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Anonymous, the hacktivist collective that declared "total war" on ISIS after November's terror attacks in Paris, asked its followers to participate in 'ISIS Trolling Day' on Dec. 11, RT reports. In a message on Ghostbin, Anonymous announced "The World against ISIS Project," asking followers to "show your support and help against ISIS by joining us and trolling them." "Do not think you have to be apart of Anonymous, anyone can do this and does not require any special skills," the message adds. The project provides tips on how to troll ISIS online, suggesting participants spread photos of dead ISIS members...

As The Post's Liz Sly recently noted, the war in Syria has become a tangled web of conflict dominated by "al Qaeda veterans, hardened Iraqi insurgents, Arab jihadist ideologues and Western volunteers." On the surface, those competing actors are fueled by an overlapping mixture of ideologies and political agendas. Just below it, experts suspect, they're powered by something else: Captagon. A tiny, highly addictive pill produced in Syria and widely available across the Middle East, its illegal sale funnels hundreds of millions of dollars back into the war torn country's black market economy each year, likely giving militias access to...

Kidnappings, antiquities trafficking, and private donations. Those are three, though certainly not the only three, of the ways that the Islamic State, or “ISIS,” the terrorist organization responsible for the attacks in Paris, funds its violent operation. While much of its funding comes from oil sales, the group has also resorted to capturing individuals in an attempt to extract payment for their safe return. The group has kidnapped Americans and others, and in cases when payment was not made, gruesomely murdered them and released the videos on the Internet. ISIS has kidnapped “multihundreds, if not thousands of victims,” John Cassara,...

‘No happy endings’ between Eastern Christians and Islam, professor says By Corine Erlandson FORT WAYNE — When it comes to Christians in the Middle East, there are “no happy endings.” This was the blunt assessment of Dr. Adam DeVille in a Nov. 11 talk on “Eastern Christians and Islam” at Brookside Mansion at the University of Saint Francis. This talk was part of a series open to the public offered by the Department of Philosophy and Theology. There were close to 50 people in attendance. DeVille started his talk by telling his audience about the status of Eastern Christians in...

The question of how the Islamic State funds its sprawling caliphate has been discussed in the past: we first broke down the primary driver of ISIS revenue well over a year ago, in September 2014, when we explained that "ISIS uses oil wealth to help finance its terror operations." ... We wonder how long until someone finally asks the all important question regarding the Islamic State: who is the commodity trader breaching every known law of funding terrorism when buying ISIS crude, almost certainly with the tacit approval by various "western alliance" governments, and why is it that these governments...

Once a Muslim like Obama rules a country it falls under the Islamic concept of religious conquest of the infidel aka fatih and is to be forever ruled by a Muslim or to be retaken in jihad if need be. As soon as Obama became president, in the eyes of the "Ummah" (Muslim community) the USA is "fatih" (conquered) and the non Muslims dhimmis of that land to be enslaved as the Muslims see fit. If it falls out of the hands of Muslims then a jihad needs to be waged till it returns to Muslim rule. As soon as...

The United States Embassy in Italy has issued a security alert to all Americans abroad, warning them to avoid locations that have been identified as potential targets for terrorist attacks. At the top of the short list is "St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City (Rome)."

The United States is not aware of any credible threat of a Paris-style attack, FBI Director James Comey announced Thursday in a joint briefing with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in Washington. “We are not aware of any credible threat here of a Paris-type attack, and we have seen no connection at all between the Paris attackers" and the United States, Comey said.

EXCERPT "We are going to defeat Daesh. We always said it will take time," Kerry said, using an alternative name for the Islamist militant group. "We began our fight against al Qaeda in 2001 and it took us quite a few years before we were able to eliminate Osama bin Laden and the top leadership and neutralize them as an effective force. We hope to do Daesh much faster than that and we think we have an ability to do that," he told reporters.

THE 10 MOST DIABOLICAL EVIL TEACHINGS IN ALL HUMAN HISTORY Daniel Pipes Submitted by Jake Neuman (Germany), May 27, 2012 at 13:40 … [Jake Neuman is the author of "Islam and Sharia Law Are Treason: Jihad Is Treason" and Prophet Muhammad (AKA ALLAH): (free download) at islamreform.net). His book ISLAM -- EVIL IN THE NAME OF GOD™ was banned in Malaysia.] THE 10 MOST DIABOLICAL EVIL TEACHINGS IN ALL HUMAN HISTORY Unlike David Letterman who starts his Top 10 List from Number 10, we will start from number 1. Following are the 10 most evil teachings in history that surprisingly...

French officials recently declared that that country would stop using any of those names and instead refer to the group as “Daesh.” Whether referred to as ISIS, ISIL, or IS, all three names reflect aspirations that the United States and its allies unequivocally reject. Political and religious leaders all over the world have noted this. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said, “This is a terrorist group and not a state. . . the term Islamic State blurs the lines between Islam, Muslims, and Islamists.” The term “Daesh” is strategically a better choice because it is still accurate in that it...