“We are working for a Caliphate from Morocco to Indonesia and from Khazakhstan to Saudi Arabia.” Hmmm. On my map Denmark doesn’t fall between Morocco and Indonesia or between Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia. Unless you go the other way, I suppose. “Islamic group incites war on West,” from The Copenhagen Post (thanks to all who […]
Archives for August 2007
Defending Our Own Civilization
Jamie Glazov interviews the dreaded Jihad Watch Director at FrontPage: Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Robert Spencer, a scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law and the director of Jihad Watch. He is the author of seven books, eight monographs, and hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism, including the New York Times Bestsellers […]
Spencer on Mike Gallagher Show today
I’ll be on Mike Gallagher‘s nationally syndicated radio show this morning at 7:34 AM PDT to discuss my new book War and Peace — oh, no wait, scratch that. My new book is Religion of Peace?.
Thug-In-Chief: Gadzooks, we got nukes
Of course, he has said this before. Many learned statesmen in Washington and Western Europe will no doubt strenuously disagree, but I’m just not altogether sure this fellow is trustworthy. “Ahmadinejad says his country now a ‘nuclear Iran,’” from AP (thanks to Looney Tunes): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated Tuesday that Teheran has achieved full […]
Shiite gunmen clash at Karbala festival
More Shi’ite-Shi’ite Jihad — and undoubtedly still more to come. By Robert H. Reid for the Associated Press: BAGHDAD – Fighting erupted Tuesday between rival Shiite militias in Karbala during a religious festival, claiming 51 lives and forcing officials to abort the celebrations and order up to 1 million Shiite pilgrims to leave the southern […]
Fitzgerald: Islam respects women?
Islam respects women. Islam prevents women from being made into mere sex objects. Islam provides for the “portable seclusion” of the burqah. In Islam there is no decadence, no exploitation, as there is in the cruel and intolerable West. If anything at all is ever to be found inhumane in the treatment or status of […]
Fitzgerald: All the victims of Jihad and Sharia should spend their time making alliances with one another
The main immigration of Lebanese, entirely Christian, arrived here between roughly 1880 and 1940. They came because Western pressure on the Ottoman government, while it led theoretically to a formal improvement in the legal treatment of non-Muslims in the Ottoman domains, in fact caused great unease among Muslims. The massacre of the Maronites in Damascus […]
“Help me, Doc, I’m suffering from Islamophobia!” “Read these two books by Karen Armstrong, and call me in the morning!”
The coinage of the term “Islamophobia” is an exercise in blaming the victim. If Muslims want to end “Islamophobia” instantaneously, here’s how: 1. Focus your indignation on Muslims committing violent acts in the name of Islam, not on non-Muslims reporting on those acts. 2. Renounce definitively not just “terrorism,” but any intention to replace the […]
And now, a word from Tokyo Rose
A little while ago I received this email from a jihadist crowing about the impending collapse of secularism in Turkey: another great day for Islam, once again you lose Spencer how bad must you now feel? you kept dreaming that Islam would no longe exist in turkey but the turks have shown they want Islam […]
Derbyshire/Spencer: The Pajamas brawl
Here is Derbyshire’s response to my response to his review of my book Religion of Peace?. And here, also from Pajamas, is my final response. Hearty thanks to John Derbyshire for this exchange, which I have enjoyed immensely. I hope he has also. John Derbyshire wishes I had read his review of my book Religion […]
An Ode to Judeo-Christian Western Civilization
Rabbi Aryeh Spero reviews my book Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t at Human Events: Robert Spencer has done it again. Religion of Peace? is the fifth in a series of meticulously researched and analyzed books he has written regarding the major issue of our day — the dangerous challenge of Islam […]
Thug-In-Chief licks his chops
“Now say ‘How high?,’ Nouri, come on, ‘How high?’ When I tell you to jump, that’s what I want to hear, capisce?” Little did Noah Feldman and his ilk realize that when they so fervently propounded blue-thumbed Iraqi democracy, that the apparent Shi’ite enthusiasm for Jeffersonianism would come to this. “President Ahmadinejad Says Iran Ready […]
Fitzgerald: Outrageous behavior by Muslims can be a good thing
Muslim- and Arab-American leaders are upset that the FBI didn’t consult them “” as it has done in other instances “” before releasing the photos on the Internet and to news organizations. [“¦] “We need to get some type of apology from them and figure out how to get back to where we were,” said […]
Fitzgerald: Needed: A Muslims-only airline
The sole purpose of the Flying Imams” lawsuit is to intimidate the pilots and crews of planes. And it would have included passengers, but the effect on an angry public, quite capable of identifying with those passengers, was deemed to be too dangerous for the “image” of Islam. That image is sinking fast in any […]
Fitzgerald: Six questions about victory in Iraq
I have posed the questions so many times before. But here they are again: 1) Should a “victory” in Iraq be defined as anything other than an outcome which will definitely leave the Camp of Islamic Jihad weakened? 2) If the answer to #1 is, as I hope it will be, “No,” then why is […]
Fitzgerald: The capacity for reason and logic is impaired
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Sher Afgan Niazi on Tuesday stunned both the treasury and opposition senators when he roundly criticised the foreign policy, describing it as one of appeasement at the cost of national interests, sovereignty and honour”¦. Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s Prof Khurshid Ahmed immediately stood up to endorse most of […]
Fitzgerald: Karen Hughes Gives Birth To A Brainchild, Or, How The Waters Came Down At Lahore
LAHORE: The US State Department is launching what it says will be the first comprehensive public diplomacy effort targeting children, hoping to shape the views of Muslim youths ages 8 to 14 with a series of summer camps and enrichment programs designed to counter negative images of the US, The Boston Globe reported on Monday. […]
South Korea agrees to ban Christian missionary work by Koreans in Afghanistan; Taliban agrees to free hostages
Mission accomplished…for the hostage takers. “Taleban ‘agree to free hostages,’” from the BBC (thanks to Davida): Taleban fighters have agreed to release 19 South Korean hostages held for more than five weeks in Afghanistan, the South Korean president’s office says. Spokesman Cheon Ho-seon said the agreement was reached on condition that Seoul withdrew its troops […]
Jihadist cleric: Indonesians living in sin as long as they fail to implement Islamic law
And if they’re living in sin, don’t even get him started about you. But note well: this is the appeal jihadists make to their fellow Muslims all over the world, and it has proven to be quite effective. Secular Muslims have never mounted an effective comeback. “Indonesians live in sin: Bashir,” from Agence France-Presse (thanks […]
IBD: Amanpour whitewashes jihad and smears Jews and Christians
“Amanpour’s Apologia” from Investor’s Business Daily is an excellent analysis of Christiane Amanpour’s recent CNN travesty. This is just the kind of moral equivalence I take on in my book Religion of Peace?. Global Jihad: CNN’s chief apologist for Islam, Christiane Amanpour, has gone too far this time. Not content to just whitewash jihad, she […]