“We are shocked and outraged to learn that one of our guest speakers said reprehensible anti-Jewish remarks on the floor of Al-Aqsa,” said mosque official Chukri Khorchid, but it’s more likely that he is shocked and outraged that one of their guest speakers got caught making reprehensible anti-Jewish remarks. There you go again, Spencer, you […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Robert Azzi, Still At It With His “Ask A Muslim Anything” Program (Part Three)
3. “It says in the Qur’an that a man can beat his wife if she is disobedient. Could you comment on that?” Azzi: “Yes, I’m glad you asked that question. It’s true that some 1400 years ago, and not just in the Middle East but in Europe, men had far more control over their wives […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Robert Azzi, Still At It With His “Ask A Muslim Anything” Program (Part Two)
Friends introduced him to the Koran, the holiest scripture of Islam. Azzi was captivated by the translation by Muhammad Asad. Asad, himself a convert to Islam, was born Leopold Weiss to a Jewish family in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Asad’s rabbinical skills and the tradition of questioning in Jewish learning greatly influenced Asad’s translation of the […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Robert Azzi, Still At It With His “Ask A Muslim Anything” Program (Part One)
I have written about Robert Azzi before, but because he is as busy as ever with his “Ask A Muslim Anything” events, it’s time for another look at this tireless propagandist for Islam. For several years, Azzi has been visiting towns in New Hampshire — and very occasionally in northern Massachusetts — from his home […]
Guardian runs piece entitled “Why it’s OK for young Muslims to be radical”
For years, Western analysts at all points on the political spectrum have used the qualifier “radical” when speaking about jihadis (“radical Islamists”) and their motivating ideology (“radical Islam” or “radical extremism”). The point was to preserve the fiction that Islam is a religion of peace that doesn’t teach violence against unbelievers, and that the “radicals” […]
India: Muslim political party leader says “exploding bombs, attacking people is not Islam”
Owaisi seems to be a voice of reason and reconciliation among Muslims on the Indian subcontinent. The fact that he has to insist that “exploding bombs, attacking people is not Islam” and that Muslims should be loyal citizens of India is an indication of what Muslims in India are being taught. He will likely face […]
Rep. Ilhan Omar walks back her apology for her anti-Semitism, says furor is only “because I’m Muslim”
“Omar said she is worried that many will see her comments and those of Tlaib as anti-Semitic ‘because we are Muslim.’” No, but it’s likely because you’re Muslim, Ms. Omar, that you are so indefatigably anti-Semitic. As you know, the Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the […]
Bruce Bawer: Mustafa Akyol, the New York Times’s Islamic Flimflam Man
Here is a superb takedown by Bruce Bawer of the Islamic “moderate” Mustafa Akyol, whose disingenuousness we have exposed here at Jihad Watch many times. “The New York Times’s Islamic Flimflam Man,” by Bruce Bawer, PJ Media, February 21, 2019: On February 18, in keeping with its apparent goal of remaining America’s most reliable source […]
UK: “Moderate” imam Usama Hasan claims he would “deradicalize” ISIS bride by using work of jihadist scholar
Usama Hasan of the UK’s Quilliam Foundation gives the impression in this article that Ibn Taymiyya was a moderate. Hasan fails to mention that Ibn Taymiyya also said: “Since lawful warfare is essentially jihad and since its aim is that the religion is God’s entirely and God’s word is uppermost, therefore according to all Muslims, […]
Muslim member of Council on Foreign Relations claims “Islam reveres Judaism, the Torah, Moses and the Jewish people”
Qanta A. Ahmed “is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Committee on Combating Contemporary Anti-Semitism Through Testimony at the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation.” Here she claims that “Islam reveres Judaism, the Torah, Moses and the Jewish people as legitimate believers, and Jerusalem as belonging only to the […]