It is a Saturday night as I write this and I am unfortunately not where I intended originally to be, namely the Council on American-Muslim Relations’ (CAIR) Champions for Justice 21st Annual Fundraising Banquet. CAIR’s aversion to critical observation had foiled my plans to get up close and personal with this Hamas-derived radical group, demonstrating yet […]
Huffington Post Promotes Dubious Dawa Advocates
A September 22 Huffington Post webcast in response to Ben Carson’s reservations concerning a possible Muslim president showed once again the pitiful state of affairs concerning all things Muslim the media. HuffPo presented two dubious Muslim apologists for Islam and their propaganda without the slightest critical inquiry. HuffPo moderator Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani turned to three guests […]
No Jihad in Gaza, Says George Washington U’s Nathan Brown
Current Middle East Studies Association (MESA) president and George Washington University political science professor Nathan Brown downplayed Hamas’s long history of terrorism on July 23 at the anti-Israel Jerusalem Fund think tank in Washington, DC. He and others on a panel titled “Gaza in Context: Broader Implications in the Palestinian Plight” claimed that the Islamic supremacism of Hamas and, increasingly, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is […]
Reformist Approach to Sharia a Refreshing Break with Academic Apologists
In a refreshing departure from Sharia apologias common in Middle East studies, University of British Columbia Islamic law professor Rumee Ahmed rejected the “myth” of Sharia (Islamic law) as a “static, fixed, reified entity” on April 22 in the Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies’ wood-paneled boardroom. Ahmed’s presentation, “Shari’a 2.0: Islamic Systematics and […]
Georgetown Panel Promotes One-Way Interfaith ‘Dialogue’
Princeton University professor Robert P. George lauded Imam Hamza Yusuf, the radical president of Berkeley, California’s Zaytuna College, as “my beloved friend, my brother” at a recent Georgetown University day-long conference. George, a Catholic conservative luminary, was disturbingly uncritical of the Islamic apologetics that suffused the “keynote conversation” for “Muslim Minorities and Religious Freedom: A […]