Moderation Happens To Islam, Not In Islam
“If you want meaningful moderation in Islam, then turn for more lessons to the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, Indonesia.” I imagine my colleague Irshad Manji is having...
Robert B. Spencer
Releasing the Blind Sheikh?
It is too early to tell, but not too early to be very worried.
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Islam or Islamist?
Islam or Islamist? That is the question. Is the term “Islamist” a politically correct fabrication to dodge the inconvenient truth that Islam itself is inhere...
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Fears and Smears
Islamophobia is not an irrational fear, nor is it the fear of Islam.
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Who’s to Blame for Terrorism in Norway?
Not bloggers. Maybe Reuters.
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Cast a Wider Net
The Islamic radicalization hearings need to hear from witnesses beyond cops and Muslims.
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It’s Not Just Pakistani Law, It’s Sharia
As Brian details below, Pakistan has released Raymond Allen Davis, the CIA contractor who, despite having diplomatic immunity, has been illegally detained on murder charges arising out of what he...
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Why They Celebrate Murdering Children
Do you think the State Department noticed that no one in Arizona, Mexico, or even Mars took to the streets to celebrate the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords? No one seemed to think it was a “...
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Annals of Egypt’s “Democracy” Revolution
Two million Egyptians jam Tahrir Square to chants of “To Jerusalem we are heading, martyrs in the millions.” Robert Spencer has video at Jihad Watch....
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Who Attacked Lara Logan, and Why?
For the world’s billion-plus Sunni Muslims, al-Azhar University in Cairo is the center of the theological universe, its faculty and scholars the most authoritative voice on the meaning of I...
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Wisconsin is Not the Only Place Sporting a Hitler Feel Today…
You can also peruse Tahrir Square in Cairo, where as many as a million Egyptians turned out for the triumphant — dare we say Khomeini-esque — return to the homeland of Sheikh Yu...
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Who Says Islam Is Totalitarian?
Who says Islam is a totalitarian doctrine? Well, Geert Wilders does, of course. As the editors point out in Monday’s superb National Review Online editorial, the Dutch parliamentarian has e...
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Sharia Creeps
A few weeks back, uniformed police in the heavily Muslim Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, arrested four Christian missionaries for the offense of handing out copies of the Gospel of St. John...
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Making Believe
Making Believe Obama's speech was deep in fable, short on fact. The Islamic world has heard the much anticipated speech about the relationship between Islam and America from...
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Beyond Terrorism
‘Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Koran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope." This is the battle cry of Hizb al-Ikhwan al-Musli...
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Bravo Pete Hoekstra for Defunding the Government’s Jihad on “Jihad”
I’ve had a number of things to say about the intelligence community’s attempted language purge, the effort to inculcate an aversion to calling jihadists jihadists, to bleach the Islam...
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Shades of Steyn! Our Friends the Pakistanis Threaten — er, I Mean, Request the EU to End Free Expr
From the Daily Times of Pakistan [h/t: Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch]: Pakistan to ask EU to amend laws on freedom of expression...
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California Bound
I’m off for a flight to LA. Should be a great weekend for Willful Blindness in California. I’ll be talking with Hugh Hewitt (taped interview, I think) tomorrow morning and...
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Re: Re: The War on Terror Offends Muslims
Please excuse me while I wipe the stuff pouring out of my nose. At Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer reports on the wisdom of DHS’s Charles Allen and his objection to the phrase “W...
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Religion of Peace?
Islam is quintessentially tolerant. Its adherents are hospitable to liberty, equality, and pluralism, the rudiments of modern democracy. Those committing terror in its name are heretics — a...