During the 1930s and 40s, Arab immigrants began to establish communities and build mosques. African-American Muslims had already built their own mosques, and by 1952 there was [sic] more than 1,000 in North America. There were no more than a dozen mosques by 1940 in the U.S. The “African-American mosques” referred to are Nation of […]
PBS Backdating and Exaggerating the Muslim Presence in the U.S. (Part 1)
The PBS Series “The History Detectives” some years ago included a program on Islam in America – that is, on the history of Muslims in America, a history that we were asked to believe until recently had supposedly remained “hidden.” Here is part of the text for that program, available online. “When the first Muslims […]
Israel Sends Medical Gear to Palestinians, Palestinians Accuse Israel of Spreading Coronavirus Among Them
In following the world’s media, one gets the impression that the Israelis are doing nothing much to help the Gazan Palestinians in their hour of need. In their “hour of need,” however, the Hamas terrorist group still can make room for continuing intermittently to shoot rockets into Israel. And at the beginning of April, the […]
Tunisia closes mosques over coronavirus, Al Jazeera claims “Tunisia has a problem with internalised Islamophobia”
Al Jazeera ultimately retracted this claim, but the entire incident was illustrative of how the “Islamophobia” narrative is generally advanced: any action that is taken, and statement that is made, that is perceived to be in the slightest way opposed to the practice of Islam, including jihad violence, will result in the application of the […]
Osama bin Laden. Anwar al-Awlaki. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Robert Spencer.
My latest in PJ Media: If we all agree to ignore the passages in the Qur’an that enjoin believers to be violent toward non-Muslims, they’ll go away, right? If we deny that such passages even exist, jihadis will cease acting upon them, won’t they? That appears to be the view of Nathan Spannaus, a hustling […]
Newsweek uses the coronavirus pandemic to promote Islam
David Wood offers a marvelous evisceration of Islamic apologist Craig Considine’s dawah in Newsweek in this video. Meanwhile, would Newsweek ever publish an article about how Christian principles can help protect one from the coronavirus? Not on your life. “Can the Power of Prayer Alone Stop a Pandemic like the Coronavirus? Even the Prophet Muhammad […]
Australia: Hijabbed Muslima repeatedly coughs and spits on cop, says she was on her way for coronavirus test
In India, a Muslim software engineer was just arrested for saying: “Let’s join hands, go out and sneeze with open mouth in public. Spread the virus.” How prevalent are such attitudes within Muslim communities worldwide? Thought experiment: if a white supremacist in one country called for his followers to infect people deliberately with coronavirus, and […]
The Coronavirus Shelter-in-Place and the Israeli Curfew
The New York Times has for a long time had a “Jewish problem.” In the 1930s and during the Second World War, the Times paid scant attention to the Nazi murders of Jews. Laurel Leff’s study of how the Times failed so dismally to properly cover the Holocaust, Buried By the Times, notes that between […]
Egypt: Survey shows that women approve of female genital mutilation more than men do
The likely explanation for this is that female genital mutilation has justification in Islamic law. This story repeats the usual establishment media line: “People in countries where FGM is still common attempt to link it to religion, but the practice has nothing to do with any faith and predates both Christianity and Islam. It has […]
NYT: If We’re Generous to Iran, They Might Free Our Hostages
There’s a certain kind of mind that reacts to Bob Levinson’s family mourning his death with a call for more giveaways to the Islamic State. “American generosity during the Coronavirus crisis might be the best way of persuading Iran to release American and other foreign detainees,” the New York Times editorial board argues. Generosity? Loading […]