“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 […]
Islamic Reform: How Firm a Foundation?
“If this book [Quran] came from God and it’s divine and perfect, then the Jihadis are justified,” states Islam reformer Shireen Qudosi in The Challenge of Modernizing Islam: Reformers Speak Out and the Obstacles They Face. Her sober conclusion amidst an illuminating collection of interviews with her like-minded colleagues in Christine Douglass-Williams’ indispensable recent book […]
New Film Unites Anti-Semites in Hatred of Israel
“Hitler was used as a tool. It was Zionism that wanted the Holocaust,” stated an Iraqi audience member at a June 5 pre-release film screening of 1948: Creation and Catastrophe at Washington, DC’s anti-Israel Jerusalem Fund. Despite protests from a small audience of about 30, his statement paralleled the radicalism of 1948, a movie shown […]
EMET’s David Defends Israel from a Goliath of Lies
“Thank you for taking a machete to the thicket of lies,” stated Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, in praise of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) at its June 14 gala in Washington, DC. Before a Grand Hyatt Hotel ballroom filled with America’s pro-Israel leaders, the exceptional speakers addressing EMET’s eleventh […]
Intolerant Profs Decry “Islamophobia” While Whitewashing Jihad Terrorism
Nader Hashemi’s opening remark of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy’s (CSID) annual conference, held last month at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC, dripped with the sophistry and hostility that saturated the event. “There is a good presence here today, including members of the Islamophobic industry. Andrew Harrod, I see, is […]
Baroness Cox: “Of course, you immediately run the risk of being called ‘Islamophobic,’ but we speak the truth”
“Of course, you immediately run the risk of being called ‘Islamophobic,’ etc.” but “we speak the truth in love,” stated Baroness Cox of Queensbury while recently addressing her political activism at a private Washington, DC, gathering. Her work in her native United Kingdom and beyond shows that the wider world needs much more such loving […]
Look for Jihad’s Union Label
SUMMARY: “Progressives,” including those in the labor movement in the U.S., are rapidly aligning themselves with Islamic political radicalism. Within unions that are historically pro-Israel, support is growing for the anti-Israel program known as BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions). In public schools, members of teachers’ unions are pushing partisan positions in favor of Islam. This […]
BDS Occupies the National Cathedral
“Watching this film is a holy task,” prayed Rabbi Joseph Berman from Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) on March 5 while introducing the anti-Israel movie The Occupation of the American Mind at Washington, DC’s National Cathedral. Far from the sacred, this screening and the rest of the 2017 Voices from the Holy Land film series […]
Omar Barghouti’s Ugly Face of BDS
Omar Barghouti, the Qatar-born Palestinian founding father of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, on April 27 addressed the anti-Israel Jerusalem Fund in Washington, DC. His remarks and their approving reception by about 80 sympathetic listeners filling the Jerusalem Fund’s lecture room should dispel any illusions about the BDS movement seeking Israeli-Palestinian peace. Jerusalem […]