Some still insist that the problem is “Islamism,” not Islam. Others have prided themselves on using this term rather than, they claim, tarring all Muslims as terrorists. In this recent interview, I discuss the vexed question of “Islamism.” “Interview with Robert Spencer,” IDI Journal, July 30, 2026: Robert Spencer is founder and director of Jihad […]
France ‘so afraid of being accused of Islamophobia, it refuses to name the ideology that motivates these attacks’
Carine Azzopardi is right: the West is so afraid of charges of “racism” and “Islamophobia” that it is neither comprehending nor mounting any effective resistance to the global jihad. Yet she is also wrong, and is engaging in exactly the same denial and willful ignorance that she is criticizing. Her careful language in this piece […]
France: Prominent imam says, ‘I make no distinction between Islamism and Islam. Islamism is Islam in action.’
“When Tareq Oubrou, the most famous media imam in France, explains that he does not draw any distinction between Islam and Islamism: ‘Islamism is an Islam in motion…’” The distinction between Islamism and Islam is taken for granted everywhere in the West, and some people get quite self-righteous about it, bragging that they make this […]