The selective outrage over Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali being included on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hit list of “anti-Muslim extremists” continues, as if they’re the only ones who don’t deserve to be equated with jihad terrorists as “anti-Muslim extremists.” Meanwhile, Maajid Nawaz himself is whining repeatedly and in self-contradictory fashion about how […]
US Ambassador to India Richard Verma denounces “unacceptable rhetoric” against Muslims
“We see this in many parts of the world, with growing pockets of intolerance and anti-immigrant sentiment. This has included instances of unacceptable rhetoric against Muslims, including in the United States, and particularly during this Presidential campaign season.” Verma here echoes the common Leftist/mainstream media conflation of concern about jihad terrorists coming into the country […]
Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre survivor: “We need to stop saying Islam is a religion of peace”
As a secular Muslim, Zineb El Rhazoui is allowed to say in the mainstream what others are excoraited as “anti-Muslim extremists” for saying. The truth is true no matter who says it, but in today’s culture of identity politics, it’s truer when coming from racially and culturally approved voices. “Zineb el Rhazoui, Charlie Hebdo survivor, […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The SPLC’s Libelous New Report on ‘Anti-Muslim Extremists’
Equating counter-jihadists with jihadists. My latest in FrontPage: The objective of this libelous new report from the hard-Left money-making and incitement machine the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is made plain within it: “Before you book a spokesperson from an anti-Muslim extremist group or quote them in a story, research their background — detailed in […]
Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz enraged about being on SPLC hit list of “anti-Muslim extremists” with “real bigots”
Maajid Nawaz has no problem with the Southern Poverty Law Center aiming to destroy the reputations and endanger the lives of those whom he believes to be “real bigots.” But when it’s his ox that is gored, it’s a different story. As I noted here, the problem with being angry about Nawaz being on the […]
Selective outrage: Leftist, atheist critics of Islam enraged that SPLC hit list of Islam critics includes leftists and atheists
UPDATE: Hemant Mehta writes in to say, “I focused on those two because they’re well known in atheist circles.” ———– Sam Harris thinks it’s “unbelievable” that Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali made it to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hit list of “Anti-Muslim Extremists.” He said nothing about me or the other people whom […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: “Meet Your Muslim Neighbors”
Ever since 9/11, mosques and “Islamic centers” have been conducting campaigns of determined “outreach” to non-Muslims. The point of this “outreach” is to present Islam as the least threatening of faiths, one which has been too often misunderstood and its adherents unfairly maligned, and those adherents are only too glad to clear up misconceptions about […]
Virginia: Hamas-linked CAIR enraged that sheriff’s office hosting seminar on jihad threat
This vicious little hit piece is a textbook example of how the bought-and-paid-for establishment propaganda media defames freedom fighters and mainstreams allies and enablers of jihad terrorists. Much more below. “CIA Director A ‘Secret Muslim’? Anti-Islam Conspiracy-Theorist Group Set To Speak At Virginia Law Enforcement Event,” by Jason Le Miere, International Business Times, October 25, […]
Video: Robert Spencer on “hate speech,” the war on free speech, and Hillary Clinton
Yesterday I spoke at the Young America’s Foundation’s High School Conference at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California.
Why the War on ‘Islamophobia’ Distracts Us from Legitimate Terrorism Concerns
John Esposito, the Saudi-funded director of Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative, is on a mission to convince the world, one academic conference at a time, that “Islamophobia has metastasized” as a “social cancer in America.” Speaking alongside his protégé, Dalia Mogahed, Bridge Initiative Senior Fellow Engy Abdelkader, and others at the September 22 “Islamophobia in Focus: […]