Here yet again we see it. When Muslims murder infidels, Muslims are victims. When racist, bigoted “Islamophobes” supposedly target Muslims, Muslims are victims. And when Muslims fake “Islamophobic hate crimes,” Muslims are victims. Always and in every situation, Muslims are victims, to be appeased and accommodated in every possible way. Once you understand, we can […]
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 6)
The Guardian report continued: To some people in Basking Ridge, Chaudry’s struggle looked less noble. They saw his battle with the town government as a local political feud, which dated back to his tenure as an elected official, long before he ever proposed the mosque. Chaudry had first run for a seat on the town […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Mosque At Basking Ridge: A Morality Tale? (Part 5)
In Basking Ridge, New Jersey, the planning board several years ago rejected the local lslamic Society’s building plan for a new mosque. Among the objections were that the mosque’s visitors had been undercounted by 50%, that the parking lot attached to the mosque was too small for those visitors, that the mosque would be in the middle of […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Mosque At Basking Ridge: A Morality Tale? (Part 4)
The Guardian report continued: Around the time the hearings began, some residents received an anonymous piece of mail. Inside was a letter entitled “Meet Your New Neighbor”, and a CD containing a recording of a radio interview in which Chaudry had offered some mildly nuanced opinions on Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah. “Here in Basking Ridge, […]
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, […]
New Jersey: Parents sue public school district for teaching “Islam is the true faith”
Imagine the outcry if a public school district were teaching that “Christianity is the true faith.” But this kind of thing is going on all over the country, and no one particularly minds. The parents are dismissed as “far-right,” and everything goes on as usual. “Judge green-lights parent’s lawsuit against public school teaching ‘Islam is […]
Snopes says claim NJ town forbade criticism of Islam “false,” then quotes: “No commentary regarding Islam permitted”
The self-appointed “fact-checker” Snopes is just another corrupt hard-Left mouthpiece, as I demonstrated here. And here they go again. In this case, Snopes sets up a straw man, claiming that the stories about this court implied that the New Jersey town had imposed Sharia blasphemy laws outright, and issued a blanket ban on criticism of […]
New Jersey: Court forbids residents to mention “Islam” or “Muslim” at public hearing on mosque construction
Most Americans have no idea how severely imperiled the freedom of speech really is. I discuss in detail in my new book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies). But as this fundamental freedom slips away, most people don’t even care. Look: Kardashians! “Court: Residents Can’t Mention ‘Islam’ or ‘Muslim’ At Public […]
NJ: Muslim mayor demands resignation of Board of Ed member for “Islamophobic” remark
“‘This is not Sharia law, this is an orderly session,’ Anderson is alleged to have said.” What Mayor Mohamed Khairullah should say in response, instead of calling for Anderson’s resignation, is “This is not Sharia law, this is the freedom of speech,” and said that Anderson should stay in her position. But alas, no. “Board […]
Trump DOJ forces NJ town that denied mosque to pay Muslims $3.25 million, build mosque, get “diversity training”
It looks as if the Justice Department swamp not only has not been drained, but is full of more voracious crocodiles than ever before. This case started during the Obama administration, but it is the Trump administration’s Justice Department that is handing down this ruling. President Trump needs to repudiate it, or else he owns […]
Sharia New Jersey: Christie vetoes bill that would outlaw child marriage
Christie is shamelessly pandering to New Jersey’s Muslims: “An exclusion without exceptions would violate the cultures and traditions of some communities in New Jersey based on religious traditions.” Back in 2011, Christie said: “This Sharia law business is just crap … and I’m tried of dealing with the crazies.” He was ridiculing the idea that […]
Obama Justice Dept. sues NJ township for rejecting mosque
People have legitimate concerns about mosques going up in their neighborhood. Four separate studies since 1999 all found that 80% of U.S. mosques were teaching jihad, Islamic supremacism, and hatred and contempt for Jews and Christians. There are no countervailing studies that challenge these results. In 1998, Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, a Sufi leader, visited […]
NYC bombing: FBI raids Elizabeth, New Jersey building after investigators find five “suspicious devices”
Jihad in American neighborhoods. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you. “FBI raids New Jersey building near where suspicious devices found,” Fox News, September 19, 2016: The FBI launched a raid at a building in Elizabeth, New Jersey Monday morning, local media reported, hours after investigators uncovered five suspicious devices — one of which exploded […]
Bomb explodes in trash can near New Jersey train station
“The mayor warned that other explosions were expected.” Indeed so. “1 of 5 devices near train station explodes; no injuries,” Associated Press, September 19, 2016: ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — A suspicious device found in a trash can near a train station exploded early Monday as a bomb squad was attempting to disarm it with a […]
New Jersey: Military race canceled after pipe bomb explodes and other bombs found
Here again, there is no direct evidence that this was Islamic jihad. But the resemblance of this attempted attack to the Boston Marathon jihad massacre, coming on the same day that a pressure cooker bomb, also reminiscent of the Boston Marathon jihad attack, was found in New York City, is striking. If all these bombs […]
New Jersey: Muslims, Jews break bread together at synagogue, Muslims pray in Jewish sanctuary
“When the Jewish women left the sanctuary to begin setting up for dinner, the Muslims stayed behind to lay out mats for their evening prayers facing the ark, which points in the direction of both Jerusalem and Mecca.” How delightfully broad-minded and ecumenical. But why did the Muslims only pray after the Jews left? Could […]
Enraged New Jersey Muslim warns school board: “We’re going to be the majority soon”
The mask slips, the supremacist imperative is revealed. “Muslim Parent Warns School Board ‘We’re Going to Be the Majority Soon’ as Meeting Gets Heated and Security Is Needed,” by Jon Street, The Blaze, September 22, 2015: The Jersey City Board of Education voted last week not to close schools for the Muslim holiday of Eid […]