The non-Muslims who participated in this interfaith service were being played for fools, but that is true of most, if not all, “dialogue” between Muslims and non-Muslims. Meanwhile, those who are shocked that Fouad ElBayly turns out to be an “extremist” need to be aware that the death penalty for apostasy is mainstream Islam: “They […]
Ahmadi propagandist claims foes of jihad, not jihad terror, responsible for suspicion of Islam
In this hysterical little smear piece (a slight revision of a piece that appeared a few months ago in the Daily Caller, which should know better), the brazen and unapologetic liar Ahmadi spokesman Kashif Chaudhry, a willing water-carrier for Muslim Brotherhood propaganda, manages to defame Donald Trump, Pamela Geller, Sam Harris, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Islam Is Not A Mystery
Islam is not a hieratic mystery, which only the initiated, a special priesthood, can possibly understand. It is, rather, sufficiently grasped by more than a billion people who, save for a handful, have been born into it, and have grown up in societies suffused with it, societies where it is impermissible to question Islam, to […]
Where Things Stand
More than 14 years have passed since Americans have had their attention forcefully fixed on the reality of Islamic terrorism. Until September 11, 2001, with the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, most people in America — and in Europe — could be forgiven for assuming that they would not become the […]
Strategies of Denial Revisited (Part II)
One of the ways, paradoxically, to deny or minimize the threat of Islam is to focus only on the Qur’an, and then on selective quotation from the handful of verses that appear to reassure, not threaten. There is 2.256 (“no compulsion in religion”) and 5.32 (an injunction against murder) without the considerable modifying of that […]
Islam’s ‘Reformation’ Is Already Here—and It’s Called ‘ISIS’
The idea that Islam needs to reform is again in the spotlight following the recent publication of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s new book, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now. While Hirsi Ali makes the argument that Islam can reform—and is in desperate need of taking the extreme measures she suggests to do so—many of her […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: An Open Letter to Qasim Rashid to Public Dialogue and Debate
In FrontPage, exposing a double-talking deceiver: I read with disappointment Qasim Rashid’s recent piece in the Huffington Post. While professing to promote peace and understanding, Rashid denies the manifest facts that the Sharia penalty for apostasy is death and that Muhammad called for warfare against and subjugation of Jews and Christians. Far from peace, with […]
Hamas-linked terror org CAIR demands that Fox drop those who speak the truth about the jihad threat
The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been designated a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates, today included in its “American Muslim News Briefs” mailing an item entitled “CAIR Asks Fox News to Drop Islamophobes.” Most of it was made up of the usual smears, lies and distortions that Hamas-linked CAIR pumps […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Imam Joe Biden Schools an Infidel
In FrontPage I discuss the latest absurdity from Joe Biden: The courageous ex-Muslim human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali recently recounted that at a speech in Washington not long ago, she met Vice President Joe Biden. Biden seized the opportunity to tell her that “ISIS had nothing to do with Islam.” Hirsi Ali politely disagreed, whereupon Biden […]
Biden tried to lecture Hirsi Ali about Islam
Even though Ayaan Hirsi Ali was raised a Muslim in a Muslim country, and Joe Biden has almost certainly never opened a Qur’an, Biden believed he knew more about Islam than she did. Why? Because her opinion of the religion was negative, and the possibility that such a view could have any merit whatsoever is […]