Watch out for those right-wing extremists, but otherwise relax. Jihad? Pah! It’s a Religion of Peace! In September 2014, the Islamic State issued a lengthy communiqué calling upon Muslims in the West to murder non-Muslims. It included the exhortation to “strive to your best and kill any disbeliever, whether he be French, American, or from […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Mr. Allen’s Report
This past Sunday’s Boston Globe carried a front-page article — which continued onto and filled most of two inside pages — on “The New Christian Martyrs.” The author, John L. Allen, Jr., a member of the Globe Staff, whose usual beat is the Vatican, would — I was certain even before I started reading — […]
Publishers Weekly apparently totally cool with beheading Americans, Jewish genocide, removing girls’ clitorises
A Publishers Weekly Twitter feed, @PWreligion, apparently tweeted out a link to one of my articles today. I don’t know which one; they removed it before I ever saw it. Here’s why, and what happened next: I subsequently asked both “Tim Spalding” and “PWreligion” to debate me about what they objected to in my work, […]
Australia Security Intelligence Organisation top dog calls for self-censorship to avoid offending Muslims
“Former prime minister Tony Abbott used an opinion piece last week to call for a ‘religious reformation’ within in [sic] Islam. Mr Abbott called for a ‘hearts and minds campaign against the versions of Islam that make excuses for terrorists, saying Islam had not undergone an equivalent version of the Reformation and Enlightenment in Christian […]
Obama says that concerns that jihadis will be among the Syrian refugees are unfounded
“The ceremony came as 25 Republican governors have vowed to block the entry of Syrian refugees into their states, including some where large numbers of Syrians have settled in recent years. Mr. Obama has condemned such comments as contradicting American values. The governors made their vow after the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris last month, […]
Obama Administration nixed probe into Southern California jihadists
How many more people have to die before these politically correct policies are abandoned? “Administration nixed probe into Southern California jihadists,” by Philip Haney, The Hill, December 16, 2015: There are terrorists in our midst and they arrived here using legal means right under the noses of the federal law enforcement agencies whose mission is […]
Students practice calligraphy by writing “There is no god but Allah”
“Female students at Riverheads High School in Staunton, Virginia, were also invited to wear Muslim clothing” — meanwhile, what are public school students all over the country learning about the United States and the West? Slavery, colonialism, racism, imperialism. They will come out thinking that only Islam has produced a noble and good civilization. What […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Christian Arabs, Muslim Arabs (Part 1)
Sometimes it seems that almost all the news these days deemed fit to print has something to do with Islam and Muslims. Much of it is about internecine warfare: we receive reports of Sunnis fighting Shi’a in Iraq, of Shi’a fighting Sunnis in Syria, of Shi’a ruled fighting Sunni ruler in Bahrain, of Sunni tribesmen […]
UK outraged at Trump saying more UK Muslims join ISIS than military
“Donald Trump has caused further outrage,” screams the ever-craven Daily Mail, “by claiming more British Muslims join Islamic State than the Armed Forces” — and good upstanding British subjects are outraged, too: “…as a petition demanding he is banned from the UK hit 525,000 signatures.” Wow, that Donald Trump is really out of bounds now, […]
“You ain’t no Muslim, bruv” guy ain’t no Muslim either
When a machete-wielding Muslim stabbed a non-Muslim in a London tube station, an onlooker shouted out to the attacker, “You ain’t no Muslim, bruv.” This was widely taken to have been shouted by a Muslim who was outraged at the hijacking of his peaceful religion by the stabber. The hashtag #YouAintNoMuslimBruv went viral as a […]