Here is yet another example of why we do not see more genuine Islamic reform. “Prominent cleric shot dead while praying in Yemen’s Hadhramaut,” Al Arabiya, March 2, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Unknown gunmen assassinated cleric Al Habib Aidroos Ben Abdullah bin Sumait, a prominent scholar and imam of Al-Mehdhar Mosque in […]
Alliance of Virtue or Alliance of Vice?
A product of Washington, DC’s February 5-7 Alliance of Virtue for the Common Good conference, the Washington Declaration proclaims a “revived Alliance of Virtue [AoV], global in nature.” Yet the declaration’s platitudes on interfaith harmony demand careful examination, as they are largely the brainchild of Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah, a Mauritanian-born Islamic cleric with a […]
Video: Robert Spencer on The Milo Show on Malala and the PC FBI
Yesterday I appeared on The Milo Show. Milo and I had a wide-ranging and often riotous discussion. Here are two clips, on Malala and the Obama FBI’s scrubbing all mention of Islam and jihad from counterterror training materials: The whole show, which was great fun, is available to subscribers here.
Kenya: “Imams should embrace Islam teaching of peace, tolerance, and brotherhood”
Do politicians such as Aden Duale think that if they keep repeating the claim that Islam promotes peace, tolerance and brotherhood, that it will become true? Does Aden Duale think that the Islamic scholars and imams of Kenya don’t know what’s taught in the Qur’an and Sunnah? It is noteworthy, if they do, that he […]
Tariq Ramadan: Wicked, Depraved, and Coming to the End of His Rope
This just in — extry, extry, read all about it — from Al Arabiya, no less, on Tariq Ramadan’s well-deserved calvary: Organizers of a 2009 conference in Lyon, which has become an important sticking point in the rape charges against Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, have published evidence [his flight itinerary] that could be damaging […]
UK: “Moderate” Muslim Maajid Nawaz: “We, the United Kingdom, produced Jihadi John”
“We, the United Kingdom, produced Jihadi John. We, the United Kingdom, produced his other acolytes around him in the so-called Jihadi Beatles. Something in our cities and towns, something in the atmosphere within our communities in this country have produced the most infamous terrorists, at least in my lifetime. We need to start asking that […]
Pakistan: Provincial government gives Islamic seminary run by “Father of the Taliban” over $5,000,000
Nothing to be concerned about. The “Father of the Taliban” Maulana Samiul Haq has promised “reforms in the syllabus and system of the seminary in return to this grant.” And he wouldn’t dream of deceiving anyone, now, would he? “Taliban linked Pakistani seminary to get Rs 277m fund,” ANI, February 23, 2018: Islamabad: Pakistani seminary […]
Malaysia: Publisher on trial for publishing Irshad Manji book that says “God is love,” which is “un-Islamic”
Wait a minute. Isn’t Malaysia supposed to be “moderate”? And isn’t Irshad Manji a leading “moderate” Muslim writer? Irshad Manji has not been much heard from in recent years, but about ten or twelve years ago she was the Moderate Muslim Du Jour (a position since occupied by luminaries including Zuhdi Jasser and Maajid Nawaz), […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Tariq Ramadan Could Face Charges in the U.S.
For Tariq Ramadan, the news gets worse and worse. First, there were the charges against him in France, where two Muslim women, Henda Ayari and a woman known only by an alias, “Christelle,” both accused him of extreme sexual violence and rape. He now sits in a French prison, waiting trial, his sudden claim about having […]
New Zealand: Teen jihadi to get “proper Islamic counselling” to “overcome his radicalisation”
The Christchurch District Court is basing this decision on the idea that Islam is a religion of peace that jihadis misunderstand. The authorities are trusting the Federation of Islamic Associations, or whatever Muslim group is going to be entrusted with this task, to teach this young would-be jihad mass murderer the true, peaceful Islam. However, […]
India: Peace International School shut down for teaching jihad, two employees joined the Islamic State
The school was teaching “communal content” and “no secular content,” i.e., its curriculum was entirely Islamic, and contained material exalting the Muslim community over the Hindu, which is entirely to be expected given the Qur’an’s teachings that the Muslims are the “best of people” (3:110) and the polytheists are “unclean” (9:28). There are no doubt […]
India: Muslims threaten Muslim theologian for her “progressive stance in teaching Quran”
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 […]
“Moderate” Malaysia: Mufti asks, Why pray for a non-Muslim to reach heaven?
They’re all going to hell anyway: “O Prophet! Strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination.” (Qur’an 9:73) “It is not for the Prophet and those who believe to pray for the forgiveness of unbelievers even though they may be […]
“Moderate” imam Suhaib Webb, atheist Islamic apologist CJ Werleman: US “greatest source of evil in the world today”
The vaunted “moderate” Webb, who was a darling of the Boston media while he was imam at the Islamic Society of Boston, has dismissed secularism as a “radical lunatic ideology,” which means the dismissal of the idea that the government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed, and the embrace of the […]
Uzbekistan: “Moderate” imam calls for executing “radical” imams
“We should reserve punishments for them like the ones they have in Islamic states. We cannot spare the enemies of our religion and people who are hampering our freedom. They have become accustomed to free accommodation in prison, with free food and all the services for free.” What else does Shermurov Togai want the way […]
UK: LBC, Muslim “reformer” Maajid Nawaz denounce opposition to hijabbed Muslims in Christmas ad as racist
Says LBC: “The supermarket has responded to an outpouring of racist abuse after featuring a Muslim family in a Christmas advert.” And Muslim “reformer” Maajid Nawaz: “Your real agenda here is you just want a white, nativist, non-Muslim Britain.” Once again: Islam is not a race. There are Muslims of all races. Objecting to Muslims […]
Erdogan: The aim of the term “moderate Islam” is to “weaken Islam”
“The term ‘moderate Islam’ is being lathered up again. The patent of moderate Islam belongs to the West. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam; Islam is one. The aim of using such terms is to weaken Islam.” “Lathered up”: good phrase, Tayyip! Doesn’t Erdogan know that “Islam is not a monolith”? He must be […]
Leader at London’s Finsbury Park Mosque is ruling member of Hamas’ political wing
Back in 2009, I went into the Finsbury Park Mosque, and was met by a kindly young man who began earnestly trying to convert me to Islam. I asked him about the “trouble” they had had at the mosque earlier, referring to the leadership of Abu Hamza al-Masri, the former imam of the Finsbury Park […]
Saudi Crown Prince: Saudi Arabia will “return” to “moderate Islam”
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman has vowed to restore “moderate” Islam that is open to all religions in the world. In his own words: “We are returning to what we were before – a country of moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world…….We will end extremism very […]
Malaysia: Muslim cleric active in deradicalization program promotes hatred of non-Muslims
Deradicalization programs, upon which the West has placed so much hope, have long been an obvious failure. Such programs are based on the premise that the true teachings of Islam are peaceful, and so all that needs to be done is show the jihadis how they’re misunderstanding the Qur’an and overlooking its teachings of peace, […]