Groups including the Hamas-derived Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) quickly cried bigotry in response to the August 31 broadcast comments of Joy Reid, host of MSNBC’s primetime Reidout news talk show. Yet her discussion concerning “how we talk about the way Muslims act” is actually banal compared to numerous similar analogies between Islam and various […]
Muslims and LGBT: Intersectional Allies?
Muslim and LGBT groups in America and other Western countries have often formed “intersectional” political alliances in the name of promoting minority rights. Such bonds are ironic given condemnation of homosexuality and “transgenderism” in traditional Islamic doctrine as well as the radical individualism and secularism of LGBT agendas. Ismail Royer, who served years in prison after […]
MJ Javani’s Fiction Raises Troubling Middle East Facts
“You can’t have an honest debate even behind closed doors in America” concerning Islam, stated the Iranian-American, native Farsi-speaking former intelligence analyst MJ Javani to this author in a recent interview. A patriotic 14-year veteran of America’s intelligence services following Al Qaeda’s September 11, 2001 attacks, Javani engagingly explained how his Unit 81 espionage thrillers […]
Is UAE Bringing Arab-Israeli Peace at Last?
Jewish News Syndicate editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin joins show Conservative Casual Friday show host Andrew E. Harrod to discuss the recent groundbreaking August 13, 2020, peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Under this Abraham Accord, named after Abraham, a patriarch claimed by both Jews and Muslims, the United Arab Emirates has agreed […]
James Zogby’s Twisted Tweets
James Zogby has caused furor before with his Tweets on matters such as Israel’s “culinary genocide,” but this is merely one Twitter example of his hard left and radical pro-Palestinian views. This Arab American Institute founder, longtime Democratic Party leader, and prominent Bernie Sanders presidential campaign supporter thus raises disturbing questions about growing extremism among […]
Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez Discusses Lebanon’s Nightmare
Last Friday, Jihad Watch contributor Andrew E. Harrod on his blogtalk radio show Conservative Casual Friday had an excellent discussion concerning Lebanon’s history in light of the devastating August 4 Beirut harbor explosion with American diplomat Alberto M. Fernandez. This current vice president of the Middle East Media Research Institute has extensive experience in the […]
‘Palestinian’ Twitter Fantasies
Perhaps no better evidence of the often delusional, dangerous nature of a relatively novel “Palestinian” identity comes from Palestinian-American activist Omar Baddar and Rutgers University law professor Noura Erakat. This pair has not only recently promoted in a podcast the crazed theory that a vehicular jihadist attack at an Israeli checkpoint near Jerusalem was a […]
Muslim Prof Abandons LGBT Alliance
What Georgetown University Professor Jonathan Brown in 2017 wrote is “so out of date” and a “pointless article to read now,” he declared in a July 6 podcast concerning possible Muslim-LGBT alliances in Western countries. Brown, the Islamist former director of Georgetown’s Saudi-established Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), has belatedly realized how opposing […]
Steven Salaita’s Anti-Semitic Bus to Nowhere on Twitter
“Why don’t you get me a f**cking job at your institution if you care so much about my well-being,” tweeted on July 9 Steven Salaita, a would-be academic who destroyed his career with anti-Semitic remarks on Twitter and elsewhere. Accordingly forced in 2014 into a self-described “honest living” as a school bus driver near Washington, […]
Any Serious Discussion of Islamic Antisemitism Must Begin with Andrew Bostom
“Islam’s most respected and influential religious teaching centers openly promulgate canonical Islamic Jew-hatred with triumphal, unrelenting vigor,” writes Andrew Bostom in the new edition of his magnum opus. The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History, whose second edition appeared earlier this year after an initial 2008 publication, remains an essential research […]