Strictly speaking, Islam Hassan is wrong: Muhammad married Aisha when she was six, and consummated the marriage (i.e., raped her) when she was nine. Hassan’s admission is unusual, as usually Islamic apologists in the West deny that Aisha was nine at all. The principal reason why this matters is because Muhammad is the “excellent example” […]
Islam could have died with Muhammad
In the year 622, a seminal event occurred in the history of Islam. Two years earlier, in 620, Muhammad had met with and converted six Arabs from the town of Medina. Then in 621 Muhammad had met with additional converts from Medina and sent a Meccan Muslim back to Medina to teach others about Islam. […]
Germany: Staples removes “Mohammed” ruler after complaints from Muslims
They didn’t like that the ruler depicted “four veiled persons” next to the name Mohammed. A customer claimed “This promotes exclusion.” Staples rather fancifully explained that the veiled figures were ninjas, and removed the ruler from circulation. But what, really, was the problem? Islam’s prophet Muhammad ordered that women be veiled, covering everything but their […]
Ahmadi Muslims Hijack Islam
For many years we have heard that the jihadists have “hijacked” Islam by arbitrarily picking and choosing what verses of the Koran and teachings of Muhammad, or portions thereof, to follow, while ignoring those that don’t support their actions. In a similar vein, the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Community USA has hijacked Islam with their website Muhammad […]
Raymond Ibrahim: When and Why the West Began to ‘Demonize’ Muhammad
To understand any phenomenon, its roots must first be understood. Unfortunately, not only do all discussions on the conflict between Islam and the West tend to be limited to the modern era, but when the past, the origins, are alluded to, the antithesis of reality is proffered: we hear that the West — itself a […]
The Watchtower on Jihad: An Interview with Robert Spencer
For more on how telling the truth will bring down the opprobrium of the world upon you, get the new book, Confessions of an Islamophobe, here. “The Watchtower on Jihad: An interview with Robert Spencer,” by Niram Ferretti, Informale, December 16, 2017: For many years Robert Spencer has written extensively about Islam and jihad, debunking […]
Bangladesh: Muslims riot over Hindu’s criticism of Muhammad on Facebook, but accused man is illiterate
Jihad Watch reported on Saturday about these riots: Muslims “set fire to at least 30 Hindu houses of the village. They also looted and vandalised a good number of houses in that village.” Why? Because one of the Hindu villagers was rumored to have criticized Muhammad on Facebook. However, that man is illiterate. This was […]
Bangladesh: Muslims burn, loot vandalize Hindu houses over rumor that Hindu criticized Muhammad on Facebook
“The rumour was that one Titu Roy, originally from Thakurbari village but currently living in Narayanganj, put up a Facebook post defaming Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) a few days ago.” This maddened Muslim mob needn’t have bothered. All they needed to do was appeal to Facebook, and the offending post, if it actually existed, would have […]
Saudi Arabia to monitor use of Muhammad’s sayings in order to counter jihad terrorism
This is an admission that Muhammad’s sayings can lead to terrorism. And that has been obvious all along. After all, the man is depicted in the hadith as saying: “I have been made victorious through terror” (Bukhari 4.52.220) “Saudi Arabia to vet use of Prophet’s sayings to counter extremism,” Reuters, October 18, 2017: RIYADH (Reuters) […]
David Wood video: Famous Last Words of Jesus, Muhammad, and Nabeel Qureshi
“We can learn a lot about what’s most important to a person by pondering his last words. In this video, David Wood discusses the parting thoughts of Jesus, Muhammad, and Nabeel Qureshi.” Brilliant, and enlightening. Watch.
Dubai man jailed for insulting Islam on Facebook loses appeal
In the enlightened West, people aren’t arrested or jailed for criticizing Muhammad. They’re just excoriated as racist, bigoted Islamophobes, and shunned by all decent people, and concerted efforts are made to deny them access to all means of communication. Everyone the world over agrees that Muhammad, alone of all human beings, must never be criticized. […]
Muslim cleric: “The Prophet Muhammad foretold that we would kill the Jews”
It’s true. Here is the statement attributed to Muhammad to which al-Harbi is referring: “Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: The California ‘Annihilate Jews’ Imam Was Simply Quoting Muhammad
Stop presuming U.S. mosques teach U.S. values. My latest in PJ Media: A recent controversy in California shows the perils of assuming, as nearly everyone does, that mosques in the West teach peace and tolerance, and that the overwhelming majority of Muslims are moderate and loyal members of secular societies. On July 21, the imam […]
India: Muslim mob rampages, beats up police officers, torches homes over Facebook post “disrespectful” to Muhammad
“What began as a protest soon escalated into a violent roving mob ransacking houses of the majority Hindu community in the district. It is believed that dozens of businesses, houses, and at least six police vehicles, were torched by a mob in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district….Blockades are on in at least 60 places […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Snopes Carries Water for Muhammad
“Mostly False” Indiana billboard is actually 100% true. My latest in FrontPage: The self-proclaimed fact-checker Snopes.com has been harshly criticized for its Leftist bias, and as is so often the case, a tilt to the Left also means a willingness to foster ignorance and complacency about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat. After […]
Indiana: Muslims enraged by billboard telling truth about Muhammad
Rep. Andre Carson “said he believes the billboard is untrue and that the billboard’s author takes Islamic text and history out of context ‘just like al-Qaeda, ISIS and the Klan do to religious texts to justify their bigotry.’” “Untrue” is not the same thing as “out of context,” and of course the latter is the […]
Muslim spokesman Mohammed Shafiq blames UK government for Manchester jihad massacre
Mohammed Shafiq is the Chief Executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, which claims to be dedicated to combating “extremism.” In this interview with Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan after the Manchester jihad massacre, he does his best to equate jihad terrorist killers with the forces who oppose them (which he smears as “far right”), dissembles about […]
Linda Sarsour: Muhammad was human rights activist, feminist, first victim of “Islamophobia”
“War is deceit,” said Muhammad, and the anti-Semitic, pro-Sharia Muslim “feminist” Linda Sarsour was listening. 1. Muhammad was a feminist? In reality, the Qur’an taught that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, […]
The Islamic State justifies killing women and children by invoking Muhammad’s example
This ain’t Karen Armstrong’s Muhammad, this is the real thing: killing women and children is justified in a hadith in which Muhammad waves away those who object. “It is reported on the authority of Sa’b b. Jaththama that the Prophet of Allah (may peace be upon him), when asked about the women and children of […]
Malala: Muhammad never advised his followers to “go around killing people…We are not representing the true Islam”
Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai responds to the murder of Mashal Khan for “blasphemy” by claiming that Muhammad “never advised his followers to ‘be impatient and go around killing people.’” Is this statement likely to make any Muslims turn away from the idea that “blasphemers” should be murdered? No. And this is because, as is so […]