Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Tag: ISIS

Why the Islamic State Is the Minor Leagues of Terror

Is it time to panic? Let's put terror threats into perspective for 2016.

Airstrikes Against Syria are a Trap, Warns Former ISIS Hostage Nicolas...

French journalist Nicolas Hénin, who was held hostage by ISIS inside Syria for 10 months, makes an impassioned plea against bombing Syria.

Russia, Putin Take the Offensive, Set the Agenda in Syria

Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, is “in the process of setting the agenda in Syria.” It is time nations joined together to figure out a solution to take down ISIS instead of working solo.

Beyond ISIS

For a rich and powerful nation to conclude that it has no choice but to engage in quasi-permanent armed conflict in the far reaches of the planet represents the height of folly. Power confers choice.

Blowback, Payback; The War on Terror is Backfiring

Are the recent horrific acts of terrorism that occurred in Paris, Brussels, and other parts of the world just a precursor of what is soon to come?

Five Prerequisites for War Against ISIS

As we move toward war against ISIS, we must be vigilant – to fairly allocate the burdens of who’s called on to fight the war, to protect civil liberties, to protect innocent civilians abroad, to avoid hate and bigotry, and to fairly distribute the cost of paying for war.

Why ISIS Needs the ‘Useful Idiots’ Who Demonize Muslims

Every imbecile who threatens Muslims is an unwitting agent of ISIS; in fact, it would be unsurprising to learn that ISIS itself is covertly promoting such messages in order to intensify enmity between the peoples of the Quran and the rest of the world.

Donald Trump Supports Registry, Special Identification for Muslim Americans

Donald Trump expressed this week that he would support forcing American Muslims to carry special identification showing their faith. The presidential candidate also supports forcing Muslim Americans to be registered in a database.

A Post-Paris “Clash of Civilizations”?

All of this is like manna from heaven for the Islamic State, the more “pitiless” the better. Their dream is to live in a black-and-white world of utter religious and political clarity (and calamity), while engaging in what American pundits like to term a “clash of civilizations.”

No, Muslims Are Not More Violent Than People of Other Religions....

Terrorism is a tactic of extremists within each religion, and within secular religions of Marxism or nationalism. No religion, including Islam, preaches indiscriminate violence against innocents.

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Fantasy magic thinking is a very expensive folly when human lives are at stake.

73% of Israelis want the Gaza genocide to end. Netanyahu says, ‘NO, full speed...

Israel did not enter this Land of Palestine to work with the Palestinians to create a two-state solution, as they were expected to do, but rather, they waged war to take over the entire country and its people.

Global hunger crisis deepens as world leaders slash aid amid record malnutrition and displacement

A record 295 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2024, as war, climate extremes, and economic shocks collided. With aid funding in freefall, UN officials warn the crisis is no longer just systemic—it is a failure of humanity.

America the unfree

Detention practices in a Trumpy post-9/11 age.