Busy as ever, Mr. Chaudry has been inviting non-Muslims to visit the Islamic Center, and after the service, in an adjoining room, Chaudry and the Center’s imam took their questions: Why were the women and men separated for prayers? Does the Qur’an prohibit women from driving? What’s the deal with sharia, and is it practiced […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Mosque At Basking Ridge: A Morality Tale? (Part 3)
The Guardian report continues: How did a small-town property dispute turn into a religious war, with legal and symbolic implications for all of America? Part of the answer has to do with the country’s labyrinthine land-use laws, which leave most control to state and local governments, which are in turn vulnerable to the furies of […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Mosque At Basking Ridge: A Morality Tale? (Part 2)
The Guardian again: Basking Ridge is governed by a five-person elected committee, which meets in a repurposed Tudor-style mansion. (It previously belonged to John Jacob Astor VI, an American aristocrat whose father perished on the Titanic.) One evening last year, I attended a meeting – the first of many – at the town hall, where […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Mosque At Basking Ridge: A Morality Tale? (Part 1)
Here’s a story that earlier this year was being presented as a morality tale, where a good-hearted Muslim, Mr. Mohammad Ali Chaudry, wanted nothing more than to play by the rules in applying for permission to build a mosque, and was opposed by a town full of anti-Muslim bigots. But Good triumphed in the end, […]
UK’s Guardian claims Arabic in Renaissance painting shows “deep connection between Europe and Islam”
The writing in the halos is actually not Arabic, but Pseudo-Kufic: Renaissance-era Europeans thought that the Arabic script was that which was used in Jesus’ time, so they thought that they were lending some historical authenticity to their representations by including some characters that resembled Arabic. That is all that is going on in Gentile […]
Guardian: “Robert Spencer, a leading American Islamophobe,” cheers Trump for tweeting about jihad violence
In the funhouse mirror that is the Leftist worldview, as indefatigably purveyed by the Guardian, foes of jihad terror and Sharia oppression are “far-right hatemongers,” on par with white supremacists and other “extremists.” Jihad threat? Pah! What’s that? And so in their latest shoot-the-messenger article about President Trump’s heinous crime of retweeting videos depicting Muslims […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Mancunian Morrissey v. The Guardian (Round One)
There are two things to know about the British newspaper The Guardian. One is that it is comically, even ludicrously far left. The second is that, though militantly secular in all other respects, the newspaper remains a staunch apologist and Defender of the Faith, as long as that faith is Islam. Morrissey (he goes by […]
Netanyahu slams CNN, New York Times reporting on Hamas as “fake news”
“They want to use their state to destroy our state,” says Netanyahu. This is exactly so. A “Palestinian” state would only be a new and stronger base from which to launch new jihad attacks against Israel, with an eye toward destroying it utterly. “Netanyahu Slams CNN, NYT Reporting on Hamas as ‘Fake News,’” by Jack […]
Quilliam’s article in the Guardian is massive smear of Tommy Robinson and the entire counter-jihad movement
Robert Spencer has already written an excellent rebuttal of an article by a Quilliam researcher which appeared in the Guardian which smeared a number of leading counter-jihad people. This has received huge attention because Tommy Robinson, with Rebel Media, went to Quilliam’s offices to confront Julia Ebner in person. This article (first posted on Tundra Tabloids) […]
Here’s what the Guardian calls “a 16-year-old from Ethiopia”
Is there an outbreak of progeria in Ethiopia? Or is there an outbreak of politically correct Leftist lunacy at the Guardian? The Guardian is desperate to shore up the UK government’s deeply cynical and dishonest attempt to pass off its indiscriminate admission of adult Muslim migrants as “unaccompanied children.” The political and media elites aren’t […]