New in PJ Media: “We are Muslims, not Islamists,” the new prime minister of Morocco, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, declared several days ago. In so doing, she aligned herself with a common assumption throughout the Western world — that Islam is benign and should be welcomed, while Islamism is the political, supremacist, and violent imperative that the […]
Morocco’s Prime Minister: ‘We Are Muslims, Not Islamists’
And that settles it. Doesn’t it? There are still many people in the U.S. and Europe today who carefully draw a distinction between “Islamism” and “Islam,” insisting that while the former is a danger, the latter is benign and cuddly, and should be welcomed wholeheartedly into the West. Last month, on September 10, 2026, The Economist made […]
Morocco’s prime minister draws criticism for saying ‘We are Muslims, not Islamists’
“We are Muslims, not Islamists.” Morocco’s first female prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, has drawn widespread criticism for distinguishing her Muslim faith from “Islamist” politics. A member of the secularist Authenticity and Modernity Party, El Mansouri has spoken about balancing Morocco’s Islamic identity with modernity and reform. — One Nation Media (@1NationMediaX) October 6, […]
New York: Islamic scholar says 9/11 was ‘single biggest moment in American Muslim history that shed light on Islam’
And yet after 9/11, and really, ever since, anyone who dared to suggest that 9/11 had anything to do with Islam was excoriated as an “Islamophobe” and ostracized accordingly. We were told that all Muslims with the possible exception of a tiny minority of extremists absolutely and definitively rejected terrorism, and found 9/11 horrifying. And […]
Do Most Muslims Really Oppose Islamic Terrorism?
They oppose terrorism against Muslims. Not so much against non-Muslims. We’re told that most Muslims oppose Islamic terrorism and that it’s only a tiny fringe of radicals and extremists who practice “radical Islamic terrorism” (as opposed to‘moderate Islamic terrorism’ in which the moderate participants moderately detonate bombs, moderately stab civilians and moderately ram cars into […]
It’s Long Past Time to Give Up the ‘Moderate Muslim’ Fantasies
A failed notion, false hope, and cynical deception should at last be discarded. They’ve enjoyed media adulation and the uncritical admiration of hopeful non-Muslims for over a quarter of a century now. Yet self-styled “moderate Muslims” and “Muslim reformers” have not delivered on their promises or substantiated their vision of Islam, and it’s time that […]
Afghanistan: Senior Muslim cleric says subjects such as science and technology ‘not necessary for women’
We can all hope, for the sake of the women and girls in Afghanistan, and for Afghan society as a whole, that the claims of those who say that these restrictions have no basis in Islamic teachings will win out. But Westerners should not kid themselves (yes, I know, they will anyway). The Islamic case […]
John Cleese asks why ‘non-radical’ Muslims are not speaking out against ‘radical Islam’
Missing the point completely If the majority of Muslims – the non-radical ones – are not in favour of radical Islam, could some of them start speaking out and saying so What is the reason why they are not doing this ? https://t.co/hWKK6XZ06z — John Cleese (@JohnCleese) May 22, 2026 The answer that no one […]
‘Muslim Martin Luther’ Tariq Ramadan again convicted of rape, sentenced to 18 years in prison in France
He was the darling of the leftist intelligentsia. They neither knew nor cared about what his Muslim Brotherhood connections demonstrated. And now he has shown that he takes the Qur’an’s permission to rape infidel women (see 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50 and 70:30) seriously, and no doubt all the rest of the Qur’an and Sunnah as […]
These People Don’t Think the Muslim Hero of Bondi Beach Is a Hero at All
New in PJ Media: It seems as if the whole world is celebrating Ahmed al-Ahmed, who tackled one of the jihad mass murderers at Australia’s Bondi Beach last Sunday, but there are more than a few notable holdouts. “Ahmed al Ahmed,” Bernie Sanders wrote on Monday, “a Muslim father of two, risked his life to disarm a […]