This is not the first time that attendance at a Muslim rally against terrorism has been decidedly underwhelming. There are thousands of Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, but only 100 showed up for a rally against ISIS and “Islamophobia” in November 2015. And earlier that month, only 30 Muslims protested against the jihad massacres in Paris. […]
US-backed Syrian “rebels” screaming “Allahu akbar” behead small boy as “spy”
These are the “vetted moderates” to whom Obama has given US taxpayer money and weapons bought with taxpayer funds. The Obama administration can’t possibly distinguish “moderates” from “extremists,” as it claims to be able to do, because it doesn’t even recognize the reality of the Islamic jihad. How can it possibly vet for the presence […]
“Moderate” Muslim Canadian TV guest expert: Islamic State supported by West & America
The editor of CIJ News, Jonathan Halevi, states in his article below: “Imam Syed Soharwardy of Calgary, the head of the Calgary-based Islamic Supreme Council of Canada and the founder of Muslims Against Terrorism, is often invited by CBC as a guest expert to discuss issues related to terrorism and radicalization. He is introduced as a moderate […]
Made in Our Image: The Allure of ‘Moderate Muslims’
One of the greatest problems with the much cherished “moderate/radical” Muslim dichotomy is that it’s entirely based on Western assumptions that have nothing to do with the realities of Islam. This came out in a study published in Arabic (my recent translation here): Islamic researchers are agreed that what the West and its followers […]
Egypt’s highest Islamic authority — a “moderate” — says apostasy punishable by death
The line between “moderate” and “radical” Muslim continues to fade. On the question of apostasy in Islam—whether a born or converted Muslim has the right to abandon Islam for another or no religion—the radical position is well known: unrepentant apostates are to be punished with death. Yet one of the Muslim world’s greatest authorities, the […]
Syria: “Moderate” Muslims slit Christian’s throat, boast “Jesus did not come to save him”
Establishment counterterror analyst Max Abrahms says that the Al-Nusra Front uses “more moderate methods” than the Islamic State, and is “trading” on its “more moderate branding.” Here they are slitting the throat of a Christian and saying: “We are from the Al-Nusra Front and have come to make lives miserable for the Crusaders.” Moderate branding! […]
Cathy Young: Islam is and is not the problem
The subheading to this piece is “‘Islam is the problem’ and ‘Islam is not the problem’ are equally true and equally false statements—and equally unhelpful for addressing the issues.” “Journalist” Cathy Young apparently intends that statement to be some kind of Zen gateway to insight, but in reality it epitomizes how muddled and ultimately incoherent […]
US Muslim reported Orlando jihadi to FBI, disregarding Hamas-linked CAIR’s call to Muslims not to talk to FBI
It is good that Mohammed Malik reported Omar Mateen to the FBI. It is not so good that the FBI, besotted with political correctness, underestimated the threat Mateen posed. It is also not so good that Mohammed Malik implies that Mateen’s jihad massacre was a reaction to “Islamopobia”; Malik writes: “But as news reports this […]
Netherlands: Muslims attack non-hijabbed Muslima as “infidel whore”
A tremendous amount of social control is often exercised in Muslim communities to ensure Sharia compliance. Ostracism and brutalization and worse all too often await those Muslims who don’t go to mosque or abide by Sharia norms. This is a key reason why we don’t see larger numbers of Muslims backing up their pro-forma condemnations […]
CFR’s Max Abrahms claims Syrian jihad groups growing because they’re moderate
Max Abrahms, “#Terrorism Theorist / Northeastern Prof / Council on Foreign Relations / Center for Cyber & Homeland Security,” is the very epitome of the vacuous contemporary intellectual, thumping his chest about his “research” and “scholarship” but unwilling and unable to defend them in a public forum, and retailing absurd and defeatist views that appeal […]