Ever since the rise of Islamic terrorist organisations like Al Qaeda and ISIS, moderate Muslims, for lack of a better term, have sought desperate measures to exonerate Islam from the crimes of these terrorist organisations and ultimately discredit ISIS on Islamic grounds. Muslim scholars and leaders such as Hamza Yusuf and Yasir Qadhi, for example, […]
Muslim prof in The Atlantic hits “the phony Islam” of the Islamic State
I’ve noted several times lately that the Western intelligentsia is deeply concerned that you have a positive view of Islam — hence the steady barrage of articles explaining that those masked men brandishing Qur’ans and screaming “Allahu akbar” as they saw off Infidel heads don’t really have anything, anything at all, to do with the […]
The Atlantic: “The Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic.”
This is an extraordinary piece, as it represents one of the first, if not the first, mainstream media acknowledgment that what I have been saying all these years, and illustrated in detail in thirteen books, hundreds of articles, and tens of thousands of posts here, has been absolutely correct: that jihadis use the texts and […]