Pope Francis has said many false things about Islam. He has said that “there is no such thing as Islamic terrorism” and that ‘“authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Quran are opposed to every form of violence.” He has, in turn, been praised by the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed al-Tayeb, who thanked […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Grand Sheikh Francis of al-Vatican
The Pope of Islam goes to the UAE and gets played for a fool by Muslim sharpies. My latest in FrontPage: Pope Francis and the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, have published “A Document On Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together” during the Pope’s trip to the United Arab Emirates. It’s as […]
Australia: Top lawyers, judges and provincial Supreme Court justices go to mosque to show solidarity with Muslims
They wanted to do this because of the outrageous “Islamophobia” of Justice Desmond Fagan in his call for Muslims to reject the violent exhortations of the Qur’an. Have any of these judges actually read the Qur’an? Do any of them have any idea whether or not Fagan’s assertions were correct? Almost certainly not. Note also […]
Pope: “Christian and Islamic worlds protect common values: life, family, religious sense, honor for the elderly”
Life? Yes, unless you’re not Muslim. In Islamic law, Muslim lives are explicitly worth more than those of non-Muslims. The Shafi’i Sharia manual Reliance of the Traveller dictates: “The indemnity for the death or injury of a woman is one-half the indemnity paid for a man. The indemnity paid for a Jew or Christian is […]
Pope and Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh: Terrorism due to “incorrect interpretations of religious texts” and poverty
Pope Francis and the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, have published “A Document On Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” and it’s as filled with falsehoods and wishful thinking as one would expect coming from a practiced deceiver such as el-Tayeb and someone so eager to be deceived as Pope Francis. Christine […]
Australia: Muslim brandishes knife and makes bomb threat, “terrorism was later ruled out”
Of course. Only greasy Islamophobes could possibly get the idea that a Muslim brandishing a knife and claiming to have a bomb could have anything to do with terrorism. “The device was found to be ‘inert’, but Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said its complex appearance ‘indicates just the extraordinary lengths that a person has […]
Souad Mekhennet: Let’s Not Make This a “Religious Conflict” (Part Three)
Her last few sentences give her away: “It would be very problematic if we were to see it [the Islamic State] as relating to Islam and say that these people hate the West because they are Muslims. Thatʹs exactly what they want. They want a religious conflict to arise. We should not do them the […]
Souad Mekhennet: Let’s Not Make This a “Religious Conflict” (Part Two)
SK: You have often found yourself exposed in risky situations where you didn’t know how the situation would end. Do you purposefully seek out risk? Mekhennet: I sought out these meetings because I believe they are the only possibility to speak to these people, to understand their motivations, and then to deliver counterarguments. Their “motivations” […]
Souad Mekhennet: Let’s Not Make This a “Religious Conflict” (Part One)
Souad Mekhennet is a German-born journalist, the daughter of Turkish “guest workers” (gastarbeiter), who is now an investigative journalist for the Washington Post, covering “militant Islamist networks.” She was recently interviewed by Sabine Kieselbach of Deutsche Welle about her job’s dangers and why it is important to speak to jihadists. SK: Ms. Mekhennet, the film […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: “Scholar of Religions” Says Allah is “More Merciful” Than the God of the Bible
The Western intelligentsia just can’t get enough of hating Western civilization. My latest in FrontPage: The Western intelligentsia’s capacity for self-flagellation and self-hatred seems to be endless. Jack Miles, Religion News Service tell us, is “author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘God: A Biography’ and a retired professor of religion at the University of California Irvine, […]