“You’re damn right I’m condemning Zionism,” ranted the longstanding Georgetown University associate and leftist “Islamophobia” scam artist Nathan Lean to this author two years ago on Twitter. The normally bombastic Lean, who has previously launched twitter tirades against this author, has recently scrubbed almost all of his tweets, but screenshots taken over the years preserve […]
Sharia truth and the “Progressive Muslim” Feminist
As a “Muslim feminist scholar,” Williams College Assistant Professor of Religion Saadia Yacoob has a “very complicated relationship” with her Islamic faith, as her Duke University dissertation explains. This research, the basis for an April 3 presentation at Georgetown University’s Saudi-funded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), reveals the chasm between her […]
Dialogue Breaks Out at Middle East Studies Conference; No Injuries Reported
Only academe could take seriously something like the “Darrell Norman Burrell Interfaith and Religious Diversity and Inclusion Model” (DIM) as a counter to “Islamophobia.” Yet such intellectual absurdities characterize Middle East studies (MES), despite the surprising intellectual diversity displayed at the daylong Middle East Dialogue (MED) conference in Washington, DC. DIM’s academic namesake rehashed an […]
New Book Demolishes Arab Armies of Sand
“Arab armed forces consistently underperformed, and underperformed in the same ways time and again, regardless of who they fought or where, the state of their politics, or the relative state of economic development between them and their foe.” So concludes scholar Kenneth M. Pollack in his magisterial book on the cultural roots of disastrous post-1945 […]
The Democratic Party’s “Progress” into Antisemitism (Part Three)
America’s Democrats are a “new Nazi party,” the “party of jihad, Jew-hatred and communism,” Jewish anti-sharia activist Pamela Geller recently declared, in light of the Democrats’ inability to censure Representative Ilhan Omar for antisemitism. As previously noted, rationalizations and Muslim identity politics excuses have enabled Leftist and Islamic supremacists to normalize their anti-Semitic views on […]
The Democratic Party’s “Progress” into Antisemitism (Part Two)
“The halls of power bowed to the pulse of the street. This moment marks a new future for American Muslims,” crowed a recent mass email from the Hamas-derived Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR’s executive director, Nihad Awad, had every reason to rejoice, for Democratic representatives had just transformed a congressional censure of antisemitism into […]
The Democratic Party’s “Progress” into Antisemitism (Part One)
“This is not about antisemitism, because they didn’t say anything anti-Semitic,” stated the former Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) executive Ahmed Bedier concerning the new Muslim congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. His remarks at a March 6 rally before the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, indicated how these anti-Semitic legislators are effectively immune from […]
Break the Parents Circle of Anti-Israel Hate (Part II)
Israel’s often radically anti-Zionist peace movement is today an “anachronism that no longer has realistic answers to Israel’s problems,” Commentary magazine has noted, something exemplified by the Parents Circle—Family Forum (PCFF). As previously discussed, PCFF’s spokeswoman Robi Damelin recently visited Washington, DC, on a speaking and lobbying tour, yet non-Israelis should critically examine PCFF before […]
Break the Parents Circle of Anti-Israel Hate (Part I)
The views of the Israeli Parents Circle—Families Forum (PCFF) are “deeply repugnant,” the Australian-Israeli Arnold Roth has written, whose daughter died in the infamous 2001 Hamas terrorist attack on a downtown Jerusalem pizzeria. Such context is critical in evaluating anti-Israel PCFF spokespersons like Robi Damelin, who recently appeared at a February 14 Foundation for Middle […]
UAE Forum Promotes Dubious Islamic Peace (Part IV)
“Westerners love this stuff, interfaith summits,” Brookings Institution political Islam scholar Shadi Hamid stated at a January 8 Washington, DC event about the 2018 Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies (FPPMS). While political motivations lead states including the FPPMS-sponsor United Arab Emirates (UAE) to support ever more of these dubious gatherings that sanitize Islam, […]