My latest in PJ Media: The Department of Homeland Security’s Counterterrorism Mission Center and Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office has just sent out a memo warning law enforcement officials that “violent extremists probably are seeking to exploit public fears associated with the spread of COVID-19 to incite violence, intimidate targets and promote their ideologies, […]
Archives for March 2020
Fatah top dog says call for 1967 borders is part of stages plan to eradicate Israel altogether
Tawfiq Tirawi is more forthright than most, but what he says here is, contrary to popular belief, the common view among the “Palestinian” leadership. Find out why in The Palestinian Delusion. “Despite Corona crisis: PA’s 1967 borders proposal is part of stages plan to replace Israel, indicates Fatah official,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media […]
Egypt: Survey shows that women approve of female genital mutilation more than men do
The likely explanation for this is that female genital mutilation has justification in Islamic law. This story repeats the usual establishment media line: “People in countries where FGM is still common attempt to link it to religion, but the practice has nothing to do with any faith and predates both Christianity and Islam. It has […]
Norway: Son of Muslim migrants arrested for plotting to bomb St. Paul’s Cathedral in London
“I always know I wanted to do something big… .killing one kafir (infidel) is not enough for me” Where did Safiyya Shaikh and her Norway-based partner get this idea? Why do those who — we are constantly told — misunderstand the Religion of Peace all misunderstand it in exactly the same way? “Somali-Norwegian Muslim arrested […]
Turkish columnists call for new caliphate, say democracy is “dress of Greek philosophers that was put on Muslims”
“We commemorate with mercy and gratitude the jihad leaders ‘Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam, Hassan Al-Banna, Abdullah Azzam, Ahmad Yassin, and Necmeddin Erbakan, who are the jihad teachers of our age.” Hassan Al-Banna was the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Abdullah Azzam was a founder of al-Qaeda. Ahmad Yassin was founder of Hamas. “There cannot be Islam […]
GainPeace’s Whitewashing of Jihad
Muslim writers who are apologists for jihad seem to be motivated to accomplish two goals. The good and laudable goal is that of dissuading those Muslims who are inclined to use violence for the sake of Islam, Allah, and Muhammad, his Prophet. The second, less commendable goal, is to whitewash the image of Islam in […]
Illinois: Cook County Candidate Embraces ‘Unrepentant Anti-Semite’ Rashida Tlaib in Bid for Local Office
What motivated freshman Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) to come all the way to Chicago to support Abdelnasser Rashid, a candidate for a local office at the Cook County Board of Review? A member of an ultra-progressive clique of junior lawmakers known as “the Squad,” Tlaib traveled to Illinois on March 1 to be the “special […]
Iran Sponsors Another Cartoon Contest, This One About the Supposed Coronavirus Conspiracy
Here’s the latest unappetizing news from Iran: The organizer of the Iranian regime’s contest of caricatures trivializing the Nazi Holocaust has seized on a new theme — promoting the conspiracy theory that the US is behind the coronavirus pandemic. Masoud Shojaei-Tabatabaei — an artist and veteran propagandist on behalf the Islamic Republic ‘s ruling clerics — […]
Illinois: Circuit Judge candidate tied to groups with history of links to Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas
On February 25, the Chicago Tribune endorsed the president of the Muslim Bar Association of Illinois, Dr. Azam Nizamuddin, the Democratic candidate for the position of Circuit Judge in Dupage County, Illinois. As a lawyer with twenty years of experience, adjunct professor of theology, and interfaith activist, Nizamuddin may sound like the perfect candidate for […]
Turkey: Website promotes ISIS material, including article called “Kill The Idolaters Wherever You Find Them”
“The website published a translation of an ISIS article titled ‘Kill The Idolaters Wherever You Find Them.’” Wow, what vicious “extremists,” right? Well, there is this: “And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the idolaters wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every […]
Nigeria: Muslim leader says coronavirus is a Western hoax to keep Muslims from practicing Islam
If any who heed his words and then contract coronavirus, no one will blame Sheikh Sani Jingir. They’ll just assume that they were not pious enough to please Allah. “Virus is a lie, says Islamic sect leader,” Punch, March 25, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Leader of Izala Muslim sect in Plateau State, […]
Iran releases 85,000 prisoners because of coronavirus, but keeps Christians locked up
Priorities, priorities. The Islamic Republic, quite understandably, wants to keep the most dangerous prisoners locked up. “Iran refuses to release Christian prisoners despite coronavirus outbreak,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, March 25, 2020: BERLIN – Iran’s mullah regime refused on Tuesday to grant a temporary release to four imprisoned Christians amid a release of some […]
Afghanistan: Islamic State jihadis murder 25 in attack on Sikh gurdwara
Islamic supremacists in the U.S. make a great show of “solidarity” with Sikhs, claiming that both Muslims and Sikhs are victims of “racism.” In reality, Islamic jihadists are just as hostile to Sikhs as they are to all non-Muslims, and persecute them wherever and whenever possible. “25 killed in Kabul gurdwara attack; Islamic State claims […]
Islamic State tells Muslims that jihad will make them immune from coronavirus
The idea that Allah will punish the unrighteous in this world is in the Qur’an: “So if they repent, it is better for them; but if they turn away, Allah will punish them with a painful punishment in this world and the Hereafter. And there will not be for them on earth any protector or […]
NYT: If We’re Generous to Iran, They Might Free Our Hostages
There’s a certain kind of mind that reacts to Bob Levinson’s family mourning his death with a call for more giveaways to the Islamic State. “American generosity during the Coronavirus crisis might be the best way of persuading Iran to release American and other foreign detainees,” the New York Times editorial board argues. Generosity? Loading […]
Robert Levinson, ex-FBI agent held hostage in the Islamic Republic of Iran, has died
Instead of pressuring Iran to release Levinson, Barack Obama let him languish in prison there so as not to endanger the Iranian nuclear deal that endangered the entire world. “Family: US believes ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson has died,” by Eric Tucker, Associated Press, March 25, 2020 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has concluded that […]
Iran: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stages “biological defense exercise” against coronavirus
In Iran, the numbers of those killed by coronavirus are feared to be astronomically higher than what the regime is claiming. Yet the Islamic Republic’s priority has continued to be keeping Islamic shrines open in defiance of all warnings. The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced a “biological defense exercise” against coronavirus, an […]
In Gaza, Israel Will Be Held Responsible for Keeping the Coronavirus in Check
Some 55 Palestinians in the West Bank are currently positive for coronavirus, and last Thursday [March 19] the first two cases were reported in the Gaza Strip — both Palestinians who returned to Gaza from Pakistan, via Egypt, and are now quarantined at Rafah. Prof. Eyal Zisser thinks the coronavirus threat may bring Israel and […]
Indonesia: “Niqab Squad” promotes archery, horseback riding, says niqab “doesn’t mean we become weak Muslim women”
“A movement of Indonesian women” called the “Niqab Squad” is promoting the niqab “as a way to get closer to heaven and avoid sexual harassment. Others fear it reflects growing extremism.” The “Niqab Squad” is acting in obedience to the Quran; such obedience isn’t “extremism,” it’s a commitment to normative Islam. (Quran 24:31) And tell […]
Iran: Thousands attend funeral of senior jihad terror leader despite coronavirus
Iran has been ravaged by coronavirus, but remains unwaveringly committed to business as usual: 1. Propaganda against the “Great Satan” and “Little Satan,” blaming the US and Israel for supposedly infecting Iranians deliberately; ‘ 2. Rigidity in the practice of Islam, ignoring calls for social distancing; and 3. Maintaining its jihadist ambitions at all costs, […]