Far too many Muslim leaders spew hatred and incitement to violence against infidels, and yet are ignored. No infidel professor in the West could possibly escape front page news everywhere and a loss of his reputation for declaring with glee (as Professor Koushki does) that Rushdie was already “a dead man walking” after publication of […]
India: BJP expels Legislative Assembly member for criticizing Islam and Muhammad
Has any party expelled any of its members for criticizing or mocking the Hindu gods, or Christianity? Or is it only Islam that is accorded such deference? Is India now a Sharia state? “Hyderabad: BJP Suspends MLA T Raja Singh Over Comments On Islam,” Outlook, August 23, 2022: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday […]
Did Rushdie Have It Coming?
New in PJ Media: Most of us outside of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its friends agree that the stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie for having a less than fulsomely positive view of Islam’s prophet was wholly unjustified and that violence is never an appropriate response to words one considers offensive. Some analysts, however, […]
Pakistan: Imran Khan walks back condemnation of attack on Rushdie, says his words were taken out of context
Every scoundrel claims his words were “taken out of context” when he’s caught out. In this case it’s noteworthy that Khan feels compelled to take the “out of context” defense lest anyone think he actually supports the freedom of speech and Salman Rushdie’s right to live despite having ostensibly offended Islam. Aren’t the Muslims who […]
UK: Islamic charity with leader that supports jihadis and Rushdie fatwa gets $1,650,000 in government funds
The British government’s support for the Islamic Human Rights Commission provides a handy new illustration of what it means to be a “useful idiot.” “Chairman of a British-based Islamic Human Rights Commission — that has has received more than £1.4 million in charity cash — praised the fatwa on Sir Salman Rushdie less than a […]
Star Tribune hits Rushdie: We must ‘use our First Amendment rights to build bridges rather than reinforce divisions’
That’s how we lose our First Amendment rights, and we’re well on the way. Alansari-Kreger tries to make his argument sound high-minded — it’s all about building bridges and fighting against division, you see — but it still comes down to censorship and authoritarianism. “Of double standards and ‘free speech,’” by Omar Alansari-Kreger, Star Tribune, […]
Oxford prof: Rushdie attack ‘assault on free speech,’ but warns against ‘eagerness to focus on Islamic extremism’
This is the line that the Left has pushed in the media, as well as in intelligence and law enforcement circles, ever since 9/11 (and before that as well): to take much notice of Islamic jihad activity will only fuel “Islamophobic” attacks against innocent Muslims. Therefore, we must not talk about jihad activity. There is […]
US ‘Islamic scholar’ on state-run Iranian TV: Rushdie attack might be Israeli plot to spread ‘Islamophobia’
Kevin Barrett is “an American scholar and political commentator,” according to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s house organ, PressTV. He is also, as this article shows, a paranoid conspiracy nut who sees Jews behind everything. This is no surprise. Barrett is a convert to Islam, and so his hatred, contempt, and fear of Jews has […]
‘The real Islamophobes are those who caution that exercising one’s free speech will set off the assassins’
Katha Pollitt’s words here recall something I used to repeat many years ago: that those who accused me of “Islamophobia” were the real “Islamophobes,” as they assume that to oppose jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women is to “hate Muslims,” as if all Muslims supported jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women. […]
New Yorker: Satanic Verses ‘actually more exploratory than sacrilegious—in no sense an anti-Muslim invective’
It has been fun watching the censorious, authoritarian and Islamophilic Left tie itself into knots defending the freedom of speech it otherwise despises in the wake of the stabbing of Salman Rushdie. This New Yorker piece is a good example. Adam Gopnik asserts that “Rushdie should have been equally invulnerable to persecution had he written […]