Who would Jesus bomb?
Eat your heart out Amazon with your planned drone book delivery: A Swedish evangelical free church has said it plans to use drones to drop thousands of bibles into Isis-controlled …
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The unholy war over Census
A Christian, a Muslim, an atheist, and a Jedi walk into a bar. If it’s Tuesday, 9 August, they order drinks, sit down at a table and proceed to fill …
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Your Holiness, you’re wrong about terrorism
With the greatest of respect… “I think it is not right to identify Islam with violence,” the Pope told reporters aboard the plane taking him back to Rome on Sunday …
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…and no 72 virgins for you, loser
The local Muslim community refuses to bury the Normandy priest-killer Adel Karmiche: Speaking to Le Parisien, Mohammed Karabila, president of the local Muslim cultural association and imam of one of …
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Human Rights Watch categorises some terrorism as “Islam inspiredâ€, all hell breaks loose
Poor Kenneth Roth, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. All he wanted to do was to illustrate the fact that the current levels of terrorism in Europe are not …
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#PrayForThoseWhoPrayInNormandy
With some sort of an attack or incident seemingly every day or two, terror has indeed become Europe’s “new normal”. At Church of the Gambetta in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, a priest …
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Munich – another day, another “Allah Akbar” (UPDATED)
24 August, 8:30am: Just a “normal” crazed gunman, without ideology? But just in case, BBC drops the killer’s name “Ali” and just refers to him as “David Sonboly”. 12:08pm: “Witnesses …
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The Rise of the Erdoman Empire
Maybe he staged his own coup. Maybe he intentionally provoked his opponents into making a rush move. Maybe he knew what was coming but didn’t want to stop it. Or …
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Is Islamophobia rational?
Islamophobia can be defined as dislike or hatred of, or prejudice against, Islam or Muslim. The phobia part of the word, however, originally refers to fear. Mayo Clinic defines phobia …
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Ten commandments of the media coverage of terrorism, crime and violence
From the people (and by people I mean me) who brought you Ten Commandments of Social Justice Warriors, behold… You might enjoy this. Slightly topical.
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Did Erdogan stage the coup against himself?
Did President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stage the coup against himself? So says – very tentatively – his former political partner and now an opposition figure, Fethullah Gulen, living in exile …
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Going cold Turkey (UPDATED)
11:21am: Erdogan speaking from the Istanbul airport. In the background, Turkey’s founding father Kemal Ataturk looks on and thinks, “you Islamist scumbag”. …
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Nice (UPDATED)
10:21pm: Nice airport evacuated. 10:04pm: Not the first use of a vehicle as a terrorist weapon, not even in France. Meanwhile, it’s a method much encouraged by the Palestinian propaganda …
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Please explain Islam
Sometime over the course of the election campaign a small flyer landed in my letterbox from a new party called the Australia Liberty Alliance (the ALA, pronounced Allah). I was …
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F*** ISIS. And f*** PC too.
Who knew? Apparently waving a flag with a slogan “F*** ISIS”, and wearing a t-shirt with a picture of a man urinating on an ISIS flag amounts to “inciting racial …
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Identity politics jihadi-style: you killed the wrong people, Omar
Al Qaeda has posthumously chastised ISIS allegiant Omar Mateen for muddling the message by shooting gay Latinos instead of non-sexuality specific Anglos. In their online magazine “Inspireâ€, Al Qaeda in …
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All you need is love, and other great moments in American law enforcement
It’s has been a last few days for Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and by great I mean shocking and sackable. First, there was the brilliant decision to release the transcripts …
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Who are the mass shooters?
After every mass shooting and/or terrorist attack there comes the inevitable finger-pointing, blame-shifting, point-scoring and politicising. Understandably, no one wants to get tarred by association, however vague and tenuous, with …
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FBI folds, unredacts
Following public and political outrage at the announcement they would be releasing redacted transcripts of Omar Mateen’s call from Pulse nightclub, FBI folded and has now published transcripts in full, …
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So FBI will be releasing “partial transcripts†of the calls made by the Orlando murderer Omar Mateen to law enforcement agencies from inside Pulse nightclub. Attorney General Loretta Lynch explains …
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