Zionism is like cancer and an “obscenity of Judaism and the Christian religion,” stated a female audience member during a March 11 film screening event at Bethesda, Maryland’s St. John’s Norwood Episcopal Church. Her comments typified the sentiments of this year’s Voices from the Holy Land film series (VFHL), an annual series bringing together rabid […]
Akbar Ahmed’s Islamic Mirage
“As an anthropologist, I approached the subject very scientifically,” American University Professor Akbar Ahmed said concerning his documentary Journey into Europe during a February 4, 2016, Georgetown University preview screening. Yet scrutinizing this film on Islam in Europe, subsequently released in full online and now the basis for a recent book published by the Qatari-funded […]
Alliance of Virtue or Alliance of Vice?
A product of Washington, DC’s February 5-7 Alliance of Virtue for the Common Good conference, the Washington Declaration proclaims a “revived Alliance of Virtue [AoV], global in nature.” Yet the declaration’s platitudes on interfaith harmony demand careful examination, as they are largely the brainchild of Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah, a Mauritanian-born Islamic cleric with a […]
Jordan Denari Duffner in Islamic Wonderland
“Despite the fact that they lived among Muslims — who are the vast majority of the population in Jordan — my Christian host family bought into these Christian TV channels’ negative portrayals of Islam,” notes Jordan Denari Duffner’s new book. Such passages unintentionally reveal in Finding Jesus among Muslims: How Loving Islam Makes Me a […]
UPF’s False Prophets of Islamic Multiculturalism
“Respect for religious difference is a foundational ethical teaching in the Qur’an and the Hadith sources of Islamic scripture,” states a video caption at the website of Unity Production Foundation’s (UPF) film The Sultan and the Saint. This statement is indicative of the naiveté and leftist, multicultural ideologies animating the individuals involved with this previously […]
PBS Broadcasts Crusade Myths for the Holiday Season
“The advertising for the new film” The Sultan and the Saint “suggests it presents revisionist history in line with the modernist ecumenical agenda,” wrote in 2016 Dr. Benjamin J. Vail (OFS), an American Secular Franciscan. The finished film, shown to this author and others last April, thoroughly vindicated Vail, and is now offering hackneyed Crusade […]
Jerusalem Jane’s Israeli Love Story
“If you are anti-Israel, you are anti-God….You cannot separate God from what he loves the most…the Jewish nation that he chose,” stated the Danish Christian Zionist Jane Kiel (“Jerusalem Jane”) to me last October 11 in Jerusalem. Her personal “love story” with Israel, and the insight this ongoing experience in Jerusalem offers, is even more […]
The CATO Institute’s Libertarian for Sharia
“Islamic teachings are consistent w many libertarian principles, such as tolerance, property rights & individualism,” the CATO Institute’s Libertarianism.org website tweeted recently. To support this claim that was immediately derided by Pamela Geller (“Let the laughter begin”) and others, the tweet linked to a website entry by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, a Muslim “libertarian” whose radicalism has long […]
Nathan Lean, Twitter, and I
“You’ve scurried along the gutter floor for too long, unnoticed. Your prejudice towards Muslims deserves to be put on blast. I’ll do that!” pompously proclaimed “Islamophobia” expert Nathan Lean to me on Twitter on June 23. His subsequent insulting Twitter conversations with me over the summer would give a revealing insight into this deceitful, hateful, […]
Washington, DC’s Newseum Welcomes Salafists
Nate Walker, the Religious Freedom Center’s executive director at Washington, DC’s Newseum, recently praised the TAM Group’s “extraordinary work on rectifying extremist behavior and ideologies” among Muslims at an August 7 seminar there. Yet critical examination of TAM’s leaders and their Made in Saudi Arabia approach to “Countering Extremism” only begs the question of why […]