Robert Bruce Spencer is a Christian American scholar writing on topics including Islam, Orthodoxy, and the Byzantine Empire. The director of Jihad Watch, he is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He has led seminars on Islam and jihad for organizations like the FBI, the United States Central Command, and the U.S. intelligence community.
Islamist extremist violence in Africa’s Sahel region is set to reach historic highs after a series of sweeping offensives by groups linked to al-Qaida and Islamic State, according to new figures compiled by the conflict monitor Acled.
As the US marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks launched by al-Qaida against targets in Washington and New York, the statistics underline the continued expansion of the veteran organisation in parts of Africa – in stark contrast with its relative weakness elsewhere.
Sometimes things just don’t make sense. Especially when someone like Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is concerned.
She’s been a controversial figure in the past, especially when it came to her “Somalia first” statements that she’s made – something that doesn’t reflect well on someone of her stature. But it’s her most recent case surrounding a mysterious increase in funds that I feel needs a bit more attention – especially considering the result.
Before Hassan* arrived in Sweden, he didn’t know anything about the country.
At first, things went relatively well for the Syrian refugee, who moved his family to an apartment in the Skåne region, near Malmö.
Hassan found a job in a factory, while his wife returned to her studies and their four children joined a Swedish school, learning the language and making friends.
Poor Hassan!
A blogger has allegedly been sentenced to death for ‘insulting Iran’s supreme leader’ after sharing a chilling final Instagram post.
Marzieh ‘Sevda’ Ebrahimi Shamsabadi is being held in Bandar Abbas Prison following her arrest earlier this year.
The Iranian blogger, understood to be 33, was convicted by Branch 3 of the Bandar Abbas Revolutionary Court, according to information obtained by Iran International.
A Danish high-court ruling has overturned an indefinite detention order against 43-year-old Wasim Essam Hajress, a man previously judged too dangerous to release due to five rapes he committed.
The stateless Palestinian, who was born in Lebanon, has now gone from what could have been a life sentence to a fixed prison sentence of two and a half years, a shocking judicial and legal reversal.
After horrifying images of Muslim migrants who had invaded the Spanish North African territory of Ceuta killing a baby dolphin went viral, animal rights activists rallied to their defense.
“The party rejects the instrumentalization of the suffering of a people or of its animals to foment hatred,” Spain’s Partido Animalista (PACMA) party declared. The party whose former name was the ‘Animalist Party Against the Mistreatment of Animals’, was willing to defend animal abusers as long as it advanced the greater cause of Muslim migrants invading Europe.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has created an army of social-media influencers to help boost his administration, a recent exposé in the Columbia Journalism Review reveals. But while the mayor’s unorthodox media strategy has gotten scrutiny, not enough attention has been paid to the influencers themselves and their views.
Some in the mayor’s coterie are relatively innocuous. But others celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk, claim America runs “mass concentration camps,” and make apologies for terrorist attacks targeting synagogues.
A Montreal charity that helped bring Syrian refugees to Canada was fined $60,900 for providing “undue benefits” to a company owned by its president as part of its sponsorship program, according to documents recently made public.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) notified the Centre Canadien Islamique Al-Jamieh/Canadian Islamic Centre Al-Jamieh of the penalty in a Sept. 12, 2024 letter, which has now been made available through the IJF’s Open by Default database.
The notice says the mosque, a registered charity, paid $58,000 to a consulting company in March 2017. That company was wholly owned by the charity’s then-president, Ahmad Chaar.
British Pakistanis must condemn grooming gangs or be complicit in the abuse through silence, a prominent Pakistani cleric has said.
Muhammad Hassan Haseeb-ur-Rehman, who is on a speaking tour of the UK, said British Pakistanis needed to report child groomers to the police so they could face the toughest possible punishments.
“If people from within our own community are involved in wrongdoing, they must be opposed. Remaining silent in the face of wrongdoing is, in effect, becoming complicit in it,” he said.
On September 11, 2001, Canadians, along with much of the rest of the world, were shocked as they watched the second plane, at 9:07 a.m. EST, fly into World Trade Centre Tower 2 that fateful morning. What came next was a response by America and its allies that would change the world forever. The ensuing War on Terror has been documented for the past 25 years, and yet the war on terror and jihadi fundamentalism continue today. In fact, as Phil Gurski, a former senior counterintelligence analyst who worked on the Iran and jihadi terrorism desks at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), says, “the battle is far from over”. But another battle is taking place in Canada over how a news organisation might somehow soft-pedal the truth and rewrite the narrative about the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The CBC then reclarified its position by suggesting that, if the term ‘terrorist’ is used, it should be attributed to a government, military or commission findings, as if a journalist could not determine on his or her own that an incident qualified as a terrorist attack. This sparked an angry tweet from FBI Director Kash Patel and, for a short period of time, may have jeopardised security inside Canada. The CBC did issue another clarification, but the damage was already done. With a full-scale trade war taking place between Canada and the US, tensions are high as Pete Hoekstra heads for Gander, Newfoundland, where thousands of stranded travellers landed on that fateful day. With that in mind, I offer you a column by Phil Gurski, who has just launched his new book his ninth 9/11: The Unfinished Battle, Why Jihadi Terrorism is Stronger, Wider, and Far from Over.
An Afghan woman living in Texas with legal US permanent residency has been deported from the country in the first-ever use of a secretive court.
Nazira Haji Zada, 47, chose to leave the US rather than continue to argue her case before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and her lawyers.
The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was created in 1996, but had never heard a case before the proceedings in July. It is meant for non-US citizens facing terrorism-related charges when the evidence is confidential and related to national security.
They should just try them on the bus as it heads toward the airport.
Race-communist and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was recently exposed for having posted a photo of The Diplomats, a rap group notorious for controversies surrounding the 9/11 terror attacks, in numerous Fourth of July posts.
I fear something awful will befall Mr. Mamdani.
A Yemeni asylum seeker living in the Netherlands cannot rely on family reunification rules to bring over children from two additional marriages that Dutch law does not recognize, ruled the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The ECHR dismissed the migrant’s complaint on Tuesday, holding that Council of Europe states are not required to treat polygamous family arrangements as they would a monogamous household.
