When words are weaponized and skillfully wielded in the moral battles of a society, they can change the debate landscape in short order — a few decades at most. Witness, for example, a word freshly minted in the early 1980s, when attitudes toward homosexuality were by and large negative. Gay activists coined the term “homophobia” […]
The Justification of Evil: Allah and Aymann Ismail
Andy Ngo describes himself on Patreon as “… an independent journalist and photographer dedicated to covering topics related to protests, free expression, and Islam.” He has been a frequent target of bullying for the militant left, as well as by Muslim activists. Last Saturday, while covering an un-permitted Antifa mob rally in Portland, Ngo faced […]
Islam’s War Against Democracy
In the Never-Never Land of “moderate Islam”, the West is reassured that Islam and democracy are fully compatible. After all, many Muslim countries have elections and parliaments, we are told – ipso facto, Islam and democracy must be able to coexist. Some Muslim scholars even go so far as to say that democracy is […]
The schizophrenic Muslim mind
Muslims are torn by two competing realities. The first is the illusion of supremacy upon which they have been suckled all their lives by the Mother of all books (the Qur’an). The second is the real world in which they have to live. Talk with an average Muslim and sooner rather than later you will […]
Can Islam Be Defeated?
Two of the questions I am most often asked are, “Why does Islam seem so attractive to converts?” and “Can Islam be defeated?” Not surprisingly, these two questions are interrelated. There are many elements to Islam that attract Western converts today, including its seeming clarity on right/wrong, its unwavering commitment to monotheism and its appeal […]
What Makes a Jihadi?
Secular Western analysts of Islamic militancy typically miss the boat when seeking the root causes spurring Muslims to engage in violent jihad. Since the analysts themselves have no galvanizing religious faith upon which they build their lives, they can’t imagine that religious faith could be a serious motivator for anyone else — they are blinded […]
Qanta Ahmed, Death Cap Mushrooms and Islam
Qanta Ahmed, a naturalized American, accomplished doctor and liberal Muslim, is at it again. Claiming to represent true Islam, she has launched another diatribe against Ilhan Omar over her recent, infamous CAIR speech in which the Minnesota Democrat congresswoman described the 9/11 terrorist attacks as “some people did something.” Ahmed quite rightly calls Omar “…a […]
Qanta Ahmed’s Denial of the Reality of Islamic Anti-Semitism
Qanta Ahmed is a poised and eloquent defender of “moderate” Islam. A British-American pulmonologist now serving as an Associate Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York, she also describes herself as a specialist in the study of Islamism as contrasted with Islam. Recently, she has written opinion pieces firmly skewering Rep. Ilhan […]
Fantasy Islam at Its Finest!
On Feb. 19th, an opinion piece appeared on the Fox News website with a rather serpentine title: “Iran should return to ancient teachings of Islam, a religion hijacked in 1979 by a dictatorial regime.” It was written by Rev. Johnnie Moore, whose byline includes some rather impressive titles: “commissioner on the United States Commission for […]
R. Kelly Could Have Learned from Muhammad
The now infamous R&B singer, R. Kelly, has been dogged by sexual misconduct and abuse allegations for more than two decades. These include his short marriage in 1994 to then 15-year old Aaliyah, when he was 27, lawsuits filed by women in 1996 (the victim was 15) and 2001 (this one was 17) claiming to […]