Every scoundrel claims his words were “taken out of context” when he’s caught out. In this case it’s noteworthy that Khan feels compelled to take the “out of context” defense lest anyone think he actually supports the freedom of speech and Salman Rushdie’s right to live despite having ostensibly offended Islam. Aren’t the Muslims who […]
Star Tribune hits Rushdie: We must ‘use our First Amendment rights to build bridges rather than reinforce divisions’
That’s how we lose our First Amendment rights, and we’re well on the way. Alansari-Kreger tries to make his argument sound high-minded — it’s all about building bridges and fighting against division, you see — but it still comes down to censorship and authoritarianism. “Of double standards and ‘free speech,’” by Omar Alansari-Kreger, Star Tribune, […]
How to Hate ‘Islamophobia’ and Support Salman Rushdie
New in PJ Media: The stabbing of Salman Rushdie by an open supporter of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who ingenuously explained that he attacked the famed writer because he “insulted Islam,” has put much of the Leftist intelligentsia in the West in a tough position. For years they’ve been insisting that any criticism of […]
Iranian State Media Features American Prof With a New Theory on Rushdie Stabbing: The Jews Did It
New in PJ Media: The Islamic Republic of Iran has been engaging in a bit of damage control since the stabbing of Salman Rushdie. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, affectionately known as “The Butcher of Baghdad,” is set to come to New York to address the United Nations, and the Iranians don’t want to make the […]
Why are Biden’s handlers still trying to strike a deal with the rogue Iranian regime?
Biden’s handlers are so desperate to erase all traces of the Trump presidency that they’re pursuing a deal with the Iranian mullahs despite the potentially catastrophic cost, and Iran’s increasing aggression and hostility. “The Ingrates of Vienna,” by Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon, August 19, 2022: “Justice Dept. Charges Iranian in Plot to Kill John […]
Oxford prof: Rushdie attack ‘assault on free speech,’ but warns against ‘eagerness to focus on Islamic extremism’
This is the line that the Left has pushed in the media, as well as in intelligence and law enforcement circles, ever since 9/11 (and before that as well): to take much notice of Islamic jihad activity will only fuel “Islamophobic” attacks against innocent Muslims. Therefore, we must not talk about jihad activity. There is […]
‘The real Islamophobes are those who caution that exercising one’s free speech will set off the assassins’
Katha Pollitt’s words here recall something I used to repeat many years ago: that those who accused me of “Islamophobia” were the real “Islamophobes,” as they assume that to oppose jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women is to “hate Muslims,” as if all Muslims supported jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women. […]
New Yorker: Satanic Verses ‘actually more exploratory than sacrilegious—in no sense an anti-Muslim invective’
It has been fun watching the censorious, authoritarian and Islamophilic Left tie itself into knots defending the freedom of speech it otherwise despises in the wake of the stabbing of Salman Rushdie. This New Yorker piece is a good example. Adam Gopnik asserts that “Rushdie should have been equally invulnerable to persecution had he written […]
Video: Robert Spencer on The Shoot with Peter Boyles, on the Rushdie fatwa
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Hizballah-linked Muslim academic: If not for Rushdie fatwa, West would have insulted Islam even more
Sadek al-Naboulsi is absolutely right. The Rushdie fatwa and the Muhammad cartoon murders and attempted murders led many in the West to internalize Sharia blasphemy restrictions and never say anything that Muslims might find offensive, no matter how true and accurate the statement may have been. We see so much violent intimidation around the world […]