Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Something more than ‘reform’ is going on in Saudi Arabia: Twitter employee spied on users for Saudi government

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  Is Saudi Arabia actually reforming? A closer look presents a different picture, one that is not without complexities. The article “Ex-Twitter employee sentenced to over 3 years in prison for spying for Saudi Arabia,” by Kevin Collier, NBC News, December 14, 2022, exposes a troubling trend, one of many, that escapes sustained media attention. […]

Hassen Chalghoumi and the Price He Pays

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  Hassen Chalghoumi is an imam in Drancy, France who is that rare thing: a real, and not a feigned, Muslim moderate. That is, he dares to preach respect for Jews, calls for peace with Israel, asks that commemoration of the Holocaust be respected, and deplores the antisemitism displayed by so many Muslims. For this […]

Egypt: Islamic reformers still face prison sentences

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Here is yet more indication of why we don’t see more genuine Islamic reform. “Egyptian Islamic Reformers Still Face Prison Sentences,” by Hany Ghoraba, Algemeiner, January 27, 2022: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi promises to launch “a new republic” this year, led by a development boom and a new commitment to democracy and religious tolerance. But a […]

Iran news agency claims Egypt is writing ‘modern interpretation’ of Qur’an, moving to replace Arab-Islamic identity

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The veracity of this story cannot be taken for granted, as it comes from a mouthpiece for the Iranian regime, the Ahlul Bayt News Agency, and reflects Shi’ite polemic against Sunnis. However, it also shows the pitfalls and difficulties of genuine Islamic reform: anyone who attempts such a thing is immediately branded a heretic and […]

Egypt: 80-year-old Islamic scholar jailed for saying Islam was spread by conquest

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An 80-year-old Egyptian Islamic reformist scholar was jailed for telling the truth that Islam was spread by conquest, as obvious as truth is. Ahmed Abdo Maher was being “Islamophobic” in the view of those who judged his case. They found him guilty of “contempt of Islam,” which in the view of Islamic supremacists everywhere is […]

Tony Blair: We’re fighting ‘perversion’ of Islam, it’ll be defeated by alliance with Muslims who oppose ‘extremism’

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Who are those Muslims? Tony doesn’t seem to have given any names. “There is a real fight back within the Muslim world,” he says. Gee, that’s great to hear. Where is it? Where are the Muslims who are making a theological response to the jihadis’ theological case? I’ve examined many that claim to do so […]

Islamic Reformer Claims ‘Islamism’ Arose Only with Afghan War, Dodges Question About Quran’s Violent Passages

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My latest in PJ Media: Maajid Nawaz has done the world a great service: he has exposed the Southern Poverty Law Center. Unfortunately, nobody’s perfect. “Maajid Nawaz expertly debunks theory that Islam is ‘inherently fundamentalist,’“ wrote the sycophant Seán Hickey in the UK’s LBC on Saturday, and I say it’s high time. So many Muslims around the world […]

Germany: Islamic scholar who favors freedom from hijab and Islamic reform has license revoked for being too liberal

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Here is yet another setback for the forces of Islamic moderation and reform, the forces that so many Western non-Muslims are so confident will prevail and become the dominant view among Muslims. I wish them all success, but am also realistic about their prospects and wary of “moderates” who line their pockets telling uninformed non-Muslims […]

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