Outspoken “moderate” U.S. Muslims, finally? No, not at all. My latest in PJ Media: A new billboard in St. Louis proclaims: HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims. Life is sacred. Koran 5:32. At last, is this the moderate Islamic movement that the U.S. and the Western world have been so eagerly waiting for? The seemingly […]
Imam beaten with shoe live on Egyptian TV show for saying Muslim women don’t have to wear veil
Here is yet another indication of why we don’t see more genuine and sincere Muslim reformers. “Shoes and Chairs Go Flying in Egyptian TV Studio When Debate Turns into ‘Freestyle Wrestling,’” MEMRI, September 26, 2016: TV host Mohamed Al-Ghiety complained of exhaustion and of low blood pressure after his two guests, Egyptian lawyer Nabih Al-Wahsh […]
Is Obama Waging a “Narrative Battle” against ISIS or Reality?
According to White House press secretary Josh Earnest, “When it comes to ISIL, we are in a fight—a narrative fight with them. A narrative battle.” Earnest said this the day after two separate bombings occurred in New York, and an ISIS-linked Muslim went on a stabbing spree in Minnesota. Obama’ spokesman later elaborated: … remember […]
Video: American troops forced to flee from US-backed Syrian jihadis screaming “Allahu akbar” and “Death to America”
The Free Syrian Army, according to the Obama administration, is made up of “vetted moderates.” Here are his “vetted moderates” screaming “Allahu akbar,” “Death to America,” “Christians and Americans have no place among us. They want to wage a crusader war to occupy Syria” and “The collaborators of America are dogs and pigs. They wage […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: A Tunisian Moderate Remains, Alas, A Defender of the Faith
“Nobel laureate: Don’t ‘muddle up’ terrorism with Islam,” by Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press, September 2, 2016: Nobel Peace Prize winner Wided Bouchamaoui urged people everywhere on Thursday [September 1] not to “muddle up” terrorism with Islam. The Tunisian businesswoman, who co-founded the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet which won the 2015 peace prize, said Muslims […]
GWU’s “ex-jihadist” Jesse Morton wants to dismantle “entire counterterrorism component of military-industrial complex”
He is “deradicalized,” he has renounced al-Qaeda, he’s comfortably “moderate” now. Now blames the U.S. for jihad terror, wants to dismantle the U.S.’s entire counterterrorism apparatus (such as it is), and wants to provide “holistic socio-pschological [sic] -political-economic alternatives based in the shariah” to fighting against jihad activity. And this man is teaching at George […]
Iraq expels Saudi ambassador for refusing to denounce Islamic State cousin
Saudi Arabia and the Islamic State enforce the same Islamic law. Saudi Arabia has spent uncounted billions spreading around the world the understanding of Islam that the Islamic State teaches. Most Western authorities and counterterror analysts assume that if Muslims are not active members of jihad groups, that they reject jihad violence and are “moderate” […]
UK journo: Syrian kidnapper who shot me twice is now a CIA-vetted “moderate”
Still more proof that the Obama administration can’t distinguish “moderates” from “extremists.” And how could it possibly do so, when it refuses even to admit the existence of the ideology of Islamic jihad? “British Journo: Syrian Kidnapper Who Shot Me Twice Is Now a CIA-Vetted ‘Moderate,’” by Patrick Poole, PJ Media, September 3, 2016: British […]
Idaho: Muslim charged with sexual assault was touted by media as “moderate” two months ago
All too often we see this. The media (and even many counter-jihad organizations and groups that should know better) is so avid to highlight “moderate Muslims” that they get taken in again and again by Muslims who are anything but. But the Right is so cowed by the Left and its identity politics that it […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Few Muslims Show Up at ‘Muslims Against ISIS’ Rally, as Usual
Over at PJ Media, I discuss the latest fizzled display of moderate Muslim might: Moderate Muslims are the hope of the West, right? Whatever one may think of that statement, it’s a fact: the leaders of Western Europe and North America have brought in so many Muslim migrants — with so many more to come […]