Today the imam Syed Soharwardy, who denounced me when I spoke in Calgary Thursday, posted this on his Facebook page: Note the bit about how the CIA created the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and the Taliban. But by far the best element of his nifty piece of victimhood propaganda is his claim that “there is no […]
New study claims that the Bible is more violent than the Qur’an
Problems with this study: 1. Tom Anderson used an English version of the Qur’an, which often obscure the martial meaning of words such as jahada, strive or struggle, which is the verbal form of jihad. Translating this word as “strive” is common, but obscures the violent import. 2. The study seems to have simply counted […]
Prof debunks widely publicized study that claims “right-wing extremists” deadlier than Islamic jihadis
Contrary to media myth, you’re actually 62 times more likely to be killed by an Islamic jihadist than by a “right-wing extremist.” Professor Andrew Holt shows that not only did the New America Foundation wildly exaggerate the threat of “right-wing extremists,” and fudge the data to do so, it also ignored several murderous Islamic jihad […]
Robert Spencer, PJM: ‘NY Daily News’: San Bernardino Victim Just as Bigoted as His Murderer
Linda Stasi insults jihad murder victim as “male equivalent of Pamela Geller.” Ironically, Geller’s warnings foretold the slaughter. My latest in PJ Media: The mainstream media has for years been in the business of justifying jihad terror and demonizing those who oppose it, but now it has reached an appalling new low. Linda Stasi in […]
NY Daily News’ Linda Stasi justifies SB jihad murders, says victim was “male equivalent of Pamela Geller”
The mainstream media has for years been in the business of justifying jihad terror and demonizing those who oppose it, but this piece reaches an appalling new low. Linda Stasi here portrays jihad murderer Syed Rizwan Farook and his victim Nicholas Thalasinos as two sides of the same coin: “Make no mistake, as disgusting and […]
NY Times: “Non-Muslim extremists” more lethal than jihadis
This graph appears in the New York Times story “What Investigators Know About the San Bernardino Shooting,” December 4, 2015: The entire purpose of this graph, and of the survey it illustrates, is to downplay the Islamic jihad threat. For some unknown reason, the New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media have […]
Video: Obama in Paris on shootings: “This just doesn’t happen in other countries”
Has he already forgotten the Paris jihad massacre? Note also what he says at the end about the importance of avoiding “demonizing organizations like Planned Parenthood.” This from a man who has never hesitated to demonize his opponents, among them those who speak the truth about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat. Video […]
Muslim former Obama adviser: “white male Christians” commit most terror attacks
This claim is the new mantra of the politically correct: it was recent repeated by Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, among others. It does not, contrary to Mogahed’s claim, come from the FBI. It derives from a widely-heralded study that was published last summer by the New America Foundation, claiming […]
Dallas mayor ‘more fearful’ of white men than Syrian refugees
“We have got to build a coalition of Middle Eastern states and we need to reach out. They’re Muslims and we have got to use the words carefully to show them that we care about them. ISIS is no more Islamic than the Nazi senior staff was Christian.” The Nazi senior staff didn’t claim to […]
White men are biggest terrorist threat to U.S., not Muslims, says Senator Sherrod Brown
Brown’s words recall a widely-heralded study that was published last summer, claiming that “right-wing extremism” was a bigger threat to the U.S. than jihad, based on the number of Americans killed by each since 9/11. Not only does this study skew the results by leaving out 9/11, but it also ignored the many, many foiled […]
Minnesota state representative candidate: “ISIS isn’t necessarily evil”
Dan Kimmel has withdrawn from the race, and for that we can be grateful, but his statement, with all of its moral equivalence and toleration of evil, is a succinct expression of what hamstrings our ability to face the Islamic State and defeat it. This is why the Islamic State will be plaguing free people […]
Richard Dawkins: “The Bible itself is as toxic as the Quran”
Dawkins said: “The Bible itself is as toxic as the Quran but most Christians are not taught to believe it literally. Most Christians are taught to believe it metaphorically or allegorically.” He thus seems to be assuming that both contain passages mandating warfare against unbelievers, but Christians spiritualize or allegorize those passages, while Muslims do […]
Obama DOJ teaming with SPLC to fight “domestic terrorism” and “bigotry”
The Justice Department’s teaming with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) means that all Americans who oppose the Obama Administration’s hard-Left agenda will be under suspicion (or worse) of being “domestic extremists” — including those who criticize the Administration for refusing to tell the truth about the nature and magnitude of the global jihad threat. […]
Pope Francis: “We know that no religion is immune from forms of individual delusion or ideological extremism”
Gary Emerling of U.S. News and World Report thinks he has discovered a double standard: “Obama’s comments were criticized as ‘offensive,’ ‘wrongheaded’ and detached from present-day reality. Of course, it’s more politically acceptable to criticize the president then the pope – time will tell if Francis’ remarks draw a similar response.” Happy to oblige, Gary: […]
Pope: “No religion is immune from its own fundamentalism,” and fundamentalists “kill, destroy and defame”
Where today do Christian fundamentalists “kill, destroy and defame”? Where are there mobs of Christian fundamentalists lynching innocent Muslims for perceived “blasphemy,” turning mosques into churches, and forcing Muslims to submit to them and pay them a special tax? There is an escalating Muslim persecution of Christians that makes this moral equivalence at best, disastrously […]
Debunking the Religious Equivalency Fallacy
Or, Why there are no ‘Podvig’ terror attacks. On the Islam and Christianity blog, the author, Abu Daoud (a Christian evangelist living in the Middle East), offers critical remarks regarding an interview given by an Orthodox Christian priest/professor/author, who was presenting guidance for Christians in their interactions with Muslims. Some of it was useful, some […]
Robert Spencer, PJM: Harvard Prof: ISIS Sex Slavery Is Bad, but Hey, U.S. Had Slavery
Over at PJ Media today I expose yet another sinister exercise in moral equivalence by an American academic: One key reason why so few Americans are aware of the full nature and magnitude of the jihad threat is that the academic and media establishments labor so assiduously to cover it up. Those who are deemed […]
Boston University prof blames U.S. for Islamic State sex slavery
“In focusing on current abuses in the Middle East, perpetrated by those claiming the mantle of Islam, Americans — whose Constitution continues to permit enslavement as punishment for crime — deflect attention from partial U.S. responsibility for the current crisis in Iraq. Sanctions followed by military invasion and its brutal aftermath laid the groundwork for […]
FBI warns of attacks on Muslims by “militia extremists” incited by counterjihadists
As I told WND, the insidious goal of this libel is to stigmatize opposition to jihad terror, so that the jihad can advance unimpeded. That the FBI would be abetting the propagation of this libel is yet another new low for the Obama-era intelligence apparatus. “‘Ridiculous’: FBI warns of next big terror attack,” by Leo […]
Brazilian author Paulo Coelho defends Qur’an as “book that changed the world”
The Qur’an actually is a book that changed the world. So is Mein Kampf. But Coelho obviously means, and was understood to mean, that the Qur’an changed the world for the better. Now note Coelho’s tortured thought process when he is challenged. Someone tells him that the Qur’an “is the source of violence and murder,” […]