Yesterday we brought you the news that a Muslim professor who says she has expertise in “Islamophobia” claims she was assaulted at a conference of Canadians for the Rule of Law. According to “journalist” Ron Csillag of the Canadian Jewish News, Jasmin Zine, the professor making the assault claim, “said she did not plan on […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: A Tale of Two Museums (Part Seven)
Muhammad Fraser-Rahim, a historian of Islam who spent more than a decade as a counter-terrorism advisor, including at the Department for Homeland Security, said that at a time when Trump appears to be questioning whether Islam is compatible with American life, there is an appetite for more awareness of its place in the American story. […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: A Tale of Two Museums (Part Six)
Yet if the American Jewish and Christian experiences are well documented in countless journals, research institutes, museum collections, in business, and in popular culture and entertainment, the American Muslim experience mostly appears to sit outside the broader narrative of stories Americans tell themselves about their history, according to religious scholars such as Lior Sternfeld, who […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: A Tale of Two Museums (Part Five)
At some Muslim sites, it is claimed that the Pinzón brothers, Martin Alonso Pinzón, the captain of the Pinta, and his brother Vicente Pinzón, the captain of the Niña, were Muslims. There is even the further claim that the Pinzón family were related to Abuzayan Muhammad III, the Moroccan Sultan of the Marinid Dynasty. I […]
Omar: “CAIR was founded after 9/11, because they recognize that some people did something”
If we had any actual journalists, one of them might ask Ilhan Omar exactly what she thinks was done on 9/11, and by whom, but we don’t have any such people. Also, Hamas-linked CAIR was founded in 1994, not after 9/11, and her staunch support for it is revealing. CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: A Tale of Two Museums (Part Four)
There is also evidence that Muslims were on the ships that the Italian explorer, navigator and colonist Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in the 15th century. It’s time to put paid to this claim made about Muslims and their supposed Columbus connection. Three distinct claims are made by Muslim “scholars” about Muslims and […]
Abbas lies to Harvard students about accepting Jews and Christians in a future divided Jerusalem
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has been saying one thing to Palestinians and another to American audiences. Abbas has declared that “not a single Israeli” will exist in future Palestinian state. Surprise! It actually should not be any surprise. What remains surprising is that anyone would expect him to do anything different. Deceit is an […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: A Tale of Two Museums (Part Three)
My own sense, and that of few dozen other Americans with whom I have checked about when Muslims began arriving in numbers, though only anecdotal evidence, may be of interest. The consensus is that from the late 1800s to the beginning of World War I (when immigration from Ottoman lands nearly ended for the duration […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: A Tale of Two Museums (Part Two)
The second museum discussed in this article is in Jackson, Mississippi. This grandly-titled and tiny “International Museum of Muslim Cultures” is less than twenty years old. “It was a struggle for a long time to even get American Muslims behind our idea,” said Emad Al-Turk, referring to the International Museum of Muslim Cultures in Jackson, […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: A Tale of Two Museums (Part One)
“What you don’t know about America’s Islamic heritage” is what USA Today purports to tell us in a feature story published some time ago that remains relevant as one example of a growing chorus. One of the greatest stories rarely told about the long history of Muslim immigration to the United States stretching back hundreds […]