His father is shocked!, shocked! that his son would want to join the Islamic State, but as Daniel Greenfield points out here, the son doesn’t seem to have had a bad relationship with the father. Neither seems to have rejected the other for being a bad Muslim. Is it really likely that the son forsook […]
Robert Spencer, PJM: Shocked, Shocked To Find That Terror Is Going On In Here!
Over at PJ Media, I ask why authorities are still taking mosque leaders’ statements after terror arrests at face value. It’s an iconic moment in American cinema, from Casablanca: Captain Renault tells Rick Blaine that he is “shocked! shocked!” to discover that gambling is going on in his establishment, and that it will be immediately […]
Islamic State jihadis recruiting in Turkish mosques, treated in Turkish hospitals
Turkey’s head of religious affairs insists that “all the Islamic institutions agree that Daesh is a non-Muslim group.” Turkey’s actions suggest that the head of religious affairs is either dishonest or not informed about what his own government is doing. “Ambulances ferry ISIL terrorists between Adıyaman and Syria, CHP report says,” Today’s Zaman, August 9, […]
Saudi Arabia: Islamic jihadists murder 17 with suicide bomb at mosque
It could be the Islamic State, bombing a mosque full of Muslims whom it considers to be heretics and apostates. It could be Sunni/Shi’ite jihad. It could be both. One thing it isn’t: an attack by so-called “Islamophobes” — indeed, “Islamophobes,” contrary to myth, have never bombed any mosque or caused the death of any […]
Surprised — But Not Really
I converted to Islam at the age of 18, on February 25, 2001 at the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City (ISGOC). (I left Islam in 2003 and went back to ISGOC as an informant for law enforcement from 2006 to 2011.) Before that, I had visited the mosque on numerous occasions to ask questions […]
Lackawanna, NY Muslims fear “Islamophobia” after arrest of jihadist
“This is not the norm,” says the Executive Director of Western New York Muslims, Julie Algubani. Yet in 2002 there was the case of the Lackawanna Six — six local Muslims who attended an al-Qaeda training camp. And in any case, even if it isn’t the norm, what is the local Muslim community doing to […]
UK Muslima who joined Islamic State was “radicalized” at London mosque
Sharmeena Begum was apparently “radicalised at a women’s charity based at one of Britain’s biggest mosque.” Western authorities are paying insufficient attention to mosques and Islamic charities, assuming that they’re “moderate” on the basis of wishful thinking more than anything else. And whenever an Islamic jihadist is discovered to have attended a particular mosque, mosque […]
Mosques and massacres: Western leaders need to start paying attention
“In many Muslim countries … the mosques are monitored by the police on Friday. There is a simple reason for this: many political decisions start from the mosque during the Friday khutba [sermon]. Historians of Islam know that many riots and revolutions were launched from the mosques and that jihad is often proclaimed during the khutba.” “Mosques and Massacres,” by […]
Georgia Muslim who tried to join the Islamic State “Works at Dawah – Calling to Allah,” praised jihad murders in Canada
Leon Nathan Davis, the Georgia Muslim who has been sentenced to fifteen years for trying to join the Islamic State, has an active Facebook page under his Muslim name, Abu Hurairah Al Amreekee — although it will probably be taken down soon. Thanks to Kamala for alerting me to it. On it, he lists “Dawah […]
Russia: 30 Muslims arrested at mosque for recruiting for the Islamic State
People in a mosque, recruiting for the Islamic State? Don’t they know that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam? “ISIS suspects reportedly arrested in Moscow suburb,” RT, July 24, 2015: More than 30 people have been detained in a suburb of the Russian capital on suspicion of recruiting for the Islamic State […]