You know, our NATO ally, moderate, secular Turkey. American leaders, and the greater part of the American public, have labored under various delusions about Islam ever since George W. Bush walked into a mosque six days after 9/11 and proclaimed that Islam was peace, and even before that as well. These delusions are not harmless; they […]
Turkey inaugurates Gaza mosque named after al-Qaeda founder
The vast majority of Muslims abhor terrorism and repudiate al-Qaeda, we’re told. Turkey is a secular, moderate nation that exemplifies how Islam is compatible with secular republican rule, we’re told. Turkish influence in the rebuilding of Gaza would lead Gazans toward moderation in Islam, we’re told. BREAKING: Türkiye just contributed to build a new mosque […]
Scholars’ Ink, Martyrs’ Blood in Afghanistan
Rice University sociology professor Craig Considine, a self-proclaimed “Islamic apologist,” likes to quote the dubious hadith that the “ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.” In his argumentation, this canonical narrative about Islam’s prophet Muhammad evinces Islam’s pacific nature, yet Muslim scholars often inspire the shedding of martyrs’ […]
In Afghanistan, the Triumph of Fanaticism
In Afghanistan, the Taliban’s victory was not due to the the number of its recruits – the Afghan army was four times as large as the Taliban forces; nor to the superiority of its weapons, for the Afghan Army had tens of billions of dollars worth of advanced weapons given to it by the […]