“In 2013, Taha republished a photo on his Facebook page, ostensibly of a brutally killed Egyptian teenage boy, which was accompanied by the text: ‘O Muslim, O servant of God. There is a Jew behind me, come kill him.’” This is mainstream Islam. The notorious genocidal hadith states: “Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace […]
Robert Spencer in Human Events: Canada Wants to Send This Jihadi to College
A Canadian court recently ruled against allowing a convicted jihadist to attend university, but it’s only because of the danger “Islamophobes” pose to him. My latest in Human Events: The top court in Canada’s most populous province, the Ontario Review Board, attempted to strike a strong blow against “Islamophobia” on Monday when it granted permission […]
Colm Gillis: The West Owes “an Immense Debt to Islam” (Part 3)
Colm Gillis also mentions, in his excoriation of Boris Johnson, as “an achievement of the sultans,” the architectural feats of Mimar Sinan (“the great architect Sinan”). But those feats were not achievements of the sultans — they merely paid the bills. They belonged to Sinan himself, as his personal achievement. And Sinan, it might be […]
Colm Gillis: The West Owes “an Immense Debt to Islam” (Part 2)
Colm Gilllis continues his attempt to eviscerate Boris Johnson for daring to suggest, 12 years ago, that Islam is the cause of Muslim lands falling behind the West: Johnson is correct that many Muslim-majority nations are beset by social and political problems. Yet the same holds true for numerous Christian-majority nations such as Russia, Honduras, […]
Colm Gillis: The West Owes “an Immense Debt to Islam” (Part 1)
Boris Johnson’s recently-unearthed observation that Islam kept Muslims centuries behind the West prompted a series of letters to The Guardian taking issue with this, claiming instead that the West owed an “immense debt to Islam.” The first and most indignant letter, representative of many, was from Dr. Colm Gillis, an “independent scholar” who appears to […]
Canada: Muslim who stabbed soldiers for Allah won’t attend college after all, psychiatrist fears he’d be attacked
An update on this story. The plans to allow Ayanle Hassan Ali, who said that Allah told him to kill people and stabbed three Canadian soldiers, to attend college “have now been scuttled, Chaimowitz told the board, because the ‘unflattering’ media coverage led them to worry that Ali himself might be in danger from another […]
Top Norwegian politician says on Facebook that Norway should give Tommy Robinson asylum, Facebook removes post
Facebook and the other social media giants are increasingly dangerous enemies of freedom. If they aren’t broken up, the freedom of speech, and free societies, will not survive. “Facebook removes Norwegian top politician’s post about Tommy Robinson,” Voice of Europe, July 18, 2019: “It’s deeply, deeply problematic”, says Per-Willy Amundsen, former Justice Minister in Norway. […]
Canada: Appeal court allows Muslim who stabbed soldiers and said “Allah told me to kill people” to attend college
“Prosecutors had challenged the board’s ruling, saying too much consideration had been given to Ali’s needs and too little to public safety.” Truer words were never spoken. Ali said: “Allah told me to do this, Allah told me to come here and kill people.” But he was acquitted of terror charges and found mentally ill. […]
Paris: hundreds of illegal migrants from Africa storm Pantheon, demand papers, housing
In a shocking show of hooliganism and lawlessness, 700 illegal African migrants “stormed the Pantheon, the final resting place of France’s greatest non-military luminaries including the writers Voltaire, Victor Hugo, and Emile Zola.” Over three dozen arrests followed. These illegal migrants have organized themselves into an association called “The Black Vests.” They demanded “‘papers and […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Tommy Robinson and the Death of Britain
Sharia justice in the UK. My latest in FrontPage: As Tommy Robinson headed into court for his sentencing Thursday, he wore a t-shirt that read: “Convicted of Journalism.” And it’s true. Tommy Robinson is heading back to jail for doing what journalists routinely do: ask questions of defendants heading into courtrooms. The gaggle of establishment […]