The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East or “UNRWA was nurtured from its beginnings to avoid any permanent solution to the plight of the refugees” from Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. So documented Center for Near East Policy Research (CNEPR) Director David Bedein in his previously discussed insightful […]
Palestinian Textbook Jihad against Israel
In Palestinian Authority (PA) school curriculum, “traditional Islamic concepts such as Jihad and martyrdom” are “emphasized in the books much more than the solidarity on the Arab national basis,” concluded a 2017 study of PA textbooks. This analysis worrisomely documented how Islamic doctrines of warfare against unbelievers justify a relentless struggle to destroy Israel, […]
Reflections on Kurt Westergaard and Sharia Speech Suppression
Among 12 caricatures of Islam’s prophet Muhammad published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005, “it was Westergaard’s image that would change my life,” the paper’s cultural editor Flemming Rose wrote. As he detailed in his 2014 book, The Tyranny of Silence: How One Cartoon Ignited a Global Debate on the Future […]
Free Speech Defender Deborah Weiss Discusses Kurt Westergaard and the Jihad against Free Speech
Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard died July 14. His drawing of Islam’s prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban was among 12 cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten on September 30, 2005 that enraged Muslims worldwide. The newspaper’s then-culture editor, Flemming Rose, who oversaw the cartoons’ publication, has documented in detail this Cartoon Crisis […]
Georgetown’s Bridge Initiative: Manufactured ‘Islamophobia’
Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative, a project of its Saudi-founded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), claims it exists to combat the pernicious spread of “Islamophobia.” ACMCU’s June 30 webinar featuring former Bridge research fellow Jordan Denari Duffner offered further evidence that Bridge’s real mission is to depict all Muslims as victims and silence critical commentary on Islam. Like […]
The Catholic Church’s Deadly Indifference Towards Truth, Islam, and Other Faiths
“The Catholic Church is in crisis,” writes Crisis Magazine Editor-in-Chief Eric Sammons in his highly informative new book, Deadly Indifference: How the Church Lost Her Mission and How We Can Reclaim It. Since the Catholic Church’s 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), a spirit of relativism has undermined the Catholic Church’s commitment to divine […]
Turkish Webinar Wages Anti-Israel Jihad (Part Three)
“The only solution is to dismantle and do away with Zionism,” stated Sami Al-Arian, the founding director of Istanbul Zaim University’s Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) during a June 20 webinar. Such hateful sentiments exemplified CIGA’s June 18-23 second annual Palestine Conference, which shockingly included prominent individuals such as South Africa’s former […]
Turkish Webinar Wages Anti-Israel Jihad (Part Two)
Hamas could “muster enough support for a Muslim or Islamic state in all of historic Palestine based on sharia law, it’s possible,” stated the notoriously radical former professor Norman Finkelstein during a June 20 webinar. This disturbing, realistic assessment raised no concerns at the June 18-23 second annual Palestine Conference of Istanbul Zaim University’s Center […]
Catholics, Muslims, and others in this World and the Next
Crisis Editor-in-Chief Eric Sammons, author of the new book, Deadly Indifference: How the Church Lost Her Mission, and How We Can Reclaim It, joined Conservative Casual Friday show host Andrew E. Harrod for a wide-ranging discussion about theological issues concerning the Catholic Church, Islam, and others in this world and the next. A Methodist […]
Turkish Webinar Wages Anti-Israel Jihad (Part One)
“All Arabs, all Muslims come to Jerusalem, come as conquerors, like Prophet Muhammad conquered Jerusalem on the night of al-Isra,” stated Palestinian Catholic priest Manuel Musallam from Beirut via translation during a June 18 webinar. His radical remarks during the opening session of the June 18-23 second annual Palestine Conference at Istanbul Zaim University’s […]