In an appearance with MSNBC on Monday, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper insisted that the use of the word “Islamist” to describe radical Muslim terrorists is offensive to Muslims.
Imam Malik Mujahid, producer of the “Stand with the Prophet” conference, which is designed to help “lead the effort against Islamophobia” defended inviting Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who is an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings, and according
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld criticized the “forgetful” media for focusing on “tolerance” instead of the evil of Islamic terrorism on Monday’s broadcast of “The Five” While Gutfeld criticized the president for not showing up to a unity rally
“Those who committed these acts have nothing to do with the Muslim religion,” French president Francois Hollande declared on Friday, referring to the massacre of a dozen people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine followed by an intense manhunt that ended with two simultaneous hostage crises during which four more were killed.
Stéphane Charbonnier (Charb for short) was often accused of Islamophobia, but he rejected that label, saying it was “backward thinking.”
In the wake of the attack on a French satirical paper yesterday, the progressive left has renewed an argument which says anyone who believes Islamic extremism is at war with western culture is an extremist themselves.
According to a report from Fox News Channel’s Catherine Herridge that aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of “America’s Newsroom,” the attackers of a French satirical magazine in Paris that resulted in the deaths of at least 12 appeared to have been
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week said ISIS (ISIL, Islamic State, Daesh) and the Taliban are directly to blame for the rise and spread of Islamophobia throughout the world.
