There is nothing wrong with students learning about Islam in school. The problem is that because of influence from pressure groups such as the Council on Islamic Education, public school textbooks are for the most part heavily biased, with scarcely a critical word about Islam, Muhammad depicted as a cross between Gandhi and Fred McMurray […]
US Envoy: To defeat the Islamic State, we must “tell the story of how we celebrate Islam”
General Allen was the commander in Afghanistan who issued an abject and embarrassing video apology to “the noble people of Afghanistan” for the alleged desecration of a Qur’an at a U.S. air base. Here he is assuming what all Western leaders assume: that the Islamic State is perverting the true teachings of Islam, and that […]
Ex-counterterror official: “We don’t have enough FBI agents who understand Islam”
In October 2011, the Obama Administration banned all mention of Islam and jihad in connection with terrorism from counterterror training, for the FBI as well as other agencies. Three years later, the former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center laments that we don’t have enough FBI agents who understand Islam. But that is what the […]
Dutch Mayor: European Muslims joining Islamic State just like Jews going to Israel after World War II
This is akin to the common and oft-repeated claim that “Muslims are the new Jews,” i.e., opposition to jihad terror is exactly equivalent to genocidal anti-Semitism. It is a peculiar malady that we see ever more frequently on the Left: no matter how many jihad terror attacks there are, no matter how many Islamic supremacist […]
UK: 75-year-old man charged with “racially aggravated harassment” for saying “I’m not Muslim” at airport security check
“A security guard accused him of racism and called the police, saying he was upset by the remark.” Why is a shrinking violet like that working as a security guard? Apparently a well-crafted quip could reduce him to a blubbering pile of goo. But in any case, this ridiculous incident shows how far Britain is […]
An open letter to Ben Affleck from a woman born and raised in Islam
“If Muslims do not critique their own atrocities, then people on the outside will and their message will not be listened to simply because of who they are.” “An open letter to Ben Affleck,” by Eiynah, Pakistan Today, October 25, 2014 (thanks to Anne Crockett): Your heart was in the right place, but… Dear Ben, […]
Canada’s National Post: “It’s been a tough week for Canadian Muslims”
Jihad Watch reader Michael Greenspan, who sent me this link on Twitter, had the perfect analogy to show up exactly how grotesque the lead sentence really is in this National Post interview of Islamic apologist Karen Armstrong: “National Post, Nov. 28, 1963: ‘It’s been a tough week for the Oswald family.’” Like the Toronto and […]
Amid jihad murders in Canada, USA Today says Christian “religious extremism” is “primary threat to homeland security”
This USA Today piece by Mary Zeiss Stange, a professor of religion at Skidmore College, is patently absurd, but it is also absolutely unsurprising. Professor Stange, a hunter, has bagged the wrong deer, but it’s the only deer that those who employ her and publish her work care about. The mainstream media has a maniacal […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: 5 Insane, But Utterly Predictable, Reactions to the Ottawa Jihad Attack
And the band plays on. My latest at PJ Media: Last Wednesday, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, whose father is a veteran of the jihad in Libya and who himself has been a Muslim for at least three years, murdered military reservist Corporal Nathan Cirillo at Ottawa’s National War Memorial and engaged in a gun battle inside Canada’s […]
U.S. counter-terrorism strategy is based on politically correct fictions, and is getting people killed
This is exactly what I have been saying for years now. “CVE has been a colossal disaster because it has no roots in reality. It was always intended as a convenient fiction for politicians, bureaucrats, media and academics to avoid talking about the problem of the ideology that supports Islamic terrorism.” “‘Lone Wolf,’ or ‘Known […]