A product of Washington, DC’s February 5-7 Alliance of Virtue for the Common Good conference, the Washington Declaration proclaims a “revived Alliance of Virtue [AoV], global in nature.” Yet the declaration’s platitudes on interfaith harmony demand careful examination, as they are largely the brainchild of Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah, a Mauritanian-born Islamic cleric with a […]
Video: Robert Spencer on the epidemic of fake “anti-Muslim hate crime”
With the hard-Left smear group the Southern Poverty Law Center policing videos for YouTube, I am not long for the YouTube world, but as they have bigger fish to fry, it will likely take them awhile to get to me, and so in the meantime, here is a new one: in it, I discuss a […]
NYC: Three Muslim women awarded $60,000 each for having to remove hijab for mugshots
New York City will pay three Muslim women a total of $180,000 after they were forced to remove their hijabs while having police mugshots taken. Almost three years ago, the “NYPD changed their policies regarding religious head gear, meaning people were informed they had the choice to get their photo taken in a private room […]
“Moderate” Muslim professor Akbar Ahmed calls for “New Andalusia” in Europe
Akbar Ahmed, the Pakistani high commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland and the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, is thrilled about Todd Green’s “generous and brilliantly insightful” review of his book Journey into Europe: In it, Green, a longtime propagator of the “Islamophobia” myth and open foe of the freedom […]
UK: Scotland Yard claims “Islamophobic hate crime” is “hugely underreported,” tells Muslims to report more
Chief Superintendent Dave Stringer, Scotland Yard’s head of community engagement said: “The Met has seen a steady increase in the reporting of all hate crime, particularly racist and religious hate crime. Despite this rise, hate crime is hugely underreported and no one should suffer in silence.” How does Stringer know that “anti-Muslim hate crime” is […]
Malaysian rapper detained by police over dog video considered insulting to Islam
In keeping with Islamic jurisprudence, there is no fun in Islam, no pluralism, no personal expression allowed that is deemed to be offensive, which includes dogs: Malaysian police said a popular ethnic Chinese rapper has been detained over complaints that his latest music video featuring dancers wearing dog masks and performing “obscene” moves insulted Islam […]
The problem is not “Islamophobia” but ignorance of Islam
An Open Letter to Bishop Joseph Bambera, Chairman of the USCCB’s Committee for Interreligious Affairs Your Excellency, You are to be commended for your December 29th statement asking Catholics to pray for “our Coptic brethren who are enduring martyrdom for the sake of Christ.” Catholics need to know the extent of the attacks on Christians […]
UK: Muslim House of Lords member condemns media for negative depiction of Muslims
The way some British media depicts Islam and Muslims negatively is much worse than it was in 2011, former Tory co-chair and member of the House of Lords Sayeeda Warsi said…..I could spend hours and hours on negative depiction by the written press,” she said. With the implementation of wide-open, indiscriminate immigration policies came an […]
UK: At mosque, Jeremy Corbyn says “Islamophobia is a real problem in our society”
“Islamophobia is a real problem in our society.” Not, say, jihad terror. “Islamophobia.” How many people have been killed by jihad terror in Britain? And how many by “Islamophobia”? Which represents a global movement dedicated to destabilizing and destroying non-Muslim societies, and ultimately conquering them? And which is a term often used for resistance to […]
New “Islamophobia” report contains “hate crimes” faked by Muslims as if they really happened
Then we hear that “anti-Muslim hate incidents” have increased, when really only the chutzpah and dishonesty of those compiling these reports has increased. “Fact Checking the New Islamophobia Inflation Hoax Report,” by Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage, February 13, 2018: Yasmin Seweid, a Muslim college student, claimed that Trump supporters had tried to tear off her hijab […]