“Peace and love are at the center of our religion, as evidenced by scripture and history,” stated Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah at the inaugural 2014 Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies (FPPMS) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Despite his radical past, such positive portrayals of Islam continue to suffuse the recent December 5-7, […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Ed Husain on the British Museum and “The True Face of Islam” (Part Four)
Then he mentions several examples of figurative art found on Islamic artifacts. First, a “centuries-long collection of tiles and jugs and other objects shows us that figurative art was normal in the Islamic world.” How does he know that figurative art was “normal” in the Islamic world? Where are these tiles and jugs from? He […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Ed Husain on the British Museum and “The True Face of Islam” (Part Three)
What Ed Husain wants his readers to believe is that Muslim opposition to music is only to be found among the “Islamic State, the Taliban, and other hardliners.” That’s not true. He leaves out any mention of the belief, among many Muslims, that Muhammad himself condemned musical instruments when he said: “There will be among […]
Pakistan: Muslim clerics declare that “Islam has nothing to do with extremism and terrorism”
In Pakistan, “representatives of political and religious organisations of the country have agreed unanimously to carry out a joint-struggle for the elimination of the menace of terrorism and extremism from the country.” If these clerics truly wished to “denounce terrorism” and “resolve to end menace,” they would at least start by resolving to end the […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Ed Husain on the British Museum and “The True Face of Islam” (Part Two)
Coexistence was the hallmark of Muslim civilisations, from China to the Philippines, from Malaysia to Africa and the Middle East. It was not isolated to Muslim Spain. Jewish, Christian and Muslim bread stamps, a practice from Roman times, thrived in Muslim-controlled Egypt. The gallery has a sample of remarkable stone stamps from between 1000 and […]
Indonesia: Muslim leader says women have honored position in Islam
They have to keep telling us, because only by constant repetition can propagandists compel people to discard the truth and embrace the lie. The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Ed Husain on the British Museum and “The True Face of Islam” (Part One)
Ed Husain, a self-described former Muslim extremist who once headed the Quilliam Foundation, which is ostensibly dedicated to turning Muslims away from Jihadist activities, is ecstatic about the exhibit of artifacts of Islamic civilization at the British Museum that opened last November. In Britain today, Islam in its original essence is not to be found […]
Iran’s nuclear top dog: We secretly bought replacements for nuclear equipment that nuke deal made us destroy
As Muhammad said, “War is deceit.” “Iran’s Nuclear Chief Salehi: We Had Secretly Purchased Replacements for Nuclear Equipment That the JCPOA Had Required Us to Destroy; Yellowcake Production Facilities are Operational; We Are Advancing in Nuclear Propulsion,” MEMRI, January 22, 2019: Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, was […]
Austria: 40% of Muslim migrants lied about age, many involved in high-profile crimes
Austria reports that 40 percent of migrants who claimed to be underage were lying about their age. “‘Underage’ migrants have also been involved with several high-profile crimes in both Austria and neighbouring Germany where some cities, such as Hamburg, have found that up to half of the underage asylum seekers are over the age of […]
Robert Spencer: Linda Sarsour Says ‘My Beloved Prophet Muhammad Was a Human Rights Activist’
Only if Jews, women, and all non-Muslims do not count as humans. My latest in PJ Media: Video has surfaced of the hijab-wearing feminist heroine Linda Sarsour speaking in California in December, complaining about her education: I went to public school. My parents couldn’t afford to send seven children to Islamic school … As I grew […]