LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read The ISIS terrorist responsible for Thursday’s shooting in Paris, France had an extremely violent criminal history and radical past. It is difficult to tell when a radical believer will turn to violence, but in the case of Karim Cheurfi, also known as Abu Yusuf al-Beljiki, violence and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett A former Department of State official confessed Monday that the reason no one in the Obama administration referred to certain acts of terror as “radical Islam” is because they were scared of alienating Muslim allies. In an op-ed written for The New York Times, Richard Stengel, who…
By Phillip Stucky President Barack Obama was just too nice to combat racism in America, according to Slate’s top reporter on race relations. Slate Chief Political Correspondent Jamelle Bouie asserts that Obama wasn’t as radical as his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Bouie asserts that the appropriate way for Obama to combat the nation’s racism was…
By Saagar Enjeti Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen allegedly jumped for joy when the second plane hit the World Trade Center on 9/11, according to Mateen’s former high school classmates. Mateen, a U.S. citizen of Afghan descent, gunned down 50 people inside of a popular gay Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning. Robert Zirkle, Mateen’s classmate who rode the bus to school with…
By Saagar Enjeti Islamic State extremists reportedly burned 19 young Yazidi girls alive in iron cages June 3 for refusing to be sex slaves, according to eyewitness accounts obtained by ARA News in the Iraqi occupied city of Mosul. ARA News is a Kurdish news organization covering the Syrian conflict. The horrific act reportedly occurred in…
After the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, Charlie Hebdo has a simple message for ISIS. by Joey Clark The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire once pondered the modern phenomenon of “Dandyism” in an 1863 essay: “Contrary to what a lot of thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in…