My latest in PJ Media: In yet another installment of what is apparently a never-ending series of articles designed to make their readers take no pride in their own culture and heritage, the UK’s Guardian on Thursday published a lengthy, breathlessly enthusiastic article entitled: “Looted landmarks: how Notre-Dame, Big Ben and St Mark’s were stolen […]
New book claims landmarks of Western church architecture were ‘stolen’ from the Islamic world
Diana Darke is often featured on the BBC, as well as in the Guardian here, and it’s easy to see why she would be the British intelligentsia’s favorite “Middle East expert”: her new book, with its ridiculous claims that you can see below, is yet another example of the UK elite’s ongoing efforts to compel […]
Guardian: “My whole life I have been looking for fearless queer Muslim heroes”
Why are such heroes so hard to find for young Masrur Joarder? It’s likely that a number of them are dead or in hiding. The Qur’an contains numerous condemnations of homosexual activity: “And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, ‘Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with […]
“Structural Islamophobia” in the UK: Muslim group whines that Muslims are “disproportionately” detained at airports
Muslims commit a disproportionate number of terror attacks, but that is largely obscured today by the propaganda myth that “white supremacists” actually constitute a bigger threat. Cage is a pro-jihad group, supporting the late jihad mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki and even hosting talks by him. They also once featured as a speaker the imam Shakeel Begg, […]
Guardian Trots Out 8-Year-Old Big Lie to Defame Geller, Spencer, and Other Foes of Jihad Terror
My latest in the Geller Report: Is the Goebbels wing of the establishment media running out of ideas? It certainly seems so: rather than concoct a fresh Big Lie, the Guardian’s Andrew Brown on Friday published a hysterical screed about what he calls “the myth of Eurabia” that relies on eight-year-old, multiply discredited smears to […]
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: “Has Catholicism done more harm to Australia than Islam?”
There is no defense to be made of the Catholic hierarchy’s handling of the massive number of sexual abusers who were and are among its clergy. The article below, however, is correct: “What Keneally fails to understand is the difference between an injustice carried out consistent with an ideology and an injustice carried out contrary […]
Guardian runs piece entitled “Why it’s OK for young Muslims to be radical”
For years, Western analysts at all points on the political spectrum have used the qualifier “radical” when speaking about jihadis (“radical Islamists”) and their motivating ideology (“radical Islam” or “radical extremism”). The point was to preserve the fiction that Islam is a religion of peace that doesn’t teach violence against unbelievers, and that the “radicals” […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Mosque At Basking Ridge: A Morality Tale? (Part 7)
Busy as ever, Mr. Chaudry has been inviting non-Muslims to visit the Islamic Center, and after the service, in an adjoining room, Chaudry and the Center’s imam took their questions: Why were the women and men separated for prayers? Does the Qur’an prohibit women from driving? What’s the deal with sharia, and is it practiced […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Mosque At Basking Ridge: A Morality Tale? (Part 3)
The Guardian report continues: How did a small-town property dispute turn into a religious war, with legal and symbolic implications for all of America? Part of the answer has to do with the country’s labyrinthine land-use laws, which leave most control to state and local governments, which are in turn vulnerable to the furies of […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Mosque At Basking Ridge: A Morality Tale? (Part 2)
The Guardian again: Basking Ridge is governed by a five-person elected committee, which meets in a repurposed Tudor-style mansion. (It previously belonged to John Jacob Astor VI, an American aristocrat whose father perished on the Titanic.) One evening last year, I attended a meeting – the first of many – at the town hall, where […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Mosque At Basking Ridge: A Morality Tale? (Part 1)
Here’s a story that earlier this year was being presented as a morality tale, where a good-hearted Muslim, Mr. Mohammad Ali Chaudry, wanted nothing more than to play by the rules in applying for permission to build a mosque, and was opposed by a town full of anti-Muslim bigots. But Good triumphed in the end, […]
UK’s Guardian claims Arabic in Renaissance painting shows “deep connection between Europe and Islam”
The writing in the halos is actually not Arabic, but Pseudo-Kufic: Renaissance-era Europeans thought that the Arabic script was that which was used in Jesus’ time, so they thought that they were lending some historical authenticity to their representations by including some characters that resembled Arabic. That is all that is going on in Gentile […]
UK’s Guardian publishes major article on terrorism, omits Israel
It’s not surprising that any British paper would be anti-Semitic and anti-Israel, and the Guardian in particular has always been a strong foe of opponents of jihad terror. So this is not surprising, but it is nonetheless a grave omission. Israel faces jihad terrorism on a daily basis. No one can claim to have a […]
Guardian: “Robert Spencer, a leading American Islamophobe,” cheers Trump for tweeting about jihad violence
In the funhouse mirror that is the Leftist worldview, as indefatigably purveyed by the Guardian, foes of jihad terror and Sharia oppression are “far-right hatemongers,” on par with white supremacists and other “extremists.” Jihad threat? Pah! What’s that? And so in their latest shoot-the-messenger article about President Trump’s heinous crime of retweeting videos depicting Muslims […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Mancunian Morrissey v. The Guardian (Round One)
There are two things to know about the British newspaper The Guardian. One is that it is comically, even ludicrously far left. The second is that, though militantly secular in all other respects, the newspaper remains a staunch apologist and Defender of the Faith, as long as that faith is Islam. Morrissey (he goes by […]
Netanyahu slams CNN, New York Times reporting on Hamas as “fake news”
“They want to use their state to destroy our state,” says Netanyahu. This is exactly so. A “Palestinian” state would only be a new and stronger base from which to launch new jihad attacks against Israel, with an eye toward destroying it utterly. “Netanyahu Slams CNN, NYT Reporting on Hamas as ‘Fake News,’” by Jack […]
Quilliam’s article in the Guardian is massive smear of Tommy Robinson and the entire counter-jihad movement
Robert Spencer has already written an excellent rebuttal of an article by a Quilliam researcher which appeared in the Guardian which smeared a number of leading counter-jihad people. This has received huge attention because Tommy Robinson, with Rebel Media, went to Quilliam’s offices to confront Julia Ebner in person. This article (first posted on Tundra Tabloids) […]
Here’s what the Guardian calls “a 16-year-old from Ethiopia”
Is there an outbreak of progeria in Ethiopia? Or is there an outbreak of politically correct Leftist lunacy at the Guardian? The Guardian is desperate to shore up the UK government’s deeply cynical and dishonest attempt to pass off its indiscriminate admission of adult Muslim migrants as “unaccompanied children.” The political and media elites aren’t […]
UK’s Guardian tries desperately to preserve the narrative of Muslim victimhood
Yesterday I wrote here about yet another anti-Muslim hate crime that wasn’t: a Muslim woman in New York City who was set on fire by some psychopath who, as it turned out, had also targeted non-Muslims. The Muslim victimhood industry has been working in high gear on this one, with victimhood propagandist Linda Sarsour penning […]
“Abuse of Muslims is now mainstream”? Really?
Yaqoob’s article, “Abuse of Muslims is now mainstream. I never thought my children would see this,” is a perfect exhibit of the victimology subterfuge that underscores “Islamophobia” propaganda. Yaqoob presents an argument drawing a comparison between blacks and Muslims, which seems convincing on the surface. Indeed, blacks were shamefully taken as slaves historically and are […]