Author Archives: Winston

Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley Confined to Think Tank Obscurity

From Wired: Dooley’s Army career has been in jeopardy after he received an administrative reprimand for his elective course at the Joint Forces Staff College, which discussed using “Hiroshima”-style tactics against Islam’s holiest cities as part of a “total war.” … Continue reading

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Hamas Using Human Shields

From Newsmax: Hamas’s tactic is as simple as it is criminal and brutal. Its leaders know that by repeatedly firing rockets at Israeli civilian areas, they will give Israel no choice but to respond. Israel’s response will target the rockets … Continue reading

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Four Men Charged With Terrorism Conspiracy

From The New York Times: While authorities don’t believe there were any plans for an attack in the U.S., two of the men arrested told a confidential FBI informant they would consider American jihad, according to the court documents unsealed … Continue reading

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Egyptian Christians Persecuted By Islamists

From Egypt Independent: Two niqab-wearing women assaulted and forcefully cut the hair of a Christian woman on the metro Sunday, the third such reported incident in two months, raising fears of a growing vigilante movement to punish Egyptian women for not … Continue reading

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Anti-Muslim filmmaker detained for almost a month

From The Washington Times: Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the 55-year-old filmmaker responsible for the anti-Muslim video that President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice initially and wrongly blamed for inciting the deadly terrorist attack on … Continue reading

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Unbiased Coverage Demanded by Taliban

From Yahoo News: Yesterday, local paper The News International gave voice to the Taliban’s pathetic complaints of bias, which offered a rare window into terrorist media criticism. TTP spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said his group would “continue to respect journalists” except for highly biased … Continue reading

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Egyptian Children Arrested for Insulting Islam

From Ahram.org: Two Coptic Christian children Nabil Nagy Rizk, 10, and Mina Nady Farag, 9, were arrested, Tuesday, for insulting religion in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Beni Suef, after the imam of their local mosque filed a complaint against … Continue reading

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Yemen security officer at U.S. Embassy killed in Sanaa

From USA Today: Masked gunmen fatally shot a Yemeni security official on his way to work at the U.S. Embassy here Thursday.

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Trial in Minneapolis for al-Shabab Supporter

From Newsvine: A man who left the U.S. to join fighters in Somalia testified Thursday against a Minnesota man on trial for supporting terrorism, saying he saw the man hand $500 in cash to another al-Shabab recruit while they were … Continue reading

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Grenade attack on fair in Thailand wounds 30

From Newsvine: Thai police believe Islamist insurgents fired grenades at a fair in southern Thailand, injuring 30 people, in anger over government efforts to win over local Muslim religious leaders.

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