My latest in PJ Media: Juan Cole, a professor at the University of Michigan, proved once again Thursday something that everyone who has been paying attention knows by now: you don’t go to an American university to get an education but to be indoctrinated into Leftist dogma and recruited for Antifa. Cole, who has written […]
University of Michigan Prof Juan Cole: ‘Islam Wasn’t the Threat — Islamophobia Was’
On June 1, 2009, a Muslim named Abdulhakim Muhammad shot a soldier to death at a Little Rock military recruiting office, explicitly in the name of Allah. On November 5, 2009 in Fort Hood, Major Nidal Malik Hasan murdered thirteen unarmed soldiers while screaming “Allahu akbar.” On April 15, 2013, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev exploded […]
Islamic apologist Juan Cole claims jihadis ‘cherry-pick the Qur’an and quote half a verse to justify themselves’
Juan Cole is one of the legion of far-Left academic Islamic apologists who do all they can to absolve Islam of all responsibility for the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings. Here, he attempts to show that the Qur’an contradicts jihadis’ beliefs and actions. If only he could convince jihadis […]
Was Muhammad a Prophet of War? A Rebuttal of Professor Juan Cole
‘The Qur’anic verses commanding self-defence have been cherry-picked by anti-Muslim writers and by small cells of extremists to depict the Prophet and the community as militant. This is far from accurate’. This excerpt is from what I believe is the most disgraceful video I have ever seen on Islam: Muhammad: A Prophet of War? […]
The University of Michigan’s Juan Cole and the “Anonymous Troll”: the “Troll” Responds
A great university is defined in large part by its outstanding faculty. The University of Michigan attracts faculty members with commitment to excellence in both teaching and research, as shown by the high quality of its graduates and the superior research and scholarship by its faculty.[1] Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor […]
Islamic “reformer”: “Islamic orthodoxy deviated from its foundations by abrogating the peaceful verses of the Quran”
Juan Cole’s book about Muhammad is a work of fantasy. “Cole offers an ambitiously revisionist picture of the father of Islam, replacing the idea of a militant leader with one of a peacemaker who wanted only to preach his monotheism freely and even sought ‘multicultural’ harmony.” Great, except Muhammad wasn’t really a seeker after “multicultural” […]
The Fantasy Islam of the University of Michigan’s Juan Cole (Part 3)
In this final part we will delve into more examples of Cole’s Fantasy Islam, and then end by addressing the issue of stoning adulterers to death and providing proof that can be used to show that such stoning is an established part of Islamic Doctrine. Muhammad spread Islam peacefully with no compulsion On p. 3 […]
The Fantasy Islam of the University of Michigan’s Juan Cole (Part 2)
In Part 1 we saw how Cole had taken a selective approach to Islamic Doctrine and 7th Century Muslim history, had believed that there was human involvement in the writing of the Koran, had a certain amount of disconnect between what he wrote and sources he claimed showed support for that writing, and had exercised […]
The Fantasy Islam of the University of Michigan’s Juan Cole (Part 1)
In October 2018 we saw the release of Juan Cole’s new book: Muhammad, Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires. Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, and he is a “Renowned Middle East Expert.”[1] His new book received rave reviews; here are some that are […]
Juan Cole Invents a Peaceful Quran
In a November 27 address at Georgetown University’s Saudi-funded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), University of Michigan Professor Juan Cole discussed his new book, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires. His sympathetic audience of about forty in ACMCU’s conference room included ACMCU Professor John Voll, Georgetown University imam Yahya Hendi, and […]