On April 3, at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s West Coast Retreat in Palos Verdes, California, I debated Muslim reformer Zuhdi Jasser on the prospects for reform in Islam. Andrew McCarthy, author of Willful Blindness, was moderating. Here is Nidra Poller’s analysis of the debate: “Islam : The Good The True The Beautiful,” from Red […]
Yet another opportunity that will be passed up
This column reflects widespread assumptions: bin Laden’s death “offers an opportunity for moderate Muslims to reclaim their faith from a man who hijacked it in the name of global jihad.” They had to wait for bin Laden to die to “reclaim their faith”? What form of Islam, what school of jurisprudence, what sect, actually rejects […]
“Moderate” Muslim Council of Britain: Muslims who say that women need not cover their hair are guilty of rejecting Islam
Moderation. “Muslim Council: women cannot debate wearing veil,” by Andrew Gilligan in the Telegraph, April 16 (thanks to Paul): The body which claims to be the voice of Britain’s Muslims has told women that wearing the veil is “not open to debate”. The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said that not covering the face is […]
Indonesia: Bomb explodes at office of “Liberal Islam Network”
Here is yet another chapter in our ongoing series, Why We Don’t See More Genuine Islamic Reformers: “Bomb explodes at Indonesian Islam group HQ: police,” from AFP, March 15: JAKARTA “” A bomb exploded at the office of a moderate Islamic group in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Tuesday, injuring four people including a police […]
Soldier of our Afghan ally murders three German troops, wounds six others
As I have said many times in the context of many similar incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is no reliable way to distinguish a peaceful Muslim from a jihadist. This is yet more fruit of the unwillingness to make even a cursory attempt to take that fact into account. “Afghan soldier opens fire on […]
Geller: Where are all the Jassers?
Santa, unicorns and moderate Islam Famed Muslim reformer Zuhdi Jasser went out of his way to attack Pamela Geller and me at The American Thinker Sunday; Pamela Geller responds here: “Where Are All the Jassers?,” by Pamela Geller at The American Thinker, February 14: In an extraordinarily lengthy article in the American Thinker yesterday, Zuhdi […]
Jihadist cleric Al-Awlaki criticizes Yemen for helping U.S.
“”There were some statements that were inflammatory, and were considered just talk, but now we realize that talk can be taken seriously and acted upon in a violent radical way,’ said Mr. Al-Awlaki, who at 30 is held up as a new generation of Muslim leader capable of merging East and West.” — Laurie Goodstein, […]
Reza Aslan to speak at event moderated by former editor of Muslim student publication that praised Osama bin Laden as a great mujahid
The new Fritz Kuhn’s mask slips yet again Reza Aslan has become a Jihad Watch case study in how the media elites are either ignorant of or complicit with the Islamic supremacist agenda. Aslan is a vaunted media-saturated “moderate” Muslim whose Islamic supremacist ties and proclivities are becoming more ill-concealed by the day. Given that […]
Poll shows Egyptians in favor of democracy and stoning for adultery
Discussions in the mainstream media about demands for democracy in Egypt have tended to treat such goals as mutually exclusive. But as we have seen in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, democracy and representative governments do not guarantee the protection of human rights and civil liberties. Once again, a democracy is only as good as the […]
ElBaradei: Muslim Brotherhood like U.S. evangelicals and orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. — motto of the Muslim Brotherhood The Muslim Brothers “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the […]