“If you want to identify people who are okay with suicide bombing, I can give you a list,” including Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Michigan State University Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Muslim Studies Mohammad Hassan Khalil told me at a September Georgetown University lecture. Khalil theorized before an audience of some thirty people at the […]
The Ahmadis: Not So “True Islam”
“The teachings of Islam are so beautiful that any unbiased person could not fail to be influenced by their beauty,” declared Hadrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the currently reigning Ahmadi “caliph,” in a March 10, 2006, London sermon. Ahmad, leader of a small, yet disproportionately influential, Muslim sect with cosmic ambitions and traditional Muslim mores, demonstrated […]
The Ahmadis: Sex and Sharia
“In the West they present themselves as women-friendly and in their own land as misogynist,” observed Sabatina James, an Austrian-Pakistani Muslim convert to Catholicism, about the Ahmadis in a 2013 online video. Her video indicates just how unreformed Ahmadi views about sexuality and gender equality can be for this previously examined small, yet often influential, […]
Ahmadiyya writing “camouflaged anti-Jewish and anti-American propaganda and contributes to the spread of hatred”
“Islam is going to progress and triumph in the world and the banner of the Holy Prophet shall be raised all over the world,” stated in a February 10, 2006, sermon Hadrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the currently reigning Ahmadiyya “caliph.” As previously noted, this small, cultish Muslim sect enjoys disproportionate influence among world leaders with […]
The Ahmadis: Islam’s Moonies
“Ahmadis are the Muslim equivalent of the Moonies,” noted recently one knowledgeable analyst to this author concerning a community often feted by politicians despite their minuscule global presence, as this series previously discussed. Denounced by the late German scholar of Islam Hiltrud Schröter as a “totalitarian brainwashing cult,” the Ahmadis indeed present many worrisome parallels […]
The Ahmadis: The Establishment’s Favorite Muslims
“Politicians are so desperate to find ‘the moderate Muslims’ that they’ll do extraordinarily stupid things,” wrote anti-sharia activist Pamela Geller in 2014 concerning the formation of a congressional Ahmadiyya Muslim Caucus. As this series will show, she had considerable reason to doubt the expectations this tiny Muslim sect, almost universally persecuted by other Muslims, often […]
Janna Jihad and Professional Israel-Haters Do Washington, DC (Part Two)
“I will always come from a place of love, a place of humanity, and equality. That’s what Detroit taught me,” stated Representative Rashida Tlaib at Capitol Hill’s Longworth House Office Building on July 24. Many would make other associations with crime-ridden Detroit and the Israel-hating Tlaib, but such Orwellian language corresponded to her sponsored panel […]
Democrats Fiddle While Iran Burns
A serious annual defense budget will have to wait. Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces seized the British oil tanker Stena Impero on July 19, an outrage that follows Iran’s June 13 attacks on two oil tankers and the June 20 downing of an American drone. Yet rather than focusing on an increasingly volatile Iran, […]
Muslim Brothers Shut Out Critics
The email announcing the Eventbrite refund of my ticket for Washington, DC’s July 23-24 Muslim Collective for Equitable Democracy conference clearly indicated to me a depressingly familiar tactic of controlled public relations. Once again, defenders of Islam such as the Hamas-derived Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) had excluded the inquisitive eyes and ears of a […]
Maryland: BDS Occupies Takoma Park
“The partisans to whom Takoma Park provided a platform tonight” want “to destroy the state of Israel and deny its people their rights to self-determination,” stated Jonathan Levy on July 23 at the Maryland Washington, DC, suburb’s community center. This audience member accurately assessed the predominant Israel-hatred of an overflow crowd and panel that attended […]