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.
Bangladesh President reveals that Islam is a religion of peace
“Islam is a religion of peace. All people have to remain alert so that no one can create indiscipline in society by misinterpreting religion.” Hamid did not explain how this “misinterpretation” of Islam became so widespread that there are now global movements based upon them. Nor did he explain what his government, or any other […]
Imam of the Kaaba: “Terrorism is the biggest problem and Islam has no link with it. Terrorists have no religion.”
The terrorists disagree. One Islamic State propagandist’s parents said of him: “Our son is a devout Muslim. He had learnt the Quran by heart.” One Malaysian Muslim said that the Qur’an led him to join the Islamic State. A Muslima in the U.S. promoted the Islamic State by quoting the Qur’an. In its communiqués, the Islamic […]
GWU’s “ex-jihadist” Jesse Morton wants to dismantle “entire counterterrorism component of military-industrial complex”
He is “deradicalized,” he has renounced al-Qaeda, he’s comfortably “moderate” now. Now blames the U.S. for jihad terror, wants to dismantle the U.S.’s entire counterterrorism apparatus (such as it is), and wants to provide “holistic socio-pschological [sic] -political-economic alternatives based in the shariah” to fighting against jihad activity. And this man is teaching at George […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: When Are Islamic Terrorists Not Islamic Terrorists?
When they commit Islamic terrorism, of course. My latest in FrontPage: “Islamophobia” is running rampant in the heretofore bucolic town of Owego, New York, and Muslims are worried. Are marauding bands of “right-wing extremists” pulling hijabs off little old Muslim ladies and daubing swastikas on the walls of mosques? No, the “Islamophobia” in question appears […]
Australia’s SBS: Jihad “doesn’t mean war against non-Muslims”
The Shafi’i legal manual (the Shafi’is are a school of Islamic jurisprudence) ‘Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller), which has been certified by al-Azhar, the foremost authority in Sunni Islam, as conforming to the “practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni community,” devotes one paragraph to jihad as spiritual struggle and seven pages to jihad […]
“Back then, jihad was very clean and beautiful”
“When Mr Abdul Manaf Kasmuri, 61, pledged his allegiance to Al-Qaeda, he planned to help fellow Muslims who were being oppressed in conflict zones around the world….’Back then, jihad was very clean and beautiful. Jihad was only about helping fellow Muslims without resorting to violence.’” When was jihad ever clean and beautiful for its non-Muslim […]