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The big story in Niger has nothing to do with loafer-clad unappealing Joseph Wilson or his outwardly attractive trophy wife, but rather with the Saudi money that has helped to transform the practice of Islam in formerly easygoing, syncretistic Niger. This has been reported on by students from Niger who have in recent years returned […]

Two centuries before the current American foreign policy, or before there was Zionism, or “Iraq” and “Palestine” to blame, long before “poverty” was pulled up as a root-cause, and the why-do-they-hate-us brigade not only did not exist, but would have been impossible to call into being, Muslims in West Africa were on the Jihad warpath. […]

Hanif Malik, an Islamic leader in Britain, said some time ago: “Yes, everyone agrees the Muslim leaders must be more pro-active in fighting radical thought. But it’s just empty words when Muslims feel the world is against them.” The world is against them? One may be able to swallow this if one does not dwell […]

And oddly enough, he was not a Lutheran from Norway. “Dinssa” is a common surname among Muslims in several parts of Africa. From Associated Press, with thanks to Joe Washburn: DETROIT — A man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after officials say they found him carrying $78,883 in cash and a laptop computer containing […]

In the featured article at FrontPage this morning I discuss the al-Hilali controversy (news links in the original): The Mufti of Australia, Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali, has gained international attention this week by saying that women are generally at fault if they are raped. Speaking to a Muslim audience in Sydney, he explained that rape […]

“We weren’t isolated growing up. We were part of the culture,” says Hala Kotb. “Religion was important, but not so much that you’d have to cover your head or if you don’t pray five times a day, that’s it – nothing like that. There were a lot more progressive attitudes.” That is a big contrast […]

Jamie Glazov conducts a FrontPage Symposium on forced conversion in Islam with Mustafa Akyol, David Aikman, Andrew Bostom and me. (Many links in the original.) Last month, American al-Qaeda operative Adam Gadahn issued a “convert-to-Islam-or-die message to U.S. President George W. Bush, Daniel Pipes, Michael Scheuer, Steve Emerson and Robert Spencer. This attempt at forced […]

Conservative Book Club Editor Elizabeth Kantor interviews me about The Truth About Muhammad: You’re now the author of several books about Islam. Did your research for The Truth about Muhammad turn up anything new? If readers have already bought The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and tens of thousands of them have), why do should […]

The “Palestinians” and their willing collaborators and propagandists are particularly eager to convince Infidels in the West that they are local in their goals, that they have not the slightest interest in harming any Infidels except the Jews of Israel. They feel the need to do this because without our economic and diplomatic support (which […]

In FrontPage this morning I discuss the Redeker case, and show that Muslims themselves have said, without incident, the same things Redeker said (news links in the original): It has happened again. On the heels of global Muslim rage against Pope Benedict XVI — which led to riots and three killings of Christians — a […]