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Hugh Fitzgerald: Professor Kishwar Rizvi and “Misinformation About Islam”

Jan 23, 2017 5:28 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

“There has been much misinformation about Islam. Reports in Western media tend to perpetuate stereotypes that Islam is a violent religion and Muslim women are oppressed.” — Professor Kishwar Rizvi, in Salon

Apparently for Ms. Rizvi, a professor at Yale of Islamic Art and Architecture, it is “misinformation” about Islam that leads to the “stereotypes” (that is, views) that Islam “is a violent religion” and that ‘Muslim women are oppressed.” And if it’s a “stereotype,” it must, in Rizvi’s view, be false. It’s not quite as simple as that. Just because something has become a “stereotype” doesn’t mean that it should be dismissed rather than discussed; stereotypes are not plucked at random from the air, but can reflect, to a greater or lesser degree, an observable truth. The question is: how much evidence exists to support these particular “stereotypes”?

Is there any reason to think that Islam is a “violent religion”? Where shall we start? What about with the 109 Jihad verses that call for war against the Unbelievers for the sake of establishing Muslim rule? Here’s just a tiny sample, to refresh Professor Rizvi’s memory:

Quran (2:191-193) – “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [sedition or unrest, connected to disbelief] is worse than killing… but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [unrest, and worshipping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone.

Quran (2:216) – “Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not.”

Quran (3:151) – “Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority”.

Quran (4:76) – “Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah…”

Quran (5:33) – “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement”

Quran (8:15) – “O ye who believe! When ye meet those who disbelieve in battle, turn not your backs to them. Whoso on that day turneth his back to them, unless maneuvering for battle or intent to join a company, he truly hath incurred wrath from Allah, and his habitation will be hell, a hapless journey’s end.”

Quran (9:5) – “So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them.”

Quran (9:29) – “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”

We might have continued filling pages with another 100 verses from the Qur’an, and hundreds of stories about what Muhammad said and did from the Hadith and Sira, texts which also bristle with tales of his violence. But the point has surely been made: Whatever else may be said about the Qur’an and the other main Islamic texts, they are not “non-violent.”

But perhaps, Ms. Rizvi might insist, these texts should not be taken so seriously; she might claim that Muslims have taught themselves to ignore those Qur’anic passages. Is that true? Does the observable behavior of Muslims all over the world exhibit indifference to these texts, and a deep-seated preference for “non-violence”?

Well, let’s see. What does Ms. Rizvi make of the more than 30,000 Muslim terrorist attacks all over the world since 9/11/2001? She can find a complete list here. One hopes that she will feel compelled to take a look. It might prove instructive.

The evidence compiled there is not a fiction, not the mere imaginings of Westerners in thrall to “stereotypes,” nor the fantasies of Islamophobes. It lists laconically, without editorializing, attacks by Muslims, for reasons of religion, against non-Muslims, a category which also includes those Muslims who are deemed not to be “real” Muslims, either because of their sect (many Sunnis view both the Shi’a and Ahmadi Muslims as Infidels) or, even if Sunni, because they are deemed insufficiently Islamic in their beliefs and behavior. This gigantic body of evidence for the “violence” of Islam is difficult to dismiss.

And if Ms. Rizvi cared to look at the political upheavals recently in the Muslim lands, she would find violence everywhere she looked. In Egypt, the most populous Arab nation, the mobs came out to denounce Mubarak and in support of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood; when Morsi took over, other crowds (and soldiers) came out to protest against him and the Muslim Brotherhood; when Al-Sisi took over, and Morsi was arrested, there was still more intra-Muslim violence, between the Morsi supporters and those of al-Sisi, and there are still today, in Egypt, attacks from terrorists in the Sinai on Egyptian forces, violent reprisals by Al-Sisi’s forces, and in Upper Egypt, attacks by fanatical Muslims on the innocuous Christian Copts, which the government seems unable to prevent. Violence, everywhere you look.

In Tunisia, which launched the “Arab spring,” demonstrations brought down the regime of Ben Ali, and while Tunisia is often held up as a model of a peaceful transition, there has been violence against foreigners, with 21 killed in an attack on the Bardo Museum, and dozens of British tourists murdered on a beach, the murders of secular labor leaders, and against the new regime for being too secular for some, as in the attack at the border town with Libya, where 45 Tunisians were killed last year by “extremists.”

In Libya, what began as a violent revolt against Qaddafi soon metamorphosed into a many-sided conflict, pitting local militias identified with particular cities – Benghazi and Zintan and Misrata and Tripoli — against each other, jockeying for power, while the Islamic State established a foothold at Sirte, and held on to it until just this month. There is no unified Libyan state: as of now, the Government of National Accord in Tripoli claims rather unconvincingly to be the legitimate government, while those different militias, based either on the city of their members’ origin, or on the degree of fanaticism their members exhibit, are all fighting each other for power. Where does this incessant violence come from, if not from Islam?

We could do a quick tour d’horizon of the other Muslim lands in the neighborhood to see if Ms. Rizvi’s charge that linking Islam to violence is simply a “stereotype.” There is the Sudan, with the decades of war fought by Muslim Arabs in northern Sudan against both Christian and pagan black Africans in the southern Sudan, and against black African Muslims in Darfur. Then there is Yemen, with the incessant warfare of Sunni and Shi’a, a conflict that has now been enlarged still further by the Saudi bombing of Shi’a civilians, a campaign that has no foreseeable end. There is little Bahrain, where Pakistani Sunni mercenaries help a Sunni ruler suppress an uprising by the majority Shi’a.

How about the six-year civil war in Syria? As noted above, there are so many different groups in that fissiparous land, each warring against each, or making only the most temporary of alliances. There is the Syrian army, Alawite-officered, which fights for the corrupt regime of Bashar al-Assad who, despite his crimes, is also the surest protector of the country’s Christians and the most relentless foe of the Islamic State in Syria. There are several different rebel groups that consider themselves comparatively “secular” and “democratic” and who fight in what is called the Free Syrian Army; there are others that are determinedly “Islamic” in outlook, including the Al-Nusra Front, which is the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda, and the Islamic State, which is another Islamist group, even more fanatical and ruthless than the Al-Nusra Front. Both Al-Nusra and the Islamic State separately fight both Assad’s Army and the Free Syrian Army, but most importantly, they fight each other. The Syrian war has been going on for six years, and there is no apparent end in sight. Every attempt at compromise has failed. Ceasefires are constantly broken. “Violence” appears to be inherent in Islam, and it is only when one side has suffered a complete and utter defeat – leaving only Victor and Vanquished — that there is any chance for a settlement. Compromise is un-Islamic. So far, obtaining such a victory in Syria has proven elusive.

In Iraq, for the moment the main battles are taking place between the Shi’a-led Iraqi army and Shi’a militias, on one side, against the hyper-Sunnis of the Islamic State in Mosul on the other. But the Islamic State is not the only enemy. Sunnis unconnected to the Islamic State have for years been conducting a campaign of terror against the Shi’a, for Iraqi Sunnis feel keenly their loss of power to the majority Shi’a, and would like to keep the Shi’a off-balance in the hope of somehow forcing the Shi’a to relinquish some of their new-found power. That’s what explains those bombs exploding in Shi’a neighborhoods of Baghdad, and in the midst of Shi’a religious processions, and at Shi’a shrines, and inside Shi’a mosques. And in the last few years, there have been many more reprisal raids – kidnappings and mass executions of Sunnis, bombings in Sunni marketplaces – by the Shi’a militias that have also taken to bombing Sunni mosques.

The Sunnis are unreconciled to their loss of power, which followed upon the removal of Saddam Hussein; the Shi’a, of course, have no intention of yielding the power to which they believe themselves entitled, both because of their numbers (the Shia Arabs are 60% of the population) and because of their horrific treatment at the hands of Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-dominated regime. Alongside this Sunni-Shia strife, there is also ongoing violence in both Syria and Iraq, by Muslims against Christians (many of whom have now fled both Syria and Iraq), by Arabs against Kurds, and most gruesome of all, by the Islamic State against everyone else, well-versed in fiendish torture, burning people alive, mass decapitations, gang rapes, including among its victims the tiny, helpless Yazidi people in Iraq. In the midst of all this cruel killing, some of it by small children trained and encouraged by the adults to execute others or to become suicide bombers, Ms. Rizvi assures us that Islam is not “a violent religion.”

The Kurds, many of whom have tasted autonomy ever since the American Air Force enforced a “no-fly” zone on Saddam Hussein’s planes, are determined to keep it and are ready to fight for it. The Peshmerga have shown themselves to be among the most formidable foes of the Islamic State. What will come of these Kurdish demands for much greater autonomy, or what might happen if, sensing that the regimes in Baghdad and Damascus have been sufficiently weakened, the Kurds try to create an independent Kurdistan, cannot be known, but violence, and not pacific negotiation, is likely to decide the issue. The Kurds remember, after all, that when Saddam Hussein was in power, his Arabs killed 182,000 Kurds in Operation Anfal.

Violence, or the threat of violence, is everywhere you look in Iraq. As in Syria, it’s everyone against everyone: Shi’a against Sunnis and Sunnis against Shi’a, Arabs against Kurds, Muslims against Christians (but never Christians attacking Muslims), which is what happens in many Muslim lands, when a despot is suddenly removed and no one takes his place to impose his iron-fisted will. Then come attacks, reprisals, more attacks, more reprisals, in a continuous loop. Could this be one of the places that give rise to Ms. Rizvi’s “stereotypes”?

Syria and Iraq are currently the most violent of the Muslim Arab lands. But for years, Algeria was just as violent a center of internecine Muslim warfare. Even though a period of comparative calm now reigns in Algeria, the killing during the war of its Islamist groups against the ruling FLN party was unusual for its violence. The civil strife began in 1991, when it looked as if the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) would defeat the ruling FLN Party, that had held power since independence, in the coming elections; the FLN then cancelled the elections, and a civil war broke out, with several different groups fighting the FLN. The two main armed groups, that separately battled the FLN government, were the Armed Islamic Movement, or MIA, based mainly in the mountains, and the Islamist Armed Group, or GIA, based mainly in the towns. The GIA has been the more ferocious of those two groups: it has wiped out whole villages of civilians in campaigns of terror; its stock-in-trade was not combat on the battlefield, but assassinations, bombings, massacres of civilians, aircraft hijackings.

Only slightly less violent was the MIA, but like the GIA, and indeed like the FLN government itself, it has been guilty of mass atrocities against civilians. When the FLN finally declared victory, 200,000 people (the figure comes from Prof. Fouad Ajami), most of them civilians, had been killed, often in gruesome ways, and many hundreds of thousands wounded. And while some claim that “peace” of a kind has finally come to Algeria, it has hardly become the Peaceable Kingdom. There is still intermittent low-level violence, with strikes at, and counter-strikes by, the FLN-ruled government against the remnants of Islamist groups. Al-Qaeda has set up a branch in Algeria, known as AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb), started by some veterans of the GIA. AQIM still stages its intermittent attacks in the vast Algerian south, including cross-border raids into Mali, Burkina Faso, the Ivory Coast. Algeria’s nonstop violence continues, with both AQIM and the FLN government playing their ruthless opposing roles.

Just “stereotypes”?

Let’s take a closer look at the Sudan, where from 1983 to 2005 a civil war raged, with attacks by Muslim Arabs from the north on black African Christians and animists in the southern Sudan. Two million people died as a result.

The conflict was characterized by mass killings in the south and the enslavement of blacks by the Arabs. And in addition to this conflict, the Muslim Arabs of the Janjaweed (armed Arab militias) went on raids pillaging and raping black Africans – even though they were Muslims — in Darfur. The Janjaweed are still there, though now that South Sudan has been declared an independent country, and much of the fighting in that area has consequently died down, the Western media is paying far less attention not just to the South Sudan, but to Darfur in the Sudan, where violence has not gone away. Last September, for example, a chemical attack killed 250 black African villagers in Darfur. The government of the Sudan, together with the Janjaweed militias, still appears determined to kill or drive out all non-Arabs from Darfur. But don’t you dare connect “violence” to Islam. That would be trading in “stereotypes.”

We could go even further afield to Iran, where the Revolutionary Guards keep the theocratic despotism in power, in cruelty and violence far outdoing the Shah’s hated Savak. There is Chechnya, where nonstop armed violence by his army keeps Ramzan Kadyrov, Putin’s ferocious quasi-puppet, in power. There is Afghanistan, where the Taliban continues to fight the government that, despite all the American military help it has received over 15 years, still manages to control only 63% of the total land area, and where the Taliban continues to harbor hopes both of taking over the country, and of again destroying the Shi’a Hazara, regarded by the Taliban as Infidels. “Hazaras are not Muslims, you can kill them,” was the famous remark by the Taliban commander Maulawi Mohammed Hanif in the mid-1990s. The American invasion put a stop to those Taliban attacks, but with the Americans largely gone, abductions, extortion, killings of the Hazara have started again, this time committed mainly by Al-Qaeda’s branch in Afghanistan and by a new contributor to the cauldron of violence, the forces of ISIS. Meanwhile, ISIS and the Taliban, after fighting each other for a year, declared a shaky truce in July 2016. Fifteen years after the American forces entered Afghanistan to bring peace, the picture is of many-sided violence. “Stereotypes”?

In Pakistan, Sunni terror groups have not let up in their attacks on Ahmadis  and Shi’a. The Ahmadis are not allowed to identify themselves as Muslims on official documents in Pakistan. While the Shi’a can do so, many Sunnis agree with the extremist organisations Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Sipah e Sahaba — that in 2011 from the city of Quetta declared that “All Shias are worthy of killing and the intention is to make Pakistan their graveyard.” Again, the violence in Pakistan is many-sided and apparently unstoppable. If only those pesky Pakistanis could stop imitating their “stereotypes.”

There is Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, which won its independence only after a bloody war in 1971, fought by Bengalis both against the army of West Pakistan and against various local Islamist groups, including Jamaat-e-Islami and the paramilitary “Razakars” – who accepted the view that the independence movement in East Pakistan was really “an attack on Islam” because it would weaken the Pakistani state. In Bangladesh, as in Pakistan, and in Malaysia and Indonesia, you will find examples of ongoing violence against non-Muslims, whether Christians or Hindus, or even Buddhists (in their last redoubt in a Muslim country, the Chittagong Hills in Bangladesh). Why, given all this evidence, is it unreasonable to connect Islam with violence?

While the link given above to more than 30,000 terrorist attacks by Muslims ought to convince anyone of the link between Islam and violence, not only in the Muslim lands (Sunni against Shi’a, Shi’a against Sunni, Arab against non-Arab, Muslim against Christian, Muslim Against Hindu, Muslim against Buddhist), but also in the lands of Dar al-Harb, where Muslims do not yet dominate, it might be useful to list the places where the most spectacular attacks have taken place, and that contribute to the view that violence and Islam are indelibly connected. Professor Rizvi may finally be able to see things from an Infidel’s perspective as she reads the latest Jihad News. Here are a few of the places where major Islamic attacks were spectacularly bloody or cruel or insensate: New York, Washington, Boston, Amsterdam, Madrid, Brussels, Paris (Charlie Hebdo, Hyper Cacher, Bataclan, Nice, Toulouse), London, Moscow, Beslan, Mumbai, Orlando, San Bernardino, Fort Hood.

How many such attacks must there be before Prof. Rizvi finally recognizes that insisting that “Islam is a violent religion” is not an unfair stereotype, but only the terrible truth? If anything, the media in the Western world have tried hard to claim or pretend, after each atrocity, that Islam “had nothing to do with it.” This has required them to ignore the quoting of Qur’anic chapter and verse by the killers themselves. An alternative way to deal with the stark display of Muslim bloodlust is the tu-quoque of “all religions have their crazies,” which does nothing to explain why so many more of those mass-murderers appear to be Muslims than, say, Christians, or Jews, or Buddhists, or Hindus, and why, far from being “crazy,” those Muslim mass killers are eager – and able — to lucidly provide to the world the textual support for their acts. They are killing by the book. That book is the Qur’an. So much for the unfair “stereotype” that Rizvi claims links Islam to violence.

What do you think about Islam, now that you have been exposed to just a few of the “Jihad verses” in the Qur’an? Now that you’ve had a chance to review the recent turbulent history of a dozen Muslim countries? Now that you’ve been given a link to a list of the more than 30,000 Muslim attacks around the world since 9/11/2001? Now that you’ve been given a list – to jog your memory — of the major terrorist attacks by Muslims in the West? Would you agree with Rizvi that reports in Western media “tend to perpetuate stereotypes” because they report on so much violence involving Muslims? Are any of those reports untrue? Are any exaggerated? Far from pushing a “stereotype,” doesn’t the Western media try to downplay the role of Islam in these attacks, sometimes by idiotically claiming that “it had nothing to do with Islam” or suggesting that it was the act of a non-denominational madman? With a few honorable exceptions, the Western media is doing everything it can to persuade us that Islam did not prompt or inspire these acts of terror, even when the perpetrators insist that it did. Yet Ms. Rizvi claims it’s all a matter of stereotyping.

Ms. Rizvi has a second complaint: that the Western media promote the “stereotype” that “Muslim women are oppressed.”

Might we in the West think that Muslim women are oppressed because, according to the Sharia, Muslim women can inherit half as much as men (Qur’an 4:11); their testimony is worth half that of a man (2:282); polygamy is licit (Muhammad, the Perfect Man, allowed himself at least twelve wives) and so are female slaves, “those whom your right hand possesses”; a Muslim man is allowed to beat his disobedient wife, though “lightly”; a Muslim man need only pronounce the triple-talaq to divorce his wife; and women are described in the Qur’an as inferior to men, for “the men are a degree above them” (2:228); and in the Sahih Bukhari (6:301), “[Muhammad] said, “‘Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?’ They replied in the affirmative. He said, ‘This [is because of] the deficiency in her intelligence.‘” And Muslim husbands and fathers have close to absolute control over their wives and daughters, and can punish or even kill them, without fear of long prison sentences, and in some cases have been known to “pardon themselves” for having murdered their own daughters.

And think of how women are treated in Saudi Arabia, that country that adheres most closely to the letter and spirit of Sharia, where women cannot get passports or travel abroad without permission of a male relative, cannot drive a car, must use separate entrances at work and school to avoid contact with men, must limit any interaction with men who are not relatives, must wear at least an abaya and a head-covering and, to satisfy the mutaween (religious police), a niqab, and their social lives are totally controlled by their fathers and husbands. Think of the fifteen Saudi girls who were prevented by the mutaween from leaving a blazing building in Mecca because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, and instead were allowed to burn to death. Where, in what corner of the Muslim world, are women treated as being equal to men, able to make their own decisions, to socialize and dress and work and travel as they like, without men telling them what to do? There is no such place. It is only in the Western world that Muslim women can enjoy equality, protected by un-Islamic laws that flatly contradict the Shari’a.

To most of us, this evidence, both textual and behavioral, convincingly demonstrates that Muslim women are indeed “oppressed.” And as noted above, if we similarly look at the “textual” evidence (what the Qur’an and Hadith inculcate), and at the “behavioral” evidence (how Muslims treat non-Muslims) around the world, it’s impossible not to conclude that Islam is indeed a “violent religion.” Prof. Rizvi, a stalwart Defender of the Faith, clearly has other ideas. One wonders how she sleeps at night.

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Comments

  1. Joe says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 5:32 pm

    http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Taqiyya

    • roger woodhouse says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 2:50 am

      I suspect this womsn is seeking her ’15 minutes of fame’by producing this purile nonsense which though can be easily proven to be so by anyone remotely interested could be taken at face value by the gullible.Afterall there are millions of people out there just hoping this is the case .As most people here in Britain just crave a ‘quiet life’they would love this to be true .This is a problem we face here.Like a frog placed into a bucket of water and boiled slowly its death is nevertheless inevitable

      • M.B.P.Lee says

        Jan 24, 2017 at 6:06 am

        Ms. Rizvi, a professor at Yale of Islamic Art and Architecture, should be the Chair of Taqiyya at the University.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 24, 2017 at 9:07 pm

          That’s basically what she is. She peppers her “art history” lessons with endless claptrap about the false “Golden Age of Islam”, and lots of snide comments about the West–especially the US.

    • ECAW says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 7:12 am

      Thanks for that clarification Joe. My understanding from it, and other sources, is that taqqiya is solely a Shia term for deceiving the kaffir for defensive purposes when in a minority, not a blanket term for advancing Islam. That is sanctioned eleswhere…”war is deceit” etc.

      • JIMJFOX says

        Jan 24, 2017 at 8:45 am

        To be EXACT__

        1•Taqiyya (Shia) or Muda’rat (Sunni): tactical deceit for the purposes of spreading Islam.
        2•Kitman: deceit by omission.
        3.Tawriya: deceit by ambiguity.
        4•Taysir: deceit through facilitation (not having to observe all the tenets of Sharia).
        5•Darura: deceit through necessity (to engage in something “Haram” or forbidden).
        6•Muruna: the temporary suspension of Sharia to make Muslim migrants appear “moderate.”
        Muslims imitate Allah ‘THE GREATEST OF DECEIVERS’.

        • ECAW says

          Jan 24, 2017 at 10:19 am

          That is my point Jim. There are plenty of justifications for deceiving the kaffir for the advancement of Islam:

          http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur%27an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Lying_and_Deception#Taqiyya

          but taqiyya isn’t one of them. It is restricted to lying to protect oneself when among the kaffir.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 24, 2017 at 9:16 pm

          Muda’rat is probably the best umbrella term–but the tern Taqiyya is better known.

      • mark says

        Jan 26, 2017 at 6:44 am

        All muslims lie to disguse islam, o matter what sect, that included the ahmadis

  2. Alexis says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 5:45 pm

    Professor: Please read about discrimination, labor problems punishment for moral offenses and resistance in a country where Islam is the country’s religion and there is a Shariah court, here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N4LCEYM

  3. billybob says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 5:53 pm

    Someone needs to send a link to this article to the Chair and Faculty there at Yale. This woman is obviously a fraud.

    • JAR says

      Jan 23, 2017 at 10:18 pm

      Where, according to his specialty, is jihad3tracker to resurface and supply the Yale address that you desire?
      Either this Islamic gal’s intelligence is indeed sub-par, or her taqiyya is in overdrive. Oh, sorry, Joe already highlighted that in a comment above.
      Hugh F. provided the necessary corrective and pushback. Thanks.

  4. Guy Macher says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 6:23 pm

    All the apologists for Islam have to do is cite the Koran verses which support their arguments.

  5. mortimer says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 6:37 pm

    A slight difference of opinion between “There has been much misinformation about Islam. Reports in Western media tend to perpetuate stereotypes that Islam is a violent religion and Muslim women are oppressed.” — Professor Kishwar Rizvi

    and

    Danish researcher Tina Magaard, Ph.D. concluded that Islam is the most warlike religion. After three years analyzing the original texts of ten different religions, Tina Magaard concluded that the Islamic texts stand out by encouraging terror and violence to a larger degree than other religions do. She stated that ‘Islamic texts encourage terror and fighting to a far larger degree than the original texts of other religions. The texts in Islam distinguish themselves from the texts of other religions by encouraging violence and aggression against people with other religious beliefs to a larger degree.’
    “What is striking is not in itself that one can find murderous passages in the Islamic texts, as such passages can also be found in other religions. But it is striking how much space these passages take up in the Islamic texts, and how much they focus on an us-and-them logic in which infidels and apostates are characterized as dirty, rotten, criminal, hypocritical and dangerous. It is also striking how much these texts demand that the reader fight the infidels, both with words and with the sword. In many passages, Muhammad plays a central role as one who encourages the use of violence, whether it comes to stonings, beheadings, acts of war or execution of critics and poets.”

    • billybob says

      Jan 23, 2017 at 9:25 pm

      This was a Jihad Watch article…
      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/11/research-islam-really-is-the-worlds-most-violent-religion

      It is stupid to say “She stated that ‘Islamic texts encourage terror and fighting to a far larger degree than the original texts of other religions.”

      I don’t think she understands “other religions”. Christianity is nonviolent and doesn’t “encourage terror” to any degree whatsoever. To understand Christianity, look to the example and teachings of Christ. Whatever is found in the Old Testament that might be appear violent has nothing to do with Christianity, which is obvious to anyone who has studied Christ’s teachings and example.

      • billybob says

        Jan 23, 2017 at 9:27 pm

        I meant to add that it is Christ who defines Christianity, not the Old Testament.

        • red says

          Jan 24, 2017 at 4:07 am

          the Old Testament is nothing more than a historical reference for Christianity, and anyone who starts quoting OT laws as proof of Christianity’s oppressive archaic rules is either misinformed or deliberately spreading misinformation

        • JIMJFOX says

          Jan 24, 2017 at 9:01 am

          Not true–

          5. THE TESTIMONY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT TO THE INSPIRATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. Jesus has been proven to be not only a credible witness, but a messenger from God. In all His teachings He referred to the divine authority of the Old Testament (Mt. 5:17-18; 8:17; 12:40-42; Lk. 4:18-21; 10:25-28; 15:29-31; 17:32; 24:25-45; Jn. 5:39-47). He quoted the Old Testament 78 times, the Pentateuch alone 26 times. He quoted from Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Amos, Jonah, Micah, and Malachi. He referred to the Old Testament as “The Scriptures,” “the word of God,” and “the wisdom of God.” The apostles quoted 209 times from the Old Testament and considered it “the oracles of God.” The Old Testament in hundreds of places predicted the events of the New Testament; and as the New Testament is the fulfillment of, and testifies to the genuineness and authenticity of the Old Testament, both Testaments must be considered together as the Word of God.

          What’s the Christian term for ‘taqiyya’??

        • billybob says

          Jan 24, 2017 at 5:21 pm

          Jim Fox, you know nothing. What was Christ’s example? What were has teachings? What is the sum total of these two things? That is Christianity. It requires an IQ a little above 90 to understand though, so I guess that leaves you out.

        • Leon Degney says

          Jan 25, 2017 at 9:26 am

          How then do you explain the Crusaded and the Inquisition?

        • billybob says

          Jan 25, 2017 at 1:01 pm

          “How then do you explain the Crusaded and the Inquisition?”

          Corruption of the Catholic Church of course. You didn’t think the Pope was “infallible” did you? Popes have been known to have been driven by their own lust, greed, and ambition rather than the teachings of Jesus Christ at times. In the end, they are only too human.

  6. mortimer says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 6:39 pm

    Has Kishwar Rizvi read the Sira and hadiths? Has Kishwar Rizvi read the 164 jihad verses of the Koran?

    The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses: K 002:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 003:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 004:071-072, 074-077, 084, 089-091, 094-095,100-104; 005:033, 035, 082; 008:001, 005, 007, 009-010, 012, 015-017, 039-048,057-060, 065-075; 009:005, 012-014, 016, 019-020, 024-026, 029,036, 038-039, 041, 044, 052, 073, 081, 083,086, 088, 092, 111, 120, 122-123; 016:110; 022:039, 058, 078; 024:053, 055; 025:052; 029:006, 069; 033:015, 018, 020, 023, 025-027, 050; 042:039; 047:004, 020, 035; 048:015-024; 049:015; 059:002, 005-008, 014; 060:009; 061:004, 011, 013; 063:004; 064:014; 066:009; 073:020; 076:008

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 5:54 am

      There’s no problem, for her.

      You see, I would say that Ms Rizvi is using the special Islamspeak definitions of ‘violence’ and ‘oppression’, to fool her kuffar listeners; because she knows they will invest her words with the Kuffar definition, whereas *she* is using her words with the *Muslimspeak* definitions in mind.

      Muslim jihad – no matter how horrifically cruel and violent it is from the POV of its infidel victims – is not ‘violence’. ONLY infidel resistance to Islamisation = ‘violence’, ‘war’, etc.

      Muslims using force to impose and enforce the sharia and to impose Muslim rule upon infidels – or even forcing said infidels to convert to Islam – are not understood, from the classical Muslim point of view, to be ‘violent’. They are just… forbidding ‘wrong’ and commanding ‘right’.

      As for ‘oppression’… same deal. ‘Oppression’ = a state of affairs wherein Muslims do not rule, absolutely, and/ or the sharia of Islam is not in force.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 24, 2017 at 9:38 pm

        Yes, Dumbledore’s Army. I’m *all too familiar* with this nasty Taqiyya artist, who peppers her “art history lessons” with digs as the West.

        One of Kishwar Rizvi’s pieces of bs is that there was a “Global Renaissance”–by which she tries to piggyback events in the Muslim world on to the glorious Western European rediscovery of Classical art, learning, and philosophy. *Ugh*.

  7. Wellington says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 6:41 pm

    There is misinformation about Islam out there. Yes there is. Loads. And this misinformation revolves around such propositions as Islam being something good, something not an enemy of free speech, something not opposed to equality under the law, something not opposed to women’s rights, something not inimical to a true Golden Rule for all, something not opposed to conversion by a Muslim to another faith, et al.

    Oh yeah, misinformation about Islam abounds. Damn right it does. And virtually all such misinformation is completely wrapped up with exculpation of Islam by Mohammedans and dhimmi apologists for the belief system that Ernest Renan accurately characterized as “the heaviest chains that ever shackled humanity.”

    So, Rizvi is correct, though she is correct in spite of, not because of, what she thinks and believes. She has stumbled into the truth and will almost certainly never realize how bitterly ironic (and self-defeating) such stumbling really is.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 9:41 pm

      Yes–misinformation is exactly what she herself is trying to spread.

  8. mortimer says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 6:50 pm

    IS A RELIGION THAT KILLED 270 MILLION A ‘RELIGION OF PEACE’? 3 KILLED EVERY MINUTE.
    Has Kishwar Rizvi read Islamic history?
    -Islam killed 270 million or 500 killed every day since Mohammed.
    -120 million black Africans killed by the Islamic slave trade
    -80 million Hindus killed in the Hindu genocides committed by Muslim invaders
    -60 million Christians killed in jihads
    -10 million Buddhists killed in jihads
    -270 million total deaths due to jihad
    -29,800 deadly jihad attacks have occurred since 9-11 … 10 deaths per day
    -In the last 30 days there were 178 Islamic attacks in 32 countries, in which 1123 people were killed and 1692 injured.
    -Islam has killed an average of 19,300 people every year since Mohammed
    -Islam has killed an average of 500 people every day since Mohammed.
    -Islam has killed an average of 20 people every hour and killed 1 every three minutes since Mohammed. Do the math.

    A religion that kills one person every three minutes is the definition of a ‘Death Cult’, Dr. Rizvi .

    • Singh the Sikh says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 12:16 am

      Mortimer is not a professor (or maybe he is) but he can sure teach a thing or two about research to so-called professor Rizvi, as well as how to present relevant data in an impactful manner. In fact, the average undergrad student can do better than dud professor Rizvi. But maybe it’s taqiya at a subconscious level. After all taqiya is normal and natural for Muslims engaged in Jihad.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 24, 2017 at 9:50 pm

        Very true, Singh.

        Fine post, Mortimer.

  9. Singh the Sikh says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 7:36 pm

    This is a low quality professor. In fact she is not fit to be called a professor. How can she be a professor when she can’t even see the body of evidence across the globe that impacts with such deadly force that it cannot be missed even by a blind camel. This ‘professor’ is dumber than a blind camel.

    Actually, she is a professor in the Islamic tradition which does not subscribe to rational, logic or evidence, but blind adherence to an ideology.

  10. Krr says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 7:56 pm

    How painful for vain Muslims to enjoy lives they can’t get in Muslim countries. To be subject to Western achievements day in, day out. To enjoy electricity, industrialization, modern hygiene, Western medicine. To see infidel children live better than 90% of Muslim children in the world. The hijrah is a daily castration of the soul.

  11. sidney penny says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 8:01 pm

    “Rizvi, a professor at Yale of Islamic Art and Architecture”

    How does that make her an expert on Islam?

  12. jewdog says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 8:24 pm

    Clearly, Ms. Rizvi is making absurdly pollyannish claims about Islam. It’s too bad that in doing so, she seems to be confirming Sahih Bukhari’s reported observation by Muhammed on the female intellect, but let’s not generalize.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 5:57 am

      She isn’t necessarily making pollyannaish claims.

      It’s perfectly possible that she is using Islamic doublespeak, which is sort of like Orwell’s ‘newspeak’, only worse.

      What *she* means by ‘violence’ is not what we Infidels mean when we speak of ‘violence’.

      What *she* means by ‘being oppressed’ is not what we Infidels mean when we speak of ‘oppression’.

      • jewdog says

        Jan 24, 2017 at 8:55 am

        If I had a dollar for every self-critical Muslim out there I’d have to apply for public assistance.
        It’s never their fault – Islam blames the kaffir for everything.

  13. b.a. freeman says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 8:25 pm

    i don’t wonder how she can sleep; i wonder how she can so completely divorce herself from reality. i *dare* her, dressed as she is in the photograph, to walk around mecca. bet she would be dead within minutes. so why does she think that she won’t be subject to those rules? why is she allowed out of the house by her husband or father?

    i suspect that she is either insane, or she’s hoping to eventually kill some kufr so that she can get into heaven. neither possibility is pleasant.

  14. Northern Virginiastan says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 8:31 pm

    I always have to laugh when Muslims complain about the media. The media has their bitch.

    • Northern Virginiastan says

      Jan 23, 2017 at 8:32 pm

      Whoops! I mean the media is their bitch.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 24, 2017 at 9:54 pm

        I knew what you meant–no worries.

  15. Troybeam says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    This woman is not uncommon as she presents Islam in a manner that is non threatening. This is done to put people at ease. The more each and everyone of us learns the real truth about Islam, sharia with all its truths the more people will agree that Islam must be removed from America.

  16. davej says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    Her little niche is Islamic Art and Architecture, she lives in the infidel State of Connecticut and has a well paid Professorship at Yale University. She has no direct knowledge or experience of women living in Islamic countries. Her pronouncements should be mocked and ignored.

    • Jaladhi says

      Jan 23, 2017 at 9:04 pm

      I think she knows very well how women are treated in Islam and she is just plainly lying to defend her religion using Islamic taqiyya!

  17. Buford says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    It all falls into one category in the Quran use deception to get what you want this gal is a prime example & the worst part of it all is there are a lot of Naive & outright Stupid people who fall for this nonsense & are always saying I have a Neighbor or know somebody at my Gym who is a Muslim & they are so nice & they are peaceful.

  18. Jaladhi says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    Muslims are perennial liars and especially so when it comes to telling the truth about their “religion” Islam!

    And this “professor” is no exception to this rule.

    Never ever trust a Muslim! Period.

  19. davej says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 9:11 pm

    Yale suppresses free speech:

    https://heatst.com/culture-wars/federal-judge-warns-yale-university-youre-killing-freedom-of-speech/

    • billybob says

      Jan 23, 2017 at 9:41 pm

      Very interesting…

      “’Civility’ sounds innocuous enough, and, indeed, we can all agree that we should strive to be civil to each other,” said Cabranes. “But problems arise when we are told that ‘uncivil’ speech has turned the campus, or parts of the campus, into a ‘hostile environment’—and, more dangerously still, when we are told that university officials have a duty to make campus ‘safe’ again by suppressing alleged incivility.”

      “In the fight against incivility, university officials too easily morph into monitors of acceptable speech—and, ultimately, into the unhappy role of ‘Civility Police,’” he said.

      Allow and encourage free speech. If minorities find something offensive, encourage them speak out their point of view too, but don’t stifle the free speech of anybody who has an honest considered opinion to contribute to the debate.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 24, 2017 at 10:11 pm

        And how much “civility” do Muslims and those on the Left often evince? Little or none–they are more apt to resort to violence.

        • billybob says

          Jan 25, 2017 at 1:41 pm

          They are more apt to resort to violence because their arguments cannot withstand reason.

  20. Gray says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 12:47 am

    Hot off the press: Sydney Uber driver, Muhammed Naveed, accused of raping drunk woman in his cab. Yet more stereotyping about the Muslim oppression of women. http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/sydney-uber-driver-says-he-had-consent-sex-with-passenger-and-pleads-not-guilty-to-rape/news-story/8c361ca3ad94c04a14c404f217b2388b

    • Singh the Sikh says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 1:38 am

      Uber drive Muhammed following namesake prophet muhammad’s example.

      He must have suffered ‘sexual emergency’ as goats or camels were nearby. The way things are going, sexual emergency will soon become a legitimate defence, if not grounds for mitigation.

      • Singh the Sikh says

        Jan 24, 2017 at 1:41 am

        Sorry, I meant ‘…he suffered ‘sexual emergency’ as ‘NO’ goats or camels were nearby’.

        Of course if goats and camels were nearby, then no sexual emergency.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 25, 2017 at 3:10 am

      Yes–more Muslim rapists.

  21. Jean-Francois Morf says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 3:29 am

    I-slam is not violent? Stupid! Last 30 day killings:
    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30

  22. maghan says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 4:42 am

    The article is accurate except for the fact that “Arabs” of North Sudan are blacks–in most cases blacker than many Africans. Just that they have been colonized by Arabia with its Islam and Arabic.

    Similarly, the Arab Slave trade in East Africa did not kill 120 million blacks.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 25, 2017 at 12:10 am

      You are right about the “Arabs” of North Sudan–but the fact is that they *consider* themselves to be Arab. In fact, that’s what Darfur was about–oppressing and murdering those who were not considered to be Arab but Black.

      And the figure of 120 million I believe applied to all of Africa, not just East Africa–it accounted for almost half of the over all historic Muslim death toll of 270 million.

  23. elizabeth dickman says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 6:12 am

    People with this mindset just need to leave and go where they find comfort in Sharia Law, death, dismemberment, torture, murder and unequal rights. They poison our schools and our government with their stealth infusion of Islam. They live here and enjoy our freedoms while spewing their sickness as they furnish the impetus and backbone to such trash as the Women’s March on Jan 21. They corrupt the young and influence the mindless liberals. They just need to leave.They don’t fit into our culture. I surely hope that President Trump significantly limits the immigration of Muslims into America.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 6:27 am

      Elizabeth, you wrote – ” I surely hope that President Trump significantly limits the immigration of Muslims into America.”

      Well: you know what to do. You and *every other American person here at jihadwatch* who wants to put a total stop to Muslim immigration into the USA, because of the mortal menace posed by the mohammedan fifth column, must Tweet – and phone, and email, and write – President Trump, *and* those in his administration who are responsible for homeland security, defence, and immigration, and *tell them so*. And get every *other* person you know who agrees with you on this most elementary step toward infidel national self-preservation, but who may not necessarily read here, to do the same.

      For tweets, keep it simple – “Got Muslims? Got Jihad. END Muslim immigration”.

      For good measure, send exactly the same message to your Senator and Congressperson, just to hammer it home.

      And.. don’t do it just once. Keep on doing it.

      Alternatively, the message could be: “9/11. Fort Hood. Boston. San Bernardino. Orlando. Got Muslims? Got Jihad. END Muslim immigration.”

  24. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 6:18 am

    To get a further handle on the slippery ways in which this creature may be using language to befool the unwary kuffar.

    Here, to start with, is a classic article that first appeared *years* ago, entitled, “An Islamic Dictionary for Infidels”.

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/07/islamic-dictionary-for-infidels.html

    Example:
    ‘”Peace” in Islam equals submission to the will of Allah through his divine and eternal law, sharia.

    The absence of sharia is the absence of peace…’.

    He cites Basam Tibi, on the subject of Jihad (which is not considered to be ‘war’ in the negative sense,*that* is reserved for any infidel resistance to jihad) and ‘peace’,

    “world peace, the final stage of the da’wa (call to embrace Islam), is reached only with the conversion or submission of all mankind to Islam…

    “Muslims believe that expansion through war [that is, the expansion of ISLAM, of the Ummah and its dominance over others, through war – dda] is not aggression but a fulfillment of the Qur’anic command to spread Islam as a way to peace.
    “The resort to force to disseminate Islam is not war (harb), a word that is used only to describe the use of force by non-Muslims.
    “Islamic wars are not hurub (the plural of harb) but rather futuhat, acts of “opening” the world to Islam and expressing Islamic jihad.
    “Relations between dar al-Islam, the home of peace, and dar al-harb, the world of unbelievers, nevertheless take place in a state of war, according to the Qur’an and to the authoritative commentaries of Islamic jurists.
    “Unbelievers who stand in the way, creating obstacles for the da’wa, are blamed for this state of war, for the da’wa can be pursued peacefully if others submit to it. In other words, those who resist Islam cause wars and are responsible for them..”. Thus Bassam Tibi, cited by the author of the essay on Islamspeak.

    As for ‘oppression” – here’s Abul Kasem, a Bengali apostate from Islam, now resident in Australia, way back in November 2005 (eleven years ago! and it hasn’t dated a jot) carefully explaining *exactly* what Muslims mean by ‘oppression’.

    http://www.islam-watch.org/AbulKasem/IslamOppressed.htm
    .
    “…Below, I have listed a few innocuous activities, manners, social customs, traditions and the daily way of life, which the Kafirs blithely take for granted but which are extremely un-Islamic.

    “According to Islamic morals, customs and laws, these offensive activities/practices might be construed as oppressive to Islam and, therefore, they are legitimate targets for eradication, or they must be replaced by Islamic practices or Islamic purification….”.

    • Gen Jones says

      Jan 25, 2017 at 3:26 pm

      Thanks for the excellent links, DDA!

  25. BC says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 6:37 am

    Fact 1 The two main branches of Islam have been a violent loggerheads for centuries and still are.
    Fact 2 Any perceived insult to Islam or Moh. (real or imagined) is immediately responded to with violent
    demonstrations locally and/or world wide.
    Fact 3 Demonstrations against violent actions by extremists bring no response whatsoever from the ‘peaceful’ Muslims. We can therefore assume they have no objections to them.
    Fact 4 Mosques seem to welcome extremist preachers to their prayer If they were not interested in violence they would not accept them.

    • Cretius says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 10:11 am

      Sadly, all too true.

  26. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 6:48 am

    No amount of evidence will entice Infidels into accepting the obvious truth about Islam. This is so because it is too horrible to acknowledge. The truth about Islam makes it too awful to contemplate what must be done to stop their takeover. That would make stopping the Nazis seem like child’s play, with the game much simpler and in the open.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 25, 2017 at 12:17 am

      I don’t know–there are some Infidels who have gotten the message, loud and clear, APF. Now we just need more people to wake up.

      It actually took many people in the West quite a while to wake up to the threat of Nazism, as well. In the 1930s, papers and magazines were full of stories about how “modern and efficient” Fascism was. Hard to believe now, but this continued almost right up until Nazi tanks started rolling across Europe.

      • Gen Jones says

        Jan 25, 2017 at 3:37 pm

        Graven, I agree, more and more people are starting to get it. Interestingly, the Women’s March created a lot of chatter on Twitter and other social media regarding the involvement of Linda Sarsour as well as Kathy Nijimy’s suggestion to wear a hijab in typical left leaning sites where people who have been supporting Islam as a human rights issue have been forced to rethink the cognitive dissonance/hypocrisy/taqiyya of that position.

  27. n tesdorf says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 6:59 am

    I recently spent 10 days travelling through the Gulf States of Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Happily, most people there do not read their Qur’ans assiduously and probably do not know what the dreaded 109 verses enforced in the Qur’an. People that one comesc into contact with as a traveller are all polite, courteous, helpful, quiet and well behaved. Passing strangers greet one with “Salaam Aleikum’ not ‘Alahu Akbar’, thankfully. Muhammed would be shocked to see it all. Thanks to oil wealth there is money to spend on welfare, health and unfrastructure. Most workers are not Arab and many do not speak Arabic much. The rulers of the 4 States are hereditory rulers of Kingdoms or Emirates and do not bother with too much democracy which seems to be as yet beyond the local intellectual horizon. In places one even sees Churches! Many Indian immigrants and Phillipine Immigrants are also CHristian. Compared to the rest of the Middle East, these four countries form a pleasant alternative to ceaseless violence, warfare and friction. It would be interesting to analyse these four countries to see if something of their life-style could be applied elsewhere to tame or subvert the more violent form of ‘Islam’. More than 109 verses have already been lost from the Qur’an and a few more would help a lot.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 25, 2017 at 12:26 am

      n tesdorf, I’m afraid these are not quite the wonderful places you seem to believe. Christian and Hindu guest workers are often treated very badly and the women are sexually abused, and if a Westerner is raped there they would–horribly–be well to keep it to themselves, lest they face prison time for “Zina”.

      “Dubai: Tourist from UK gang-raped, now faces jail for extramarital sex”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/11/dubai-tourist-from-uk-gang-raped-now-faces-jail-for-extra-marital-sex

      These are still Shari’ah states, and are *not* civilized places to be.

  28. Angemon says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 7:15 am

    the corrupt regime of Bashar al-Assad who, despite his crimes, is also the surest protector of the country’s Christians and the most relentless foe of the Islamic State in Syria.

    Except for when it played a crucial role in its creation and strengthening.

  29. GW Smith says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 9:39 am

    It’s all so true. But I was waiting for you to bring up takiyya…. What happened? That’s key.

  30. Cretius says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 10:05 am

    A fair and just appraisal of the violent and oppressive political system of Islam that presents as a ‘religion of peace’.

  31. Florida Jim says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 11:17 am

    This poor abused woman is using Taqiyya to lie to us and quote only the koran verses she wishes to use to make the lie complete a typical muslim trick perfected in Islam.The koran has so many contradictions almost anything can be proven somewhere in the false book.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 25, 2017 at 12:30 am

      She isn’t a “poor woman”–she is as committed to Islam as are most male Muslims.

  32. Michelle says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 10:05 pm

    IMVHO the time for talking is long past. Now the ONLY historically proven successful strategy vs islam must be implemented and that is FAR greater violence. For those who defend it on the Left I would see treason trials as necessary for the figureheads at least and gaol terms for any who instigate, advise or do violence. A nice new Alaskan island prison would be a start for those not deserving of Guantanamo.

  33. gravenimage says

    Jan 25, 2017 at 12:35 am

    Hugh Fitzgerald: Professor Kishwar Rizvi and “Misinformation About Islam”
    …………………

    Fine piece on this nasty prevaricating Taqiyya artist, who has always mixed apologia for Islam in with her “art history”.

  34. paul says

    Jan 25, 2017 at 7:20 am

    Misinformation about islam? How many have been murdered this week?

    • paul says

      Jan 25, 2017 at 7:22 am

      may be we missed a few hundred?

  35. Tradiguy says

    Jan 25, 2017 at 9:05 am

    Read this! And this isn’t misinformation!

    https://cairnsnews.org/2015/09/30/muslims-suffer-insanity-low-iq-recessive-disorders-from-1400-years-inbreeding/

  36. Gen Jones says

    Jan 25, 2017 at 3:40 pm

    Thank you, Mr Fitzgerald for another well researched, intelligent article. Aside from your point by point rebuttals to foolishness I enjoy adding a few new words to my vocabulary.

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