Friday, October 9, 2015, brandishing a knife, Gaza cleric Sheikh Muhammad Sallah “Abu Rajab”’s sermon at the Al-Abrar Mosque in Rafah explicitly fomented murderous knifing attacks on Israeli Jews as sanctioned by Muhammad’s actions towards the Jews of the Khaybar oasis, and the Medinan Jewish tribe Banu Qurayza.
As July 4th, Independence Day, approaches, new polling data shows an overwhelming majority of Americans are increasingly cognizant of the threat Sharia, Islam’s totalitarian religio-political “law,” poses to their basic liberties, asserting that Sharia adherents should be identified and prevented from entering the U.S.
Earlier this week I was interviewed (6/14/16) by The Rebel’s Tiffany Gabbay on the ancient origins and modern manifestations of Islam’s canonical Jew-hatred as permanently embedded in Islam’s most sacred texts: the Koran itself, the hadith or “traditions” of Islam’s prophet
The following is the text of a speech delivered Friday, January 29, 2016 at The Education Policy Conference, St. Louis, MO. Sociologist Jules Monnerot’s 1949 book, Sociology of Communism, made very explicit connections between Islamic and 20th-century Communist totalitarianism. The
Ivan Jurcevic, till his New Year’s eve 12/31/15 eyewitness epiphany, deemed Muslim rampages in Europe the stuff of “right wing PEGIDA [a grass roots European anti-Islamization advocacy group] propaganda videos.” But that evening Jurcevic, a Cologne, Germany hotel club bouncer,
Upon returning from a visit to Saudi Arabia late on Thursday, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cited a striking example to illustrate his quest for consolidation of executive powers.
A Reuters story about an ISIS “fatwa” (i.e., Islamic “religious” edict) regarding female sex slaves appeared online.
Saturday, December 26, 2015, an audio statement (transcribed fully here) allegedly issued by Islamic State “Caliph”, al-Baghdadi, contained the following threat to the Jewish State of Israel, and Jews in general.
I support Sen. Tom Cotton/ the GOP-47, and their March 9, 2015 “Open Letter to the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” as a means of clarifying, and then ending the self-destructive “negotiations” (elaborated here; here/here; and here) with a Shiite theocratic regime whose ugly and dangerous ideological pillars are: jihadism, Islamic Jew-hatred, and the active dehumanization of all non-Muslims via “najis”—“uncleanliness of the infidel”—doctrine.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is slated to address Congress Tuesday, March 3, 2015 regarding his concerns over the so-called “P5 (i.e., the U.S., Russia, China, France, and Britain) +1 (Germany)” nuclear negotiations with Iran.
Briefly, Shiite doctrine on jihad evolved to be indistinguishable from its Sunni counterpart by the late 13th century, i.e., open-ended warfare against non-Muslims. Iran’s theocratic Shiite Safavid and Qajar dynasties, its primary rulers from 1501-1925 (i.e., barring a period of Sunni Afghan invasion, internecine turmoil, and the heterodox reign of Nadir Shah, covering ~ 70 years during the 18th century), fully implemented this warfare doctrine, including the notion that jihad was more laudable in the absence of the 12th imam.
Shouting the jihadist battle cry declared by Islam’s prophet Muhammad himself, “Allahu-akbar” (“Allah is greater”), on Saturday, February 14, 2015, a Muslim gunman opened fire on participants at a Copenhagen, Denmark, conference on freedom of expression, killing 1 and wounding 3 others.
The late comedian-violinist Henny Youngman’s emblematic one-liner was “Take my wife–please!” Now an Islamic Bookstore in Toronto, Canada was discovered selling a book titled A Gift for Muslim Couple, which promotes a brutal variant on Youngman’s comedic theme. Illustrating the
Judge Mark Martin–now infamous for presiding over the “Zombie Muhammad” case–was incorrectly identified by me as a self-professed Muslim, based upon a faulty audio recording of the court proceedings (see blogs here and here by Andrew C. McCarthy for the
Are the bitter fruits of Senator John McCain’s “diligent diplomacy” a humiliating prisoner “exchange”–innocent US NGO workers, for hardened jihadists, including the notorious “Blind Sheikh” Umar ‘Abd-al-Rahman, who orchestrated the murderous 1993 World Trade Center bombing? My colleague at Translating
An utterly bone chilling example of self-destructive dhimmitude was described in The London Telegraph on February 26th by Investigations Editor Jason Lewis. The incident involved David S. Jones, a military veteran of the Household Cavalry, who served in Malaya with
Reza Khalili reports the latest (ad nauseum) re-statement of the Iranian Shiite theocracy’s Jew-annihilationist jihadism (see my three-parat series, “Jihad and Genocidal Islamic Antisemitism in Shiite Iran” [here, here, and here], and much more extensive material included in “The Legacy
Encounter Books has just released a remarkably compendious 4-minute video synopsis of Andrew McCarthy’s “The Grand Jihad“, re-issued in a paperback edition, which features captivating–and humorous–animation. embedded by Embedded Video Please also see a very insightful review of “The Grand
Encounter Books has just released a remarkably compendious 4-minute video synopsis of Andrew McCarthy’s “The Grand Jihad“, re-issued in a paperbound edition, which features captivating–and humorous–animation. Please also see a very insightful review of “The Grand Jihad” by Karen Lugo
Former President George W. Bush’s aide Michael Gerson posted a distressingly ignorant column on 12/13/11 which attacked both former speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, and my colleague Andrew C. McCarthy, for their sober, if frank conceptions of the
Krauthammer: Sam [Huntington] He Is Not Monday night (12/26/11) Charles Krauthammer was interviewed by Mark Steyn (guest hosting for Sean Hannity on Fox News) about the ongoing murderous jihad depredations against Christians in Islamdom. The interview began by highlighting the
Early and volatile, the Republican Presidential nomination race–at least for now–appears to be settling into a contest between consistent front runner Mitt Romney and the latest surging “non-Romney alternative,” former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich. Unfortunately, the CNN/Heritage Foundation/American Enterprise televised
The Face of Islamic Women’s Rights in Post-Mubarak, Arab Spring “Liberated” Egypt My colleague Al-Mutarjim has translated comments made this week to the London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat (via the Gazan publication Donia al-Watan) by a female candidate for the Egyptian Parliament,
The courthouse in Benghazi is the iconic seat of the revolt which toppled Qaddafi. It’s Libya’s “(im)moral equivalent” to Egypt’s Tahrir Square. During the tumultuous months of Libya’s brutal civil war, it was here that rebel forces established a provisional
Hamadi Jebali: Another North African Zabibah-stan Leader-in-Waiting? On the heels of their landslide election victory, Tunisia’s Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Ennahda Party has just announced that Ennahda’s Secretary General and spokesperson, Hamadi Jebali (who, fittingly, sports a prominent Zabibah on his
Because it was excerpted in Bat Ye’or’s pioneering The Dhimmi, I obtained Moshe Perlmann’s (1975) complete translation of a 1739 essay on the Churches of Cairo. Written by Sheikh Damanhuri (1689-1764), a highly esteemed leader of Al Azhar University, the
Educating Charles Krauthammer, Part 3 (see parts 1 and 2, here and here) Tuesday evening (10/11/11) on Fox News’s Special Report “panel”, the resident journalistic eminence grise, Charles Krauthammer, attributed the murderous Muslim depredations against the Copts this past weekend
Consistent with the US military’s willful blindness to the Islamic enemy doctrine of jihad, as described elegantly by Major Steven Coughlin (in his 333 pp. 2007/2008 thesis, To Our Great Detriment: Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad), security expert Praveen
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA), reporting (October 2, 2011) about the 5th International Conference on the Palestinian Intifada in Tehran, described the conference as “including participation of parliamentary delegations including several speakers, leading political figures and scholars from 50 Islamic
A three-year-old Afghan girl at her engagement to a cousin aged seven. Reported by the London Evening Standard, to its own self-described “shock,” a decade after British troops entered this chronically war-torn Muslim backwater, the publication: …has uncovered shocking evidence
The noble American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which has been supporting the defense efforts for Youcef Nadarkhani, has helped a Moroccan “apostate” to Christianity (a young man identified as “Z”) obtain asylum in the US. Raised in a
Franco Frattini: Western moral clarity on Pastor Nadarkhani’s “apostasy” conviction. The fate of Iranian “apostate” pastor Youcef Nadarkani still hangs in the balance. Contra Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s rather tepid statement that the “US stands with the international community”
Almost 90 years ago, in his 1924 The Law of Apostasy in Islam, Samuel Zwemer made these observations, regarding the post World War I “Arab Spring” of that era: The story is told that Damocles, at the court of Dionysius
Moderate, “peace-loving” Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) opposes the banning of the misogynistic barbarity of clitorectomy/female genital mutilation Robert Small’s American Thinker essay on the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Indonesian Islam reads more like a “Just So Story” than a “True Story.”
A national poll of 1,000 likely voters was completed in August by Democratic pollster Pat Caddell, and Republican pollster John McLaughlin for Secure America Now. The published results indicate that unlike our media, academic, and political elites, Americans, thank goodness,
The US Centers for Disease Control provides a simple web-based, illustrated guide to disease-causing tick removal which offers this sage advice: If you find a tick attached to your skin, there’s no need to panic. There are several tick removal
Adnan al Aroor, moderate, peaceful icon of the Syrian rebellion: Syrian Christians will be dog meat While Hafez al-Assad ruled Syria in the early 1970s, these were the conditions under which Syrian Jews lived: Jews were required to live in
Mitt Romney, June 3, 2009, at The Heritage Foundation on Jihad: “I spoke about three major threats America faces on a long term basis. Jihadism is one of them, and that is not Islam.” However: There is just one historically
When Ground Zero Mosque promoter Imam Feisal Rauf’s book What’s Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West was published in Indonesian in 2007, it acquired a modified title – “Seruan Azan Dari Puing WTC: Dakwah Islam
Wife-battering imam of the Darul Quran Mosque in Munich, Sheikh Abu Adam, is the face of Germany’s Islamic “Justice .” Adam gave a lecture at the city’s Catholic University entitled “An Islam which distances itself from violence,” shortly before being