by Matthew May Institute on Religion and Democracy Columnist and author Mark Steyn always gets a well-deserved laugh when he tells audiences that, to the useful idiots in the U.S. media and citizenry, "Allahu Akbar," the calling card of Islamic terrorists the world over, is Arabic for "Nothing to see here!" But as author and scholar Raymond Ibrahim told a forum on violence … [Read more...]

GetReligion.org The New York Times has an extraordinary article that extols the virtues of lying and doublespeak in a recent "Memo from Jerusalem." Well, you might ask, what of it? How does a dodgy story on the Arab-Israeli conflict fall within the ambit of GetReligion? What is the religion/journalism hook you ask? To which I respond: lying is a sin or bad manners or … [Read more...]

by Oren Kessler Jerusalem Post US officials meet with group's representatives; Brotherhood official: Those who oppose Shari'a are "drunks, druggies or adulterers." The Muslim Brotherhood will join other Islamist and youth groups in staging a mass protest in Cairo on Friday against a constitutional proposal that would shield Egypt's powerful military from parliamentary … [Read more...]

The following letter was written in response to Raymond Ibrahim's article, "Top Muslim Declares All Christians Infidels." According to American Muslim, "Prof. Faroque Ahmad Khan requested Dr Ibrahim Negm—senior advisor to the Grand Mufti to provide a clarification of the remarks attributed to Sheikh Ali Gomaa. Here is the response that was received." Written in the … [Read more...]

by Roger Kimball PJ Media One of the most impressive questions to be posed by the death of Colonel Gaddafi was formulated by Raymond Ibrahim in a column for PJ Media: "Gaddafi Dead — So What?" Mr. Ibrahim goes on to anatomize what he describes (rightly, in my view) the "myopic view" of the so-called Arab Spring purveyed by the Western media. Naïveté, your moment has come. A … [Read more...]