And he twists himself, as well as the Qur’an, into pretzels to make his case. “Rabbi Reuven Firestone is Professor of medieval Judaism and Islam at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles and Senior Fellow of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. He is author of Jihad: The […]
State Department disagrees with Netanyahu’s contention that jihadis aim to “dominate the world”
To mention just a few of many available examples, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad once said: “Have no doubt… Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountain tops of the world.” Sheik Ali Al-Faqir, former Jordanian minister of religious endowment, said this on Al-Aqsa TV on May […]
UK Home Secretary Theresa May: Islamic State’s actions “have absolutely no basis in anything written in the Quran”
The imam Theresa May weighs in on a question about which her fellow imams, Barack Obama, John Kerry, David Cameron, Philip Hammond, Tony Abbot et al, have already spoken — a veritable ulama of renowned Islamic authorities. Her fatwa echoes theirs: The Islamic State’s “actions have absolutely no basis in anything written in the Quran. […]
Even in Israel, the media won’t call jihad jihad
Nathaniel Roi Arami fell to his death at a construction site in Israel. An “Arab co-worker” was questioned and released, but now the “incident is now being investigated as a possible nationalistically-related murder.” There is nothing unique about this story. It is one of many just like it that have come before, and many more […]
McCain on rise of Islamic State: “We predicted this and watched it”
McCain predicted nothing. There is a strong possibility that in his famous photo with the “moderate Syrian rebels,” he was posing with allies of the Islamic State. Now that there is abundant evidence that the Free Syrian Army is anything but “moderate,” he presses on with his delusions. “McCain: ISIS’ rise like ‘watching a train […]
White House: Too early to know if OK beheading was terror or workplace violence
Jah’Keem Yisrael was shouting Islamic phrases as he stabbed and beheaded. He is clearly a devout Muslim. He has photos on his Facebook page glorifying beheadings and showing him giving the one-finger sign of allegiance to the Islamic State. What does all that signify for the Islamic State? Workplace violence, of course! They haven’t ruled […]
Pro-jihad journalist asked to leave “Palestinian” university because she is Jewish
Amira Hass is an Israeli journalist for the Leftist publication Haaretz. She is strongly in favor of the “Palestinian” jihad. But she was asked to leave a conference at the “Palestinian” Birzeit University, and warned “This is for your own protection [from the students].” She writes: “And I was at that moment reminded of the […]
1000 Muslims from Asia join Islamic State, “terror expert” says it’s because of their slick videos
This report says that Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, stated that the Islamic State is winning the hearts and minds of young Muslims all over Asia, “thanks to their slick propaganda films and robust social-media campaigns, as ‘opposed to the boring […]
Kerry: “Muslim scholars are outraged about the Islamic State’s brutality and perversion of Islam”
Kerry is probably referring to the tissue of distortions, detours, half-truths and outright lies that I examined in depth here. But neither Kerry nor anyone around him will be troubled by the dishonesty and deception I exposed in that document, which was signed by 126 Muslim scholars. In fact, he will neither see nor hear […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: An ISIS Nest Grows in Boston
Denial, willful ignorance, wishful thinking: the hallmarks of our age. My latest in FrontPage: Boston’s WCVB.com reported Monday that “the federal government is targeting Boston and two other American cities to shut down what they are calling the U.S.-Jihad pipeline to ISIS in an attempt to stop Americans from joining the terrorist organization.” Boston apparently […]