The indictment can be read here, and features charges against the “spiritual” leader of the so-called Miami Mosque: Hafiz Muhammad Sher Ali Khan is a US citizen and resident of Florida. Khan has been the imam, or spiritual leader at
by Andrew G. Bostom14 May 2011, 8:23 PM PST0
Osama Bin Laden’s putative sea burial ceremony aboard the USS Carl Vinson was performed “in strict conformance with Islamic precepts and practices” according to repeated assertions by chief counterterrorism adviser John Brennan. Indeed, there is more than ample reason to
by Andrew G. Bostom13 May 2011, 7:38 AM PST0
Professor Uriel Heyd (d. 1968), a serious and intellectually honest scholar of both Ottoman and Republican Turkey, described Turkey’s tenuous secularization and aggressive re-Islamization more than 40 years before today’s “learned analysts” have finally come to the same pathetically belated
by Andrew G. Bostom11 May 2011, 10:39 AM PST0
Anneke Green has a disturbing analysis in the Washington Times which indicates the very likely specifics of the burial ceremony aboard the USS Carl Vinson–repeatedly noted by witless counter-terrorism czar John Brennan to be in strict “conformance to Islamic requirements”–for
by Andrew G. Bostom8 May 2011, 2:11 AM PST0
Al-Banna: How he did it with the Fez on… LTC Joe Myers has a useful Op-Ed in the Washington Times underscoring the more insidious (cultural) jihadist threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood, relative to Al Qaeda. In follow-up to Myer’s
by Andrew G. Bostom6 May 2011, 3:04 PM PST0
An English translation of the official Arabic pronouncement by the Muslim Brotherhood on Osama Bin Laden’s assassination was posted at Pajamas Media by Sami al-Abasi. The statement is a striking re-affirmation of the Brotherhood’s deep seated sympathy with the transcendant
by Andrew G. Bostom4 May 2011, 3:13 PM PST0
I learned of the horrific “honor” murder of a 20-year-old Muslim young woman in Michigan by her pious Muslim stepfather, within a short time after receiving news of the profoundly disturbing turn of events in the Lars Hedegaard show trial
by Andrew G. Bostom4 May 2011, 12:29 PM PST0
Surprised the USS Carl-Vinson didn’t just turn itself into Bin Laden’s floating funeral pyre… A “senior defense (is that term “defense” even appropriate?) department official” describes the Muslim religious rites administered for Osama bin Laden (isn’t that grotesquely hypocritical if
by Andrew G. Bostom3 May 2011, 3:37 AM PST0
The hub of Islamic supremacism in the US–Dearborn’s Islamic Center of America…. …To which no US citizen should submit On Friday, (4/29/11) a Muslim mob [3] of 50, disturbingly reminiscent of their co-religionists across a vast swath of official Islamdom,
by Andrew G. Bostom1 May 2011, 6:02 AM PST0
Ann Barnhardt: Fearless, Peerless Warrior Against the Cultural Jihad Once again a mere flicker–in this case burning a copy of the Koran in Florida–has ignited the inferno of deeply seated infidel-hatred that pervades the contemporary Muslim world, precipitating violence, death,
by Andrew G. Bostom10 Apr 2011, 2:02 PM PST0
Educable? At least by her? Last night for a few brief shining television moments (captured here [3]), Wafa Sultan, courageous author of the indispensable jeremiad “A God Who Hates [4],” strove gamely to educate Bill O’Reilly–often seemingly impenetrable [5] by
by Andrew G. Bostom29 Mar 2011, 10:11 AM PST0
European defenders of the West: Sobieski, Churchill, and Wilders Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders made a seminal address two nights ago (March 25, 2011) at the Annual Lecture of the Magna Carta Foundation in Rome, Italy. As is his wont, Wilders
by Andrew G. Bostom27 Mar 2011, 1:42 PM PST0
Elizabeth Taylor, RIP A 1977 report by the JTA unearthed in the aftermath of Elizabeth Taylor’s death reveals that the actress, “…offered herself as a hostage for the more than 100 Air France hijack victims held by terrorists at Entebbe
by Andrew G. Bostom27 Mar 2011, 11:26 AM PST0
President Obama is slated to deliver a statement at 2 PM today about Libya from the White House East Room. Regardless, the aptly named (hat tip Diana West [2]) American “Libya [3]Hawks [4]” must be elated with the United Nations
by Andrew G. Bostom18 Mar 2011, 9:19 AM PST0
The “holy” Koranic imagery of Jews shared by Arab and non-Arab Muslims, children and adults, alike. Friday night 3/11/11 in Itamar, Samaria, parents, Udi, 36, and Ruth Fogel, 35, as well as three of their six children, Yoav, 11, Elad,
by Andrew G. Bostom17 Mar 2011, 12:57 PM PST0
Taqiyya, From Tabari (d. 923), to Keith Ellison Matthew Shaffer of NRO (as noted here by Ethel Fenig) exposed Keith Ellison’s mendacious taqiyya (Koran-sanctioned Islamic dissimulation) theater during the Congressman’s testimony at Thursday’s Homeland Security Hearings on American Muslim radicalization.
by Andrew G. Bostom14 Mar 2011, 4:39 AM PST0
Albert Memmi The unaddressed questions (from November, 1973) of Albert Memmi still address the unworthiness [2] of Libya ** The most predictable outcome of Libya’s violent internecine struggle-cum-latest-Arab- “democracy movement” was aptly characterized by Andrew McCarthy [3]: “The Libyan people
by Andrew G. Bostom5 Mar 2011, 4:35 PM PST0
Wise counsel to Rep. King from legendary saxophonist Joe Hendersonregarding this man, Katem Al-Hajj, and other AMJA clerics: “RECORDA-ME“ Despite opposition from the usual alphabet soup of Muslim Brotherhood offshoot “advocacy” groups in the US, Congressman Peter King is forging
by Andrew G. Bostom3 Mar 2011, 2:29 PM PST0
Last Friday marked the triumphal return to Cairo of Muslim Brotherhood “Spiritual Guide” Yusuf al-Qaradawi. After years of exile, his public re-emergence in Egypt was sanctioned by the nation’s provisional military rulers. Qaradawi’s own words were accompanied by images and
by Andrew G. Bostom24 Feb 2011, 7:18 AM PST0
Historical note to “Afghan imams wage political battle against U.S.,” published 2/17/11 in the Washington Post: The small and brutally oppressed Afghan Jewish community was liquidated by 1950, shortly after the creation of Israel. According to a 1950 report, the
by Andrew G. Bostom19 Feb 2011, 3:59 PM PST0
Tabari’s Koranic Tafsir (Commentary): Sanctioning a millennium (and ongoing) of Koranic dissimulation On February 14, Sean Hannity asked whether the Koran sanctioned lying/ dissimulation (or “taqiyya”) during a debate between Robert Spencer and Michael Ghouse. Spencer appropriately cited Koran 3:28,
by Andrew G. Bostom18 Feb 2011, 1:33 PM PST0
In follow-up to the Lara Logan sexual assault in Cairo story, I was interviewed today (2/18/11) during the 8 AM hour on the Helen Glover Show. The interview included discussion of the triumphal return to Cairo of Muslim Brotherhood “Spiritual
by Andrew G. Bostom18 Feb 2011, 10:57 AM PST0
Victim of Egyptian Islam’s Misogyny and Jew-Hatred Last Friday (2/11/11), Lara Logan, chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, was beaten and raped in Cairo during a thirty minute assault by a frenzied throng of over 200 Egyptians. According to a
by Andrew G. Bostom17 Feb 2011, 10:57 AM PST0
This past weekend at CPAC, David Horowitz associated Suhail Khan, now a “stalwart” of the American Conservative Union, with the broader movement of resurgent Islamic totalitarianism: We are also faced both at home and abroad with an existential enemy in
by Andrew G. Bostom15 Feb 2011, 10:51 AM PST0
In the wake of Mubarak’s resignation, amidst the ongoing Egyptian unrest, it is worth recalling what became known as the “Kamshish Affair” from April, 1966 (following the assassination of peasant leader Salah Husain Maqlad), and its aftermath. The events of
by Andrew G. Bostom12 Feb 2011, 11:42 AM PST0