Tag: Islam

The mistaken new Oval Office rug in which one quote is falsely attributed and another is taken out of context is both food for the foot as well as a heartening reminder that, like rugs, societal ignorance and confusion do

Only a few days before September 11, 2001, my girlfriend Tanya had come to the US for the first time on a visa from Russia. We were to be married that year. The economy had been rough that year due

On September 11, 2001, I was over the Atlantic when the pilot on my Moscow to New York Delta Airlines flight made a puzzling announcement. He said there was a minor problem with the plane and we would have to

CNS.com’s Patrick Goodenough reported on activity at the OIC hive, where busy bees are attempting to use the Florida Koran incident (whether it comes off or not) as an impetus for advancing OIC plans to censor the Islam debate —

I watched the National Geographic documentary on 9/11. I wondered if there would be any PC (politically correct) parts stressing diversity, peaceful Islam, or moralizing about how we had caused the shocking attack. There was none. It was some of

Dressed in red, white, and blue, right down to her Islamic headscarf, Dr. Ingrid Mattson resembled the zealous middle-aged patriots one sees at Tea Party gatherings. But this was no Tea Party. Mattson, the president of the Islamic Society of

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

I cannot accept the premise that causing “outrage to Muslims” is reason enough to condemn the burning some paper and ink. Nor would the matter differ if someone threatened to burn the Bible. A thing that has been done —

From the Associated Press: The minister of a Florida church said he has canceled plans to burn copies of the Quran because the leader of a much-opposed plan to build an Islamic Center near ground zero has agreed to move

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

From CBN: PARIS – Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force. This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the

I have to admit, I have a certain admiration for the Ground Zero mosque Imam, Feisal Rauf. Whether he’s telling the government that his wife’s apartment is a mosque that seats 500 in order to get religious tax exemptions or

“If we move from that location, the story will be the radicals have taken over the discourse, the headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack. Our national security now hinges on how we negotiate this,

General David Petraeus has sounded an alarm about the planned burning of copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by the 50-member congregation of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida. He believes that, “Images

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:

In a speech given at the National Endowment for Democracy, on October 6, 2005 President Bush said: “Many Muslim scholars have already publicly condemned terrorism, often citing Chapter 5, Verse 32 of the Koran, which states that killing an innocent