While the U.S. and Iraqi militaries struggle to aid the starving members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority with supply drops from the air, the Syrian Kurds took it on themselves to rescue them.–Syrian Kurdish Fighters Rescue Yazidis Stranded on Sinjar Mountain

ROBIN HARRIS:

Our leaders are in denial about this Islamic revolution because it exposes their own naivety 

The terrorist group now calling itself Islamic State has been lucky. It has so far been able to advance its repulsive agenda of violence and cruelty without bothering about comeuppance from the great powers.

This is because it is confronted by probably the most incompetent and ill-equipped Western leaders of modern times. For two months, this barbaric group has been rolling forward. But Washington just dithered.

Londonistan:Radical students Koranimals hand out leaflets on Oxford Street encouraging British Muslims to join Isis

Police were today probing leaflets handed out in the West End by radical students encouraging British Muslims to join the Islamic State (Isis).– (Breitbart London had this yesterday, now the London Evening Standard has some more information.)

‘You are not too young to die’: The British jihadists bidding to recruit boys as young as 15 on social media sites

British jihadists fighting with terror squads in Iraq are using social networking sites to lure young Muslim teenagers from the UK into joining the Islamic State fanatics. The extremists, who boast of ‘slaughtering’ innocent Yazidis and ‘taking their women as slaves’, are advising 15-year-olds that they are ‘not too young’ to die fighting for Allah.– More from the Daily Mail