CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush Hussam Ayloush of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) spoke at UCLA Wednesday night about jihad. Last year I debated Ayloush on a similar topic. At UCLA he declared that his intention was to dispel misconceptions. (Thanks to Jean-Luc.) The Muslim Student Association hosted an informational forum — “Operation Jihad: Misconceptions […]
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Twenty-first Century African Slaves – In the Land of Islam
Slavery, a state of life closely akin to and intertwined with dhimmitude, is alive and well in the Islamic world. This report comes from Sandro Magister in Chiesa: “Sudan’s first saint, Iosephina Bakhita, was canonized by John Paul II in the year 2000. From an early age she was made a slave, sold and resold […]
Hugh Fitzgerald’s review of Onward Muslim Soldiers
Hugh Fitzgerald, who has graced Jihad Watch with his incisive and perceptive comments on several occasions, has written a review in Outpost of Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer’s book Onward Muslim Soldiers. The review is so detailed as to be a short course in the realities of jihad and terrorism in itself. Also, it is […]
Jordan’s radical Muslims denounce France on veil
As Jacques Chirac speaks out against the veil, the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan speaks out against France: “Jordan’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood Movement Saturday condemned France’s trend towards banning Muslim women from wearing the veil, or headdress.” This from UPI. “Spokesman for the movement, Yahya Shaqra, accused France of applying ‘double standards’ by its plans to […]
The Decline of France — and the rise of the Islamo-leftist alliance
In Onward Muslim Soldiers I entitled a chapter “Everybody must get stoned: The strange alliance between radical Islam and the post-Sixties Left.” Now Christopher Caldwell in The Weekly Standard shows how rapidly the alliance between the Left and radical Islam is progressing in (where else?) France. A few of Caldwell’s keen observations: “While America believed […]
Anti-dhimmitude from Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn’s column today addresses the furor over a comic strip that the Council on American Islamic Relations says insults Islam. Steyn, unlike CAIR, manages to keep a more balanced perspective. When asked to speak about the strip in The Media, Steyn declined: “Although I agreed of course that Islamophobic cartooning was the most pressing […]
Iranians deride Powell’s view of Islam
“The Iranian people want their freedom back. They do not want to banish Islam from their lives. Far from it. They want to be free of those who have dragged the sacred garments of Islam into the political gutter.” So said Secretary of State Colin Powell at City College of New York. Retorted Iranian Foreign […]
Answering the Call to Jihad
“Across Europe and the Middle East,” says the New York Times, “young militant Muslim men are answering a call issued by Osama bin Laden and other extremists, and leaving home to join the fight against the American-led occupation in Iraq, according to senior counterterrorism officials based in six countries.” Wait a minute. Don’t these “young […]
The Vatican Speaks Out Against Dhimmitude
Many (if not most) of you have already seen this at LGF, but I had been planning to put it up already, and it is so significant that I didn’t want to let it go by unremarked. La Civiltà Cattolica, a Jesuit magazine in Rome that enjoys semi-official status in the Catholic Church, has published […]
Jihad Watch articles by Hugh Fitzgerald
Feisal Abdul Rauf Makes A Big MistakePublished: September 13, 2010 Mayor Bloomberg: If Not Now, When?Published: September 2, 2010 Islam’s Double-Faced Triumphalism: Destruction and Mosque-BuildingPublished: August 19, 2010 The mosque, Mayor Bloomberg, and the obligation of good faith, fair dealing, and best effortsPublished: August 10, 2010 Just one question for the New York TimesPublished: August […]