My column in FrontPage this morning: A Muslim chaplain at New York University, Khalid Latif, noting a recent debate at the university on the question of whether or not “Islam Is a Religion of Peace,” published a piece for CNN Monday saying that the answer is that “Islam is a religion of peace, or it […]
Peaceful Muslim demands that non-Muslims accommodate violent Muslims
Khalid Latif, a chaplain for New York University, here complains that moderate and peaceful understandings of Islam are being unfairly discounted: “As much as Muslims need to acknowledge the existence of a minority voice that is radicalized, so too does a broader society need to acknowledge the existence of a majority voice that is not […]
Islamic supremacist Imam Rauf: Ground Zero mosque site not “hallowed ground”
Nearly 3,000 dead at Ground Zero. The landing gear from one of the 9/11 planes severely damaging the building he wants to tear down to build his mega-mosque. But those things don’t make the ground hallowed ground. Maybe only the presence of a nice big triumphal mosque will do that. Feisal Abdul Rauf continues to […]
“Moderate” Ground Zero mosque Imam Rauf: “In a true peace, Israel will, in our lifetimes, become one more Arab country, with a Jewish minority”
Ground Zero mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s “moderate” facade continues to be exposed as the exercise in deception that it is. He has said of Israel, according to audio revealed by Pamela Geller, that “a one-state solution is…more coherent…than a two-state solution.” By that, of course, he meant a Sharia state with Muslims holding all […]
“Moderate Muslims” threaten to turn “radical” if they get angry
A very revealing AP puff piece on the horrors that “moderate” Muslims are supposedly experiencing in America today. “NYC mosque debate will shape American Islam,” by Rachel Zoll for AP, August 29 (thanks to all who sent this in): NEW YORK – Adnan Zulfiqar, a graduate student, former U.S. Senate aide and American-born son of […]
Spencer and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross: wonder of wonders, a civil debate
Last Wednesday evening I debated Daveed Gartenstein-Ross of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies on Crane Durham’s Nothing But Truth show. The debate topic was “Is Islam a religion of peace,” and the debate centered upon the nature and existence of moderate Islam. You can find a podcast of the debate here. It was […]
Another “moderate” imam and supporter of Ground Zero mosque won’t condemn Hamas
Big surprise. “Another ‘Moderate’ GZ Mosque Supporter Can’t Bring Himself to Call Hamas a Terrorist Organization,” by the peerless Andrew C. McCarthy at National Review, August 25: Last night, I was on David Asman’s Fox Business Channel show, Scoreboard, debating Imam Dawoud Kringle of the New York State prison system, a GZ mosque supporter. Imam […]
McCarthy: Inventing moderate Islam
In “Inventing Moderate Islam” at National Review, August 24, Andrew McCarthy skewers the general tendency to dismiss as “Islamophobia” statements by non-Muslim analysts that are taken for granted as true when they’re made by Muslim leaders: ‘Secularism can never enjoy a general acceptance in an Islamic society.” The writer was not one of those sulfurous […]
“Moderate” Ground Zero mega-mosque imam: U.S. has more blood on its hands than Al-Qaeda
Why is everyone so sure that the Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is a “moderate”? Because he says he is, silly, and why on earth should we doubt him? But he also says other things. Pamela Geller has an exclusive on the shocking details plus audio of Rauf’s statements. Speaking in Australia in 2005, Rauf said […]
Fjordman: On the Illusion of a Moderate Islam
On the Illusion of a Moderate Islam by Fjordman This essay overlaps to some extent with earlier essays of mine regarding the alleged existence of a “moderate Islam,” including Do we want an Islamic Reformation? and Why We Cannot Rely on Moderate Muslims. In this discussion I take as my starting point the fact that […]