He really meant “Grab the car keys and take the kids to school,” and “Grab that barbell and start working out,” doncha know. “Boston imam denies radicalizing faithful, despite video of fiery sermons,” by Brooke Singman, FoxNews.com, June 13, 2015: Several Boston-area terror suspects, including the man killed by police earlier this month as he […]
California Muslim who tried to join the Islamic State became more observant last year, frequently attending Anaheim mosque
Is the mosque being investigated? If not, why not? “O.C. men plead not guilty to plotting to fight for Islamic State,” by Joel Rubin and Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times, June 8, 2015: Two Orange County men accused of conspiring to aid Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria pleaded not guilty in federal […]
Pennsylvania school officials schooled on Islam at mosque, at taxpayer expense
Imagine if school officials really had gone to a Baptist church to learn about Christianity, at taxpayer expense, as Owens suggests in his analogy scenario. The outcry would have been intense. But no one will take much notice of this. “School Staff Trained On Islam, BOWS TO ALLAH At Local Mosque On Taxpayer Dime,” by […]
Analysts scratch their heads and wonder why Boston produces so many jihadis
The words “Islamic Society of Boston” do not appear in this Boston Globe article, which is full of head-scratching and bewilderment over why Boston has produced so many jihad terrorists. Yet the Tsarnaev brothers, Usaama Rahim (the “Roslindale man” in the second paragraph), and Tarek Mehanna, as well as Aafia Siddiqui, who is doing 86 […]
Florida: Imam may have recruited dozens for jihad behind bars
Why didn’t other Muslims in prison, and Muslim prison chaplains, explain to Abu Taubah how he was misunderstanding the true, peaceful teachings of Islam? “Gangster-turned-radical imam may have radicalized dozens behind bars,” by Malia Zimmerman, Fox News, June 4, 2015: Marcus Dwayne Robertson, 46, a former U.S. Marine known to his supporters at his Orlando-based […]
Video: Robert Spencer vs. imam on Hannity on Sharia and U.S. mosques
Last night I appeared on Fox’s Sean Hannity Show discussing the prevalence of a preference for Sharia over U.S. law among Muslims in the United States, and what mosques are doing (and not doing) about it. Appearing along with me was the Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, […]
Boston Marathon bomber’s college friend gets 6 years in prison
“Kadyrbayev’s father, Murat, traveled from Kazakhstan to attend his son’s sentencing hearing. He said his son didn’t fully understand in the moment how serious his actions were. ‘Had he known what he was doing and had he understood what he was doing, we wouldn’t be standing here’, Murat Kadyrbayev said through a translator outside court.” Had […]
Young Muslims trying to reach Syria got instructions from Montreal mosque
But…but…didn’t the mosque leaders try to dissuade them, and persuade them that the jihadis were misunderstanding Islam? “Youth trying to reach Syria got instructions from Montreal mosque, family members say,” by Allan Woods, Toronto Star, May 30, 2015: MONTREAL—Ten young Quebec Muslims who were detained for allegedly trying to join jihadist groups in Syria received […]
Jihadis don’t show up at Phoenix mosque protest, so no one gets hurt
The Islamic State had threatened to show up and commit mass murder, and specifically threatened the event organizer, but didn’t appear at the event, and so no one was hurt — despite the mainstream media hysteria over “heavily armed protesters” supposedly menacing people at the mosque. Speaking for myself, I wouldn’t have held a protest […]
UK: Local Muslims “shocked” by conviction of Muslim on terror charges
Read the imam’s remarks carefully. “We need to find out how to engage the minds of the youth, regardless of religion, we need to engage them so we can curtail problems before they happen.” Regardless of religion? How many non-Muslims have gone to join the Islamic State? The imam doesn’t say a word about what […]