In the West, the intelligentsia takes it for granted that the Islamic State and al-Qaeda and the rest are not Muslims, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” Shawki Allam has a more accurate view. “Egypt’s Grand Mufti Shawki Allam: We Do Not Have the Authority to Pronounce ISIS Unbelievers,” MEMRI, […]
Egypt: “3,000 extremist fatwas” incite Muslims to destroy churches
“Muslims had never destroyed any kind of heritage after their historic victories in foreign countries, in contrary to what ISIS and other extremists are doing now.” That is flatly false. There are records of literally thousands of Hindu temples that Muslim invaders destroyed in India. And remember that the Middle East and North Africa were […]
Egypt’s Mufti going to Europe to fight “radical Islam” by meeting with non-Muslims
The Mufti of Egypt has shown himself to be a disingenuous purveyor of deception rather than reform twice recently — see here and here. And here again we see it: if he is really going to “clarify and explain the facts about ‘true Islam,’ why isn’t he meeting with Muslims? At least according to this […]
Egypt’s Mufti: Jihad terrorists are misunderstanders of Islam and Qur’an
Here is the Grand Mufti of Egypt with yet another disappointingly deceptive piece about how jihad terrorists are misunderstanding Islam — a point that everyone seems to take for granted as axiomatic except the jihad terrorists. And this piece won’t inspire any of them to lay down their arms and concentrate on the jihad of […]
Grand Mufti of Egypt: No place for terror in Islam
Over at Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs I clear up still more obfuscations: The articles come almost daily now: Muslim (and non-Muslim) authorities assuring us that what the Islamic State and other jihad terrorists do — mass murders, beheadings, rapes, destruction — has nothing do with Islam, despite the jihadis’ quotations of the Qur’an and screams […]