“His voice breaking with emotion, Haines read out a passage from the Koran saying: ‘Since good and evil cannot be equal, repel thou evil with something that is better.’” That’s Qur’an 41:34. Haines did not quote this passage: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” That’s Qur’an 47:4. “Murdered aid worker’s brother says Islam […]
Cameron on Islamic State’s claim to be Islamic: “Nonsense, Islam is a religion of peace”
Western leaders are so anxious to dissociate the Islamic State from Islam because they want to reassure their non-Muslim citizens that the Muslims they have brought to their countries in ever-increasing numbers will never act the way the Islamic State is acting. One problem with this is that while Muslim leaders in the West are […]
Australian PM: High terror alert “not about religion”
Of course, it does have to do with a religion: members of a particular religious group are plotting violence against those who are not members of the group, and pointing to the religion’s teachings as their motivation and justification for that violence. Instead of confronting that, Abbott, like Barack Obama and David Cameron, has preferred […]
“The American Conservative” embraces the Islamic supremacist agenda
The American Conservative (TAC) is a paleocon publication that counts among its founders Pat Buchanan and Taki Theodoracopulos, both bitter critics of Israel who have been repeatedly accused of anti-Semitism, so it is not surprising that it would be venomously anti-Israel. But now its opposition to American interventionism (which I generally share, and particularly share […]
When is an Islamic State not Islamic?
“For an American president to avert his eyes from the religious (Islamic) roots of ISIS is a form of political myopia with potentially ominous consequences for Americans who have just commemorated the Al Qaeda-inflicted catastrophe now forever known as 9/11.” Indeed. “When is an Islamic State Not Islamic?,” by Jerold Auerbach, Algemeiner, September 12, 2014: […]
Islamic State tie to Boston mosque: massive FBI failure
“The feds assumed that all those terrorists misunderstood the peaceful teachings they figured that they heard at the Islamic Society of Boston and wouldn’t have dreamed of considering whether or not they learned their Islam from the ISB.” And that still hasn’t changed. It probably never will, even when the bombings and beheadings become much […]
Catholic Cardinal McCarrick embraces Islam
“In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate,” said McCarrick. That, of course, is the heading on 113 of the Qur’an’s 114 chapters. The only one that doesn’t begin with that is surat at-tawba, sura 9, which contains the exhortation to Muslims to fight against Jews and Christians until they “pay the jizya with […]
UK historian: Bill Maher is wrong, we can’t blame Islamic State on Islam
Tim Stanley is the man who argued — with a straight face — that boredom, not Islam, motivated young Muslims from the West who went to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State. In this new piece, he digs deeper. Comments interspersed below: “Bill Maher is wrong: we can’t blame Isil on Islam,” by […]
Bill Maher: To claim that Islam “is like other religions is just naive and plain wrong”
I’m no fan of Bill Maher, but he does get it mostly right here. What is ironic is that he would never dare have on his show any of the people who have for years been saying what he says here, and has joined in the vilification and ridicule of them that is universal on […]
Obama’s “not Islamic” Islamic State claim ridiculed
As well it should be. The disconnect between the statements of the administration — and the government and media establishment in general — and reality is increasingly large, and Americans are noticing in increasing numbers. “Obama’s ‘not Islamic’ Islamic State Claim Ridiculed,” IPT News, September 11, 2014: President Obama’s assertion Wednesday night that the Islamic […]