It’s not necessarily true that the West is engaged in a “clash of civilizations” with the Islamic world, but it’s certainly true that radical Islam is at war with the West. As Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in the wake of the terrorist attack on the editorial offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in […]
Canada, belatedly, is waking up to the homegrown jihadist threat. Eight years have elapsed since the “Toronto 18” terror plot in southern Ontario was uncovered by police, yet Canada has only recently begun to treat the problem with the gravity it deserves. A few days ago, the Canadian government classified Islamic State as a terrorist […]
Radical Islamists from Germany have been pouring into Syria to fight in the civil war, the German newsmagazine Focus reported recently. Disquietingly enough, some of the Islamic fundamentalist fighters who’ve joined the rebel movement trying to unseat Syrian President Bashar Assad are German Christian converts to Islam. This may come as news to most people, […]