Category Archives: Essays

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. … Continue reading →

Islamic Willful Blindness Islamic Understanding During an interview with US News reporter Dan Gligoff published June 3, 2009, Mitt Romney offered the following bizarre observation about the living Islamic institution of jihad, ostensibly to “clarify” remarks made during an earlier … Continue reading →

Albert Memmi The unaddressed questions (from November, 1973) of Albert Memmi still address the unworthiness of Libya ** The most predictable outcome of Libya’s violent internecine struggle-cum-latest-Arab- “democracy movement” was aptly characterized by Andrew McCarthy: “The Libyan people are no … Continue reading →

  Posted at Pajamas Media Wise counsel to Rep. King from legendary saxophonist Joe Henderson regarding this man, Katem Al-Hajj, and other AMJA clerics: “RECORDA-ME” By Andrew Bostom and Al-Mutarjim Despite opposition from the usual alphabet soup of Muslim Brotherhood … Continue reading →

Originally posted at The American Thinker. Last Friday (2/18/11) 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 … Continue reading →

What does the willfully blind, doctrinally ignorant “Chrislam” movement propose to do about this? An open letter to Fox and Friends: Dear Ms. Green, Ms. Earhardt, and Mr. Kilmeade I just watched the “Chrislam” segment on today’s  (2/21/11)“Fox and Friends,” … Continue reading →

The fount of Afghan jihadism and Jew- and other infidel hatred 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 … Continue reading →

Qaradawi-Khomeini in Cairo: “Pray For Conquest of Jerusalem; I Want To Give Friday Prayer Sermon At Al-Aqsa” Courtesy of the invaluable Middle East Media Research Institute: In a special mention of the Palestinian issue, Al-Qaradhawi asked the Egyptian army to … Continue reading →

Lara Logan: 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 … Continue reading →

Tabari’s Koranic Tafsir (Commentary): Sanctioning a millennium (and ongoing) of Koranic dissimulation Yesterday (2/14/11) 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, and … Continue reading →