Q and A: This was originally supposed to be a continuation of my print debate at National Review (here and here) with Andrew McCarthy on Islam vs. Islamism. It was changed at the last minute into this panel with the peerless artist Bosch Fawstin and the Baroness Caroline Cox.
Spencer: All-American Muslim misleads on Islam
In Human Events this morning I discuss how TLC’s hot new offering gives Americans the wrong impression of Muslims: TLC”s much-ballyhooed All-American Muslim reality show makes its agenda clear in its opening sequences: shots of a hijabbed girl roller-skating, Muslims dancing at a wedding, an American flag waving proudly in the breeze, and newspaper clippings […]
Eric Holder’s statements about Islam demonstrate ethnocentric stereotyping
Those who speak about “Islamists” and “Islamism,” and who insist that Islam is a peaceful religion that has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists — like Holder — are imposing Western categories upon Muslims, not taking Muslims and Islam as they actually are. That’s ethnocentric stereotyping. “Eric Holder’s stereotyping of Muslims irresponsible, say […]
Norway: Muslim former member of King’s Guard dies waging jihad in Somalia
One of the staples of attack pieces on me by Leftist and Islamic supremacist hate groups is something I wrote in 2005: –˜there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine that the vast majority of American Muslims are civic-minded patriots who accept wholeheartedly the […]
Geller: Big Sis gives Muslim Brotherhood secret clearance
In “Big Sis gives Muslim Brotherhood secret clearance” in WND, November 1, Pamela Geller discusses the alleged security breach by moderate Muslim flavor-of-the-month Mohamed Elibiary — which I examined here: Homeland Security is on the hot seat. Back in October 2010, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano named the devout Muslim Mohamed Elibiary to the Homeland Security […]
NYPD under fire for surveillance of jihad-supporting “Muslim anti-terror partners”
In 2006, the New York Times ran a laudatory multi-part series profiling Brooklyn imam Reda Shata — which noted that when the murderous Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin was killed, Shata told Muslims at a memorial service that a “lion of Palestine has been martyred.” He also praised suicide bomber Reem Al-Reyashi. The Times dismissed this […]
‘Humanistic Islam’: an inherent contradiction in terms
Muslims and their enablers, fans and dedicated propagandists around the world never tire of spreading the same lies, over and over again, about Islam. Sometimes the lies are baldly blatant, and other times the lies are conveyed via convenient and strategic omission of inconvenient facts. Hence we must never tire or flag in our own […]
Virginia mosque where Awlaki was once imam: Awlaki “was known for his interfaith outreach, civic engagement and tolerance in the Northern Virginia community”
In other words, he was a “moderate.” What else can they say? They can’t very well avow that while he was in Virginia, he was preaching jihad and the destruction of the kuffar. But this statement causes other problems, raising yet again the uncomfortable fact that “moderates” can all too easily become “radicalized,” even just […]
Our troubles are over: thousands of Muslims rally against “extremism” in London
For years non-Muslims have been asking where moderate Muslims in any significant numbers are actually speaking out against Islamic jihad and Islamic supremacism. And now here they finally are. Much as I hate to be the one to throw a rotting cabbage onto the sofa, I must yet again point out that Qadri “says killing […]
“Muslims for Liberty” lies about anti-jihad activists
Muslims For Liberty sounds like just what everyone is waiting for: the latest Great Moderate Hope. There’s just one catch: they don’t seem to care very much for the truth. “Tea Party Muslims shatter all preconceptions,” by Davi Barker for the Libertarian Examiner, August 24: Muslims are terrorists that hate America’s freedom… right? Straw man, […]