Palestinian-American Rashad “Rush” Darwish was the first Muslim Palestinian to run for elected office in Illinois’ 3rd congressional district, an area comprising Chicago’s southern suburbs and “Little Palestine,” where thousands of Palestinian-Americans live and work. Despite this favorable constituency, Darwish’s decision to neglect local issues and prioritize the distant Palestinian-Israeli conflict may have led to […]
Ramadan: Month of Jihad
In the West, Ramadan is usually called a holy month (while in Arabic is called kareem — magnanimous), but the concept of Ramadan’s holiness has different meanings in Islam. Certainly, holiness expresses sanctity, peace, and reverence. But it is also the month of Jihad in Islam. No doubt, Ramadan is a blessed time for Muslim […]
Chicago: Islamic preacher blames Jews for coronavirus and warns Muslims to arm themselves against neighbors
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iux5nPFbf-g] One of Chicago’s most notorious anti-Semites has responded to the COVID-19 outbreak in a despicable manner: by blaming Jews and encouraging Muslims to arm themselves against their neighbors. During a series of alarmist rants on his YouTube channel, Imam Omar Baloch simultaneously declared that the coronavirus may be a Zionist-American plot to throttle […]
Netflix caves to Islamic supremacists, cancels program
Last month, the enormous streaming and production company Netflix canceled the TV thriller “Messiah,” (launched Jan 1, 2020) after allegations it contained “anti-Islamic propaganda.” Once again, it seems that intimidation campaigns, backed by Islamists, are spreading censorship and paranoia. On December 4, 2019 – shortly after the “Messiah” trailer was released – California resident Zeynaba […]
U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations Remains Silent on Armenian Genocide
105 years later, they still refuse to recognize it. Historians generally mark the beginning of the Armenian Genocide with the arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals by Turkish authorities on April 24, 1915. What followed that fateful date is one of the single greatest tragedies in human history: a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing, mass deportation, […]
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 […]
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 […]