FrontPage Magazine The Islamic worldview—even concerning things such as disease (e.g., coronavirus)—is fundamentally based on a dichotomy: anything and everything non-Islamic is evil, dirty, to be shunned, hated, and struggled against (“jihad”); anything Islamic is good, clean, to be embraced, loved, and struggled on behalf. A Christian youth recently found this out the … [Read more...]
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Trump’s ‘Islam Hates Us’ Returns
Donald Trump’s infamous assertion “Islam hates us,” which he made over three years ago while campaigning for president, continues to anger his opponents. Most recently, Democratic presidential hopefuls Julián Castro and Bernie Sanders cited it in their efforts to court Muslim votes in Houston. Soon after being introduced by his Muslim campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, … [Read more...]
Egypt Reinstates Hate Preaching against Non-Muslims
FrontPage Magazine Egypt’s leading authorities have reinstated a notoriously “radical” cleric and hate preacher to the pulpit (minbar), despite strong opposition. According to Arab Weekly, “The Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments, which controls the mosques, gave Yasser Burhami, the deputy head of the Salafist Call, the umbrella organisation of Salafi movements, … [Read more...]
America’s 233-Year-Old Shock at Jihad
American Thinker Exactly 233 years ago today, on March 28, 1786, two of America’s founding fathers documented their first exposure to Islamic jihad in a letter to Congress; like many Americans today, they too were shocked at what they learned. Context: in 1785, Muslim pirates from North Africa, or “Barbary,” had captured two American ships, … [Read more...]
“Eternal Jihad: Islam Will Never, Ever Stop”
Editor's note: Andrew E. Harrod, PhD, JD, Esq, recently reviewed my book, Sword and Scimitar on American Thinker. Titled, "Eternal Jihad: Islam Will Never, Ever Stop," it follows: The "West and Islam have been mortal enemies since the latter's birth some fourteen centuries ago," warns Islam scholar Raymond Ibrahim in his recent book Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries … [Read more...]
How Saudi ‘Donations’ to American Universities Whitewash Islam
Gatestone Institute Why would the center of illiberalism, religious fanaticism, and misogyny ever sponsor the center of liberalism, secularism, and gender equality? This is the question that crops up when one considers the largesse that human-rights-abusing Saudi Arabia bestows on the leading universities — those putative bastions of progressive, free thinking — in the … [Read more...]
How Islam Apologists Like John Esposito Dupe Americans About Sharia
PJ Media Does Islam itself promote hostility for and violence against non-Muslims, or are all the difficulties between the West and Islam based on secondary factors—from “radical” interpretations of Islam, to economics and grievances? This is the fundamental question. Obviously, if “anti-infidel” hostility is inherent to Islam itself, then the conflict becomes … [Read more...]
The Battle of Antioch: “Here the Name Christian Was Born”
Bohemond The siege of Antioch PJ Media Editor’s note: The following account is partially excerpted from the author’s new book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (with a foreword by Victor Davis Hanson). Today in history, on … [Read more...]
Hating ‘for the Sake of Allah’
FrontPage Magazine After launching a successful terror attack to free a fellow jihadi that left several slain policemen in its wake last month, the militant commander of Kashmir’s Hizb al-Mujahidin—“the Party of Jihadis”—justified the murders by saying, “We love and hate for the sake of Allah.” In this otherwise cryptic assertion lies the root of Islam’s conflict with … [Read more...]
Islamic Terrorists or Tragic Heroes?
PJ Media The so-called mainstream media’s approach to and apologias for Islamic terrorism have become as predictable as they are farcical. In a recent piece titled, “A Mysterious Act of Mercy by the Subway Bombing Suspect,” the New York Times’ Jeffrey Gettleman portrays would-be suicide bomber Akayed Ullah—whose foiled attempt at Times Square subway last month could have … [Read more...]