Palestinian jihadists’ fabrications of Israeli atrocities are amply documented now, although the mainstream media still retail them; less well known is that the jihad in the Balkans also has a busy propaganda arm. Dr. Srdja Trifkovic, author of the excellent book on Islam and jihad, The Sword of the Prophet, ran afoul of it yesterday, […]
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Fjordman: Medieval Myths
Medieval Mythsby Fjordman I should thank the pro-Israeli, Islam-critical blog Document for bringing this to my attention. The two Norwegian essays cited here were written by Ole Jørgen Benedictow, a professor emeritus at the University of Oslo specializing in the history of the Middle Ages. The translations were made by me, and the shorter excerpts […]
Grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder whitewashes Muslim Brotherhood in New York Times
The French journalist Caroline Fourest has published a book-length study of Tariq Ramadan’s sly duplicity, Brother Tariq. Fourest concludes that this much-lionized putative Muslim Martin Luther is actually anything but a reformer: in reality, Ramadan is “remaining scrupulously faithful to the strategy mapped out by his grandfather, a strategy of advance stage by stage” toward […]
New York Times: Muslim Brotherhood’s intentions “unclear”
Here is a study in preposterous moral equivalence: note the attempts to describe the Brotherhood in terms of inaccurate portrayals of the Catholic Church and of evangelical Christian groups in America. Also noteworthy is the author’s reliance on the word of an Emory University researcher who describes Hamas as a “national resistance fighting Israeli occupation.” […]
Robert Reilly, author of The Closing of the Muslim Mind: Exclusive Jihad Watch interview
Robert Reilly, author of the superb and essential book The Closing of the Muslim Mind, was kind enough to grant Jihad Watch an exclusive interview: In your fascinating new book The Closing of the Muslim Mind, you expand in important ways on the insight Pope Benedict XVI expressed in his famous Regensburg address–that Islam, as […]
Tariq Ramadan: “It is incorrect to say the Coptic community in Egypt is in danger”
“It is incorrect to say the Coptic community in Egypt is in danger.” Really? Let’s look at the recent record — leaving out the New Year’s Day church bombing in which jihadists murdered 23 Copts: Egypt: Off-duty Muslim police officer boards train, shoots Christians, killing 71-year-old man Copts brace for the worst on Christmas Eve: […]
Berlinski: The Turkish ruling party has “opened the Pandora’s box of political Islam”
In “Weimar Istanbul: Dread and exhilaration in a city on the verge of political catastrophe” in City Journal, Autumn 2010, Claire Berlinski, a resident of Istanbul, assesses the momentous changes taking place in the Turkish political order: The City grew rapidly, dwarfing in size and population any other in the country. The streets stimulated like […]
Germany: Jihad terrorist’s wife admits collecting money for weapons
“Yes, I wrote texts to publish on the internet and collected money. Of course I knew the money would be spent on weapons. Today, I realise that what I did just made everything worse.” Worse in what way? Worse because they got caught, or worse because she was aiding in violence and terror? Most non-Muslim […]
Kreeft/Spencer debate transcript: Is the only good Muslim a bad Muslim?
Here is a transcript of my debate with Dr. Peter Kreeft last month at Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. Video above. Professor Zmirak: I’m very proud to have with me the most distinguished writers in their fields alive, the most distinguished Catholic philosophical writer in English, Dr. Peter Kreeft, and […]
Giulio Meotti’s A New Shoah: The human cost of the jihad against Israel
Almost every day at Jihad Watch I chronicle yet another incident of jihadist mass-murder: jihadists kill sixteen with suicide bomb outside a church, jihadists kill ten with a bomb at a hospital, and on and on. So many murders, so many dead, and in virtually all the news stories about each jihad attack, the only […]