There has for many years been a difference of opinion among those who are aware of the reality of the jihad threat. There are those who believe it very important, indeed, crucial to the success of our efforts to resist the global jihad and Sharia supremacism, to include reformist Muslims in them, and to support […]
India: Muslim group offers $15,000 reward to anyone who beheads Muslim “moderate” Tarek Fatah
Tarek Fatah is a paradoxical figure; indeed, he personifies the paradoxes of most moderate Muslims. He speaks out strongly against Muslim Brotherhood organizations and Sharia encroachment in the West, but is extraordinarily concerned at the same to absolve Islam of all responsibility for the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings. […]
Muslim Reform Group Reached Out to 3,000 US Mosques, Got Only 40 Responses
In December 2015, a small group of Muslims met in Washington, DC to discuss the reform of Islam. With media fanfare, they named themselves the Muslim Reform Movement (MRM), issued a Declaration for Muslim Reform, and became the new face of “Muslim reformers.” There was just one fundamental problem: the MRM never had support from […]
“Moderate” Malaysia: Tens of thousands rally to support adoption of Islamic penal code
“Critics of the bill warn that it could pave the way for full implementation of hudud, which prescribes punishments such as amputations and stoning, and disrupt the fabric of Malaysia’s multi-cultural and multi-religious society. ‘The so-called “empowerment” of the Shariah Court will only exacerbate the unequal treatment of Muslims and non-Muslims before the law,’ said […]
Netherlands: University of Amsterdam “Jihadi Brides” researcher was Islamic State “cyber-jihadist”
How reliably to distinguish “extremists” from “moderates” no one in the West has yet figured out, but you’re a racist, bigoted Islamophobe if you point out the fact. “Report: ‘Jihadi Brides’ Researcher at Dutch University Is Islamic State Sympathiser,” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, January 19, 2017: A researcher at the University of Amsterdam who helped produce […]
Boston: Support for Al Qaeda jihadis preached at New England’s largest mosque
A newly unearthed video reveals that when the politicians leave and the media cameras are no longer rolling, the ISBCC mosque serves as a forum for supporters of convicted Al Qaeda terrorists who use the mosque to call for jihad against America and demand that Muslims fight to bring this nation “to its knees.” This […]
Sam Harris replies to Robert Spencer, Spencer responds
As Sam Harris notes here, he is responding in this piece to one I wrote about him last week. My further responses are interspersed below. “Reply to Robert Spencer,” by Sam Harris, December 16, 2016: Over at Frontpage Magazine and Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer has published an essay titled “Sam Harris and the Collapse of […]
UK to train “moderate” Syrian opposition forces to target the Islamic State
Are we stuck in a time warp? For years it has been patently obvious that there are no “moderate” forces among the Syrian “opposition.” Even the New York Times acknowledged this, almost four years ago: “Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of.” (New York Times, April 28, 2013) Nothing has […]
Sam Harris and the collapse of the counter-jihad Left
A few years ago, atheist writer Sam Harris became one of the very few high-profile figures on the Left to break ranks with the Left’s general denial of the jihad threat and willingness to ignore or even excuse the most inhumane Sharia oppression. His calling Islam “the mother lode of bad ideas” on a famous […]
Mosul civilians and children tortured with hammers by US-backed Iraqi “liberators”
As I have pointed out many times, the Obama-backed Syrian “rebels” are not Jeffersonian Democrats. They are jihadis as much as the Islamic State is. They’re just competitors: they want the Islamic state to be theirs. They are unlikely to be outmatched by the Islamic State in brutality and bloodthirstiness in pursuit of Sharia adherence. […]