Finally, there is the argument, from toponyms, of a Muslim presence in America before there was a United States. Here John Hamed, Jr. descends into the absurd: “Islam was here even before there was a U.S.A. There are more than 500 places in the U.S. today with clearly Islamic names: Mecca, Indiana; Medina in New […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Columbus and His Muslim Connection
John Hamed, Jr. repeats as fact several myths about Muslims. The first one, discussed in the previous piece, is the claim made by the zoologist and amateur epigraphist Barry Fell, of an Arab presence in the New World as early as 700 A.D. This was followed by the three distinct claims made by Muslim “scholars” […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: John Hamed, Jr. and the Misrepresentation of Islam
John Hamed, Jr. is the public relations officer of the Islamic Society of New Castle, Ohio, who wrote a letter, purporting to correct misperceptions about Islam, to the New Castle News: We write this to take exception to the letter published Oct. 4 in the New Castle News, titled “America not the place for Muslims.” […]
UK: Labour leader launches “Islamophobia awareness month” with “extremist” Muslim group
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and a number of his MPs attended the launch of “Islamophobia awareness month.” Another instance of tolerance for the intolerable, in which a Western leader teams up with a hardcore Islamic supremacist group to shove “Islamophobia” propaganda down the throats of non-Muslims. The anti-Israel, pro-PLO terrorist-honouring Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and […]
New York Daily News: Don’t “fear” when you hear “Allahu akbar” on an airplane or in a shopping mall
“It is recited by millions of Muslims and Arab Christians every day.” In daily and regular contact with Arab Christians for sixteen years, I never once heard any one of them ever say “Allahu akbar.” In discussing this with some of them, they said it was because of the use Islamic jihadists made of the […]
UK: Father of Islamic State jihadi says his son was “radicalized” on Twitter
Afzal Suleman would apparently have us believe that he raised Shabazz Suleman to be a good “moderate,” rejecting “extremism,” until he encountered “radicals” on Twitter who “brainwashed” him. Why wasn’t the “moderate” Islam he supposedly learned from kind old Afzal sufficient to withstand the blandishments of the sinister Twitter hijackers of Islam? I doubt British […]
Army knew Bergdahl had deserted, but forced soldiers who knew truth to sign nondisclosure agreements
“In the days following Sergeant Bergdahl’s desertion, soldiers with knowledge of the facts were forced to sign nondisclosure agreements. The truth about Sergeant Bergdahl was suppressed at the cost of their peace of mind. Though it was common knowledge inside the unit that Sergeant Bergdahl had deserted, the Army allowed the myth to perpetuate that […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Can Islam Help Us Prevent More Sexual Abuse Scandals?
Or has The Independent completely departed from reality? My latest in FrontPage: The UK’s Independent, hitherto generally regarded as not run by insane people, on Sunday ran a piece entitled: “How the teachings of Islam could help us prevent more sexual abuse scandals.” Now on the question of the Independent’s sanity, the jury is decidedly […]
David Wood video: How Islam can prevent sexual abuse scandals (thanks, Qasim Rashid!)
The superlatively brilliant David Wood takes apart the jaw-droppingly dishonest article by Islamic apologist Qasim Rashid, ““How the teachings of Islam could help us prevent more sexual abuse scandals.” Wood says: “You have to hand it to Qasim. Whatever he lacks in honesty and integrity, he more than makes up for in arrogance and stupidity.” […]
New Jersey: Muslim claims his wife won’t leave home alone because of “Trump’s anti-Muslim hysteria”
Here is still more trumped-up victimhood propaganda. It’s much more likely that the only real reason why Fakhruddin Ahmed’s wife might not be able to leave the house is because he hasn’t given her permission to do so. Islamic law stipulates: “The husband may forbid his wife to leave the home…because of the hadith related […]