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 […]
Robert Spencer at Catholic Answers: Answering a Muslim Apologist
Over at Catholic Answers I clear away another set of detours, diversions and deceptions: Catholic apologists keep very busy clearing up common misconceptions about the Faith: explaining how the Church’s teaching, practice, and history are misunderstood—or willfully misrepresented—by its opponents. Islam, too, has its apologists. They also claim that many critiques of the Muslim religion […]
Muslim prof: “Shenanigans” of “so-called Islamic State” are “harmful to Islam”
“Dr. Farouk El-Baz is director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University. He served as science adviser to President Anwar Sadat of Egypt.” In this Boston Herald op-ed, he offers something we have seen before: a Muslim denunciation of the Islamic State that glosses over or ignores altogether the Islamic justifications for the […]
Muslim journalist says U.S. “taught the world how to slit throats”
This denial and projection are familiar tactics of Islamic supremacists. Back in 2006, I received a series of venomous emails from a prominent “moderate Muslim,” Professor Khaleel Mohammed of San Diego State University, accusing me of “shameless lies” about Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. When I asked him to specify the lies, he responded: “As […]
Muslim groups demand mandatory retraining of all federal, state, local law enforcement officials who may have learned truth about jihad
They got the FBI and other federal agencies in 2011 to remove all mention of Islam and jihad in connection with terrorism from counter-terror training materials, and to fire counter-terror trainers (including me) who spoke the truth about how Islamic jihadists used the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and make recruits. Now, […]
International Business Times piece by Muslim photojournalist: There is nothing in Islam to justify Islamic State beheadings
“Zaid Al Fares is a photojournalist who moved from Raqqa, his home city, to Turkey following the Isis takeover.” Here he retails more deceptions and detours to try to claim that what the Islamic State is doing has nothing to do with Islam. Why does it matter whether or not what the Islamic State is […]
Australia: Muslim university researcher says there’s nothing Islamic about beheading, women have equal rights in Islam
Anne Aly’s statements are designed to comfort and reassure non-Muslims. And they no doubt do just that, unless the non-Muslims in question are knowledgeable enough about Islam to see through them. The assertion in the article’s headline, that “there is nothing Islamic about a beheading,” doesn’t appear in the article, but in any case it […]
Hamas top dog: We don’t kill civilians, but yeah, we killed those Israeli teens
He said that Hamas is against the killing of any civilians, and that the killing of the Israeli teens was not authorized by the Hamas leadership — although he did justify those killings. Nor did he explain why Hamas included the murders of Israeli civilians in its “Glory Record.” Here are some of Hamas’ self-described […]