“Whatever happened to freedom of expression?” What indeed? This is what happened to freedom of expression: Islamic jihadists began threatening to murder, and actually murdering, those who exercised it in a way they considered to be offensive to Islam. And suddenly the entire once-free West gained a new respect for Islam and willingness to adhere […]
Archives for 2015
Hoax: 80% of refugees from war-torn Syria aren’t from Syria at all
“Many of those who have opted to risk their lives to come to Europe have done so for economic reasons,” said Davies. Oh, and then there’s this: last February the Islamic State said it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. But they couldn’t actually be doing it now, could they? Inconceivable! […]
Hoax: Muslim clockmaker didn’t build clock, just put existing one into pencil box
This makes it all the more likely that this entire incident was planned: the idea was to scare school officials with a suspicious-looking object and then cry “Islamophobia.” And it is all working beyond, I expect, even their wildest expectations. Be sure to read the detailed explanation here; all I’ve reproduced below are some of […]
UK Muslim gets 8 years for trying to buy enough ricin to kill 1,400 people
His story is ridiculous: he says he was just curious about ricin after watching Breaking Bad. He was so curious, in fact, that he tried to get enough ricin to murder 1,400 people. That’s a lot of curiosity. But the Telegraph, of course, reports it all without even one skeptical voice included. What will Mohammed […]
Christian filmmaker aims to raise awareness about Muslim persecution of Christians
“The ethnic and religious purging of Christians today is exactly like Hitler’s ethnic cleansing of Jews in WWII,” [film director Peter] Spencer said. “True Christians are today obligated to rescue the perishing from the blades of [the Islamic State].” Brave and bold words, and all too rare in America these days, where naming the evil […]
Malaysia Muslim leader: Liberalism must submit to Islam
“Liberalism can live hand-in-hand with faith, only if it’s willing to live under an Islamic system. If liberalism tries to redefine or reform Islam following the demands of liberal basis, that maybe can never be accepted by Islam.” At a time when Western leaders are staking the futures of their countries on the ability of […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Clock is Ticking on “Islamophobia”
In FrontPage today I discuss the exhortation “If you see something, say something” – which holds true unless the suspicious person is a Muslim. Of all the people arrested over the past week, only Ahmed Mohamed of Irving, Texas was invited to the White House as a result. This is because Mohamed is fourteen years […]
Muslim Rep. Keith Ellison carries clock in solidarity with Ahmed Mohamed
Ellison, who has taken money from the Muslim Brotherhood to fund his pilgrimage to Mecca, has long been an energetic purveyor of the Muslim victimhood scam, complaining of counter-terror efforts and claiming that they target Muslims unfairly. So it is no surprise that he would eagerly jump on Ahmed Mohamed’s victimhood story, which will have […]
Video: Robert Spencer debates clockmaker Ahmed Mohamed’s father
Here is video of my May 2011 debate with Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, the father of Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old boy who was arrested for bringing a clock that looked like a bomb to school, in an instance of zero-tolerance overreaction or “Islamophobia,” depending on your point of view. Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed and I debated on […]
Texas Muslim clockmaker’s father says son was “tortured” by school officials
“Tortured”? Ridiculous. But no one, of course, is calling him on it. On the contrary: “The White House said Ahmed was invited to participate in an astronomy night next month. The press secretary, Josh Earnest, said the Obama administration thought the boy was failed by his teachers and called the incident a ‘teachable moment.’” And […]