The Washington Post announces: “The Opinions section is looking for stories of how the coronavirus has affected people of all walks of life. Write to us.” The imam Omar Suleiman, “the founder and president of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and an Islamic studies professor at Southern Methodist University,” saw an opportunity for dawah, […]
How the International Committee of the Red Cross Presents the Plight of a Palestinian Matriarch
Elder of Ziyon has noticed that the International Committee of the Red Cross chose to tug at our heartstrings with a tweeted story about the indomitable matriarch of a Palestinian family. The story is here: A poor old woman, pining to visit her son in prison, but she is being stopped. How sad. Except that […]
UK’s largest paper characterizes Muslim convert as “reverting” to Islam
A hadith depicts Muhammad as saying: “No babe is born but upon Fitra (as a Muslim). It is his parents who make him a Jew or a Christian or a Polytheist.” (Sahih Muslim 6426) So it is Islamic doctrine that everyone is born Muslim, and that people who convert to Islam are “reverting,” that is, […]
New York mosque still open for daily prayers while churches across the US face mandatory shutdowns
If you’re surprised, maybe you’ve been asleep for the last 20 years. “New York mosque still open for daily prayers while churches across the country face mandatory shutdowns,” by Paul Shiver, The Blaze, April 20, 2020: A mosque in New York is reportedly still open for daily prayers amid the coronavirus pandemic that has forced […]
The Economist Blames Israel for the Parlous State of Gaza’s Health-Care System
Adam Levick of CAMERA has noticed that The Economist has chosen to blame Israel for the parlous state of Gaza’s health-care system. Its method is the Lie Direct: The Economist is the latest British media outlet to mislead on the coronavirus-related healthcare crisis in Gaza. Their March 26th article (“Gaza, already under siege, imposes lockdown”), […]
PBS Backdating and Exaggerating the Muslim Presence in the U.S. (Part 2)
During the 1930s and 40s, Arab immigrants began to establish communities and build mosques. African-American Muslims had already built their own mosques, and by 1952 there was [sic] more than 1,000 in North America. There were no more than a dozen mosques by 1940 in the U.S. The “African-American mosques” referred to are Nation of […]
PBS Backdating and Exaggerating the Muslim Presence in the U.S. (Part 1)
The PBS Series “The History Detectives” some years ago included a program on Islam in America – that is, on the history of Muslims in America, a history that we were asked to believe until recently had supposedly remained “hidden.” Here is part of the text for that program, available online. “When the first Muslims […]
Israel Sends Medical Gear to Palestinians, Palestinians Accuse Israel of Spreading Coronavirus Among Them
In following the world’s media, one gets the impression that the Israelis are doing nothing much to help the Gazan Palestinians in their hour of need. In their “hour of need,” however, the Hamas terrorist group still can make room for continuing intermittently to shoot rockets into Israel. And at the beginning of April, the […]
Tunisia closes mosques over coronavirus, Al Jazeera claims “Tunisia has a problem with internalised Islamophobia”
Al Jazeera ultimately retracted this claim, but the entire incident was illustrative of how the “Islamophobia” narrative is generally advanced: any action that is taken, and statement that is made, that is perceived to be in the slightest way opposed to the practice of Islam, including jihad violence, will result in the application of the […]
BBC claims, without evidence, that English King Henry II considered converting to Islam
The sole basis for this absurd article is that Henry II wrote a letter to Pope Alexander in which he said that he “would sooner accept the errors of Nur al-Din [the Sultan of Aleppo] and become an infidel, than suffer Thomas [Becket] to hold sway in Canterbury Cathedral any longer.” Yes, that’s it. That’s […]
Osama bin Laden. Anwar al-Awlaki. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Robert Spencer.
My latest in PJ Media: If we all agree to ignore the passages in the Qur’an that enjoin believers to be violent toward non-Muslims, they’ll go away, right? If we deny that such passages even exist, jihadis will cease acting upon them, won’t they? That appears to be the view of Nathan Spannaus, a hustling […]
Newsweek uses the coronavirus pandemic to promote Islam
David Wood offers a marvelous evisceration of Islamic apologist Craig Considine’s dawah in Newsweek in this video. Meanwhile, would Newsweek ever publish an article about how Christian principles can help protect one from the coronavirus? Not on your life. “Can the Power of Prayer Alone Stop a Pandemic like the Coronavirus? Even the Prophet Muhammad […]
UK: Muslim migrant stabs 7-year-old girl to death, media never mentions nationality of murderer
It is clear here again that protecting the reputation of Muslims is the establishment media’s top priority in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain. What’s their goal? What do they think Britain will look like in five years, as they continue to stigmatize and silence all discussion of this growing threat? “UK: 7-year-old girl stabbed to death […]
Australia: Hijabbed Muslima repeatedly coughs and spits on cop, says she was on her way for coronavirus test
In India, a Muslim software engineer was just arrested for saying: “Let’s join hands, go out and sneeze with open mouth in public. Spread the virus.” How prevalent are such attitudes within Muslim communities worldwide? Thought experiment: if a white supremacist in one country called for his followers to infect people deliberately with coronavirus, and […]
The Coronavirus Shelter-in-Place and the Israeli Curfew
The New York Times has for a long time had a “Jewish problem.” In the 1930s and during the Second World War, the Times paid scant attention to the Nazi murders of Jews. Laurel Leff’s study of how the Times failed so dismally to properly cover the Holocaust, Buried By the Times, notes that between […]
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 […]
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 […]
The world must know the truth: Delhi unrest was a genocidal anti-Hindu riot, not the other way around
With a death toll of fewer than 60, the Delhi unrest has been exalted as a Muslim “pogrom” by politicians and comedians alike. “Widespread anti-Muslim mob violence,” says Bernie Sanders. India’s Prime Minister was “ethnically cleansing” India’s “religious minorities”, declares an equally India-illiterate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Both are trying to attract votes of Muslim Americans by […]
Photos claimed to depict Hindu atrocities against Muslims in India are actually old images from Syria and Bangladesh
If Muslims are or were really being subjected to wholesale violence in India, wouldn’t there be abundant images of this persecution? Why would images from elsewhere have to be presented as if they were from Delhi? Were images of actual anti-Muslim violence so rare that they had to be fabricated, as we have seen among […]
Notre Dame prof Gabriel Said Reynolds falsely claims that Qur’an teaches only Allah should take revenge
The fact that Gabriel Said Reynolds, who demonstrates here that he is either abjectly ignorant or willfully dishonest about Islam, is a professor of theology at Notre Dame shows how much our nation’s universities (and the Catholic Church) are dominated by fantasy and wishful thinking rather than being willing to deal with unpleasant realities. Reynolds […]