My latest in PJ Media: As Tyler O’Neil noted here, The Atlantic on Thursday published an excerpt from Barack Obama’s latest autobiography, A Promised Land, and if you want to hear about how America was never great, you’ve come to the right place. “I recognize that there are those who believe that it’s time to discard […]
France: 14-year-old Muslim boy tells his teacher ‘I’m going cut you like Samuel Paty’
The boy was released. Of course. It isn’t as if he did something serious such as burning a Qur’an. “Seine-et-Marne: a schoolboy threatens his geography-history teacher to ‘cut her like Samuel Paty,’” translated from “Seine-et-Marne : un collégien menace sa prof d’histoire-géo de la ‘découper comme Samuel Paty,’” by Sophie Bordier, Le Figaro, November 13, […]
Egypt: Public prosecutor orders urgent investigation into social media conversation insulting Muhammad
A glimpse into the future of the West. Don’t believe me? Ask Richard Stengel. “Egyptian public prosecutor orders investigation of messages insulting Islam’s Prophet on social media,” Ahram Online, November 11, 2020: Egypt’s Public Prosecutor Hamada El-Sawi ordered an urgent investigation into a text conversation circulated on social media of a person insulting Prophet Muhammad, […]
Obama says Biden advised against raid on Osama bin Laden
Biden was no doubt motivated in this case purely by pragmatic considerations; there is no indication that Hunter Biden was on bin Laden’s payroll. But there is also no doubt that a Biden administration, with its inevitable focuses on “Islamophobia” and “right-wing extremism” rather than jihad terror, would enable a massive expansion of jihad operations […]
Muslim warns Macron to end his ‘Islamophobia,’ says ‘you are still alive, but just wait until a Muslim reaches you’
The reference to “Islamophobia” is rich. Mian Haseeb Madni is, in the name of Islam and in explicit and avowed accord with its teachings, is offering a $315,000 reward for the murder of Emmanuel Macron. At the same time, he is decrying Macron’s “Islamophobia.” Why, a religion as chummy as this should be loved by […]
Austria’s Kurz: Fight ‘ideological basis’ of terrorism. Merkel: It’s not a conflict between Islam and Christianity.
European leaders met in a video conference to coordinate the “fight against political Islam” and quickly made clear that their fight is foredoomed. “Kurz would like to fight above all the ideological basis behind the terror.” All right. But then Merkel “declared that terrorism is not a conflict between Islam and Christianity. ‘Every form of […]
When Democrats Tell You They’re Going to Establish Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, Believe Them
My latest in PJ Media: Leftists are saying they want you brainwashed or destroyed, and you should pay attention. They are impossibly mired in lies and hatred, but they have at times been oddly forthright about their plans, such as when Nancy Pelosi declared that Trump would lead at the end of election night but […]
Saudi Arabia: Muslim injures three with bomb at French remembrance service in ‘Non-Muslim Cemetery’
“IS said in a posting on its news agency, Aamaq, that it primarily targeted the French consul attending the ceremony because of his country’s publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.” Once again, the West is going to be forced to choose between the freedom of expression and submission to Sharia. Which one it will […]
Uganda: Muslims murder pastor, say he ‘ought to die for using the Koran and saying Allah is not God but an evil god’
The well-known 64 year-old Ugandan radio preacher and pastor, David Omara, was beaten to death in an ambush by six offended Muslims, thereby proving the point that he was making on his radio broadcast. Yet again, the message is that non-Muslims must beware of openly offending Muslims. The consequences (“sentence”) for doing so do not […]
Russia: Ulema bans Muslim men from marrying non-Muslim women unless children are raised Muslim
Islam has specific laws on marriage: It is forbidden for a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man, but a Muslim man can indeed marry a non-Muslim woman from the “People of the Book” — a Christian or a Jew. Sunni and Shia marital law allows Muslim men (in accord with Qur’an 4:3) to be […]
Outgoing US envoy to Syria admits to lying to Trump in order to prevent withdrawal of US troops from Syria
Who elected this clown? Who gave him the authority to determine United States policy toward Syria? In Rating America’s Presidents, I discuss how Trump has been obstructed at every turn by a coterie of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who have arrogated power to themselves and represent the political, military, and media establishment. This oligarchy has decided […]
Why Would It Be So Wrong for Joe Biden to Return to the Iran Deal?
The IAEA has been deeply disappointed in the lack of cooperation by Iran in the inspection process. Really, what did Commissioner Rafael Grossi expect? Iran has been obstructing IAEA inspections whenever it thought it could get away with it. “UN watchdog warns Iran again violating nuclear deal with world powers,” Israel Hayom, November 12, 2020: […]
UK: Law Commission calls for ‘hate crime and hate speech laws’ that would criminalize Muhammad cartoons
“The Law Commission is the statutory independent body created by the Law Commissions Act 1965 to keep the law of England and Wales under review and to recommend reform where it is needed.” The reform it sees as needed now is a surrender to violent intimidation and abandonment of the freedom of expression in favor […]
Biden transition official wants speech restrictions, criminalization of burning of Qur’an
I’m not in favor of the burning of any book, and I believe that people ought to read and understand the Qur’an rather than burn it. However, note that Stengel is calling for legal “guardrails” against “speech that incites hate.” If someone burns a Bible, no one cares. If someone burns a Qur’an, there are […]
Lebanese Christian: Europe has erred in assuming Muslim immigrant communities would adopt European worldview
Habib Malik is correct in this. He is also correct that “Arab Christian support for outraged Muslims, while commendable on one level, stems from an inherited sense of dhimmitude, he said. Under centuries of Muslim rule, the Christian dhimmi accepted second-class status and paid a special tax in order to be a protected community.” This […]
Israeli Agents on a Motorcycle Gun Down Al-Qaeda #2 In Tehran
We have just learned, on November 13, of the killing in Iran on August 7 of Al-Qaeda’s No. 2 man, Abu Muhammad al-Masri, who was assassinated by Israeli agents at the request, according to all reports, of the American government. The story is here: “Israeli agents killed al-Qaeda’s No. 2 on Iran street, at behest […]
UK: Muslim rapist had ‘a number of relationships with young girls in foster care’ and police did nothing
Another shocking instance of dereliction of duty to protect Muslim rape gangs and to avoid being called “Islamophobic.” The coverup is systemic in Britain, and although Muslim rape gang activity is widely known now, that activity persists and so does the coverup, from the government to police and social workers. “Police failings left Rotherham predator […]
IAEA: Iran Violating the ‘Iran Deal’ That Biden Wants to Rejoin
Will the putatively incoming Biden Administration listen? The President-elect-apparent has told everyone he is eager to return to the Iran Deal. But how has Iran been observing the Iran Deal that, without American participation, is still in force with the U.K., France, Germany, Russia, and China? The answer is clear: It hasn’t been observing the […]
Turkish al-Qaeda group operating out of Azerbaijan led by founder of an Islamic charity
In Islam, zakat — the alms required of every Muslim — can and should be given to further the jihad. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that there are so many jihad-linked charities. “Turkish al-Qaeda group operating out of Azerbaijan led by IHH charity founder,” by Abdullah Bozkurt, Nordic Monitor, November 9, 2020: A Turkish al-Qaeda […]
Pakistan: Muslim neighbors murder Christian woman and her son in front of their home
The plight of Christians suffering from persecution by Muslims takes an uglier form when trusted neighbors are involved. The woman and her 25-year-old son were killed in front of their home. Nobody in the village helped them. For human rights activists, the fact is “a huge example of intolerance and hatred that spreads against Christians”, […]
Italy: Three suspected jihadists escape deportation center, one is still on the run
Yet another consequence of the laxity in Europe regarding illegal Muslim migration, along with the persistent denial about jihad threats to Western nations. Last year, “an illegal Tunisian migrant, who had been deported from Italy, mocked populist leader Matteo Salvini after getting back into the country, saying he was glad Salvini was gone.” Under Italy’s […]
For Iran, How Do You Spell Relief? B-I-D-E-N
Iran is elated after Joe Biden’s apparent victory. On January 20, Tehran will likely no longer be dealing with an implacable Donald Trump, who pulled out of the JCPOA and reimposed crippling sanctions that sent Iran’s economy into a tailspin, but with a most pliable Joe Biden, eager to remove those sanctions and to return […]