“Motive unclear,” say the propagandists.
Archives for 2022
Twitter Let Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei Stay Despite Inciting Attack on Rushdie
While Twitter banned former President Trump along with a growing list of conservatives, it continues to provide a platform for Islamist terror groups and leaders. Including Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who used Twitter to endorse Iran’s ongoing murder fatwa calling for the killing of author Salman Rushdie. Let’s recall that fatwa again. “In the name […]
Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo accepted bribes from Saudis, gave them private user info
If anyone at Twitter was ever suspicious of Ahmad Abouammo, he or she or xe knew not to say anything. To express such suspicion would have been “Islamophobic.” “Former Twitter employee convicted of accepting bribes from Saudi Arabia, sharing private user information,” by Paul Best, FOXBusiness, August 10, 2022: A former Twitter employee was convicted of failing to register […]
Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Oberlin’s ‘Professor of Peace,’ defends Rushdie death fatwa
The latest assault on our moral sense comes — not for the first time — from Oberlin College, where a certain Professor Mohammad Jafar Mahallati has been teaching since 2007. There are many reasons for Oberlin to fire this man, but let’s start with the fact that Professor Mahallati defended the fatwa by Ayatollah Khomeini, […]
Iran: ‘I don’t know Salman Rushdie, but I am happy to hear that he was attacked since he insulted Islam’
The threatened punishment for insulting Islam is to come in this world as well as the next: “Indeed, those who malign Allah and his messenger, Allah has cursed them in this world and the hereafter, and has prepared for them a humiliating punishment.” (Quran 33:57) Note also the Iranian paper Vatan-e Emrouz’s focus on the […]
New York Times, New York State Police say Rushdie stabber’s motive is unclear
The man’s motive couldn’t possibly be clearer. Salman Rushdie has had a death fatwa over his head since 1989. This is just more willful ignorance, a refusal to confront the ugly realities of jihad violence. “Salman Rushdie is attacked onstage in Western New York,” by Jay Root, David Gelles, Elizabeth A. Harris and Julia Jacobs, New York Times, August […]
War in Ukraine and the World
Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine has unleashed several national security debates in the United States and among its allies in Europe and beyond over how the West should respond. Questions have arisen over the necessity of defeating Putin’s aggression, to what extent this is possible, and whether Putin would utilize nuclear weapons. To discuss these […]
Rushdie attacker is Hadi Matar, ‘New Jersey man with sympathies toward the Iranian government’
The Post doesn’t mention, of course, why he would want to kill Rushdie, or why he stabbed Rushdie in the neck. Joe Marino and Evan Simko-Bednarski likely don’t know, and if they did, they wouldn’t say. To do so would be “Islamophobic.” “NJ man, Hadi Matar, with sympathies toward Iranian government ID’d as suspect in Salman […]
Pakistani ‘security analyst’ justifies Rushdie stabbing: ‘One sensitive nerve of Muslims you should never poke’
Many in the West, in fact, an increasing number, agree with Zaid Hamid, and think that any criticism or negative portrayal of Islam is “racist” and “Islamophobic,” and should accordingly be silenced. “Indeed, those who malign Allah and his messenger, Allah has cursed them in this world and the hereafter, and has prepared for them […]
Rushdie’s attacker stabbed him in the neck
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4) “Author Salman Rushdie ‘stabbed in neck’ on lecture stage in New York,” ITV, August 12, 2022: Indian-British author Sir Salman Rushdie has suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck and been airlifted to hospital after he was attacked on stage in New York. Sir […]