Does a 2010 book offer anti-jihadist “counter-narratives which emerge from religious views” of Muslim “mainstream scholars who have a lot of credibility” as desired by National Defense University Professor Hassan Abbas at a recent Washington, DC, panel? Like other prominent academics, Abbas advocated the Fatwa on Terrorism and Suicide Bombings, yet this disturbing but often […]
Al-Aqsa Mosque imam: “Message of Islam is one of peace”
They have to keep telling us, over and over again, because there is so very much evidence to the contrary. “‘Islam is religion of peace,’ says Sheikh of 3rd holiest site Islamic world during Gloucester talk,” Gloucester Citizen, November 29, 2015: People who claim to commit atrocities in the name of Islam “cannot be true […]
New “Study Quran” aims to convince you that the Muslim holy book doesn’t really mean what it says
Is this a genuine attempt to counter the jihadists’ interpretation of Islam, or a cynical exercise designed to deceive Western non-Muslims and keep them ignorant and complacent about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat? Well, it’s not a good sign that two of the five Muslim scholars who put “The Study Quran” together […]
Nigeria: Sultan of Sokoto says Islam is a religion of peace that abhors terrorism
The idea that Islam is a religion of peace that abhors terrorism has to be constantly repeated, because it is contradicted daily by the behavior of Islamic jihadists, and their justification of their murders by pointing to the Qur’an and Sunnah. The Sultan of Sokoto did not explain how it happened that a group that […]
India’s VP: Western countries wrong to link Islam with terrorism
About Islamic jihadis linking Islam with terrorism, Dr. Ansari was silent. “Western countries linking Islam with terrorism not true: Ansari,” Daily Excelsior, November 7, 2015: NEW DELHI, Nov 6: Refuting the view by Western world that Asian countries are using Islam for encouraging terrorism, Vice-President M Hamid Ansari has said there is no place for […]
“Jihad” is “misunderstood” spiritual struggle, Muslim scholar tells Oprah
If jihad is simply a spiritual struggle, then why is there an entire chapter of the Qur’an entitled “Booty” or “The Spoils of War” (al-Anfal). What spoils ensue from a spiritual struggle? If jihad is simply a spiritual struggle, how is a Muslim supposed to make Jews and Christians “pay the jizya with willing submission […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Muhammad Had “British Values”?
In FrontPage today I discuss a new attempt to sell more Islam in the schools in the UK — as the solution to “extremism,” of course. How best to fight against the global jihad? The claim is increasingly common in the West that the best way is…more Islam. “This is a golden opportunity,” wrote the […]
UK’s Independent: Muhammad had British values, so fight “extremism” by teaching more Islam in schools
This is just the sort of thing the addled Leftists of the Independent eat up by the truckload. But let’s look into some of the British values that Islamic tradition holds Muhammad as having taught: Women must cover everything but their face and hands: “‘O Asma’, when a woman reaches the age of menstruation, it […]
Chicago Muslim teen pleads guilty to trying to join the Islamic State
“After Khan’s arraignment in January, his mother, Zarine Khan, delivered a tearful but stern message accusing ISIS recruiters of ‘the brainwashing and recruiting of children through the use of social media and the Internet.’ ‘Leave our children alone!’ she cried.” How hearteningly moderate. Here, however, is a photograph of Zarine Khan with her husband Shafi, […]
UK Muslim convicted of terrorism offense for jihadi training notes, says he just wanted to lose weight
“Amjad who has run a jewellers shop in Dewsbury for 17 years and a hotel in Roundhay Road, Leeds for five years had denied the offence claiming he made the notes, which included physical exercises because he was trying to lose weight.” Hamas-linked CAIR should have rushed to his defense. He could have been a […]