If any who heed his words and then contract coronavirus, no one will blame Sheikh Sani Jingir. They’ll just assume that they were not pious enough to please Allah. “Virus is a lie, says Islamic sect leader,” Punch, March 25, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Leader of Izala Muslim sect in Plateau State, […]
Iran refuses help from US, claims coronavirus “specifically built for Iran using the genetic data of Iranians”
Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, has now refused U.S. help to fight the virus. So far, he has been dismissing the seriousness of the virus, declaring that it will easily be overcome through a “health jihad.” Meanwhile, Shia clerics continue to pressure Khamenei to leave open the nation’s holiest shrines. Some faithful followers of […]
Iranian TV: Coronavirus may be “ethnic weapon” that US developed to target Iranians and Chinese
Of course, no good conspiracy theory would be complete without Israel: “In the Zionist regime, they work on bioterrorism agents that only infect a certain ethnic group – the Palestinians. Do not tell me that this is impossible.” “Experts on Iranian TV: COVID-19 May Be an American ‘Ethnic Weapon’ Targeting the Genome of Iranians, Chinese,” […]
More Coronavirus Craziness From Turkey
Many examples of conspiracy theories, inshallah-fatalism, and sheer craziness have been on display in the Muslim Middle East, as it tries to make sense of the coronavirus. A recent roundup of voices from Turkey at Memri.org offers views often contradicting one another. Here is Memri’s summary of what the Turkish press and public have been […]
Iran: Islamic scholar says coronavirus is man-made weapon “against the Shi’ites, the Muslims, and the Iranians”
Wait a minute. A few days ago it was Allah’s punishment on the Chinese. “Iranian Scholar Hossein Momeni: COVID-19 Is Man-Made, A Weapon That Targets Shiites, Muslims, Iranians,” MEMRI, March 10, 2020: Hossein Momeni, an Iranian scholar who lectures at religious seminars in Qom, said in a March 10, 2020 interview on Ofogh TV (Iran) […]
Israel Helps Palestinians Contain the Coronavirus — Or Is It Another Zionist Trick? (Part 1)
The coronavirus outbreak has led to many explanations – aside from the real one — for its appearance. Muslims, in particular, have outdone themselves in their rich fantasies. A Shiite Iraqi Islamic scholar, Hadi Al-Modarresi, who is based in Qom, Iran, said in a video that was uploaded to the Internet on February 28, 2020 […]
Archbishop Hanna’s Blood Libel
A report about Atallah Hanna, the Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, who accuses Israel of having poisoned him, can be found here. A Palestinian cleric who has vocally supported terrorist violence against Israelis was denounced by a prominent Jewish interfaith organization on Monday for his recent claim that he had […]
Iran: Muslim cleric blames Trump for coronavirus outbreak in Islamic holy city of Qom
Watch for the DNC to start featuring Hojjat ol-Eslam Seyyed Mohammad Saeedi in campaign ads. “Iran Cleric Blames Trump For Coronavirus Outbreak In Religious City,” Radio Farda, February 22, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The Friday Prayer Imam of the religious city of Qom, the epicenter of coronavirus outbreak in Iran, told his […]
‘Muslim Martin Luther’ Tariq Ramadan Says His Rape Charges Are ‘Political Set-Up to Neutralize the Muslims’
The old playbook again: when caught in wrongdoing, play the victim. My latest in FrontPage: Ever the victim, no matter what. The West’s great hope for Islamic reform, Tariq Ramadan, has been accused by several women now of violent rapes. In a video he recently uploaded, he acknowledges some nebulous wrongdoing, but then claims that […]
Tariq Ramadan on rape charges: “Yes I made a mistake…It was a political set up….to neutralize the Muslims”
Ever the victim, no matter what. Tariq Ramadan has been accused by several women now of violent rapes. He acknowledges some nebulous wrongdoing here, but then claims that it was all an attempt to discredit him, and thereby to “neutralize the Muslims.” It’s the same old victimhood paranoia we see from Islamic supremacists whenever they’re […]