It may not be a question for the courts, but it is for Irish society: whether or not she ever held a gun or fired a shot, does Lisa Smith hold the Islamic State’s ideology? Will she teach it to her daughter and others? Or would it be “Islamophobic” even to consider the implications of […]
Josh Weil Loses His Race for a Florida Seat in Congress
Josh Weil has just lost his race as the Democratic candidate running to represent Florida’s 6th Congressional District. He lost to Republican Randy Fine by a wide margin; 57% for Fine and 43% for Weil. Two years ago, Weil had tried to run in the Democratic primary for the Senate, but withdrew before qualifying. More […]
From Rome to Mecca: The Surprising Surge of U.S. Latino Catholics Joining Islam
Global survey finds shocking hemorrhage of adults who were raised Christians leaving the Church Most people around the world raised as Christians are abandoning their religion, but nearly all adults who were raised Muslim remain within Islam, according to a Pew Research Survey of 36 countries published on March 26. Most conversions to Islam are occurring in […]
The Measured, Thoughtful Voice of a True Academic: Georgetown Full Professor Jonathan Brown
Georgetown has decided not to investigate antisemitism on its campus, or to collaborate with the Department of Homeland Security in its campaign to deport aliens who promote terrorism against the Jewish state. Instead, the school, which houses the Alwaleed bin Talal School of Muslim-Cristian Understanding, founded by John Esposito, the sweet singer of tales about […]
ISIS Member in Syria Wants to be Repatriated to a French Prison
A French convert to Islam who became a high-ranking official in the Islamic State (ISIS) has since 2018 has been held prisoner, along with ten thousand other ISIS members and their relatives, by Kurdish forces in Syria. Now his mother claims that conditions in the Kurdish open-air prison are such that he is “in danger […]
Sweden: Woman converts to Islam, joins ISIS, holds Yazidi slaves, forces them to recite Qur’an and pray
What Lina Ishaq did after converting to Islam is wholly inexplicable in light of the picture of Islam that the Western political and media establishment pushes on the public. Maybe that picture is inaccurate, eh? “Swedish woman jailed for keeping Yazidi slaves in Syria,” AFP, February 11, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Stockholm […]
Man converts to Islam, plots jihad suicide attack at London’s Heathrow Airport
So many converts have turned to jihad violence over the years, and yet efforts in the West to convert non-Muslims to Islam proceed unhindered, with no interference or even interest from authorities. You’d think they’d at least try to get the Islamic preachers who are converting these people to warn them against “misunderstanding” the “religion […]
France: Man reads Qur’an, converts to Islam, spreads jihad propaganda and child pornography
Here yet again, we see a convert to Islam get the idea that his new religion requires him to commit acts of violence against those who don’t hold the same beliefs. As for the child pornography, could this man’s interest in this have something to do with Islam’s sexualization of children? Turkey’s directorate of religious […]
UK: Teen convert to Islam imprisoned for jihad massacre plot has stabbed 10 prison officers while behind bars
What is causing this boy to behave this way is his belief system, but British officials don’t dare examine that. “Muslim convert, 17, jailed for plotting music festival terror attack ‘stabs 10 prison officers since being put behind bars,’” by Emily Jane Davies, Daily Mail, January 1, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A […]
New Orleans jihadi was convert to Islam who ‘grew increasingly devout’
Once again we see the extremely common connection between growing devout in Islam and committing an act of jihad violence. No, not all Muslims who are devout become jihadis. But enough do that it should be a cause for concern and a focus of study. It is neither, because of fears of “Islamophobia.” “‘No Terrorist […]