“We are going to invite people to Islam… It may be a little sweetie-pie Islam, but it will be fine. It’s good enough. We have to rescue the poor, dumb American people.” What an interesting way to put it. One might almost get the impression that he means to conceal the violent and hateful aspects […]
Nigeria: 200 Muslim clerics training to counter Boko Haram ideology and propagate “peaceful nature of Islam”
“Some of the participants who spoke on the programme, described it as a welcome development that would assist in handling extremist and propagation of the peaceful nature of Islam. They pointed out that Prophet Muhammad cherished peaceful coexistence among and between Muslims and non-muslims and viewed non-Muslims as people who should be attracted to Islam […]
HuffPo Germany: Fake passports are not a crime
Aras Bacho, the brilliant Syrian teen migrant and regular contributor at Huffington Post Germany, has gifted us with yet another gem. In addition to demanding that Germany provide all signage in Arabic, Bacho would like to incorporate the Syrian norm of fake passports into the once-functioning Federal Republic of Germany. What could go wrong? It’s […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Hillary, George Washington, and Islam
In the second Presidential debate, Hillary Clinton made a curious claim about Islam’s place in the history of America: “We’ve had Muslims in America since George Washington.” Many in the television audience of tens of millions must have thought that surely she had evidence for this, and quietly accepted her statement, while others, better prepared, and thus […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: St. Louis Muslims Put Up Misleading ‘HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK’ Billboard
Outspoken “moderate” U.S. Muslims, finally? No, not at all. My latest in PJ Media: A new billboard in St. Louis proclaims: HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims. Life is sacred. Koran 5:32. At last, is this the moderate Islamic movement that the U.S. and the Western world have been so eagerly waiting for? The seemingly […]
Toronto: Muslim father of Islamic State jihadis gets conditional discharge for throwing son’s assault rifle in garbage
He has one son who is required to “stay away” from the Islamic State and another who left Canada to join the Islamic State. But the judge was “satisfied Uddin did not intend to obstruct justice when he got rid of the rifle.” How did she know for sure? “Father of man on terror peace […]
Austria: Jihadi’s mom says he only screamed “Allahu akbar” because he was singing along to rap
War is deceit, said Muhammad, but some deception is more plausible and sophisticated than others. “According to reports the 21-year-old Turkish man named Ibrahim C. tried to drive into a group of pedestrians while shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ from the open car window. After he failed, he is said to have hit wildly around him and […]
St. Louis-area Muslims post ‘HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK’ billboard
This billboard is in St. Louis, not Raqqa, so obviously the Islamic State isn’t going to see it unless it shows up on their Twitter feeds and Facebook pages. Even if it does, the target audience is not ISIS at all, but non-Muslims; if the goal really were to insult the Islamic State to its […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: What Do French Textbooks Teach About Islam? (Part I)
The historian Barbara Lefebvre took it upon herself to find out what is taught about Islam to students in French middle and secondary schools. What she discovered was not surprising, but deeply disturbing nonetheless. And her close analysis may encourage others — in Germany, in Great Britain, in Sweden, in the U.S. – to engage […]
Video: Robert Spencer on Barack Obama’s Fantasy Islam
In this new video, I explain how Barack Obama’s public statements about Islam do not accord with Islamic teachings or the reality of current events.