Matthews is of course correct, except for the minor detail that when Soleimani covered “Don’t Be Cruel,” he sang “Be Cruel.” These people’s intense hatred of President Trump has driven them mad. “Chris Matthews Compares Soleimani to Elvis Presley and Princess Diana,” by Andrew Kugle, Washington Free Beacon, January 8, 2020 (thanks to the Geller […]
New York Times features Iranian student saying Soleimani “made me feel safer,” was “like a security umbrella”
The New York Times admits below that many celebrated Soleimani’s death, but it chose to highlight a student claiming: “Knowing General Suleimani was out there made me feel safer. He was like a security umbrella above our country.” Nor does the Times note that Iran is an authoritarian regime in which people could arouse suspicion […]
Elle Magazine Puts White Linda Sarsour on Its List of ‘Women of Color in Politics to Watch in 2020’
My latest in PJ Media: Elle magazine seems somewhat embarrassed by its list, published last week, of “20 Women of Color in Politics to Watch in 2020.” The article now carries this prominent disclaimer: “The below list was compiled by She the People, a national non profit network of women of color committed to social […]
Youssef Eddafali Just Can’t Figure Out What Made Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Do It
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was back in the news in mid-December appealing to get his death penalty overturned. This recalls to mind a piece that was written last year — I suspect with considerable help in the actual composition — by Youssef Eddafali, a Moroccan immigrant, and published in the Boston Globe, about his […]
The Company Elle Keeps: Linda Sarsour Is “A Woman To Watch”
Online and in print, lazy journalists, members of chambers of commerce, self-satisfied captains of industry, local business boosters, sexual orientation activists, in short, the whole comical crew of American life today, like to compile idiotic lists: “Fifty Discoveries That Have Changed The World Overnight,” “Forty Under Forty Who Are Making A Difference,” “Thirty Business Leaders […]
Connecticut: Man converts to Islam, tries to join the Islamic State to “fight for Allah”
“About a week later, another individual ‘who attends an Islamic Center in another state’ told authorities McCormick ‘expressed a desire to travel to Syria to “fight for Allah,”‘ the affidavit states. The 26-year-old attempted to justify his extremist ideologies, the individual told authorities, by quoting and citing various religious doctrines, although ‘he did so incorrectly.’” […]
In Pensacola, Muslims Claim They Fear Attack
Many people in the Muslim Community in Pensacola claim that they fear someone may retaliate against them. This comes days after a deadly shooting at NAS Pensacola in which three sailors were killed and eight others injured. Here is the story: “‘Pain shared by everyone regardless of faith,’ Pensacola Muslim community speaks out,” by Amy […]
Was a California high school student really assaulted for being Muslim?
There are so few instances of actual “Islamophobia” that the victimhood narrative and hysteria surrounding Muslims in the West has to be constantly shored up with fake hate crimes. “’Student Assaulted for Being Muslim,’” by Lloyd Billingsley, FrontPage, December 9, 2019: “Elk Grove student assaulted for being Muslim,” read the headline in the Sacramento Bee […]
Here We Go Again: Pensacola Muslims Fear “Backlash” After Jihad Massacre
My latest in PJ Media: The Pensacola News Journal was first out of the gate this time around with what is a recurring feature of establishment media coverage of jihad attacks: the follow-up weeper about how the local Muslims are shocked (Shocked!) by the massacre, and are now cowering in fear of an “anti-Muslim backlash.” […]
Pensacola: Muslims keeping children home “out of fear they will become targets of backlash aimed against Muslims”
“As news reports of the shooter’s background have come out, Ashmawi said parents who usually take their children to Sunday school at the mosque are planning to keep their children home this week out of fear they will become targets of backlash aimed against Muslims.” This was eminently predictable: after every jihad massacre and foiled […]