They condemn anti-Semitism, but believe in a book teeming with it. My latest in PJ Media. I wrote this several days ago; since then, the casualty count, as well as the number of Muslim leaders condemning anti-Semitism, without, of course, ever being asked about Islamic anti-Semitism, has grown. On Saturday morning, a man named Robert […]
Qatar-funded Brookings Institution recommends for “summer reading” a book calling for Islamization of Europe
The Brookings Institution is a respected and venerable organization, widely reputed in the West to be the repository of the nation’s finest thinkers on foreign policy issues. In reality, it is massively funded by the government of Qatar, and has worked assiduously to legitimize Muslim Brotherhood figures in the West — see here for a […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: A Muslim Professor Rewrites History
He wants more Muslims in the West, so he whitewashes Muslim Spain. My latest in PJ Media: Akbar Ahmed is 75 years old and laden with honors. An internationally respected academic, he holds the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and is Professor of International Relations at the American University, and is the former Pakistani […]
Islamic scholar Akbar Ahmed claims that brutal Muslim ruler represented “the idea of pluralist society in Europe”
Historical revisionism is designed to influence current policy; Akbar Ahmed’s ongoing whitewashes of Islamic al-Andalus are clearly meant to break down resistance to the mass Muslim migrant influx into Europe today. In this piece, he claims that Abdur Rahman I’s “dynasty more than any other came to represent the idea of pluralist society in Europe.” […]
Robert Spencer video: “Moderate” Muslim scholar Akbar Ahmed wants a “New Andalusia”
In this new video, I discuss Islamic scholar Akbar Ahmed’s call for a “New Andalusia,” and what a “New Andalusia” would mean for non-Muslims in Spain and all across Europe as a whole. Preorder The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS here.
Islamic scholar Akbar Ahmed: Italy must remember its pluralist past
Akbar Ahmed has a sterling reputation as a “moderate” Muslim and thoughtful academic, but there is a sinister undercurrent to his new book Journey Into Europe: he calls for a “New Andalusia,” which to non-Muslims who have forgotten their own history conjures up the newly-minted historical myth of a paradise of peace and tolerance, under […]
Akbar Ahmed’s Islamic Mirage
“As an anthropologist, I approached the subject very scientifically,” American University Professor Akbar Ahmed said concerning his documentary Journey into Europe during a February 4, 2016, Georgetown University preview screening. Yet scrutinizing this film on Islam in Europe, subsequently released in full online and now the basis for a recent book published by the Qatari-funded […]
“Moderate” Muslim professor Akbar Ahmed calls for “New Andalusia” in Europe
Akbar Ahmed, the Pakistani high commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland and the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, is thrilled about Todd Green’s “generous and brilliantly insightful” review of his book Journey into Europe: In it, Green, a longtime propagator of the “Islamophobia” myth and open foe of the freedom […]