In FrontPage I discuss yet another exercise in deception and hypocrisy: It is a popular aspect of media mythmaking about the Islamic State that it is so extreme that even other “extremists” such as al-Qaeda shun and repudiate it. But this claim, like the many declarations by both Muslim and non-Muslim leaders that the Islamic […]
Pro-Muslim Brotherhood DHS adviser let go amid allegations of coverup
“’The Department also did not find any indication that he sought to disclose any other internal OHS [Office of Homeland Security] information to anyone apart from official use of information within the scope of his role for the Homeland Security Advisory Council.’ …However, documents obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act contradict […]
UK Muslim leaders demand that Cameron call the Islamic State the “Un-Islamic State”
“Using the group’s preferred name could help it radicalise yet more Britons, the signatories wrote.” So apparently they would have us believe that David Cameron calling the Islamic State “the Islamic State” will make young Muslims in Britain think that it is an Islamic State, and that they must go wage jihad on its behalf. […]
Islamic supremacist Linda Sarsour targets mentally ill homeless man to push “Islamophobia” fears
Islamic supremacist “Palestinian” far-Left activist Linda Sarsour is a practiced exploiter of the “hate” smear against foes of jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, and has never apologized for using the Islamic honor murder of Shaima Alawadi to spread lies about the prevalence of hate crimes against Muslims in America. Although she decries “hate,” she is […]
Reza Aslan: “If you’re a violent, war-mongering person, you can find justification in any scripture”
It’s remarkable that Don Lemon is pursuing this question, which is generally taboo in the mainstream media. He discussed it a few days ago; this is a follow-up. But notice that just as CNN featured two Jew-haters, Reza Aslan and Peter Beinart, to debate about Israel and Hamas, so also here both Aslan and Muslim […]
Former global counter-terrorism director of MI6: UK should encourage “ex-extremists” to “come home” from Iraq and Syria
Has it occurred to this genius that if this is done, all British jihadis in the Islamic State have to do in order to get back into Britain is say that they’re repentant? And what will Richard Barrett say when one of his “ex-extremists” mounts a jihad terror attack “back at home”? “War is deceit,” […]
Hamas-linked CAIR’s Nihad Awad: calling the Islamic State “the Islamic State” tarnishes the image of Islam
Hamas-linked CAIR’s Nihad Awad says that we must not call the Islamic State “the Islamic State.” This is because the Islamic State presents Hamas-linked CAIR with a massive problem: for years Awad and his sinister henchmen have been spreading smooth deceptions about Islam in the mainstream media, claiming that only greasy Islamophobes think that any […]
CNN’s Don Lemon: “Is Islam a more violent religion than other faiths?”
Is truth breaking out in the mainstream media? For years, this question has not been allowed to be asked. Even at Fox, commentators routinely affirm that the problem is that “radicals” who have “hijacked” Islam. But once one has been pounded on the head with it a few thousand times, the truth cannot be hidden […]
Iran’s President: “No extremism has ever existed among Iranians and in Islamic rules”
As Muhammad said, “War is deceit.” Note that Rouhani denounces “the baseless Islamophobic and Iranophobic campaigns by the Zionist regime.” People are suspicious of Islamic jihadists and the Iranian mullahs because of a Jewish conspiracy, doncha know. “Iran and Islam not associated with violence: Rouhani,” Tehran Times, September 2, 2014: TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan […]
Do the Qur’an and Islamic law forbid terrorism?
This piece by establishment academic Juan Cole is well over a year old, and as a rule I only post topical material at Jihad Watch. However, with all the condemnations of the Islamic State as un-Islamic lately, coming from both Muslims and non-Muslims, the cognitive dissonance arises again: on the one hand we have armed […]