My latest in PJ Media: Christopher Columbus was the “progenitor of a continental genocide,” claims Alan Mikhail in the Los Angeles Times Monday, and Mikhail is not part of some affirmative action plan at the Times to give a voice to those who propagate insanely ahistorical anti-American garbage. Mikhail is, in fact, the chair of the Department of […]
Karen Armstrong: The Coherence of Her Incoherence
Karen Armstrong, long famous for her description of Muhammad as the consummate “peacemaker” who “brought together the warring tribes of Arabia,” has assumed the mantle, yet again, not of the Prophet, but of the Prophet’s defender. In an article in The Guardian she retells in her inimitable fashion the story of European Christendom’s relations with Islam and […]
Slate Wants You to Think Columbus Was ‘Driven by Islamophobia’
My latest in PJ Media: Yes, the author of this article in the far-Left propaganda organ Slate is apparently really named Rebecca Onion, but this is not The Onion. Christopher Columbus was a “genocidal murderer,” something that Onion’s interviewee Alan Mikhail claims, to which the intrepid Onion replies: “Oh! Of course, I assumed the ‘genocidal […]
Slate: “Was Columbus’ Voyage to the ‘New World’ Driven by Islamophobia?”
Yes, the author of this article is apparently really named Rebecca Onion, but this is not The Onion, this is that renowned Leftist comedy publication, Slate. In this entire interview, Onion and interviewee Alan Mikhail both behave as if Columbus set out for the New World because of what Mikhail calls “anti-Muslim sentiment,” but both […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: A Tale of Two Museums (Part Four)
There is also evidence that Muslims were on the ships that the Italian explorer, navigator and colonist Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in the 15th century. It’s time to put paid to this claim made about Muslims and their supposed Columbus connection. Three distinct claims are made by Muslim “scholars” about Muslims and […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Columbus and His Muslim Connection
John Hamed, Jr. repeats as fact several myths about Muslims. The first one, discussed in the previous piece, is the claim made by the zoologist and amateur epigraphist Barry Fell, of an Arab presence in the New World as early as 700 A.D. This was followed by the three distinct claims made by Muslim “scholars” […]
On Columbus Day, remember: We owe the discovery of America to Islam and Muslims
Without Islam, the United States would not exist. That’s right: without Islam, the United States as we know it would not exist. No, Reza Aslan has not knocked me over the head with a rock and taken over the writing of Jihad Watch, using my name. It’s absolutely true: if it weren’t for Islam and […]