Jihad and the World

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, and today’s episode will look at the changing face of Britain. The look, feel, and substance of Britain changed significantly from 1968 to 2018. In that 50-year span, Muslim populations mushroomed throughout the country. This epis...

Hello from Jihad and the World, a product of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. This episode is part of a series of podcasts that examine Islamic and non-Islamic in Europe. This episode offers analytic snapshots of the press and police in Europe. Future podcasts will expand on the general themes presented in the podcast, titled The Press and Police – Lov...

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. Today’s episode is longer than most. It begins a series called Jihad and the West, titled – Europe Has Fallen: Islam, Britain, and the Continent. Episode One offers an overview of Eur...

         Hello and welcome to Cauldron of Terror, a podcast that explores the effects of Islamic terrorism on the West. The book, Cauldron of Terror – Hamas, Israel, and the World, will be available in summer 2026. I am Mark Silinsky, president of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. In this episode, we will explore three issues. First, we will look at an...

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, and today’s feature will look at universities and the war of words. But now, let's go straight to the updates. The SPLC OK, let's look at the SPLC. But I am really interested in the charges of Islamophobia. The Southern Poverty La...

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, and today’s episode will look at a one we love and a young woman we do not love. But first, let’s update a few things. Kristoff Has the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Nicholas Kristof, secured a place in the New York Times legacy...

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 pi...

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 Bri...

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...

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, and today’s episode will examine the strange case of Monica Witt – from all-American girl to a traitor for Iran. Here is an update to a podcast I made a few months ago.              So, an all-American girl joins the Air Force, be...

Hello from Jihad and the World. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, which provides education on national security. Today’s episode is called “Roger Waters and Medea Benjamin – Pretty in Pink.” It examines two colorful characters. Roger Waters “We, the ordinary people of the world, hugely outnumber the Israeli scum and the ruling Elites in the West. We stand alongside our...

Hello and welcome to Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. This is Mark Silinsky. In this podcast, we will look at the founder of Hamas, Sheik Yassin, and examine the current controversy over capital punishment in Israel. Both are explored in my upcoming book, Cauldron of Terror – Hamas, Israel and the World. So who is Ahmed Yassin, and why was he important...

Hi, Mark here from Kensington Security Consulting videocasts. This is our second videocast, titled “The Southern Poverty Law Center – Islamophobia? Really?” Today, we turn to the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, which is much in the news these days. First, let’s recap our first videocast, “Of Pigs and Men . . . and Women, too.” In that video, we briefly examined two stories about pigs in Euro...

Hello from Jihad and the World, a product of Kensington Security Consulting. We will look at the Hamas-Israel war, the subject of our upcoming book, Cauldron of Terror – Hamas, Israel, and the World. Let’s begin by examining and updating the profile of Vlada Patapov, known to the world as the “Lady in Red.” Who is she? You may have seen her on television or social media, running for her life acros...

Hello from Jihad and the World, presented by Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. Today, we will discuss the general friction between Italy’s Muslim and non-Muslim communities and Rome’s policy towards Hamas. Until the American-Israeli war on Iran, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had positioned Italy as one of the more pro-American European states an...

Hello from Jihad and the World. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, which provides education on national security. Today’s episode is called “Who is Joe Kent and Why is He so Angry at President Trump? It examines the controversy surrounding the resignation of a leading intelligence official. Joe Kent, former director of the National Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC), was a...

Hello from Jihad and the World, a product of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. This is our first weekly videocast, in which we update the issues discussed in earlier podcasts. We would like to discuss issues that are important to you, and we always welcome your comments and suggestions. Of Pigs and Men . . . and Women, too We had an interest in a quick...

Hello and welcome to Jihad and the World. This is the second in a series entitled Islamofascism. In this episode, we will cover the origins of the term and the Fascist party. It builds a foundation for future podcasts in which we weave political Islam into Italian fascism to form a new ideology – Islamofascism. So, what are the origins of fascism? What is it? Fascism is a political philosophy shap...

Dogs have been integral to armies throughout history. Ancient warriors deployed them to intimidate and attack enemies, with civilizations such as the Romans and Vikings relying on their canine companions. Over time, dogs became not just combatants, but also mascots and friends to soldiers. The United States Army officially commissioned dogs in 1942 with the creation of the Canine Corps. The Army p...

Hello and welcome to Jihad and the World. In today’s episode, we look at the Swedish celebrity activist Thunberg, whom we feature in our upcoming book, “Cauldron of Terror – Hamas, Israel and the World – 500 Days in Gaza.” The episode is titled “Greta – The Swedish Nightingale.” How have Ms. Thunberg’s activist energies, or Greta’s as she is known worldwide, been channeled to the Middle East? Who...

Hello and welcome to Jihad and the World, a product of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. The author is Mark Silinsky. This episode is part of a series on Muslim-non-Muslim relations in Europe. This is a Polaroid of France, two years 50 years apart, namely 1968 and 2018. We selected these years because the 50-year difference offers a quick, though very i...

Tariq Ramadan – The Search for Moderate Islam in the Ivy Halls of Europe   One scholar of Islam whose star has risen and fallen is Tarik Ramadan, who shot to movie-star fame among Europe’s burgeoning Islamic population, particularly its young. He garnered a large following among young Muslims and helped establish what has been called the European "Muslim Pride" movement, similar to Black Pride in...

Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the intersection of the Western and Islamic worlds. This is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, and we begin a ten-part series called Islamo-fascism. This first episode is called, “What is Islamo-fascism?” It examines the intersection of Islam and fascism. Of all the unanswered questions of our time, perhaps the most important i...

Hello and welcome to the podcast Empire of Terror. Its author is Mark Silinsky, president of Kensington Security Consulting. This episode is a follow-up to the reading of the book by that name. It is called A Tale of Two Persians. It drills into the story of a very fashionable, if emotionally unstable, Iranian woman who is being defenestrated by U.S. immigration officials. She and her daughter hav...

Hello and welcome to the podcast of Jihad and the World, which explores the intersection of Western and Islamic Civilizations. Its author is Mark Silinsky, president of Kensington Security Consulting. This episode is called A Tale of Two Persians. It drills into the story of a very fashionable, if emotionally unstable, Iranian woman who is being defenestrated by U.S. immigration officials. She and...