Hey, this is great news! When will the Imam of Holy Kaaba, Sheikh Khalid Al Ghamdi, venture into Mosul and Raqqa to explain to the leaders of the Islamic State that they are misunderstanding the Religion of Peace? “Islam is religion of peace, says Imam of Kaaba,” Khaleej Times, April 25, 2015: Islamabad — The […]
Egypt’s Mufti going to Europe to fight “radical Islam” by meeting with non-Muslims
The Mufti of Egypt has shown himself to be a disingenuous purveyor of deception rather than reform twice recently — see here and here. And here again we see it: if he is really going to “clarify and explain the facts about ‘true Islam,’ why isn’t he meeting with Muslims? At least according to this […]
Egypt’s Mufti: Jihad terrorists are misunderstanders of Islam and Qur’an
Here is the Grand Mufti of Egypt with yet another disappointingly deceptive piece about how jihad terrorists are misunderstanding Islam — a point that everyone seems to take for granted as axiomatic except the jihad terrorists. And this piece won’t inspire any of them to lay down their arms and concentrate on the jihad of […]
Australia Muslim leader: Muslims join jihad because “blood is boiling” over domestic persecution & West’s atrocities
This is arrant nonsense: Muslims aren’t persecuted in Australia or anywhere else in the West. In fact, they enjoy more rights in the West than they do in Muslim countries. What Keysar Trad means by persecution is counter-terror efforts, and that reveals the insidious edge to his claims here: he is essentially calling for an […]
Husband of NY jihad plotter “shocked,” but had black flag of jihad at Muslim Day Parade
Says Abu Bakr of his wife’s arrest on jihad terror charges: “I don’t believe any of it, period. We are all shocked, the whole community. That’s not who she is.” But back in 2007, Abu Bakr was photographed at the Muslim Day Parade in New York City with the black flag of jihad. He carried […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: An Open Letter to Qasim Rashid to Public Dialogue and Debate
In FrontPage, exposing a double-talking deceiver: I read with disappointment Qasim Rashid’s recent piece in the Huffington Post. While professing to promote peace and understanding, Rashid denies the manifest facts that the Sharia penalty for apostasy is death and that Muhammad called for warfare against and subjugation of Jews and Christians. Far from peace, with […]
Necessary Lies
“That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of life.” –Nietzsche I couldn’t help but notice how the major media outlets avoided articulating into print what much of thinking humanity suspected after hearing the horrible news of Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately flying his plane into […]
Turkey’s EU minister: using terms “Islamic State” & “Islamic terrorism” offends Muslims
Of course, it is Islamic jihadists, not “Islamophobes,” who are responsible for creating the concept of “Islamic terrorism” by referring to Islamic texts and teachings to justify their acts of violence. And it is the Islamic State, not “Islamophobes,” who named it “the Islamic State.” Volkan Bozkir knows this. He just doesn’t want you to […]
Grand Mufti of Egypt: No place for terror in Islam
Over at Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs I clear up still more obfuscations: The articles come almost daily now: Muslim (and non-Muslim) authorities assuring us that what the Islamic State and other jihad terrorists do — mass murders, beheadings, rapes, destruction — has nothing do with Islam, despite the jihadis’ quotations of the Qur’an and screams […]
Russian Council of Muftis: Don’t refer to Islamic State as Islamic
“Abbyasov said that the militants had taken elements of the Koran out of context.” We hear this endlessly; yet when have you ever heard a Muslim explain the proper context that renders the Qur’an’s violent verses benign? The most they say in the West is that these verses apply to long bygone days — a […]