The writing in the halos is actually not Arabic, but Pseudo-Kufic: Renaissance-era Europeans thought that the Arabic script was that which was used in Jesus’ time, so they thought that they were lending some historical authenticity to their representations by including some characters that resembled Arabic. That is all that is going on in Gentile […]
The Two Faces of Suhaib Webb
Some people in this world are very good at playing the game. Some people are unbelievably talented at presenting themselves in the exact way that draws as much positive attention, while making the very idea of negative attention anathema to those that idolize them. A simpler way of saying this might be to say that […]
US Muslim leader claims “Islam vs. the West is the lie that keeps on giving”
“On the far right,” says Salam al-Marayati, “Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Frank Gaffney and others making baseless claims about the incompatibility of Islam and the West increasingly find an audience and place in U.S. politics.” Islam as taught by its classic schools of jurisprudence teaches the death penalty for criticizing Islam and leaving Islam, the […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: A Muslim Professor Rewrites History
He wants more Muslims in the West, so he whitewashes Muslim Spain. My latest in PJ Media: Akbar Ahmed is 75 years old and laden with honors. An internationally respected academic, he holds the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and is Professor of International Relations at the American University, and is the former Pakistani […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Prince William’s Middle East Visit Started Out Well, and Then…..
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, has just completed a trip to the Middle East. He first spent a day and a half in Jordan, visiting the Roman city of Jerash, where his wife had had her picture taken when she was four years old. It turns out that the Middleton family had lived for several […]
UK: Prince William pledges to Palestinians “you will not be forgotten” after his “very powerful experience”
Prince William, paying the first official British royal visit to the Palestinian Authority territories on Wednesday, told Palestinians they had not been forgotten and his trip to the West Bank was a “very powerful one”….Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appealed to the prince and the British people to support the Palestinian campaign for independence. This is […]
Islamic scholar Akbar Ahmed claims that brutal Muslim ruler represented “the idea of pluralist society in Europe”
Historical revisionism is designed to influence current policy; Akbar Ahmed’s ongoing whitewashes of Islamic al-Andalus are clearly meant to break down resistance to the mass Muslim migrant influx into Europe today. In this piece, he claims that Abdur Rahman I’s “dynasty more than any other came to represent the idea of pluralist society in Europe.” […]
A Morality Tale: The Death of Razan Al-Najar
In the world media’s tendentious coverage of the Great March of Return in Gaza, the stories that first appeared in the continuous coverage were always those versions put out by the “Palestinians,” or more exactly, by Hamas. Israeli corrections would be issued, but were not always reported, and when they were reported, became the objects […]
Joke of the day: Palestinian Authority participates in “No money for terrorism” conference
Of course, what they mean by terrorism is not what non-Muslims mean by terrorism. “Absurd irony: The PA at ‘No Money for Terrorism’ conference,” by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, June 25, 2018: It would almost be funny if it wasn’t so absurd. The Palestinian Authority, whose leaders pay salaries to […]
Muslim cleric: “We never fought peoples. Whoever says that we conquered in order to collect the jizya tax is lying.”
Everything this sheikh says is a lie, and you can see here how these lies are used in order to advance a contemporary political agenda. In my new book The History of Jihad, I show that many, many times Muslims conquered people in order to collect the jizya. Nor did the Byzantines attack the Muslims […]