Osama Bin Laden’s putative sea burial ceremony aboard the USS Carl Vinson was performed “in strict conformance with Islamic precepts and practices” according to repeated assertions by chief counterterrorism adviser John Brennan. Indeed, there is more than ample reason to
Professor Uriel Heyd (d. 1968), a serious and intellectually honest scholar of both Ottoman and Republican Turkey, described Turkey’s tenuous secularization and aggressive re-Islamization more than 40 years before today’s “learned analysts” have finally come to the same pathetically belated
Anneke Green has a disturbing analysis in the Washington Times which indicates the very likely specifics of the burial ceremony aboard the USS Carl Vinson–repeatedly noted by witless counter-terrorism czar John Brennan to be in strict “conformance to Islamic requirements”–for
Al-Banna: How he did it with the Fez on… LTC Joe Myers has a useful Op-Ed in the Washington Times underscoring the more insidious (cultural) jihadist threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood, relative to Al Qaeda. In follow-up to Myer’s
An English translation of the official Arabic pronouncement by the Muslim Brotherhood on Osama Bin Laden’s assassination was posted at Pajamas Media by Sami al-Abasi. The statement is a striking re-affirmation of the Brotherhood’s deep seated sympathy with the transcendant
I learned of the horrific “honor” murder of a 20-year-old Muslim young woman in Michigan by her pious Muslim stepfather, within a short time after receiving news of the profoundly disturbing turn of events in the Lars Hedegaard show trial
Surprised the USS Carl-Vinson didn’t just turn itself into Bin Laden’s floating funeral pyre… A “senior defense (is that term “defense” even appropriate?) department official” describes the Muslim religious rites administered for Osama bin Laden (isn’t that grotesquely hypocritical if
The hub of Islamic supremacism in the US–Dearborn’s Islamic Center of America…. …To which no US citizen should submit On Friday, (4/29/11) a Muslim mob [3] of 50, disturbingly reminiscent of their co-religionists across a vast swath of official Islamdom,
Ann Barnhardt: Fearless, Peerless Warrior Against the Cultural Jihad Once again a mere flicker–in this case burning a copy of the Koran in Florida–has ignited the inferno of deeply seated infidel-hatred that pervades the contemporary Muslim world, precipitating violence, death,
Educable? At least by her? Last night for a few brief shining television moments (captured here [3]), Wafa Sultan, courageous author of the indispensable jeremiad “A God Who Hates [4],” strove gamely to educate Bill O’Reilly–often seemingly impenetrable [5] by
European defenders of the West: Sobieski, Churchill, and Wilders Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders made a seminal address two nights ago (March 25, 2011) at the Annual Lecture of the Magna Carta Foundation in Rome, Italy. As is his wont, Wilders
Elizabeth Taylor, RIP A 1977 report by the JTA unearthed in the aftermath of Elizabeth Taylor’s death reveals that the actress, “…offered herself as a hostage for the more than 100 Air France hijack victims held by terrorists at Entebbe
President Obama is slated to deliver a statement at 2 PM today about Libya from the White House East Room. Regardless, the aptly named (hat tip Diana West [2]) American “Libya [3]Hawks [4]” must be elated with the United Nations
The “holy” Koranic imagery of Jews shared by Arab and non-Arab Muslims, children and adults, alike. Friday night 3/11/11 in Itamar, Samaria, parents, Udi, 36, and Ruth Fogel, 35, as well as three of their six children, Yoav, 11, Elad,
Taqiyya, From Tabari (d. 923), to Keith Ellison Matthew Shaffer of NRO (as noted here by Ethel Fenig) exposed Keith Ellison’s mendacious taqiyya (Koran-sanctioned Islamic dissimulation) theater during the Congressman’s testimony at Thursday’s Homeland Security Hearings on American Muslim radicalization.
Albert Memmi The unaddressed questions (from November, 1973) of Albert Memmi still address the unworthiness [2] of Libya ** The most predictable outcome of Libya’s violent internecine struggle-cum-latest-Arab- “democracy movement” was aptly characterized by Andrew McCarthy [3]: “The Libyan people
Wise counsel to Rep. King from legendary saxophonist Joe Hendersonregarding this man, Katem Al-Hajj, and other AMJA clerics: “RECORDA-ME“ Despite opposition from the usual alphabet soup of Muslim Brotherhood offshoot “advocacy” groups in the US, Congressman Peter King is forging
Last Friday marked the triumphal return to Cairo of Muslim Brotherhood “Spiritual Guide” Yusuf al-Qaradawi. After years of exile, his public re-emergence in Egypt was sanctioned by the nation’s provisional military rulers. Qaradawi’s own words were accompanied by images and
Historical note to “Afghan imams wage political battle against U.S.,” published 2/17/11 in the Washington Post: The small and brutally oppressed Afghan Jewish community was liquidated by 1950, shortly after the creation of Israel. According to a 1950 report, the
Tabari’s Koranic Tafsir (Commentary): Sanctioning a millennium (and ongoing) of Koranic dissimulation On February 14, Sean Hannity asked whether the Koran sanctioned lying/ dissimulation (or “taqiyya”) during a debate between Robert Spencer and Michael Ghouse. Spencer appropriately cited Koran 3:28,
In follow-up to the Lara Logan sexual assault in Cairo story, I was interviewed today (2/18/11) during the 8 AM hour on the Helen Glover Show. The interview included discussion of the triumphal return to Cairo of Muslim Brotherhood “Spiritual
Victim of Egyptian Islam’s Misogyny and Jew-Hatred Last Friday (2/11/11), Lara Logan, chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, was beaten and raped in Cairo during a thirty minute assault by a frenzied throng of over 200 Egyptians. According to a
This past weekend at CPAC, David Horowitz associated Suhail Khan, now a “stalwart” of the American Conservative Union, with the broader movement of resurgent Islamic totalitarianism: We are also faced both at home and abroad with an existential enemy in
In the wake of Mubarak’s resignation, amidst the ongoing Egyptian unrest, it is worth recalling what became known as the “Kamshish Affair” from April, 1966 (following the assassination of peasant leader Salah Husain Maqlad), and its aftermath. The events of
Falk’s imaginary Ayatollah, circa February, 1979: Having created a new model of popular revolution based, for the most part, on non-violent tactics. Iran may yet provide us with a desperately-needed model of humane governance for a third-world country. If this
Ominous polling data from the contemporary Egyptian population reflect their deep, longstanding favorable inclination toward the Sharia, in all its totalitarian, brutally anti-freedom “glory.” The electorally successful Algerian Sharia supremacists of two decades ago came up with an apt expression
Edward W. Lane in Turkish garb What forces might be fully unleashed beyond Egypt’s borders if the Mubarak government is replaced by one far less inclined toward restraining its denizens? A recent detailed study of Egyptian children’s textbooks, revealed their
Citing–wait for it–actual data, I explained this AM (Monday 1/31/11) on America’s Morning News radio Show with John McCaslin and Amy Holmes why the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s traditional Islam resonates with the Muslim mainstream in Egypt. A cogent rebuttal of
The “authoritatively” Jew-hating late Muslim Pope, Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, with the witless Karen Hughes Female genital mutilation–sanctioned by Shafiite Islamic Law–remains rampant (97% of women thus mutilated) in Egypt In follow-up to my earlier posting about widespread Egyptian Muslim
A sobering reminder–based upon hard data–from an essay of mine published in April, 2007: In a rigorously conducted face-to-face University of Maryland/ WorldPublicOpinion.org interview survey of 1000 Egyptian Muslims conducted between December 9, 2006 and February 15, 2007, 67% of
From Milton to Hedegaard: “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” The Kafka-esque trial proceedings against Danish journalist and historian Lars Hedegaard today included a final statement by the
A previous blog of mine featured Allen West’s candid remarks about the living legacy of jihad during a forum in early 2010. Below are extracts from an interview West gave with Frank Gaffney, subsequently, after his election to Congress, this
(Robert Conquest in 2006) Cross posted at Pajamas Media as “See No Sharia” Robert Conquest, the pre-eminent scholar of Soviet Communist totalitarianism, in his elucidation of Western vulnerability to totalitarian ideologies, wrote that democracy itself is, “far less a matter
When it comes to criticism of Islam, and its votaries, Europe’s doctrinaire Left has engendered a ruling political class whose legally sanctioned excesses now go beyond what Orwell wrote about the (mere) vilification of critics of the Soviet system. Regarding
It is now painfully apparent that Barack Hussein Obama’s dull-witted adherence to Franz Fanon, “Wretched of the Earth”-inspired Third Worldism could be described as, For Obama, Islam IS Third Worldism Perhaps that is why our Man-Child President cares so little
“Children, what, according to the Koran, are the Jews’ main characteristics and qualities?” Fabricating (Koran 3:75; 5:64); listening to lies (5:41); disobeying Allah (5:13); disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and supporting deception (3:78); rebelling against the prophets and
Mufti Habibur Rahman of Darul-Ifta, the “Fatwa Department” of Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband Indian Islam is often touted as a paragon of liberal, enlightened Islamic modernism. Pace this trope, Indian journalist par excellence Arun Shourie observed in his brilliant 1995 analysis, The
We are repeatedly told–despite all evidence to the contrary–including its draft Sharia-based Constitution–that the Judea-Samaria Palestinian Authority under President Mahmoud Abbas is a “moderate” even, “secular” counterpart to the Hamas Islamic fundamentalist regime which controls Gaza. This absurd propaganda was
Analyst Reuel Gerecht’s confused, uninformed pieties versus Professor J.J. G. Jansen’s scholarly lucidity Analyst Reuel Mark Gerecht, in a recent New Republic essay, condemned those who “demonized” Sharia–Islamic Law–despite conceding that the application of what he refers to deferentially as
Cry me a river Hat tip Lori Lowenthal Marcus, at Z-Street. Contra the misrepresentations that a United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, legal opinion issued October 20, 2010, “…complicates arguments by some conservative and pro-Israel groups that the Council