a professor at Georgetown University and Washington Post columnist, Shadi Hamid is a made guy in today’s leftist establishment, and it is from those positions of oracular authority that he has delivered a sobering message to the growing movement to ban Sharia in the United States. In the WaPo on Wednesday, he declared that Muslims should not have to assimilate into American society and should not be expected to do so, and that efforts to ban Sharia were not only bigoted and “Islamophobic,” but also futile, as Muslims simply weren’t going to give Sharia up. And he’s right about that part, albeit in the midst of being wildly disingenuous about the nature of Sharia itself.

Graham Platner is running for the U.S. Senate from Maine, and since he is a socialist and Maine’s far-left large cities have disenfranchised its patriotic hinterlands, he will likely win. Platner is, running into a bit of flak over the fact that he has a large skull and crossbones tattoo on his chest that strongly…

In a video that began circulating widely on Thursday, the Roman Catholic Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, stated: “Wake up. Islam is a danger. If Christians don’t start caring about our faith, Islam will take over the West. They’ll impose their laws and culture. They’ll grow massively in number. And we will decline.”

The video went viral on Wednesday: a well-fed, hijabed Muslim woman in a U.S. military uniform, smiling happily, affirmed that she would not obey orders if they involved her attacking people who were not Muslims. She is by no means the first Muslim to say this, and won’t be the last. Apparently it would be “Islamophobic” for the United States to keep disloyal soldiers out of the military.

For one side, this is a religious war from start to finish, between Islam and non-Muslims. The other side does all it can to pretend that is not the case. As as this denial and willful ignorance continues, so also will this religious war.

Jalloh was “focused on conducting a Fort Hood-style massacre against the United States armed forces,” which appears to be something like the attack he carried out on Thursday. However, Jalloh “also spoke to an undercover FBI source designated “CHS1” about other potential operations, including killing a specific person. Evidence suggests the most likely target was Pamela Geller.” He fulminated against her for organizing the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland, Texas in May 2015, and declared that she ought to be targeted for allegedly insulting Muhammad.

So what is unclear about Mohamed Jalloh’s motive? He was convicted of supporting the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2017 and just released from prison in December 2024. His rage at Geller over the drawings of Muhammad make his motive abundantly clear. After he was released from prison, why wasn’t he stripped of his citizenship (he was a native of Sierra Leone and a naturalized citizen of the U.S.) and deported?

Can the Islamic Republic of Iran defeat the United States? Certainly it can. It can do so in the same way that the Taliban defeated the United States in Afghanistan: by outlasting it.

Last Sunday, as a massive blizzard hit New York City, Comrade Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani posted praise of municipal workers on X: “Grateful for the public workers who keep NYC running — especially in a blizzard. From 5am suhoor with @NYCSanitation to visits to @nycparks’ Randall’s Island garage, DSNY’s Flushing plow shed & @nycdot’s salting operation … it’s working people who show up for NYC.”

An ongoing controversy in Britain could do nothing less than change the course of that country’s history, and that of the entire world.

In this case, as in so very many others, it’s hard to know which is worse: the jihad terrorist who wants to see infidels dead, or the foolish and deluded infidels who ignored his bloody intentions in the name of multiculturalism, and gave him a splendid opportunity to realize those intentions.

No Nigerian prince ever came up with a more sure-fire get-rich-quick scheme: if you want to be a millionaire, and fast, without putting in any of the work of starting a business or inventing something useful or working hard in some established and lucrative field, get yourself elected to Congress.

Radical ideologies are producing medical professionals who see patients not as people—but as enemies.

No one ever thought this day would come: On Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, the flag of the Islamic State (ISIS) flew once again over Raqqa, the Syrian city that once served as its capital.

After urging Iranians to rise up and promising rescue, Trump appeared to stand down—leaving thousands dead and a terror regime intact.

A second civil war in the United States has seemed to be on the horizon for years, and many have predicted its imminent arrival, but one courageous man, way out ahead of us all, is already fighting it. That man is Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and he wants you to know that he is standing in the vanguard against the evil forces of Orange Man Bad, who are committing the heinous and unpardonable crime of… enforcing the nation’s immigration laws.

If history teaches us anything at all, it is that collectivism not only fails to bring justice and equality to human societies; it also operates through violent coercion and leaves those societies awash in blood.

The proof of this abundantly available in the bloody histories of revolutionary France, the Soviet Union, Communist China, Democratic Kampuchea, North Korea, and every other place that has tried it. As Mamdani assumes power in New York City, many complacently assume that the city’s experience won’t even come close to approaching the horrors of that those nations experienced, for New York City is still part of the United States, and American laws will restrain him.

Whatever else Barack Obama’s new “presidential center” in Chicago is intended to be, it looks as ominous and forbidding as the man himself looked on January 20, 2017, when he took the Oath of Office as president of the United States with all the grim determination that any Marxist apparatchik has ever felt as he undertook the destruction of another bourgeois principality.

Why is Qatar funding a couple of public schools in NYC?

In the Taliban’s Afghanistan, where Islam is the law and the law is Islam, four young men have reportedly just been arrested for the crime of walking around in public dressed as characters from the British drama Peaky Blinders.

Pope Leo XIV is turning out to be a worthy successor of the late Pope Francis, whose admiration for Islam seemed limitless. As he was returning to Rome after his recent trip to Lebanon, Pope Leo called upon Christians to stop regarding Islam as a threat, and to make friends with Muslims. And really, what could possibly go wrong?

As everyone knows but few will ever admit, “Islamophobia” is an imaginary ailment. The idea, however, that Muslims in the U.S. are being victimized, brutalized, and discriminated against on a large scale in America today is sheer fantasy with a frankly insidious intent: it is designed to intimidate people into silence regarding jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women.

Britain’s Labour government, like leftists everywhere, is working hard to curtail the freedoms of its citizens, and to destroy the common culture and national character of the country it is supposed to be protecting and defending.

New York Taxpayers Forced to Fund Their Own Destruction

Muslims in their late teens and early twenties have recently been arrested in Michigan, New Jersey, and Washington state, charged in plotting jihad massacres for the Islamic State:

One of the more noxious aspects of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to be mayor of New York City is the reappearance of Linda Sarsour, the far-left, oxymoronically hijab-wearing “feminist” activist who rocketed to international fame some years ago as the hate-filled face of the leftist/Islamic alliance, glossing over the human rights abuses of Sharia and demonizing Israel with extravagant false claims long before doing so became the left’s favorite pastime.

The Heritage Foundation gave efforts to bring the hatred of Jews into the mainstream among patriots a massive boost on Thursday, when its president, Kevin Roberts, published a video declaring the Foundation’s stout and wholehearted support for Tucker Carlson, who has done more than anyone (with the possible exception of Candace Owens) to make Americans believe that hating Jews and wishing the worst possible fates upon them is just good old-fashioned America-First patriotism.

The left has been working for years on the world we live in now, and all around us we can see the fruit of their labors: dirty, dangerous cities, homeless encampments, cannabis stores, rising crime, and so much more. New York’s WABC on Friday gave us another reason to thank our leftist bureaucrats and elected officials as it told a harrowing story: “A man is under arrest on Friday in a gruesome homicide on Long Island after his wife was found dead and suffering from facial burns — covered with a chemical substance.”

I am, in other words, someone who is deeply concerned about the Jews because I am deeply concerned about the human rights of all people, and I cannot stand by idly as an entire people is demonized.

That’s why I am asking you most urgently to think very carefully about Zohran Mamdani. Just as we have seen where socialism leads, so also we have seen where the large-scale demonization of the Jews leads.

Jihad al-Shamie’s name was indeed an omen. But it was an omen that the entire Western world has been trained to disregard and ignore. And so there will be many more jihads, just like the one al-Shamie carried out in Manchester, and much larger-scale operations as well. The West has sown the wind, and is beginning to reap the whirlwind.

Trump:  ‘Israel cannot fight the world, Bibi, they can’t fight the world.’ And he understands that very well.”

It has been blazingly obvious that the Jan. 6 “insurrection,” which the left has used for over four years now to try to portray Trump as a dangerous would-be dictator and his supporters as violent fascists, was a set-up ever since the videos began circulating of police holding open the Capitol doors as the supposed “insurrectionists” strolled leisurely in. Now, however, it is even clearer that the whole Jan. 6 “insurrection” was an attempt to frame Trump for allegedly trying to overthrow the government, which, if it had worked, would have kept him from running for president again: it has now come to light that 274 undercover FBI agents were in the crowd on that day.

In an historic speech today at the United Nations, President Donald Trump called them all out: the globalists, the socialists, the internationalists, the drug traffickers, the Sharia purveyors, the jihadists, and more: the whole of the leftist elite class that is doing all it can to impose the darkness of totalitarianism upon the world. Here…

Nina Jankowicz was the chief of the Biden regime’s ill-fated Disinformation Governance Board, which was ominously part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and was widely reported to be an Orwellian exercise in policing the speech of Americans that strayed from the line of the establishment left. But the Biden regime is gone, and Nina Jankowicz is, as she was the first to tell us, “furious”: She has just lost her defamation suit against that enemy of all that is good, Fox News.

It’s so much darker than almost any of us can get our head around.

Rashida Tlaib is the least mediagenic of the three founding members of the Squad who entered Congress in 2019 (the others are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar), but she is arguably the most venomous, and indeed, the most dangerous.

The Daily Mail calls her a “Latina firebrand” and claims that she is “desperate for attention.” The Independent is more restrained, contenting itself with calling her a “far-right MAGA congressional candidate” who, it says cattily, “has a history of posting violent stunts and using hateful rhetoric against Muslims, the LGBT+ community, Black people, and immigrants,…

. The Qur’an promises paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah. (9:111)

Zohran Mamdani is about to become mayor of New York, and yet a year ago, virtually no one outside of his state assembly district had ever heard of him. What accounts for his meteoric rise to international fame and almost certain election as mayor of what was once the greatest city in the world? The answer is obvious: he has the backing of George Soros, the far-left multibillionaire who finances so much of the international left today.

Actions speak louder than taqiya.

“A modernist version of the Kaaba, the distinctive cubelike shrine at the heart of the Islamic faith,” now stands “adjacent to the footprint of the Twin Towers, which were destroyed by al-Qaida terrorists on 9/11.”

It’s a story that one might expect to come out of Tehran or Lahore. Instead, it comes from Lyon, France.

“The food, medicine and aid are IN Gaza. The UN won’t distribute it. Hundreds of truckloads are sitting there. The trucks are loaded. Demand they deliver. Yesterday, Hamas again rejected a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal that Israel accepted. Where’s your unequivocal condemnation?”

On a side note, why are all the moms crying about their starving children so fat?

Recently in Milan, a vacationer from New York City discovered the harsh realities of the new Europe. He wasn’t the first to do so, and will by no means be the last.

Today marks the first anniversary of the attempt on Donald Trump’s life at his campaign rally in Butler, Pa. To make the occasion, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report on the Secret Service errors and lapses of judgment that led to the shooter, Thomas Crooks, to be able to get Trump in his sights and have a clear, unobstructed, easy shot. If Trump hadn’t turned his head at the very moment of the shot, he would have been killed on that day. And as damning as the new report is, it demonstrates definitively that the corrupt system that made the assassination attempt possible is still very much in place.

Back in May 2022, a Muslim identified only as Mohammed L. murdered Alban Gervaise, a 40-year-old physician, by stabbing him multiple times as Gervaise was picking up two of his children, whose ages were three and seven, from school in the venerable French city of Marseille. As he stabbed Gervaise, Mohammed repeatedly screamed “Allahu akbar,” and later explained that he committed the murder “in the name of Allah.” Mohammed L. will not, however, stand trial for murdering Alban Gervaise. He has been declared “mentally unfit to stand trial.”

The facts of the matter are straightforward. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is striking back against the Obama/Biden cultural revolution by, among other actions, renaming the USNS Harvey Milk, a Navy oil tanker, after Medal of Honor recipient Oscar V. Peterson. The reactions from leftists, however, are as predictable as they are revealing.