ISIS released another provocative video, this one threatening to attack the White House.

The ISIS propaganda team is clever, and surely expects this to make a lot of US politicians demand war so that they can look tough. I continue to claim that ISIS wants the US to fight so that it can convince Iraqi Sunnis that they have no choice but to support ISIS.

Qatar has made a deal to reduce its support for Islamist parties. The deal also includes ordering al-Jazeera to stop criticizing Egypt for its bloody suppression of the Muslim Brotherhood.

I shed no tears for those religious extremists, but al-Jazeera has been hurt by this. We have seen evidence of bias in al-Jazeera imposed from above, but this blatant censorship is shameful nonetheless.

44 economically powerful countries are drawing up a plan to make multinational companies pay taxes.

Jihadi groups in north Mali run on funds obtained by smuggling drugs north.

I seem to recall that Islam disapproves of these drugs. It would be hard to reconcile the smuggling with being an "Islamist".

Google refuses to respond to public criticism of its support for ALEC.