“War is deceit,” said Muhammad (Bukhari 4.52.268), and Mohammed bin Salman is a knowledgeable and devout believer, but of course even to raise the question of whether Saudi Arabia is trying to deceive the West in order to gain its support against Iran would be “Islamophobic.” Deceive us? Inconceivable! Nonetheless, in enthusiastically cheerleading for Mohammed […]
Yemen: Muslims murder Muslim cleric known for his moderation
Here is yet another example of why we do not see more genuine Islamic reform. “Prominent cleric shot dead while praying in Yemen’s Hadhramaut,” Al Arabiya, March 2, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Unknown gunmen assassinated cleric Al Habib Aidroos Ben Abdullah bin Sumait, a prominent scholar and imam of Al-Mehdhar Mosque in […]
Alliance of Virtue or Alliance of Vice?
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 Milo Show on Malala and the PC FBI
Yesterday I appeared on The Milo Show. Milo and I had a wide-ranging and often riotous discussion. Here are two clips, on Malala and the Obama FBI’s scrubbing all mention of Islam and jihad from counterterror training materials: The whole show, which was great fun, is available to subscribers here.
Kenya: “Imams should embrace Islam teaching of peace, tolerance, and brotherhood”
Do politicians such as Aden Duale think that if they keep repeating the claim that Islam promotes peace, tolerance and brotherhood, that it will become true? Does Aden Duale think that the Islamic scholars and imams of Kenya don’t know what’s taught in the Qur’an and Sunnah? It is noteworthy, if they do, that he […]
Tariq Ramadan: Wicked, Depraved, and Coming to the End of His Rope
This just in — extry, extry, read all about it — from Al Arabiya, no less, on Tariq Ramadan’s well-deserved calvary: Organizers of a 2009 conference in Lyon, which has become an important sticking point in the rape charges against Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, have published evidence [his flight itinerary] that could be damaging […]
UK: “Moderate” Muslim Maajid Nawaz: “We, the United Kingdom, produced Jihadi John”
“We, the United Kingdom, produced Jihadi John. We, the United Kingdom, produced his other acolytes around him in the so-called Jihadi Beatles. Something in our cities and towns, something in the atmosphere within our communities in this country have produced the most infamous terrorists, at least in my lifetime. We need to start asking that […]
Pakistan: Provincial government gives Islamic seminary run by “Father of the Taliban” over $5,000,000
Nothing to be concerned about. The “Father of the Taliban” Maulana Samiul Haq has promised “reforms in the syllabus and system of the seminary in return to this grant.” And he wouldn’t dream of deceiving anyone, now, would he? “Taliban linked Pakistani seminary to get Rs 277m fund,” ANI, February 23, 2018: Islamabad: Pakistani seminary […]
Malaysia: Publisher on trial for publishing Irshad Manji book that says “God is love,” which is “un-Islamic”
Wait a minute. Isn’t Malaysia supposed to be “moderate”? And isn’t Irshad Manji a leading “moderate” Muslim writer? Irshad Manji has not been much heard from in recent years, but about ten or twelve years ago she was the Moderate Muslim Du Jour (a position since occupied by luminaries including Zuhdi Jasser and Maajid Nawaz), […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Tariq Ramadan Could Face Charges in the U.S.
For Tariq Ramadan, the news gets worse and worse. First, there were the charges against him in France, where two Muslim women, Henda Ayari and a woman known only by an alias, “Christelle,” both accused him of extreme sexual violence and rape. He now sits in a French prison, waiting trial, his sudden claim about having […]