Terrorism

In an interview published today by the Christian Post, Sen. Marco Rubio declares that ISIS and Al Queda are just part of God’s unknowable “broader plan.” From the interview: Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio spoke about seeking God’s guidance, arguing that the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris last month and in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, were both …

“There is one surprising thing about the Colorado Springs shooting at the Planned Parenthood clinic. It is that it is a rare event. According to NARAL, there have been eight people killed and seventeen injured in attacks on American abortion providers in twenty-five years. [snip] It really is surprising more Planned Parenthood facilities and abortionists are not being targeted. It …

According to divorce papers filed by his second wife in a South Carolina court, Colorado mass murderer Richard Dear was an End Times fanatic who believed that he could commit any action he pleased because he would “saved” by Jesus. The Post & Courier reports: His second wife, [Deborah] Mescher, described Dear in divorce papers filed in 1993 as a controlling, …

It probably won’t be reported on sites like Breitbart and Twitchy, but as we all suspected, the “female” designation of Planned Parenthood shooter Richard Dear in Colorado’s voter database was a mere clerical error and one that Dear attempted to correct on two occasions. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports: Ryan Parsell, El Paso County’s chief deputy clerk and recorder, said …

“To the ridiculous (and vile) claim that the rhetoric of pro-life advocates is responsible for Robert Lewis Dear’s murderous rampage, the answer can be stated in three words: Floyd Lee Corkins. If the pro-life movement is responsible for Robert Lewis Dear’s crimes, then the gay rights movement (and especially the Southern Poverty Law Center) is responsible for Floyd Lee Corkins’. …

CBS News reports: Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson denounced “hateful rhetoric” across the political spectrum in the wake of a shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood facility that left three people dead. Abortion rights supporters have said that such rhetoric has motivated violence against Planned Parenthood clinics around the country. “There is no question that you know hateful rhetoric no …

Mike Huckabee appeared on CNN this morning where he denounced the “domestic terrorism” in Colorado, adding, “I don’t know any pro-life leader, any––if you can tell me one, please correct me––but I don’t know of anybody who has suggested violence toward Planned Parenthood personnel.” Anti-abortion leaders may not condone violence, but Huckabee needs to visit the comments section on just …

Carly Fiorina appeared on Fox News Sunday this morning where she denounced the left for “demonizing the messenger” by linking anti-abortion rhetoric to the murders at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. And then she talked about “taking our country back.” Watch below.

File this under “totally not surprising.” Via Buzzfeed News: Zigmond Post, who told BuzzFeed News he was a neighbor of Dear’s in Hartsel, said the man once gave him anti-Obama pamphlets. Post said he once went to Dear’s home to retrieve two dogs that had gotten loose. “We were there for a minute and the guy was already handing us …

The Washington Post reports: The police officer who was killed during Friday’s shooting standoff at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs has been identified as Garrett Swasey, 44, a co-pastor at his church and an ice-skating champion. Swasey, who was married and had two young children, had been with the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs police department for …

The Washington Post reports: A suspect is in police custody following an hours-long ordeal at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., where at least five police officers and six civilians were injured in a shooting Friday. One of the injured officers has died, a federal law enforcement official told The Post. The Colorado Fraternal Order of Police also …

The A.V. Club reports: In the interview with Vice, they talk about the attack on the Bataclan, the carnage and heroism they witnessed there, and the future of Eagles Of Death Metal. “Our friends went [to the Bataclan] to see rock ‘n’ roll and died. I want to go back there and live,” band co-founder Jesse Hughes says. Going forward, …

The Washington Post reports: President Obama said Wednesday morning there is “no specific and credible intelligence” suggesting Islamic militants in Syria and Iraq plan to strike the U.S. over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, just minutes after concluding a meeting with his national security team in the Situation Room. Obama’s comments, which were delivered shortly after noon in the Roosevelt Room …

Via press release from the State Department: Current information suggests that ISIL (aka Da’esh), al-Qa’ida, Boko Haram, and other terrorist groups continue to plan terrorist attacks in multiple regions. These attacks may employ a wide variety of tactics, using conventional and non-conventional weapons and targeting both official and private interests. This Travel Alert expires on February 24, 2016. Authorities believe …

The loving Christians at World Net Daily have a simple and permanent solution to terrorism. Nuke Saudi Arabia. Columnist Burt Prelutsky writes: “My own politically incorrect suggestion is that we remove ISIS from the face of the earth, hopefully as a joint effort with every other nation it has threatened or attacked, and that we then bomb Mecca off the …

The Democratic National Committee has issued a new video which slams GOP candidates for their relentless claims that the nation is engaged in a war against Islam itself – and not terrorism. Bolstering their arguments are post-9/11 statements to that effect by George W. Bush. Watch below.

CNN reports: Security forces have begun a counter-assault on a Malian hotel where gunmen took more than 100 hostages Friday morning, French President Francois Hollande told reporters in Paris on Friday afternoon. The situation began around 7 a.m. at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali’s capital, Bamako, when two or three attackers stormed the hotel, firing guns and initially taking …

Yesterday afternoon the Washington Post was one of the few major outlets standing by their report that the ringleader in the Paris attacks had been killed in a raid by French police. This morning their report has been confirmed: The body of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the deadly suicide bombings and shootings that left 129 people dead in …

“ISIS is circulating a video that suggest they are targeting New York. CNN’s Jim Sciutto reports that the video cannot be verified, but authorities are taking it seriously.” Watch below.

“The French committed a terrorist attack against Christian Serbs, suffering under the Muslims, and now the liberals in France are suffering under the very people they helped. They need the suffering, God is allowing it to happen to get France to realize that the ways of their ancestors are superior to the secular trash that they have sucked up. Let …