In a recent article appearing in Tablet, Lee Smith takes former House speaker Newt Gingrich to task for the latter’s focus on sharia (i.e., Islamic law). The thrust of Smith’s argument is that sharia is a “hopelessly abstract concept” and “a highly idealized version of reality that has little basis in fact”; that sharia is […]
Archives for 2010
Investigative Project uncovers numerous questionable aspects of Ground Zero mega-mosque imam’s organizations financing
Daisy Khan says they have nothing in the bank. So where do they have it? “The Tangled Web of the GZM Imam’s Organizations Raises Questions,” from IPT News, August 26: The backers of the Ground Zero Mosque have virtually no money, one of the group’s leaders says, and plan to create another nonprofit organization that […]
Interests: hockey, music, acting and killing Infidels — Canadian Idol contestant arrested for jihad plot
Clearly the judges were “Islamophobic” Maybe losing Canadian Idol drove him to seek revenge upon the kuffar. “Third terror suspect was ‘Canadian Idol’ contestant,” by Michelle Shephard and Richard J. Brennan for the Toronto Star, August 26 (thanks to Dave): OTTAWA–A third terrorism suspect- one who moonwalked across a Montreal stage during an audition for […]
Muslim Brotherhood, libelblogger Charles Johnson blame Geller, Spencer for Leftist pro-mosque group employee’s attack on Muslim cab driver
“‘Bigot’ slashes Muslim cabby,” says the New York Post. “Rider Asks if Cabby Is Muslim, Then Stabs Him,” says the New York Times. That was enough for the Islamic supremacists and their Leftist dhimmi tools. Libelblogger and CAIR tool Charles Johnson’s vile sycophants at Little Green Footballs were quick to blame Pamela Geller and me. […]
Fitzgerald: Barack Obama, The New York Times, that Iftar Dinner, and the rewriting of history
“The first Muslim ambassador to the United States, from Tunisia, was hosted by President Jefferson, who arranged a sunset dinner for his guest because it was Ramadan — making it the first known iftar at the White House, more than 200 years ago.” — Barack Obama, speaking on August 14, 2010, at the “Annual Iftar […]
Time mag asks: “Are the French taking secularism too far?”
It’s hard to imagine Time ever asking this in regard to Christianity in public life, in any country. No, this, they ask, because French secularism keeps butting heads with Islam. Never mind the screaming double standard. Some belief systems, after all, are “more equal than others.” Do they pepper in other examples? Yes. But would […]
Another “moderate” imam and supporter of Ground Zero mosque won’t condemn Hamas
Big surprise. “Another ‘Moderate’ GZ Mosque Supporter Can’t Bring Himself to Call Hamas a Terrorist Organization,” by the peerless Andrew C. McCarthy at National Review, August 25: Last night, I was on David Asman’s Fox Business Channel show, Scoreboard, debating Imam Dawoud Kringle of the New York State prison system, a GZ mosque supporter. Imam […]
September 11: Rally against the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero
On June 6, Pamela Geller and I organized a protest against the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero that was attended by 8,000 to 10,000 people to stop the 911 mega mosque. And now we’re inviting you to join us again on September 11 at 3PM, at the corner of Park Place and West Broadway […]
Obama spending $6 million to restore mosques and other Islamic sites worldwide
This has been going on longer than Obama has been in office. Has its Constitutionality ever been challenged? If not, why not? “US funds restoration of global Islamic sites,” from AP, August 24 (thanks to Ted): WASHINGTON – The good will tour of the Middle East by the imam behind the proposed mosque near ground […]
Did the West usurp Islam’s scientific/cultural birthright? No
…Allawi, who at various times was Iraqi minister of trade, minister of defense, and minister of finance following Saddam Hussein’s overthrow, ends his book with a plausible conclusion–that, by nature, Islamic civilization must either subsume or be subsumed–but only after long swathes of tangents, contradictions, and loaded assumptions. As for the latter, Islam’s purported golden […]