At 7 PM Central Time 9/28/10 in Chicago, the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu of Turkey delivered a keynote speech opening a conference at the American Islamic College, entitled, “The Role of the OIC and The
by Andrew G. Bostom30 Sep 2010, 7:21 AM PST0
The Texas Board of Education issued a press release, Friday 9/24/10, which included a self-described “most debated item on the board’s Friday agenda”–a non-binding resolution that barely passed by a 7-6 vote, with two members absent. The resolution concludes with
by Andrew G. Bostom27 Sep 2010, 4:57 AM PST0
Writing at The American Thinker blog, Mladen Andrijasevic worries, appropriately, that not enough attention is being paid to the Team B II report presented last week, “Shariah: The Threat to America,” by those opposed, ostensibly, to the imposition of Sharia–the
by Andrew G. Bostom26 Sep 2010, 3:58 AM PST0
Diametrically opposed governmental reactions to recent Koran burning episodes are on display in Britain and the United States. The British reaction demonstrates the extent to which our “mother country” has retrogressed toward a full self-imposed dhimmitude of the non-Muslim majority
by Andrew G. Bostom24 Sep 2010, 3:16 AM PST0
Hat tip to The Religion of Peace, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of jihad-related news. Although this Daily Mail investigation is largely fixated on the “animal cruelty” aspect of the story, the findings provide another disturbing example of Britain’s steady Islamization,
by Andrew G. Bostom20 Sep 2010, 6:54 AM PST0
My friend, writer Diana West has blogged about a breaking New York Daily News story which captures (or should, even for those who remain willfully blind to the burgeoning phenomenon) how local US state institutions are obsequiously imposing Sharia norms.
by Andrew G. Bostom17 Sep 2010, 11:01 AM PST0
Evelyn Baring, Lord Cromer (1841-1917), served as British Consul-General in Egypt for almost a quarter century, from 1883 to 1907. As noted by the London Telegraph’s Andrew Roberts, in February, 2004, …despite all the multifarious benefits he bestowed during his
by Andrew G. Bostom13 Sep 2010, 2:20 PM PST0
My friend Andy McCarthy reminds us on this solemn day that despite our most comforting delusions, the “moderate Islam” we Americans all desire has yet to evolve. The real Islam of today–not some chimerical non-existent creed–cannot be in our corner
by Andrew G. Bostom12 Sep 2010, 2:46 AM PST0
Now that the Not-So-Great-Koran-Conflagration-Kerfluffle initiated by Pastor Terry Jones has apparently been averted–Jones claiming that the Ground Zero mosque is being canceled as part of the “deal”–let us recount the extensive Koran burning exploits of Islam’s Muslim Rightly Guided Caliph
by Andrew G. Bostom11 Sep 2010, 1:11 AM PST0
Imam Feisal Rauf makes the following comment that includes a quote from the Koran near the conclusion of his treacly 9/7/10 New York Times, Op-Ed: The Koran declares in its 36th chapter, regarded by the Prophet Muhammad as the heart
by Andrew G. Bostom9 Sep 2010, 11:46 AM PST0
There is nothing “nuanced” about Imam Feisal Rauf’s belief in the primacy of Sharia (Islamic Law) in society–any society. Rauf, in his 2004 “What’s Right With Islam“–released in Malaysia as, “A Call to Prayer from the World Trade Center Rubble:
by Andrew G. Bostom7 Sep 2010, 1:40 PM PST0
Currently (see here, reviewed 9/2/10 at The National Review Online), the Mutazilites, typified by the Abbasid Muslim rulers al-Mamun (r. 813-833) and al-Mutasim (r. 833-842) are being lionized as avatars of the kind of “rationalist freethinking” which might have spared
by Andrew G. Bostom7 Sep 2010, 5:52 AM PST0
The Arab and non-Arab Muslim umma, or global community, vehemently denies pre-Islamic Jewish and ignores pre-Islamic Christian connections to all the territories that comprised historical Syro-Palestine–including Judea, Samaria, modern Israel within the 1949 armistice borders, and Gaza. This historical negationism
by Andrew G. Bostom5 Sep 2010, 4:26 AM PST0
As reported by the New York Post’s Tom Topoussis on June 19, 2010, Imam Feisal Rauf repeatedly declined to acknowledge, unequivocally, that Hamas is a terrorist organization, despite its formal designation as such by the US State Department, in these
by Andrew G. Bostom29 Aug 2010, 4:20 PM PST0
RELIGIOUSLY ‘CORRECT’: A new Regents exam has glowing descriptions of Islam’s past (left), but is less forgiving when it comes to the history of Christianity (right). A New York Post report (published 8/24/10) by Yoav Gonen highlights the selective Islamophilia
by Andrew G. Bostom28 Aug 2010, 8:29 AM PST0
After reading a studious account of Imam Feisal Rauf’s Malaysian activities by my journalist colleague Alyssa Lappen, and listening to an interview of the courageous investigative reporter Steven Emerson, who has compiled recorded evidence of Rauf’s Islamic radicalism based upon
by Andrew G. Bostom26 Aug 2010, 8:40 AM PST0
After reading a studious account of Imam Feisal Rauf’s Malaysian activities by my journalist colleague Alyssa Lappen, and listening to an interview of the courageous investigative reporter Steven Emerson, who has compiled recorded evidence of Rauf’s Islamic radicalism based upon
by Andrew G. Bostom25 Aug 2010, 6:12 AM PST0
Thursday during the 1 p.m. hour, CNN’s “Newsroom,” this exchange took place between CNN reporter Ali Velshi andTime Magazine’s deputy international editor Bobby Ghosh: VELSHI: The name Cordoba- some people are associating it with Muslim rule and bloody battles, when,
by Andrew G. Bostom23 Aug 2010, 12:17 PM PST0
The most informed and understandably passionate critics of Sharia-supremacist Imam Feisal Rauf’s proposed Ground Zero mosque are men and women such as FDNY Rescue’s Tim Brown, and 9 /11 Families for a Safe and Strong America, Debra Burlingame. Motivated by
by Andrew G. Bostom23 Aug 2010, 4:43 AM PST0
Thursday during the 1 PM hour CNN’s “Newsroom,” this exchange took place between CNN reporter Ali Velshi and Time Magazine’s deputy international editor Bobby Ghosh: VELSHI: The name Cordoba- some people are associating it with Muslim rule and bloody battles,
by Andrew G. Bostom21 Aug 2010, 1:47 PM PST0
A promo for tonight’s Bill O’Reilly Show mentioned there would be an “Is It Legal?” discussion of the Taliban’s recent stoning of adulterers, specifically, “Plus, Afghan couple stoned to death by Taliban over alleged affair. Is It Legal? explains Sharia
by Andrew G. Bostom17 Aug 2010, 10:00 AM PST0
Feisal Abdul Rauf–the now infamous “moderate” imam doggedly pursuing a triumphal mosque near Ground Zero–has yet another opportunity to confirm his putative “ecumenism.” The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) has issued a series of traditional Islamic legal rulings,
by Andrew G. Bostom17 Aug 2010, 6:28 AM PST0