Obama said: “Here in America, many people personally don’t know someone who is Muslim. They mostly hear about Muslims in the news — and that can obviously lead to a very distorted impression.” The idea that Americans have a “distorted impression” of Muslims because they don’t know any Muslims personally is a condescending talking point […]
UK Muslim leader says Cameron’s call to fight radicalization “unhelpful”
“If the Government is serious about tackling ISIS they really need to take serious steps to tackle rampant Islamophobia – and we are actually recruiting more youths by targeting religion and targeting the people.” How is Britain “targeting the religion and targeting the people”? Through its anti-terror measures. So in other words, British efforts to […]
William Kilpatrick: ‘How to Alienate Moderate Muslims’
“If the moderate Muslim was inclined to resist the radicals, he will be less likely to do so if he looks around and notices that no one else is resisting… Why should he stick his neck out?” William Kilpatrick makes a compelling case for resisting encroaching Islamization and the creeping advance of sharia culture in […]
Al-Azhar Sheikh: “Islam cannot prevail and spread by means of weapons”
Al-Tayeb says here that “what the Islamist armed movements are doing is wrong.” However, rejoicing over his “moderation” may be premature: he has justified anti-Semitism on Qur’anic grounds; called for the Islamic State murderers of the Jordanian pilot to be crucified or have their hands and feet amputated on opposite sides (as per the penalty […]
Muslim Youth League UK declares jihad against the Islamic State
“Our efforts are aimed at deterring further ISIS recruitment in Britain and defending the Muslim community, who feel their religion has been hijacked.” Stopping Islamic State recruitment in the West is just what we have not seen from Muslims who condemn the Islamic State, so that’s all to the good. But “a seven-point declaration calling […]
Toronto Star: Mainstream Islam must do more to prevent extremist violence
Dow Marmur is rabbi emeritus at Toronto’s Holy Blossom Temple. In this column he repeats a sentiment that non-Muslims have expressed many, many times before. No one, however, ever seems to stop and ponder the implications of the fact that now, thirteen and a half years after 9/11, articles like this one still need to […]
UK Muslims decry “the continued public targeting of Muslims through endless ‘anti-terror’ laws”
“We reject the portrayal of Muslims and the Muslim community as a security threat.” They don’t want anti-terror laws. What will be the result of not having anti-terror laws? More jihad terror. Note also that “Dilly Hussain, a spokesman for the group, said the list of 62 signatories included moderate Islamic thinkers alongside names he […]
Kuwaiti researcher: Islamic State is product of Islamic heritage
“Kuwaiti Researcher Abdulazziz Al-Qattan: ISIS Is the Product of Islamic Heritage,” MEMRI, March 5, 2015. He says, referring to the ideology of the Islamic State: “Our Islamic heritage is a minefield of these deviant ideas…The problem of us Arabs is that we are not being honest with ourselves…All the books of Islamic heritage, without exception, […]
Main U.S.-backed Syrian rebel group disbanding, joining jihadists
“Charles Lister, an analyst with U.S, [sic] think tank Brookings, described in a tweet the implosion of the group as ‘absolutely remarkable.’” Brookings is a Qatar-funded institution that consistently downplays, denies, and obfuscates the reality of the global jihad threat. This development is only “remarkable” to anyone who was credulous enough to believe that these […]
Muslim prof in The Atlantic hits “the phony Islam” of the Islamic State
I’ve noted several times lately that the Western intelligentsia is deeply concerned that you have a positive view of Islam — hence the steady barrage of articles explaining that those masked men brandishing Qur’ans and screaming “Allahu akbar” as they saw off Infidel heads don’t really have anything, anything at all, to do with the […]