1. “Islam Is Not A Monolith” You’ve just decided to attend a Meet-Your-Muslim-Neighbor gathering at a local mosque, the one that was built a few years ago to accommodate a swelling population of Believers. When the plans for the new mosque had first been announced, some people objected to its being built, but they were […]
Canada: Imam claims that “Islam is the most feminist religion”
Imam Syed Soharwardy of Calgary, who has referenced Islam as the “most feminist religion,” also states: Yes, there are people, there are people of clergy also, they misinterpret, they definitely have different mindset, but they are very, very small minority. Unless one is deaf, dumb and blind to world news and events, history, current Islamic […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: “Spread Hummus Not Hate” in Beaver, Pennsylvania
One more example of Meet-Your-Muslim Neighbor Ninnies: “Clearing the Air on Islam through ‘Spread Hummus, Not Hate’ events in Beaver,” by J.D. Prose, Beaver County Times, March 31, 2017: BEAVER — If any two things bring Beaver Countians together, it’s food and religion, and Center Township resident Toni Ashfaq will incorporate both to educate residents about […]
Egypt: “3,000 extremist fatwas” incite Muslims to destroy churches
“Muslims had never destroyed any kind of heritage after their historic victories in foreign countries, in contrary to what ISIS and other extremists are doing now.” That is flatly false. There are records of literally thousands of Hindu temples that Muslim invaders destroyed in India. And remember that the Middle East and North Africa were […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: “Should We Blame Islam For Terrorism?”
This is the rhetorical question — “no” being the only conceivable response — that the Iranian-born David Shariatmadari, now living in the U.K., asked in a recent article in The Guardian. He began his exercise in taqiyya by insisting that while in the late 20th and early 21st century, some Muslims have begun to resort […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: One Minute and 33 Seconds, Or Pauline Hanson Ill-Prepared
Pauline Hanson, the Australian politician and leader of the One Nation Party, two days ago called for a referendum to change her country’s Constitution, so that section 116 of that document, which prohibits banning a religion, might be scrapped, in order that Islam might then be prohibited. For Hanson claimed, as she has so many […]
Zuhdi Jasser endorses pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist, says “no greater jihadists” than foes of jihad terror
There has for many years been a difference of opinion among those who are aware of the reality of the jihad threat. There are those who believe it very important, indeed, crucial to the success of our efforts to resist the global jihad and Sharia supremacism, to include reformist Muslims in them, and to support […]
New Book Fails to Convince that Islam Made America Great
“Muslims have helped us to be more American, to be better Americans,” writes Loyola Marymount University theology professor Amir Hussain in his new book Muslims and the Making of America. Yet his volume offers little support for this multicultural, politically correct thesis. “There has never been an America without Muslims,” Hussain states while noting Muslims […]
Reza Aslan: Why he is not a Muslim
In this CNN piece, Reza Aslan purports to explain why he is a Muslim, and only ends up demonstrating that he is not a Muslim (although he is an Islamic apologist). Now, I can hear the chorus of outrage now through my office window: Muslim explains why he is a Muslim, bigoted “Islamophobe” says he […]
“There Is Nothing to Fear in Islam,” Says DC Imam At Conference with Hamas-Linked CAIR Official
“There is nothing to fear in Islam,” proclaimed Imam Talib M. Shareef during the February 9 “Tackling Islamophobia at Home” presentation at Washington, D.C.’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library. Before over 300 largely sympathetic listeners in the library’s Great Hall entrance atrium, the panel presented an airbrushed understanding of an Islam perfectly at home […]