“In a 24-page handwritten submission before his sentencing, Abdulrahman El-Bahnasawy said frustration with how the West treated Islam turned him toward extremism. The 20-year-old, a Mississauga, Ont., resident, described anger at the U.S. and its allies for ‘disrupting our life (sic) and murdering our civilians with reckless airstrikes …,’ writing later that it was appropriate […]
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 […]
Video: Robert Spencer on the epidemic of fake “anti-Muslim hate crime”
With the hard-Left smear group the Southern Poverty Law Center policing videos for YouTube, I am not long for the YouTube world, but as they have bigger fish to fry, it will likely take them awhile to get to me, and so in the meantime, here is a new one: in it, I discuss a […]
NYC: Three Muslim women awarded $60,000 each for having to remove hijab for mugshots
New York City will pay three Muslim women a total of $180,000 after they were forced to remove their hijabs while having police mugshots taken. Almost three years ago, the “NYPD changed their policies regarding religious head gear, meaning people were informed they had the choice to get their photo taken in a private room […]
UK: Scotland Yard claims “Islamophobic hate crime” is “hugely underreported,” tells Muslims to report more
Chief Superintendent Dave Stringer, Scotland Yard’s head of community engagement said: “The Met has seen a steady increase in the reporting of all hate crime, particularly racist and religious hate crime. Despite this rise, hate crime is hugely underreported and no one should suffer in silence.” How does Stringer know that “anti-Muslim hate crime” is […]
UK: “Moderate” Muslim Maajid Nawaz: “We, the United Kingdom, produced Jihadi John”
“We, the United Kingdom, produced Jihadi John. We, the United Kingdom, produced his other acolytes around him in the so-called Jihadi Beatles. Something in our cities and towns, something in the atmosphere within our communities in this country have produced the most infamous terrorists, at least in my lifetime. We need to start asking that […]
Video: Muslims burn piles of diapers because cartoon cat’s whiskers resemble Arabic for Muhammad
As we have seen with “Allah,” the style of Arabic characters make it possible to see words anywhere, and insults to Islam as well, if you’re inclined to be outraged all the time. This ridiculous story, which doesn’t seem to be a hoax or parody, shows that Muslims in India don’t have much of anything […]
UK: Muslim House of Lords member condemns media for negative depiction of Muslims
The way some British media depicts Islam and Muslims negatively is much worse than it was in 2011, former Tory co-chair and member of the House of Lords Sayeeda Warsi said…..I could spend hours and hours on negative depiction by the written press,” she said. With the implementation of wide-open, indiscriminate immigration policies came an […]
Medical report: Muslim “reformer” and accused rapist Tariq Ramadan’s health compatible with his continued detention
No surprise here. “War is deceit,” said Muhammad. Ramadan was denied bail, so his lawyers attempted a subterfuge of ill-health to get him sprung. If he is released eventually on whatever pretext, he will likely leave France and get himself beyond the reach of the law. “Medical report shows Tariq Ramadan’s health compatible with his […]
France: Muslim “reformer” and accused rapist Tariq Ramadan hospitalized, may be too ill to remain in jail
Tariq Ramadan has only just now started claiming that he has multiple sclerosis, just a week after he was denied bail on the rape charges he is facing. How convenient that he would suddenly turn out to be too ill to remain behind bars. It could be that his team’s failure to impugn the accounts […]