Jihad and the World
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<p>Jihad and the World is a periodic update of global issues that involve Jihad, which generally refers to the expansion of the world of Islam or the protection of the world's Islamic community. Jihad and the World centers on persons and events featured in Mark Silinsky's five books on militant Islam. These podcasts are offered as a courtesy of Dr. Silinsky's firm Kensington Security Consulting where we bring education to national security. </p>
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June 17, 2026
Jihad and the World - Women Warriors against Islamofascism - Fallaci and Satrapi
Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the intersection of Western and Islamic cultures. I am Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, Let’s delve into the Kensington archives of women we love. Let’s start with an Italian. In earlier videocasts, we looked at some boutique social issues in Italy, illustrating Muslim-non-Muslim friction. There was the plastic pig of Padua, standing in the window of a delicatessen as a symbol of resistance to Muslim demands that it be removed. Then there was the nonsense about Italian and French women who adopt pigs as pets to keep Muslim men at bay. How this silly fable took hold in Europe and in India escapes me. It is easy to have fun with inane stories. But Islam in Italy and throughout Europe is serious business, and Oriana Fallaci was a very serious social critic. So, I would like to take a look at her life and the impact her writings had on shaping European opinions. Why did I select this celebrated, vilified, quoted, scorned, admired, and hated Italian journalist? Because, in my judgment, her insights into European-Islamic relations were second to none. She died 20 years ago. She argued, “there is no place for muezzins, minarets, fake teetotalers, their f****** middle ages, and their f****** chadors.” Yeah, So lets buckle up. The independent scholar Hugh Fitzgerald condenses her writings into the argument that Muslim immigration was turning Europe into “a colony of Islam.” She borrowed the neologism “Eurabia,” coined by Bat Ye’or, to refer to the Islamification of Europe, which, in her words, would “end up with minarets in place of the bell-towers, with the burka in place of the mini-skirt.” Fallaci argued that, from its inception, Islam was driven to conquer Europe and force it under its rule. It came damn close a few times. Until the 21st Century, the apogee was probably the siege of Vienna in 1683. The armies were beaten back, and Europe became resurgent in technology and science. The invasion had been halted. Now, here is where Fallaci becomes controversial. She claims that “children and boats” instead of “troops and cannons.” She continued, “The art of invading and conquering and subjugating” is “the only art at which the sons of Allah have always excelled.” Wow! Such sulfurous rhetoric. Well, you can see she certainly speaks her mind. Is this over the top? Was the only art in which Muslims excelled subjugation? What about the architecture, calligraphy, some poetry, and decorative arts? Also, is the historical analogy between invading Muslim armies and today’s migration solid? Aren’t European countries allowing them in? Aren’t they inviting them in? Well, let’s dive into her argument. But first, who was this woman? She was one of Italy's most celebrated and later reviled journalists, who died in her late seventies in 2006, covered the Vietnam War, and interviewed Henry Kissinger, Indira Gandhi, and Ruhollah Khomeini. And I particularly enjoy the story of her truncated interview with Ayatollah Khomeini. We will get into that. Her spunky persona developed early. Her father was a partisan during the war, captured and tortured by the Germans. As a 14-year-old, she was a courier for the Italian Resistance in Nazi-occupied Florence. As a young journalist, she took risks while covering the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its crushing by the Soviet army. In my view, she developed wisdom while covering the Vietnam War. She was a loud critic of American efforts to defeat communism. She was hardly alone. She also gained insights into the American and European left. And with these insights came contempt and anger. She began as a strident critic of the American effort but became increasingly alarmed at the ruthlessness of the North Vietnamese and consequently, more sympathetic to the Americans. She developed a great hatred for certain American leftists poseurs, threatening to “kick Jane Fonda in the ass and spit in her face for lying about her cov
June 10, 2026
Jihad and the World - Islam, Britain and Europe - A Yorkshire Man Writes F Hamas
Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the intersection of Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, which provides education on national security. It is part of a series titled "Europe Has Fallen: Islam, Britain, and the Continent." The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, and today’s episode focuses on Britain and its challenge of balancing free speech with respect for the sensitivities of the country’s Islamic and pro-Hamas communities. Today, we head to northern Yorkshire in Britain, where we meet Pete North, a man in his late 40s who has issues with Hamas, Muslims, and Palestine. He is very open and outspoken about his contempt for all three. His tweets “f_Hamas, f–k Palestine” and “f–k Islam earned him an arrest by the Yorkshire police. It also gained him support from people who share his opinions and from those who hold on to what little free speech remains in Britain. This is what happened: Peter North posted a meme on social media using the F word three times in reference to Hamas, Islam, and Palestine. In response, police knocked on his door at 9:30 on 25 September 2025 to arrest him and take him to the police station. Two officers informed him that he was under arrest under section 19, which relates to spreading racial hatred. One officer explained, “So you've posted something online that we believe is spreading racial hatred." However, according to North, the police refused to disclose the offending post. Was it on "Twitter or Facebook?" Responded a policeman, "Well, I can't explain too much. It's just to give you the context beforehand.” "What, you're taking me away now?" "Yes, so you're under arrest..." "In the middle of the night, over a tweet?" "I am, unfortunately." And off North went to the police station, where he was interrogated. North recalled, “The officer in the interview said, ‘Well, firstly, let’s start with the meme. You posted a meme that said f—k Hamas,’” North claimed. “I said, ‘yeah, I did post a meme that said f—k Hamas, because Hamas are a proscribed terrorist organisation internationally, including in Britain.“ ‘Just so we’re on the same page, you do know who Hamas are?'” “And he just … shook his head,” North continued, claiming the officer was just as clueless when he asked if he knew about the horrors committed by Hamas on Oct. 7. “He was totally oblivious,” he claimed. “If you’re going to arrest people for memes, you probably need to pay more attention to current events.” North was later released without charges after a lengthy interrogation and has since accused authorities of trying to “terrorize” people into being politically correct online. I was held in a holding area for some time before being taken for an interview. During the interview, to my shock and disgust, I had to explain to the interviewing officer what Hamas is. He was completely unaware. It seemed he didn't know what happened on 7/10. One of the questions was “Do you know who Tommy Robinson is?”—followed by “Are you aware that he was the first person to post this meme?” North responded that he did not believe that is what happened. North then explained that Hamas is a proscribed terrorist group in the UK. In his words, “The Palestine flag is the flag of Islamo-leftist revolution, and the agenda it represents is committed to the extermination of Jews. If you want to stand in support of that, you should go to a Muslim country. As it happens, many Muslim countries would lock you up—both for supporting Hamas and for protesting.” North expressed his disgust towards the police, stating: "I'm disgusted by the police because they could have handled this in an orderly, civil manner, but instead they chose the maximum intrusion, and it was essentially like being treated as an act of terrorism. "They were trying to find evidence that I intended to stir up racial hate with it, which is unbelievable. It's crass. The meme itself is con
June 8, 2026
Jihad and the World - When the Pagers Went Boom!
Hizballah - When the Beepers Went Boom! On September 17 2024, explosions rocked Lebanon and Syria. These were not rockets launched from aircraft or shells from naval ships or ground-based artillery. Instead, they seemed to come from hand-held pagers, but witnesses and observers were not sure. Most of the explosions took place in Beirut, a stronghold for Hizbollah. Soon, the connection between the pager and Hizbollah was clear. But what on earth was happening? Why did the beeps go bang? For many younger listeners, pagers are largely artifacts of the past. They belong to yesterday’s technology. Maybe their parents used them early in their careers. They appear in old TV shows from the 1980s and 1990s, when women had poofy hair, and men wore suspenders at the office. But today’s generation is the cell phone generation. So, what exactly are pagers? Pagers are handheld communication devices that display short text messages relayed over telephone lines by a central operator. They operate on radio waves rather than the Internet. This makes them harder to monitor, which, in turn, makes them popular with terrorist groups, including Hizbollah. Hizbollah turned to pagers after its leadership determined that cellphones were being monitored by Israeli intelligence. Israeli intelligence got wind of this intended switch in communications and saw it as an opportunity. It crafted an intelligence operation like no other and one likely to make a mark in the history of intelligence operations, because it is one hell of a story! And here it is. When Israelis heard about the planned bulk purchase of cell phones, intelligence got to work. Technicians designed pagers with a battery that concealed a small but potent charge of plastic explosive and a one-of-a-kind, largely undetectable detonator. The Israeli pseudo-pager was significantly larger than other pagers to accommodate the mini-bomb. They crafted a marketing campaign to incite would-be Hizballah purchasers. Sure, the pager was bulkier, but that was because it was combat-tough – a real war pager. They dressed up the ads with military paraphernalia. But who would sell these pagers? Hizballah would not buy an Israeli pager or one connected to Israel. So Israel invented a company and the pager it claimed to sell. This company was BAC Consulting, ostensibly a Hungary-registered firm that partnered with a Taiwanese company, Gold Apollo. In fact, these were shell companies created by Israeli intelligence. But BAC Consulting would have to appear credible. Why didn’t it have significant sales? Why haven’t more people heard of it? What is this company, anyway? It is not well-known because it has very few clients. After all, it was military-grade. BAC needed only one client – Hizballah. And Hizballah took the bait and bought hundreds. Hizballah bought and distributed the pagers in the summer of 2022. The group’s technicians found nothing suspicious in the new product. Now, Israel would wait and wait for an opportune time to kill and maim. The moment came when Israel claimed it had thwarted a Hizballah attempt to kill senior Israeli leaders in September 2024. When the Israeli attack struck, it did so like lightning. Hundreds of pagers exploded nearly simultaneously, killing dozens and maiming and disfiguring scores of others. While the largest number of casualties was in Beirut, many people were also wounded in the country's north and south. But what were the mechanics of the attacks? Israeli intelligence sent a ring to each pager. The recipient then picked up the pager and, usually, saw the message “error.” This was followed by the message “Press OK,” which many did. This detonated the explosive inside the pager and usually killed or seriously injured the victim. Many lost fingers, which were blown off. Many suffered severe facial scars and blindness because they held the pager close to their face so they could read the message. The facial scars will remain clearly visible. There was also the
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<p>Jihad and the World is a periodic update of global issues that involve Jihad, which generally refers to the expansion of the world of Islam or the protection of the world's Islamic community. Jihad and the World centers on persons and events featured in Mark Silinsky's five books on militant Islam. These podcasts are offered as a courtesy of Dr. Silinsky's firm Kensington Security Consulting where we bring education to national security. </p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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