Jan 21, 2015 05:55 pm | Robert Spencer
“Savir told the magistrate Cornell wanted to be addressed by his Muslim name, Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah, and to have access to a prayer mat and a clock in jail so he could continue his religious practices.” Yet “the FBI said in court documents filed last week that Cornell planned to ‘wage jihad’ by attacking the […]
Jan 21, 2015 05:35 pm | Robert Spencer
Muhammad said: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence. This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim […]
Jan 21, 2015 05:17 pm | Robert Spencer
This shows the incoherence of the French understanding of the jihad threat. Prime Minister Valls says that the jihad was created by France’s “ethnic apartheid.” But these soldiers were in the French military — is it also beset by “apartheid”? Anyway, the source says: “Our concern is not former soldiers… It’s preventing the phenomenon of […]
Jan 21, 2015 02:56 pm | Robert Spencer
The mainstream media is running hard these days with the absurd idea that Sharia no-go zones in Europe are the “Islamophobic” fabrication of Fox News or Steve Emerson. This despite the fact that the New York Times, Newsweek and the New Republic, hardly conservative outlets, have all referred to them. And in this piece, Soeren […]
Jan 21, 2015 02:27 pm | Robert Spencer
Valls has been more forthright than most Western leaders in identifying the foe as “radical Islam,” but here he shows that he is just as clueless as the rest of them when it comes to knowing the root causes of Islamic terror. Valls shares the paternalistic assumption that virtually all Western leaders hold: that Islamic […]
Jan 21, 2015 01:19 pm | Robert Spencer
The Chicago Tribune reported in 2004 that the U.S. arm of the Muslim Brotherhood “helped establish the Muslim Students Association.” The Muslim Brotherhood, according to a captured internal document that names the MSA as one of its arms in the U.S., is dedicated in its own words to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, […]
Jan 21, 2015 12:55 pm | Robert Spencer
“In a statement released Tuesday, the union said there should be protection for ‘prophets’ and urged Islamic countries to submit a draft law to the UN calling for defamation of religions to be outlawed.” You’ll notice that the International Union of Muslim Scholars isn’t saying that there should be protection for the freedom of speech […]
Jan 21, 2015 12:30 pm | Robert Spencer
On Fox and Friends this morning, Elizabeth Hasselbeck had this exchange with Obama’s close adviser, Valerie Jarrett. Jarrett answers Hasselbeck’s question, “why won’t the President say Islamic extremism or radical Islam?,” by pointing out that there are other forms of terrorism, and that the U.S. is working with some Muslim countries against terrorism. Neither is […]
Jan 21, 2015 11:11 am | Robert Spencer
Pamela Geller points out that last night in his State of the Union address, Barack Obama once again rejected any possibility that his administration would address the true nature and magnitude of the jihad threat: Last night in his State of the Union address (full transcript here), Barack Obama said this: As Americans, we respect […]
Jan 21, 2015 08:00 am | Robert Spencer
The Islamic State has called for jihad attacks against Infidel civilians, and we see them increasingly — in Israel, Europe and the U.S. But authorities are content to wave their hands and insist it has nothing to do with Islam, which means they have no clue as to the motive of these attacks and don’t […]