Thursday, July 28, 2016

Jihadists Exploit Western Security Weaknesses

July 28, 2016

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Who's Teaching the Class?

by Patrick Dunleavy  •  July 27, 2016  •  IPT News FacebookTwitter
Ask any successful individual, "who was one of the most influential people in your life?" and very often the answer is a teacher. A good teacher can make all the difference in the world to an aspiring learner.
But a bad teacher can have a disastrously adverse effect.  Such may be the case in Nashville, Tenn.  where Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall recently announced that he was partnering with the American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC) to provide an instructor to lead a class called "Islam 101"  that will be taught to correction officers and other prison staff.

How Trains Are A Prime Target for Terrorists

by Abigail R. Esman  •  July 26, 2016  •  Special to IPT News FacebookTwitter
On July 18, a young man stormed through a train outside of Wurzburg, Germany. Crying "Allahu Akbar," (God is greatest) he brandished an axe high into the air, then slashed at the men and women seated around him. Within minutes, the car, as one person described it, " looked like a slaughterhouse."

Obama Eid Celebration Again Empowers Islamists Over Reformers

July 21, 2016  •  IPT News FacebookTwitter
The White House held a celebration Thursday afternoon to honor Eid al Fitr, the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. While no guest list has been made public, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has learned that it includes a number of Islamist activists who have espoused views in direct contrast with American policy.
Among them were several officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and a former official who remains close to the organization. In contrast, Muslim Americans who believe CAIR and other Islamist groups are not representative of the community's diverse viewpoints were not invited.
The White House declined to comment to the IPT or release a complete list of invitees.

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·         Canadian Arabic Newspaper Republishes Holocaust Denying Article
An Arabic-language newspaper published in London, Ontario featured a blatantly anti-Semitic article titled: "The Question Which Everyone Ignores: Why Did Hitler Kill the Jews?", Canada's National Post reports.

Also in the News

Muslim Brotherhood should be deemed a terrorist group: UK parliamentary delegation in Cairo

by Gamal Essam El-Din  •  July 26, 2016  •  Ahram Online FacebookTwitter
Egyptian MPs told reporters after their meeting with a British parliamentary delegation in Cairo on Tuesday that the delegation agreed that the Muslim Brotherhood group "must be designated a terrorist organisation."

For Many Christians in Middle East, Intimidation or Worse

by MARIA ABI-HABIB  •  July 26, 2016  •  The Wall Street Journal FacebookTwitter
BEIRUT—The attack on a French church signals the arrival in Europe of a type of intimidation long familiar to Christians in the Middle East, whether from religious extremists, other armed groups or even secular governments.

Islamic American Relief Agency, Long Accused of Terror Finance, Pleads Guilty on Sanctions Violations

by Kyle Shideler  •  July 26, 2016  •  Counter Jihad FacebookTwitter
On July 20, 2016, federal prosecutors successfully secured a guilty plea from the Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) organization known as the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA).

German refugee policy under fire after a week of bloodshed

by KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and VANESSA GERA  •  July 25, 2016  •  Associated Press FacebookTwitter
Four attacks in a week — three of them carried out by asylum seekers — have left Germany on edge and Chancellor Angela Merkel's policies of welcoming refugees under renewed criticism. Anxiety over Germany's ability to cope with last year's flood of more than 1 million registered asylum seekers first surged following a series of sexual assaults and robberies in Cologne during New Year celebrations.

U.S., European Elites Just Not Equipped to Deal With Islam's Insurgency

by JONATHAN SPYER  •  July 25, 2016  •  PJ Media FacebookTwitter
The terror attacks in Nice and Wurzburg are the latest manifestations of what should now be seen as a still fairly low-level Islamist insurgency taking place in a number of west European countries. The fact that this insurgency has been allowed to kindle itself and slowly emerge before now bursting forth represents a profound failure of Western European political culture and of the continent's elites.

Al Qaeda in Iran

by STEPHEN F. HAYES and THOMAS JOSCELYN  •  August 1, 2016  •  The Weekly Standard FacebookTwitter
Last week, President Barack Obama's administration dismissed reports of Iranian support for al Qaeda as the product of fevered minds. Claims of collaboration between the Islamic regime and the terrorist organization are little more than "baseless conspiracy theories," an Obama administration official told The Weekly Standard.

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