Is jizya—the money non-Muslims historically paid their Muslim conquerors—meant to buy them “protection,” including from outside enemies, as modern Western academics maintain? Or was it simply extortion money meant to buy non-Muslims their lives, as Islam’s scriptures mandate? The word jizya appears in Koran 9:29: “Fight those among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] […]
New Islamic Caliphate Declares Jihad on … Muslims
The new “caliphate” of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—the Islamic State, formerly “ISIS”—recently made clear that it means to follow in the footsteps of the original caliphate of Abu Bakr al-Sadiq (632-634), specifically by directing its jihad against fellow Muslims, in Islamic parlance, the “hypocrites” and “apostates,” or in Western terminology, “moderates.” This came out in the […]
Why Islam permits exactly four wives
During a recent Arabic program devoted to how religions view marriage, Islamic clerics endeavored to answer the host’s question, “Why does Islam permit exactly four wives, as opposed to only one or more than four? One of these clerics responded by saying that, before Islam, there was no limit to how many wives an Arab man […]
Obama Administration Suppresses Talk of Muslim Persecution of Christians
[Originally published by the Gatestone Institute, via RaymondIbrahim.com] Along with an especially egregious list of atrocities committed against Christian minorities throughout the Islamic world, March also saw some callous indifference or worse from the U.S. government. President Barack Hussein Obama was criticized by human rights activists for not addressing the plight of Christians and other minorities […]
All educated, professional women are “unoriginal and common,” says Egyptian sheikh
In order to expose the Islamist and Salafi mindset, Egyptian journalists continue posting and commenting on the assertions and observations made by the various clerics during former President Morsi’s one year reign and earlier, when the “radicals” felt especially free to speak their mind. One of these, Sheikh Yusuf al-Huwaini—who earlier justified buying and selling captured […]
Jihadi Rhetoric — Tiresome but Deadly
I just spent the better part of the day reading and listening to sermons by the leaders and jihadis of the new “caliphate” in Mesopotamia, the Islamic State (formerly “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria”). I did so in the vain hopes of learning something “new.” But it was absolute déjà vu—taking me back to […]
Obama’s Secret Directive Supporting Global Islamism
A recent Gulf News report sheds some light on how and why the United States helped bring the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies to power, followed by all the subsequent chaos and atrocities in the Mideast region. Large portions of the report follow with my commentary interspersed for added context: Dubai: For the past decade, two successive US […]
Egypt’s Christians waging ‘war on Islam,’ says pro-Brotherhood cleric
As if what Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority suffered in the aftermath of the anti-Brotherhood June 30 Revolution — from the coldblooded murders of Copts to the destruction of some 80 churches — Wagdi Ghoneim, a pro-Muslim Brotherhood cleric reportedly living in Qatar is again trying to incite Egypt’s Muslims against the Copts, whom he earlier […]
Islam’s ‘Protestant Reformation’
[The following article was originally published by PJ Media in two parts] In order to prevent a clash of civilizations, or worse, Islam must reform. This is the contention of many Western peoples. And, pointing to Christianity’s Protestant Reformation as proof that Islam can also reform, many are optimistic. Overlooked by most, however, is that […]
The Muslim Brotherhood ‘Retaliates’ with Rape
Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers recently went on a sexual assault and rape spree in Egypt as a way of “getting even” with those women who dared to celebrate the presidential victory of Abdel Fatteh al-Sisi—the former army chief who overthrew Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt. On June 8, when tens of thousands of Egyptians congregated in […]