Tag: Islam
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May 20 is “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day”
The suits at Comedy Central have aided and abetted terrorism by censoring an episode of South Park to remove all references to Mohammed. They followed in the courageous footsteps of the Yale University Press, which, before publishing a book about the Danish cartoon controversy last year, deleted the actual cartoons from the manuscript. South Park […]
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Brave Muslim Cleric Issues Fatwa Against Terrorism
Three hearty cheers for Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, a Pakistan-born Muslim scholar in London, who has issued a fatwa declaring that suicide bombing and other acts of terrorism are prohibited by Islam. Pointing out that terrorists commit acts of self and mass murder with the firm conviction that they will be rewarded by God and that […]
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Encouraging Signs of Al Qaeda’s Decline
I just hope that Islam can reform itself more quickly than Christianity did. More than 130 years of religious violence passed between the 95 Theses and the Treaty of Westphalia.
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Moderate Muslims Hold the Key to the War Against Islamic Fascism
For some time I’ve been meaning to highlight the work of M. Zuhdi Jasser and the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. As their website describes, “AIFD was formed as an unmistakable expression of American liberty and freedom in an attempt to take back the faith of Islam from the demagoguery of the Islamo-fascists.” Dr. Jasser […]
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Iran Revolt Vindicates Neoconservative Ideals — and the Iraq War
(Welcome, GayPatriot readers) Since he turned against the Iraq War that he once championed, Andrew Sullivan has taken to using the term “neocon” as a curse word. “The neocon hope that Ahmadinejad keeps himself in power – barely disguised any more – seems to me premature,” Sullivan said a few days ago — while linking […]
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My Kind of Dangerous Muslim Jihadi
Mad props to Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, better known as Dr. Fadl, for attacking al-Qaeda from the jihadi perspective. (Hat tip: Cliff May) Half an hour ago I had not heard of Dr. Fadl, but apparently he is an al-Qaeda co-founder. Remember that when al-Qaeda was founded, its primary mission was not to terrorize America, but […]
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The Beheading Victim Was Also Muslim
Nearly a week after her husband allegedly cut off her head, Aasiya Zubair Hassan still smiles confidently into the camera for the high-resolution publicity photo available on the website of the TV station the couple started. If you download the photo, you’ll discover that the filename is “Mo – Assiya – 3 – High.jpg”. It’s […]
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Britain Bows to Terrorism by Banning Geert Wilders
Basmallah, 3 1/2, shares what she has been taught about Jews,in the short film Fitna Last week, Great Britain shamefully denied entry to Geert Wilders, an elected member of the Dutch parliament, who had been invited to a screening of his film Fitna in front of the British House of Lords. It reportedly was the […]
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Mixed Signals in Obama’s Approach to Radical Islam
“Respect and partnership” 30 years ago I didn’t pay close attention to Obama’s first media interview as President yesterday, with with Al-Arabiya. The news snippet I saw led with: President Barack Obama on Tuesday chose an Arabic satellite TV network for his first formal television interview as president, delivering a message to the Muslim world […]
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Eloquent Economic Commentary from Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, my hero, sings the praises of open markets in a tightly edited, 6-minute video on the Templeton Foundation site, part of a series of discussions about “big questions” such as “Does the free market corrode moral character?” English is at least her fourth language — she was born in Saudi Arabia, came […]