Mehdi Hasan is a Muslim journalist, British-born, who has been in the news this week for asking Rep. Ilhan Omar, in a 2018 interview, a question about “jihadist terrorism,” words he pronounced with skeptical contempt, to which she replied by saying that “white men” were the bigger threat. But there is good reason to be […]
Mehdi Hasan: Only “the terrorists and the Islamophobes” say that jihad “refers to violence”
In the wake of Linda Sarsour’s declaration of jihad against President Trump, Leftists and Islamic supremacists have been taking the line that only “Muslim extremists” and “Islamophobes” say that jihad involves violence: Hamas-linked CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush said much the same thing: The clear intention here is not just to intimidate people into dismissing the idea […]
Mehdi Hasan blames Muslim attack on non-Muslims on “anti-Muslim hate speech”
The story to which Mehdi Hasan is referring is this one: Michigan: Muslim asks people if they’re Muslim, stabs those who say no. So now when Muslims attack non-Muslims solely because they are non-Muslims, it’s the fault of “anti-Muslim hate speech.” Apparently this Muslim was driven into a homicidal rage by all the anti-Muslim hate […]