Islamic Spain was a “progressive society. It was multicultural. You had religious pluralism,” Rice University sociologist Craig Considine gushed during a November 6, 2020, webinar. Serious scholars have exposed this “myth of the Andalusian paradise,” a “fantasy Islam” propaganda trope, but Islam’s supposed medieval golden age is a staple of his debunked, new book, […]
Trump Recognizes Moroccan Sovereignty over Western Sahara: A Discussion with Security Expert Irina Tsukerman
Human rights lawyer and international security expert Irina Tsukerman joined Andrew E. Harrod on Conservative Casual Friday on New Year’s Day to discuss the recent decision by President Donald Trump’s administration to recognized Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara. Trump made this decision in the context of an agreement in which Morocco agreed to establish relations […]
Craig Considine’s Fantasy Islamic State
Islam’s prophet Muhammad’s “ummah [Islamic community] in many ways represents the best image of many so-called Western countries,” Rice University sociologist Craig Considine stated during an October 26 podcast. This assessment came as part of his delusional “fantasy Islam” analysis of the first, canonically precedent-setting Islamic polity in the seventh-century Arabian Peninsula town of Medina. […]
Craig Considine Fantasizes about Islamic Tolerance
Rice University sociologist Craig Considine’s writings “highlight the compassion, the mercy of Prophet Muhammad” and his seventh-century Islamic community’s “religiously pluralistic society…steeped heavily in religious tolerance.” Uncritically promoting Considine, London-based Minhaj Welfare Foundation spokeswoman Anam Iqbal made this completely counterfactual assessment during an October 26 podcast. Consdine is a jihad-appeasing, former sports management student, whose […]
Craig Considine: ‘Prophet Muhammad was a religious pluralist’
Islam’s “Prophet Muhammad was a religious pluralist,” stated Rice University sociologist Craig Considine in a video uploaded to YouTube on December 14, yet another example of his incorrigible “fantasy Islam.” To make this absurd assertion, this jihad-appeasing, former sports management student, whose confused interfaith views on Islam Muslims themselves have condemned, often distorts Muhammad’s […]
Gates of Vienna’s Ned May Discusses European Jihad with Andrew E. Harrod
Ned May, the man behind the website Gates of Vienna, recently joined Jihad Watch contributor Andrew E. Harrod on his weekly Conservative Casual Friday blogtalk radio show to discuss recent jihadist attacks in Europe.
Becoming Craig Considine
Rice University sociologist Craig Considine has studied Arabic for three years, but his “Arabic is not sharp at the moment” and he does not normally interact with Arabs, he stated in a December 5 podcast. Such comments provoke suspicions about the credentials of this previously examined, self-proclaimed “Islamic apologist,” who spoke at the end of […]
Muslims Reject Interfaith Fraud Craig Considine
Rice University sociologist Craig Considine “is overstepping the boundary…misinterpreting verses from the Quran,” and “misquoting the Prophet Muhammad,” stated American Muslim convert Saajid Lipham in a February 24 podcast. Considine, whose debunked views have appeared again in the new book, The Humanity of Muhammad: A Christian View, has recently provoked criticism with his interfaith views […]
Craig Considine: No Fundamental Differences Between Jesus and Muhammad
Islam’s prophet Muhammad is Jesus’ “kindred spirit and his brother,” stated Rice University sociologist Craig Considine during an April 25 online discussion of his debunked, new book, The Humanity of Muhammad: A Christian View. This highly dubious statement is merely one among numerous examples of an ideologically contrived identity between Christianity and Islam by the […]
Craig Considine’s Credo
“I don’t expect anyone else, and I don’t expect myself, to believe in everything within a given religious tradition,” stated Rice University sociology professor Craig Considine during a September 18 podcast. This interfaith charlatan has once again made headlines with a new book, The Humanity of Muhammad: A Christian View, all the more reason to […]