“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4) Sunnis consider Shi’ites to be unbelievers, and have attacked them frequently throughout Islam’s 1400-year history. But there is no reason to be concerned about this: Saudi authorities are claiming that the cab driver is “mentally ill.” They likely picked up that idea from Western authorities, […]
The Roots of Political Islam and Terrorism
Hardly a day goes by without news about a car bomb attack, machine guns or an explosive belt meant to cause as many casualties as possible, while the attacker is shouting “Allahu akbar!” So what is the nature of al-Qaeda or ISIS and their doctrine? What do they exactly want? In my world, most of […]
The Genius of Muhammad
In order to understand Islam, we must understand its prophet, Muhammad. There were two Muhammads, with two characters. In Mecca, Muhammad preached and exhorted people to submit to Islam. In Medina, he used the threat of the sword to compel people to convert to Islam. Meccan contemporaries passed a very harsh judgment on him. They […]
France: Muslim rapper with “Jihad” album to perform at site of jihad massacre
“For Laurent Wauquiez, the president of the Republicans, this announcement is a ‘sacrilege for the victims, a dishonor for France.’” Yes. “The rapper Medina’s concert at Bataclan is controversial,” translated from “Le concert du rappeur Médine au Bataclan fait polémique,” Le Figaro, June 11, 2018 (thanks to David): The rapper Medina’s concerts at the Bataclan […]
Robert Spencer: Muslims wouldn’t bomb Muhammad’s city, would they? Sure they would.
Over at PamelaGeller.com I explain why the latest attempts to exonerate Islam from responsibility for the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings founder on the facts: The Islamic State (ISIS) attack in Medina shows once and for all that ISIS is not Islamic, right? After all, how could a Muslim […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Was the Medina Attack an “Assault on Islam Itself”?
After every attack by Muslim terrorists, Muslims, and many non-Muslim apologists for Islam, insist that “these attacks cannot possibly have anything to do with Islam.” But now, after the attack in Medina, a new mantra is being chanted, which is that these attacks have something to do with Islam because they constitute “an attack on […]
Jihad-martyrdom bombers hit 3 Saudi cities, including Muhammad’s mosque in Medina
“The attacks all seem to have been timed to coincide with the approach of Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that celebrates the end of the [Ramadan] fast.” The targets seem to have been Saudi security forces and Shi’ites: “In the only one of the three attacks that appeared to have caused many casualties, a suicide bomber […]