These converts could have had it worse. Shi’ite Islam, like Sunni Islam, prescribes the death penalty for apostasy: Shaykh al-Kulayni narrates a sahíh (correct) hadith from `Ammãr as-Sãbãti who said: I heard (Imam) Abu `Abdullãh (as-Sãdiq) (a.s.) saying, “A Muslim from among the Muslims who renounces Islam and rejects the prophethood of Muhammad and considers […]
Pakistan: Fatwa says firing into the air, popping wheelies and flying kites are un-Islamic
This is because “preservation of human life is the utmost priority in Islam.” Unless, of course, you’re an infidel. Then we get “kill them wherever you find them” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5), and “when you meet the unbelievers, strike necks” (Qur’an 47:4). “Fatwa declares aerial firing, one-wheeling, kite flying un-Islamic,” The News International, January […]
NEA Promotes World Hijab Day, Ignores Women Brutalized and Killed for Not Wearing Hijab
New in PJ Media: Saturday, Feb. 1, is another World Hijab Day, a Western feminist expression of solidarity with Muslim women in the United States who are supposedly oppressed and discriminated against because they wear the hijab. The National Education Association (NEA) is going in for this in a big way out of concern for […]
Trump is Releasing the JFK Files, and JFK’s Leftist Grandson is ENRAGED
New in PJ Media: How could anyone object to Trump’s declassification of the files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? Americans deserved to know the whole truth, whatever it was, at the time, and the fact that it has been hidden for over sixty years now has only led to a proliferation […]
Robert Spencer Video: Antisemitism – History and Myth
This new Glazov Gang episode features Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. His latest book is Muhammad: A Critical Biography. Follow him on Twitter here. Robert discusses Antisemitism: History and Myth, reflecting on Why the ancient evil of antisemitism has returned—and how to counter […]
This Week In Jihad with David Wood and Robert Spencer: Child Marriage Edition
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Was there an Islamic connection to the National Socialist plot to attack two NYC synagogues in 2022?
The New York Post ran a story about Matthew Mahrer, “a Jewish man and the grandson of a Holocaust survivor,” who plotted attacks on two New York City synagogues. From the looks of Mahrer’s weedy man bun and weak facial hair, he seems to be a typical leftist who believes that the Israelis are the […]
Israeli Attack on Iran’s Nuclear Program
Not imminent, but “soon.” The die, we are told, is cast. That’s according to a senior European diplomat. What is not known is if Donald Trump will provide the large, 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs that would allow Israel to destroy the underground nuclear facility — a uranium enrichment plant — at Natanz and the facility […]
NEA promotes World Hijab Day, ignores women brutalized and killed for not wearing hijab
Saturday, Feb. 1, is another World Hijab Day, a Western feminist expression of solidarity with Muslim women in the United States who are supposedly oppressed and discriminated against because they wear the hijab. Note that the NEA relies for its data on the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR): “On college campuses, 49% of Muslim students […]
The Resilience of the Embattled State of Israel
The embattled state of Israel continues to fight a seven-front war. The enemies are in Gaza (Hamas), in Lebanon (Hezbollah), in Yemen (Houthis), in Judea and Samaria (Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), Syria and Iraq (assorted jihadists, both Shi’a and Sunni), and in Iran. There are at the […]