I wish a joyous and beautiful Pascha to all those Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Christians who are celebrating the Resurrection of Christ today. Even amid the coronavirus pandemic, Muslim persecution of Christians continues to increase worldwide, as does the phenomenon of Muslims in the West claiming victimhood in order to deflect attention away from […]
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Jihad groups celebrate coronavirus as “small soldier of Allah,” deadly jihad attacks increase during lockdown
The preaching of jihad has not stopped with the advent of the coronavirus. Instead, the Islamic State is using the pandemic as a new justification for murder in the way of Allah. At first they were relatively quiet amid the coronavirus pandemic, but jihad groups worldwide were bound to come up with an Islamic answer […]
Islamic State and Boko Haram step up attacks in Africa amid coronavirus pandemic
“Nigeria remains on high alert after security experts warned that terror groups could take advantage of the global focus on the pandemic and launch attacks, especially in the Lake Chad Basin.” What better time to strike to advance the jihad than when government troops are sheltering in place? “Increased terror attacks in Africa amid coronavirus […]
Happy Easter
I wish a joyous and beautiful Easter to all those Catholic and Protestant Christians who are celebrating the Resurrection of Christ today. Even amid the coronavirus pandemic, Muslim persecution of Christians continues to increase worldwide, as does the phenomenon of Muslims in the West claiming victimhood in order to deflect attention away from the global […]
Pakistan scrambles to quarantine 100,000 Muslims who attended a Muslim event last month
In a country ruled by Islamic clerics, Pakistan isn’t faring so well with the coronavirus: Pakistan has quarantined 20,000 attendees of an Islamic gathering in Lahore last month and is still searching for tens of thousands more, officials said on Sunday.Over 100,000 worshippers congregated at the event, defying government orders to call off the gathering […]
Boko Haram top dog: “Our aim is to follow the tenet of the Qur’an; our aim is to follow the tenets of the prophet”
Wait a minute. Lai Mohammed, the Nigerian minister of information, just recently said this about Boko Haram: “Lest I am misunderstood, let me repeat: the insurgents, who delude themselves as Muslims whereas they are nothing more than blood-thirsty, rapacious killers who subscribe to no religion, have recently started targeting Christians with a view to sowing […]
Trump’s Travel Ban is Right: Coronavirus Won’t Harm Muslims, Say Many Muslim Clerics
My latest in PJ Media: Many Muslims around the world aren’t worried at all about the coronavirus. While much of the Western world is in quarantine and many fear that the worst is still yet to come, some Muslim clerics and lay believers are sure that Allah will protect them from the plague. As a […]
News Flash for the Muslim Migrants Demanding Entrance to Europe: Europeans are Not History’s Sole Colonizers
As part of my research for an essay on African writer Chinua Achebe, published in The Federalist this past February, I reread Albert Memmi’s monograph The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957) in order to refresh my memory on some of the finer philosophical points of that seminal anti-colonialist treatise. Since my essay was arguing that Achebe, in his novel Things […]
Coronavirus Is for Infidels: Some Toronto Mosques Stay Open Despite Pandemic
My latest in PJ Media: Anyone who doesn’t comply with coronavirus restrictions is endangering others. Accordingly, it is a matter of more than local concern that while most mosques in the Toronto area (where Ontario Premier Doug Ford has declared a state of emergency) have closed, some are stubbornly staying open. This is not for […]
Cameroon: Muslims defy coronavirus restrictions, crowd into mosques
“This is a time people have to go to the mosque and pray ceaselessly. Anything out of that will not be tolerated by Allah, because this is a period where people are facing a lot of difficulties due to the outbreak of the pandemic COVID-19.” What could possibly go wrong? Note also that a person […]