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Hugh Fitzgerald: “Islamic Modernist” Mustafa Akyol Betrays More of His Worldview Than He Likely Intended (Part 2)

Jan 11, 2019 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

Since this point in history, however, Akyol said the Islamic world has begun to fall behind in the development of human rights. The implication here is that the Islamic world was at one time equal to, or perhaps even superior to, the West in its recognition of human rights. When was this ever the case? […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Hugh Fitzgerald, Islamic reform, Moderate Muslims Tagged With: Mustafa Akyol

Hugh Fitzgerald: “Islamic Modernist” Mustafa Akyol Betrays More of His Worldview Than He Likely Intended (Part 1)

Jan 10, 2019 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

The instructive and revealing piece was published about ten weeks ago, but with Mustafa Akyol again spreading his deceptions around Christmastime, it is worth recalling: “Lecture explores religious freedom in Islam,” by Thomas Murphy, The Observer, October 24, 2018: Mustafa Akyol, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Hugh Fitzgerald, Islamic reform, Moderate Muslims Tagged With: Mustafa Akyol

Islamic “reformer”: “Islamic orthodoxy deviated from its foundations by abrogating the peaceful verses of the Quran”

Jan 6, 2019 2:08 pm By Robert Spencer

Juan Cole’s book about Muhammad is a work of fantasy. “Cole offers an ambitiously revisionist picture of the father of Islam, replacing the idea of a militant leader with one of a peacemaker who wanted only to preach his monotheism freely and even sought ‘multicultural’ harmony.” Great, except Muhammad wasn’t really a seeker after “multicultural” […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic reform, Muhammad, Qur'an Tagged With: Juan Cole, Mustafa Akyol

Hugh Fitzgerald: Pope Francis and Imam Drouiche on the Strasbourg Attack (Part Three)

Dec 29, 2018 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

“I am sad – he concludes – for the victims, but also because my religion is hostage in the hands of ignorant people full of hatred.” Imam Drouiche insists that Islam itself is innocent of hatred and violence. His religion is held “hostage” by these crazy extremists — “ignorant people full of hatred.” He doesn’t […]

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Filed Under: Featured, France, Hugh Fitzgerald, Islamic reform, Muslim clerics Tagged With: Hocine Drouiche, Pope Francis

Maajid Nawaz’s fairy-tale version of Islam

Nov 15, 2018 9:43 am By Joshua Winston

On Maajid Nawaz’s LBC radio call-in show, he is forever taking fellow Muslims to task. He berates them if they believe homosexuals or adulterers should be stoned. He berates them for believing in sharia. He likens Muslims who believe that stoning adulterers and gays is okay so long as the conditions are met to the […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic reform, Moderate Muslims, United Kingdom Tagged With: Maajid Nawaz

Iraq: Islamic State jihadis murder imam who urged necessity of fighting the Islamic State

Oct 21, 2018 7:30 pm By Robert Spencer

There is no evidence in this report that Mounir Okab al-Duleimi rejected jihad violence in general or the jihad imperative to impose Sharia over the world. But he did oppose the Islamic State, and Islamic State jihadis murdered him for it. This is an indication of why we see so few genuine Islamic reformers: those […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Iraq, Islamic reform, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Anbar, Mounir Okab al-Duleimi

Quilliam and Co.’s Undeserved Reputation for Effectively Countering Jihadism

Jul 11, 2018 9:36 am By Andrew Harrod

A previous Jihad Watch article detailed the inadequacies as a counter-jihad tool of the Abdullah X online animated series produced by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD). Such failings are part of a wider pattern of ideological incoherence at interrelated Anglo-American “counter-extremism” think tanks such as ISD and Quilliam, which have undeserved reputations for effectively […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic reform, Moderate Muslims, United Kingdom Tagged With: Ed Husain, Maajid Nawaz, Quilliam Foundation

Robert Spencer in FrontPage: At Last, Women Can Drive in Saudi Arabia, But Don’t Get Too Excited

Jun 27, 2018 12:30 pm By Robert Spencer

Has moderate Islam prevailed? Not really. My latest in FrontPage: As of Sunday, women can finally get into the driver’s seat of automobiles in Saudi Arabia, as the most visible aspect of the much-heralded reforms initiated by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) finally took effect. So now moderate Islam has prevailed in the Kingdom […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic reform, Saudi Arabia, Sharia, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Mohammed bin Salman

Imam banned from Facebook for mocking Hamas and “peaceful Palestinian protests”

Jun 5, 2018 8:33 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Increasingly, those who criticize jihad terrorists and anti-democratic, anti-human rights sharia practices will be punished by the guardians of the Sharia who operate brazenly in Western countries. Imam Tawhidi says…. his Facebook page has been unpublished after he made a post mocking the terrorist group Hamas, and speaking in sarcastic terms about “peaceful Palestinian protests.” […]

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Filed Under: Australia, free speech, Hamas, Islamic reform, Islamic supremacism, Jihad doctrine, Moderate Muslims Tagged With: Facebook, Imam Tawhidi

Germany: Female imam who preaches gender equality needs 16 guards to protect her

May 17, 2018 8:09 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

While Western leaders continue to welcome a flood of Muslim migrants into their countries in the name of “diversity” and “inclusion,” in hopes that they will all integrate nicely under the banner of Western democracy, Europe continues to implode. That is because Islam advances supremacist, intolerant and inhumane doctrines. Imam Seyran Ateş opened the Ibn […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Germany, Islamic bigotry and intolerance, Islamic reform, Moderate Muslims, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Berlin, Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque, Imam Seyran Ateş

Al-Azhar on French call to reform Qur’an: “Go to hell!” Violent verses are “in reality verses of peace”

May 5, 2018 5:13 pm By Robert Spencer

“No to freezing a single letter from the Koran, and those calling for this can go to hell.” Peaceful guy! Shuman also said: “What those who issued this call think are verses calling for their killing are in reality verses of peace,” claiming that the Qur’an only calls for fighting in self-defense. He seems to […]

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Filed Under: Egypt, Featured, Islamic reform, Qur'an Tagged With: Abbas Shuman, Al Azhar

Al-Azhar enraged by French call to purge Qur’an of anti-Semitism, charges “Islamophobia”

Apr 29, 2018 12:30 pm By Robert Spencer

The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to […]

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Filed Under: Featured, France, Islamic reform Tagged With: Al Azhar

Turkey’s Religious Affairs chief: “Not correct to put the words of Islam and reform next to each other”

Mar 16, 2018 7:18 pm By Robert Spencer

There are those in the West who are so confident in the prospects for reform in Islam that they take that confidence as an index of the reliability of various analysts: if one is not as sanguine as they are about the prospects for Islamic reform, they’re branded as “racist,” “bigoted” and “Islamophobic.” Those who […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic reform, Turkey Tagged With: Ali Erbaş, Directorate of Religious Affairs, Diyanet

Foreign Policy, in touting Saudi Arabia’s reforms, shows how little has really been done

Mar 16, 2018 12:38 pm By Robert Spencer

“War is deceit,” said Muhammad (Bukhari 4.52.268), and Mohammed bin Salman is a knowledgeable and devout believer, but of course even to raise the question of whether Saudi Arabia is trying to deceive the West in order to gain its support against Iran would be “Islamophobic.” Deceive us? Inconceivable! Nonetheless, in enthusiastically cheerleading for Mohammed […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic reform, Moderate Muslims, Saudi Arabia, War is deceit Tagged With: Mohammed bin Salman

Erdogan denounces critic of Sharia mistreatment of women: “Nobody has the right to accuse our religion”

Mar 9, 2018 11:55 am By Robert Spencer

Nureddin Yıldız said: “Women should be grateful to God because God allowed men to beat women and be relaxed.” This is a sarcastic reflection of what is actually stated in the Qur’an: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain […]

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Filed Under: Islamic reform, Qur'an, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Nureddin Yıldız, Recep Tayyip Erdogan

India: Muslims threaten Muslim theologian for her “progressive stance in teaching Quran”

Dec 31, 2017 7:32 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Jamithabeevi, general secretary of Quran Sunnath Society, has alleged that she was being threatened by extremist forces in the Muslim community for her progressive stance in teaching Quran. Note the word “bigots” in the article below. Such words are usually reserved for those Westerners who oppose Islamic supremacism, instead of for Islamic supremacists themselves, who […]

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", Featured, Islamic reform, Islamic supremacism, Moderate Muslims Tagged With: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Jamithabeevi, kerala, Quran Sunnath Society

Saudi Arabia, promoting image of reform, to open its first cinemas

Dec 12, 2017 8:28 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Cinemas will open to the public in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia in 2018, the kingdom’s culture ministry has announced. The lifting of the ban follows several other steps by the Saudi Crown Prince touted as liberalization of the country. This is good news, at least on the surface, as fun in Islam is generally regarded as […]

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Filed Under: Islamic reform, Saudi Arabia Tagged With: Awwad bin Saleh Alawwad, General Commission for Audiovisual Media, Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi modernization, Wahhabism

Reforming Islam

Dec 7, 2017 9:27 am By Shazia Hobbs

William Henry Quilliam was born on 10th April 1856 to a wealthy family in Liverpool. He was brought up as a Methodist and converted to Islam in 1887 after visiting Morocco. Quilliam opened Britain’s first mosque, on Christmas Day 1889, with funding he received from Nasrullah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan. He changed his name […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic reform, United Kingdom, War is deceit Tagged With: Maajid Nawaz, Quilliam Foundation

Supporters of accused moderate Muslim rapist Tariq Ramadan blame charges on “Zionist plot”

Oct 31, 2017 12:05 pm By Robert Spencer

Of course. What else could possibly account for these rape and sexual assault claims? The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); […]

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Filed Under: conspiracy paranoia, Featured, Islamic antisemitism, Islamic reform, sexual assault and rape Tagged With: Tariq Ramadan

Mustafa Akyol: The Great Pretender as Reformer

Oct 2, 2017 7:33 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

Mustafa Akyol is a Turkish journalist and lecturer on Islam who presents himself as both a loyal Believer and as a determined Reformer, one whose understanding of the true Islam, if only it were to find favor among 1.5 billion Muslims, would allow the Faithful to slough off the unpleasant aspects of Islam, in Akyol’s […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Hugh Fitzgerald, Islamic reform, Moderate Muslims, Qur'an Tagged With: Mustafa Akyol

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