Murtadha Muhammad Gusau is the Chief Imam of Nagazi-Uvete Jumu’ah and the late Alhaji Abdur-Rahman Okene’s Mosques, Okene, Kogi State, Nigeria. Here he offers yet another Islamic condemnation of terrorism that falls short of its sweeping claims, but will no doubt fool many nevertheless. Comments interspersed below. “There’s No Violence, No Terrorism In Islam,” by […]
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UAE Enforces Its Own ‘Muslim Ban’
As is well known, the Trump Administration in 2017 banned entry to visitors from seven countries. These included Iran, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, North Korea, and Venezuela. This was promptly attacked — and has been attacked ever since — as a “Muslim ban,” an example of Trump’s cruel “Islamophobia.” The administration patiently explained that the […]
Philippines: Islamic scholars invoke the Qur’an in opposing law forbidding child marriage
No surprise here. Child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law. Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in January 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry. “Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this” — Ishaq […]
Hungary’s FM praises Trump for raising issue of persecuted Christians to international political agenda
In 2017, Mike Pence promised that the U.S. would defend Christians who were being slaughtered by the Islamic State in the Middle East. This past Wednesday, Fox News published an article about persecution of Christians by Muslims in Africa: Nigeria’s Christians become target of genocide as international community remains silent: advocates. The genocide is worsening: […]
Philippines: 48-year-old Muslim marries 13-year-old girl
Child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law. Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in January 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry. “Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this” — Ishaq Akintola, professor of […]
Malawi to Be First African State with Embassy in Jerusalem
Malawi will be the first African state to place its Israeli embassy in Jerusalem. It makes sense. Malawi has had diplomatic relations with Israel since 1964. When other African states were bribed or pressured by the Arabs to break relations with Israel after the Six-Day War, Malawi refused. The report on this latest welcome announcement […]
Mali: Jihad leader sentenced to death for terrorism says ‘I am not a terrorist; I am leading the jihad’
This distinction is important to keep in mind when you hear Muslim spokesmen in the West condemning terrorism. They may genuinely reject and abhor jihad violence, but if they don’t specify what they mean by “terrorism,” they may not be referring to or condemning jihad violence at all. “Mali: Ansar Dine leader Souleymane Keita, others […]
Al Jazeera celebrates the end of US ‘Muslim ban’ on day one of Biden presidency
Al Jazeera has come out cheering with the headline: US ‘Muslim ban’ set to end ‘on day one’ of Biden presidency. Yet there really isn’t any “Muslim ban.” These were actually the terms of the ban, which initially covered seven countries of concern that were actually chosen by the Obama Administration. Robert Spencer has explained: […]
Cameroon: 60 schools shut down after wave of jihad suicide bombings by women and children
Boko Haram jihadis have been brutal in their attempts to establish an Islamic caliphate “across northern Nigeria all the way to northern Cameroon,” which is a mainly Christian country. The jihadi efforts have now caused the closure of “more than 60 schools on the northern border with Nigeria to protect children and teaching staff from […]
UK: Special forces on alert for jihadis disguised as asylum seekers sneaking into country on ships
This is nothing new. In February 2015, the Islamic State boasted that it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. The Lebanese Education Minister said in September 2015 that there were 20,000 jihadis among the refugees in camps in his country. An Islamic State operative boasted in September 2015 that among the […]