Over at PamelaGeller.com, I discuss yet another sly exercise in Islamic proselytizing slipped into a forum that would have no space for a similar presentation from any other religious group: Teen Vogue is just that: a magazine for teenage girls. Articles featured on its front page today include “Justin Bieber and Sam Smith Are Already […]
Info about Chattanooga jihad murderer is disappearing from the Internet
“Abdulazeez did what jihadists are asked to do prior to execution of their attacks: delete important information that could provide insight into their networks.” And now his network is no doubt enjoying the spectacle as law enforcement officials and the mainstream media continue their quest to discover his motive. “Information about the Chattanooga Shooter is […]
The Myth of Islamic Science
“The notion of a golden age of Islamic learning is a myth created to counter the current sorry state of intellectual life in the Islamic world.” Indeed so. A provocative perspective from India: “The Myth of Islamic Science,” by N.S. Rajaram, India Facts, April 2, 2015 (thanks to K.R.): In this provocative essay, Waseem Altaf, […]
France: Muslim who placed severed head between Islamic flags denies jihad motive
“The severed head of his boss was found hanging on the fence of a site belonging to U.S-based gas and chemicals company Air Products, next to flags bearing professions of the Muslim faith. Examination of one of Salhi’s phones revealed he had taken a picture of himself with the severed head before his arrest and […]
Tunisia jihad murderer: “There was no sign he was an extremist, he just looked like a normal young man.”
The Islamic State’s manual How to Survive in the West teaches Muslims “how to live a double-life, how to keep your Secret life private, how to survive in a threatening land, how you can Arm and strengthen the Muslims when the time for Jihad comes to your country, and neighborhood….If you are a convert to […]
Strategies of Denial Revisited (Part II)
One of the ways, paradoxically, to deny or minimize the threat of Islam is to focus only on the Qur’an, and then on selective quotation from the handful of verses that appear to reassure, not threaten. There is 2.256 (“no compulsion in religion”) and 5.32 (an injunction against murder) without the considerable modifying of that […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Insincere Apology
How can a jihadi repent for his jihad? My latest in FrontPage: “Tsarnaev apologizes for Boston Marathon bombing,” trumpeted the Boston Globe Wednesday, and certainly the young jihad murderer talked a good game: “I would like to apologize to the victims and the survivors,” he said. “I am sorry for the lives I have taken, […]
UK city shocked! shocked! by family’s flight to join the Islamic State
And counter-terror measures will just make more Muslims join the Islamic State, doncha know. How many times have we heard this song and dance? And yet no one, especially in Britain, seems to have caught on to the game that is being played. One of the Muslims interviewed in this story says that the Muslims […]
Imam, aunt: would-be beheader of Pamela Geller not a terrorist, was ‘murdered’
It will be hard for them to make this victimhood narrative fly, since people who have seen the surveillance video don’t bear out their story. On the other hand, with a willingly complicit mainstream media (Lisa Wangsness, call your office) and police officials afraid of more “racist police” stories, they might be able to get […]
Arizona Muslim group: “The Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam”
Well, this is reassuring — and we’ve certainly never heard it before! There’s just one catch (well, maybe a few catches): note, first of all, that Ahmidiyya leader Shahzad Amjad, at least as far as this story goes, doesn’t offer a single specific example of how the Islamic State is misrepresenting the teachings of the […]