Category: Robert Spencer

Amid all the unrest, looting and rioting in France, the situation got significantly worse on Friday, when a gunman opened fire at random in the Paris suburbs, murdering one person and injuring five others. While random acts of violence are a hallmark of modern-day jihad activity in Europe, and France’s Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has said that this was “clearly a terrorist crime,” this time, jihadis don’t seem to have been involved.

Non-Muslims may find it curious to ascribe the act of plundering to a deity, but the man who said this clearly had a good working knowledge of Islam. The conquest of Infidel lands and the promise of booty, according to Ibn Kathir, is “in reference to the goodness that Allah the Exalted and Most Honored caused to happen to the Companions on account of the peace treaty between them and their disbelieving enemies.

The world having gone absolutely insane, Sierra Retzlaff and Charlie Garrett are likely to get a lot of heat for this, but in a sane world, they would be the heroes of the story. Sierra and Charlie are both girls who are on the cross country running team at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington. Recently they discovered that in a meet against Skyview’s rival Camas High School, they would be competing against a boy — and they refused to play along with this madness.

It has been 25 years since 19 Muslims hijacked planes and flew them into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, while courageous passengers thwarted their attempt to hit a third target in Washington, D.C. You’d think that since then, sensible measures would have been instituted to prevent that kind of jihad attack from happening again….

In this cultural climate, what’s a white leftist American to do? Pass himself or herself as something else, of course.

Can a doctor save a patient who doesn’t want to be saved?

Really, what did you expect? Besides hating and plotting to murder infidels, there is something else that Islamic jihadis and their allies and enablers do with furious consistency: They never, ever take responsibility for their actions. Every jihad massacre, if they admit it happened at all and don’t stick to the claim that the whole incident is a media invention, is someone else’s fault. And of course they have a favorite group that they love to blame above all others for all the atrocities that they and their brethren in the faith commit.

But hey, look on the bright side: once KSM, as he is affectionately known, is acquitted, he can run for Congress as a Democratic Socialist.

Britain is still officially a Christian nation, but in practice, it is something quite different, and now King Charles is busy paving the way for what it is obviously becoming. According to GB News, Gavin Ashenden, who was once the chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, has recently accused the king Charles of “violating the oath he swore at his Coronation to uphold the Christian Faith.”

The photos started circulating last Wednesday, and many people assumed that they must be a joke: a female Muslim lawyer in Nigeria who wears the niqab published photos of herself wearing that Islamic garment, which conceals everything except the eyes. These photos, however, had a twist. On top of her head, the lawyer, Rodiyah Omotoyosi Mikail wore the eighteenth-century-style court wig that lawyers and judges in Britain and some of its former colonies often sport.

The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been named a terrorist organization in Texas and Florida, and this is not just a symbolic gesture; it could, in fact, have far-reaching implications. But the unsavory gang of traitors, saboteurs and jihad enablers that calls itself a “leading advocate for justice and mutual understanding” is working energetically to protect its assets, albeit in ways that are, not surprisingly, questionable at best.

New York City’s Marxist Muslim Mayor Zohran Mamdani acted quickly, once he moved into Gracie Mansion, to demonstrate that his venomous anti-Israel campaign rhetoric was not just an appeal to the Democrat Party’s growing and aggressive hard-left faction.

What did you expect him to say?

As then-German Chanceller Angela Merkel flung open her nation’s doors to millions of Muslim migrants back in 2015, she offered her unfortunate countrymen, who had no idea what they were in for, a slogan for the whole enterprise that was positively American in its chipper optimism: Wir schaffen das, or “We can do this!” In the eleven years since then, Merkel’s perky phrase has proven true in innumerable contexts: Germans sure can do this! As long, that is, as they keep on outrunning the knife-wielding Muslim migrants.

I’m old enough to remember, since it was just a few weeks ago, when President Donald Trump was praising the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and suggesting that since they were so calm and reasonable, as opposed to those whom they had replaced, that regime change had been effectively accomplished, even if the regime still bore the same.

It was the late twentieth-century conservative pundit M. Stanton Evans who was the first to dub the Republican Party the Stupid Party, and the Democrat Party the Evil Party: “We have two parties and only two. One is the evil party and the other is the stupid party. I’m very proud to be a member of the stupid party. Occasionally, the two parties get together to do something that’s evil and stupid. That’s called bipartisanship.”

The story is all too predictable. What could anyone have expected when women in Afghanistan, of all places, decided to take to the streets to protest the Taliban’s Islamic dress code? The South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP) reported recently that “on June 9, at least two people, including a woman and a child, were killed and many others wounded after Taliban opened fire on protesters in Herat city of Herat Province, reports Amu TV. The violence erupted after residents took to the streets to protest the detention of women and girls accused of violating the Taliban’s dress code.”

Don Knebel, a hail-fellow-well-met feelgood columnist for the Indiana Citizen, is peeved at Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith. It seems that Beckwith “recently said that we should give people ‘permission to hate again’ so they, like he, can hate Islam. He then wished Muslims, the practitioners of Islam, ‘the best,’ but only if they become Christians.”

The leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran know that all they had to do in order to emerge victorious from this conflict was wait out the United States until the conflict became politically too costly, or potentially costly, for the Trump administration to pursue.

In a prayer to Allah at the Illinois General Assembly, a hijab-wearing woman said: Bismillah al-rahman al-raheem. We turn to you in gratitude and remembrance. O Lord, remind us that the history of Islam in America is not a story that began in 1965, nor one that arrived upon distant shores in the twentieth century….

Remigration activist Dries Van Langenhove reported Wednesday that “Mohamed Bakkali, the logistical brain behind the Paris and Bataclan attacks that killed 129 and wounded hundreds more, is allowed penitentiary leave by the Brussels court. If Bakkali continues his ‘calm and good behaviour’ according to the court, he could soon be freed indefinitely.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Superb.

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.”