Joe Biden has called for the U.S. to end its support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen. Many beg to differ, as here: “Should the US Support Saudi Arabia’s Intervention in Yemen?,” by Eric Bordenkircher, Algemeiner, October 21, 2020: The Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, is mistaken to call for an end to US support […]
Jayda Fransen Found Guilty Of Speech “Stirring Up Hatred”
A former deputy leader of Britain First has been sentenced to 180 hours community service over a speech she made in Belfast. Her trial was swift: “Jayda Fransen, 33, was found guilty of stirring up hatred during a speech about Islam in August 2017. “She was also convicted for separate comments at a peace wall […]
Canada: Ottawa library faces court challenge for cancelling film depicting the Islamization of Europe
Madeline Weld, the organizer of a screening of the so-called “controversial” film Killing Europe “at the Ottawa Public Library… has applied for a judicial review of the library’s decision to cancel the showing.” Weld runs the Ottawa Chapter of Act for Canada and is also co-founder of the organization Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights and […]
Robert Spencer on Pope Francis: The Pope of Islam
Pope Francis welcomes to the Vatican the head of a Muslim group tied to the financing of jihad terror. My latest in FrontPage: As if he weren’t already committed enough to foolish false charity and willful ignorance regarding the jihad threat, Pope Francis on Wednesday met in the Vatican with Dr. Muhammad bin Abdul Karim […]
Muslim cleric: Islamic State “brought into being by Jews, Christians, Western powers, and Islam’s enemies”
Of course. Who else could have done it? Islamic supremacists never, ever take responsibility for any wrongdoing. It’s all always someone else’s fault. Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani could have done some good: he could have examined the Islamic texts and teachings that jihadis use to justify violence and supremacism, and proposed ways to counter the […]
Pamela Geller: AFDI wins free speech victory, foes end run around First Amendment
There are some powerful and moneyed forces that seem determined to extinguish the freedom of speech by any means necessary. “AFDI Wins Important Free Speech Victory, But Opponents End Run Around the First Amendment,” by Pamela Geller, Breitbart, March 27, 2015: Last week, my human rights organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), scored another […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage Magazine: Kerry’s Surprising Defiance of the White House on Egypt
John Kerry, defender of freedom? What is this world coming to? My latest in FrontPage: Josh Rogin reported in the Daily Beast Monday that there is a rift in Barack Obama’s foreign policy team over Egypt. “Before Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent trip to Cairo,” Rogin wrote, “National Security Adviser Susan Rice told him to make strong statements in […]
Somalia: Muslim group warns that sending children to school could undermine their Islamic faith
“O ye who believe! Ask not questions about things which, if made plain to you, may cause you trouble. But if ye ask about things when the Qur’an is being revealed, they will be made plain to you, God will forgive those: for God is Oft-forgiving, Most Forbearing. Some people before you did ask such […]
Kerry: Egyptian revolution “stolen” by Muslim Brotherhood
It is not at all clear that “those kids in Tahrir Square, they were not motivated by any religion or ideology,” or that the “revolution” got “stolen” by the Muslim Brotherhood. There were early signs that the Brotherhood was the driving force behind the anti-Mubarak protests. However, this is further indication of Kerry’s distaste for […]
India: Muslim cleric says women can be educated, “but that did not mean the Islam has changed its decrees regarding the life of women”
Although Kanthapuram AP Aboobacker Musaliyar refers to the unchanging aspect of Islam’s view of women as “obstinacy,” he doesn’t appear to be using that word in a pejorative sense. He apparently approves of this “obstinacy.” Islam has not changed its decrees regarding the life of women. Among them are these: The Qur’an likens a woman […]