Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East forum and author of Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System, read an advance copy of my forthcoming book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS and had this to say: Spencer argues, in brief, “There has always been, with virtually no interruption, jihad.” […]
The Curious Case of Mubin Shaikh, the “Undercover Jihadi” (Part 1)
I am a Canadian ex-Muslim male; I converted to Islam and stayed in the religion for approximately four years, before leaving it due to disbelief and moral disgust. Now I live every day with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy, hoping that my former Muslim friends don’t recognize me on the street. In […]
Muslim cleric: Muslims must fight non-Muslims in jihad until they convert to Islam or submit and pay the jizya
Will Muslim spokesmen in the West denounce this call as un-Islamic, or remain silent about it? I’m betting the latter, in light of passages like these that make it clear that al-Qadi is speaking in complete accord with the Qur’an and Islamic law: “Fight those who do not believe in Allah or the Last Day, […]
UK: Muslim on benefits showed his son violent Islamic State beheading clips, told Muslims to “come to jihad”
Gary Staples, a 50 year old who was on disability benefits, showed violent footage of decapitations to his nine-year-old son. Staples, like other jihadis and would-be jihadis, has been indoctrinated with violent zeal for Islam, and is determined to pass on that zeal to impressionable minds who trust them and are taught that obedience to […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Will the Return of “Jihad” to Intelligence Trump Decades of Indoctrination?
President Trump’s new national security strategy is set to return words relevant to understanding Islamic terrorism — such as “jihad” — that had been expunged from the Intelligence and Defense communities’ lexicon, most notably under the Obama administration. According to the new strategy document, “The primary transnational threats Americans face are from jihadist terrorists and […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Islam’s Three Worst Doctrines
Because Islam gets criticized for many things — from hostility to modernity and democracy to calls for theocratic rule, radical “patriarchy,” misogyny, and draconian punishments, to name a few — it is helpful to step back and distinguish between those (many) doctrines that affect Muslim society alone, and those that extend to and affect Western […]
Hamas spokesman calls Trump “racist” and “hateful,” calls for “blessed intifada”
Hamas spokesman Abdullatif Al Qanoua has called Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “racist” and “hateful,” and is calling for a “blessed intifada.” His appeal echoed the order of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, who summoned an organized uprising “in the face of the Zionist enemy.” What’s racist and hateful is that Hamas does […]
Geert Wilders: Pew Research study on Muslim migration confirms it is “time to get tough”
Dutch Parliamentarian and the leader of the Party for Freedom in The Netherlands, Geert Wilders, warns… The bell is tolling for Europe. All the warning signs are turned on red. A demographic catastrophe is in the making. If Europe fails to make a stand, its Judeo-Christian civilization is about to be blown away. And now […]
Muslim cleric: “Offensive Jihad means attacking infidels in order to conquer their countries and bring them into the fold of Islam”
In this extraordinary video, Sheikh Saalim Bin Sa’d At-Taweel delineates exactly the same Islamic understanding of jihad and slavery that I have explained many times. Will Leftist and Muslim organizations in the U.S. denounce Sheikh Saalim Bin Sa’d At-Taweel as an ignorant, racist “Islamophobe”? Don’t hold your breath. “Kuwaiti Cleric Saalim At-Taweel: Jihad for the […]
New Jersey: Allah charged with murder, robbery, carjacking, unlawful possession of a handgun
Mr. Supreme A. Allah has been a charged with “murder, felony murder, robbery, carjacking, unlawful possession of a handgun, possession of a handgun for an unlawful purpose, and conspiracy to commit murder.” This story has nothing to do with jihad, as far as I know, but I couldn’t help but wonder, as I pondered this […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Does Islam Have A “Surprisingly Complicated Relationship With Terrorism”?
Bruce Ashford, a Professor of Theology and Dean at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, contributed to Fox News his view of the latest terror attack and what he calls “Islam’s surprisingly complicated relationship with terrorism”: The horrifying attack in lower Manhattan that killed 8 people on Tuesday is a reminder that hardly a day goes by without […]
UK: Muslim lobby that regularly works with police and government promotes jihad and anti-Semitism
A Muslim lobby group, which regularly works with police, MPs, and local government, promotes “extremism”, harbours anti-Semites, and gives a platform to Muslim grievance narratives and Islamist views, a report has found. Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend) claims to help British Muslims engage in the democratic process. In a similar fashion across the Western world, […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Three Converts, Three Religions: George Harrison, Bob Dylan, and Cat Stevens
The conversions, once again, proved secular Leftist dogma about religion to be false. My latest in PJ Media: The imminent release of “Trouble No More” — the latest installment of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series; this one covers his controversial 1979-81 “Christian period” — recalls the long-gone age of high-profile rock star conversions. Dylan became a […]
France: Le Pen calls for anti-terror law that “truly combats the Islamist ideology that has planned our enslavement”
In the wake of the Marseille jihadist attack Saturday, French politician Marine Le Pen has called for anti-terrorist legislation that directly combats Islamist ideology, which “wages war” on the West and seeks “our enslavement.” Le Pen also pointed out that “security is the first duty of state.” Unfortunately, this duty has been virtually abandoned in […]
UK: Over 100 Muslim “extremist speakers” invited to speak at universities
British universities hosted 110 events featuring extremist speakers in the last academic year, 2016/17, with the highest proportion taking place in London institutions….The extremist events listed were overwhelmingly organised by Islamic societies and groups and speakers included former Guantanamo Bay detainees and Islamists The Henry Jackson Think Tank report authors “suggest that despite Prime Minister […]
Netherlands: “Deradicalized” jihadist was spreading jihad messages to young Muslims
A believed to be de-radicalized man spread propaganda for the jihad while working with young people in Amsterdam’s radicalization and polarization department Bilal L was hired as a youth worker because he was deemed to “know everything about radicalization and could spot and keep young people off the jihad-road,” but instead, he was preaching the […]
Israel arrests Muslim cleric for incitement to jihad violence
Israeli police arrested a firebrand Islamic cleric on Tuesday who has been repeatedly accused of inciting violence over a sensitive Jerusalem holy site where tensions again flared last month It’s a pity that the same example is not being followed in America — and elsewhere in the West — to stem the spread of jihad […]
Robert Spencer: Do Islamic Jihadis Really Lack A Basic Understanding of Islam?
My latest over at the Geller Report: Pope Francis and H. R. McMaster and John Kerry and so many other learned imams have assured us over the years that Islamic terrorism has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, and now there is proof, or what purports to be proof, in the form of a study […]
Germany: New study shows that Islam plays greater role in “radicalization” than previously realized
It only wasn’t realized among those who refused to see what was in front of their faces, but this new study in any case shows once again that the claim that jihad terrorists know little about Islam is false. “Islam plays a greater role in radicalization,” translated from “Islam spielt bei Radikalisierung größere Rolle als […]
“We kill them because Allah told us to, and not because they attack us”
“The whole idea that this is merely a political war, is wrong. We kill them, because Allah told us to, and not because they attack us. The only way out for them is to convert or to pay a head tax.” That’s in complete accord with the Qur’an and Islamic law: “Fight those who believe […]