Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative, a project of its Saudi-founded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), claims it exists to combat the pernicious spread of “Islamophobia.” ACMCU’s June 30 webinar featuring former Bridge research fellow Jordan Denari Duffner offered further evidence that Bridge’s real mission is to depict all Muslims as victims and silence critical commentary on Islam. Like […]
Does the Catholic Church Really Have An ‘Islamophobia’ Problem?
My latest at PJ Media: Out of India this week comes the harrowing story of T.J. Joseph, a professor at a Catholic college and member of the Syro Malabar Church, an Eastern Catholic Church in communion with Rome. Ten years ago, Joseph was accused of blasphemy, whereupon a Muslim group attacked him and severed his […]
Catholic who proclaims “I’m Christian and I LOVE the Qur’an” says Catholics have “Islamophobia problem”
The real problem the Catholic Church has is not the spurious neologism “Islamophobia,” but a fantasy-based Islamophilia that denies obvious reality and is ruthlessly enforced, as the case of T.J. Joseph demonstrates. Jordan Denari Duffner of Georgetown University’s Saudi-funded Bridge Initiative is either spectacularly naive or outrageously deceptive or both; in all her writings, including […]
Jordan Denari Duffner in Islamic Wonderland
“Despite the fact that they lived among Muslims — who are the vast majority of the population in Jordan — my Christian host family bought into these Christian TV channels’ negative portrayals of Islam,” notes Jordan Denari Duffner’s new book. Such passages unintentionally reveal in Finding Jesus among Muslims: How Loving Islam Makes Me a […]
Orlando Sentinel cites Robert Spencer, Saudi-funded Bridge Initiative starts defamation campaign
Paul Brinkmann of the Orlando Sentinel cited me in the story below about the motives of Orlando jihad mass murderer Omar Mateen, and he did so without the usual mainstream media defamation. That was too much for the Saudi-funded Bridge Initiative, which has partnered with a Muslim organization linked to Al Qaeda, Islamic Jihad and […]
Georgetown University Presents Index Islamophobicus
The “link the report makes between Catholic media, Catholic book publishers, and Islamophobia needs to be severed,” stated ethics professor can Catholic priest Drew Christiansen at a September 12 Georgetown University presentation. He referenced a new report by Georgetown’s Saudi-funded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) that presents new censorship dangers to […]