Why Moderate Muslims Balk at “Je Suis Charlie” by Afzal Upal, PhD Unless you happen to be a news-junkie and a Middle East expert (like me), you are probably confused about what our leaders and pundits are telling us about events unfolding around the world. On the one hand, our leaders and pundits tell us […]
Egypt’s Sisi: “We are in need of a religious revolution”
The speech that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recently made calling for Islamic reform is getting quite a bit of attention, and warrants close examination. Here are the excerpts that Raymond Ibrahim posted here at Jihad Watch a few days ago, with my comments interspersed: I am referring here to the religious clerics. We have […]
“Moderate” Fatah posts image of huge pile of Jewish skulls
Glorifying hatred, savagery, and genocide, as they have so many times in the past. Time for Obama to call on Israel to make new concessions to the “moderate” Abbas, and for the UN to issue another condemnation of…Israel. “Outrage after Palestinian political party posts mocked up image online showing huge piles of skulls with Jewish […]
“Moderate” Syrian rebels burned churches, destroyed Christian graves
“During weeks of planning before the assault, rebel fighters were given strict orders to use the offensive to show themselves as “moderate Muslims” and natural allies of the West.” Time for Obama to send them more weapons, and the UN to issue another condemnation of…Israel. “Dispatch: Syria rebels ‘burned down churches and destroyed Christian graves,’” […]
Former Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa: Jews plant “Gharqad” trees to hide from Muslims on Judgment Day
Back in 2007, I debated Dinesh d’Souza at CPAC and on a few radio shows on the thesis of his book, The Enemy At Home, which claimed that jihad terrorism was a reaction to the corruption of American pop culture, and recommended that U.S. conservatives ally with “conservative Muslims” on shared moral grounds. During these […]
‘Muslim Reformers’ — Forever Talking the Talk, Never Walking the Walk
[Via FrontPage Magazine] Due to its rarity, it’s always notable whenever a top Islamic leader publicly acknowledges the threat of Islamic radicalism and terror. And yet, such denunciations never seem to go beyond words—and sometimes not even that. Thus, in “An Arab Prince Denounces Islamism,” Daniel Pipes highlights “a remarkable but thus-far unnoticed address on Dec. 5” […]
Questions remain over Cat Stevens’ connections to jihad terror
In 1989, Yusuf Islam enthusiastically endorsed the Ayatollah Khomeini’s death fatwa against Salman Rushdie for insulting Islam: “Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie,” by Craig R. Whitney in the New York Times, May 23, 1989: TONDON [sic], May 22 — The musician known as Cat Stevens said in a British television […]
Bosnia: Supporters of Islamic State stab imam who opposes it
“In an open letter earlier, Beganovic condemned the calls on young men in BiH by Bilal Bosnic, an imam in the nearby village of Buzim, to join Islamic State and fight in the wars in Syria and Iraq. Beganovic was then verbally attacked by radical Islamists, who set his car on fire and threatened to […]
Moderate Muslim Mubin Shaikh to foes of jihad: “I am your ENEMY…Prepare yourselves accordingly.”
Mubin Shaikh is a Canadian moderate Muslim who acted as a counter terrorism agent for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in the investigation of a 2006 Toronto jihad mass murder plot, and has been living off the notoriety that brought him ever since. In February 2013 I debated him about whether or not the […]
Ex-FSA fighter: Islamic State “magnet that attracts large numbers of Muslims”
“We have a Free Syrian Army and a moderate opposition that we have steadily been working with that we have vetted.” — Barack Obama, September 2014 What was he working with them for? To get them to fight the Islamic State. But now the U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State are being used by FSA […]