Author: Hugh Fitzgerald

In Toronto, at the Alexander the Great Parkette, those virtuous Canadians who pride themselves on their tolerance showed, not for the first time, that they don’t need no stinkin’ free speech.

What, in the first place, is the effect of such a news story, which has been getting significant coverage online? It feeds a narrative of Islam On The March, of Islamic triumphalism.

The Ayatollah Khomeini famously said that “there is no fun in Islam.” How wrong he was. He never met Travaile Speller.

To understand Islam you have to study the texts, the teachings, the history of Islam, the history of Jihad. Only thus, and it takes work.

Macron has now been in office for a year. And nothing has happened to change, much less transform, either the attitudes or behavior of Muslims in France.

Just like his brother Tariq, Hani Ramadan may finally be getting the kind of attention he so richly deserves.

She may have taken her first Instagram comments down. But they still exist permanently in the ether; screenshots can be taken; her words can still be retrieved and read by anyone. And they will always have the ring of truth because, of course, they are the truth.

This should have been the headline everywhere: “With Lionel Messi, his family, and other players under death threat from Palestinians, Argentinean team cancels match.”

The Handshake: “A Very Small Issue That Is Incredibly Huge”

The Muslim presence in France increases inexorably, their large families made possible by the benefits of a generous, and dangerously oblivious, welfare state.

There is an ideological war going on, right here at home, for the hearts and minds of many Americans who, having been misinformed about Islam, convert on the basis of that misinformation.

Yunique Saafir deserves to know the truth about the position of women in Islam.

Why this silence about what’s been happening to the ‘Palestinians’ in Yarmouk?

As a black man, Iwobi poses problems for his opponents. He cannot easily be accused of “racism.”

Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman ended his two-week charm offensive in the United States by granting an interview to Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic. In it, he declared that his country recognized the right of the Jews “to their own land,” for which statement — the bar is set very low — he is being hailed as a veritable prince of peace.

French Jews now need all the allies they can get. Marine Le Pen is one of them. Jean-Luc Melenchon is not.

It is useful to remind people that over the past 1400 years many, perhaps most, of those who converted to Islam did so not because they were convinced of the truth of Islam, but in order to stay alive and avoid the humiliating status of dhimmi.

Having been a survivor of the Holocaust at the age of 9, Mireille Knoll then became the victim, at the age of 85, of Islamic antisemitism, the one that is stalking France today and making French Jews fearful.

Much of the news from Muslim lands is horrifying, but where there are signs of decency and hope, no matter how small, they ought to be noted and applauded.

Here is one example of an ISIS fighter, enduring his mental disarray and seemingly permanent despair, that was “cured” by conversion to Islam.

Jebreal is ignoring American reality. There are not millions of KKK members marching down our streets, our media — radio, television, newspapers — are not broadcasting the messages of white supremacists, but denouncing them.

Much is made of this “diversity,” which in the film is described in rapturous terms: it supposedly proves that “Islam is not a monolith.” And if “Islam is not a monolith,” then, we are supposed to believe, the Kuffars cannot criticize “all Muslims” or hold “Islam” responsible for this outrage or for that.

Tariq Ramadan is on trial. But so are his loyalists everywhere — in France, in Morocco, in other Muslim lands.

The new head of the Swedish National Heritage Board is a Muslim, Qaisar Mahmood, born in Pakistan.

Acts of terrorism by Muslims in India are given very little attention in the Western media unless foreigners are among the victims.

A Chinese writer, Ding Gang, recently musing on the dangers of Islam in Asia, wrote an article that asked this question: “During a trip to India not long ago, a question came to me: Why does it seem that Muslims in India have remained largely apart from the radicalization that has happened to Muslim groups in other parts of the world?”

The Egyptian scholar and historian of medieval Islam, Professor Youssef Ziedan, recently caused a great deal of controversy in Muslim Arab circles, roiling the waters when he put forth, on an Egyptian talk show, his argument as go why the “Al-Aqsa” mosque in Jerusalem is not, and cannot be, the real one.

Both Egypt and Saudi Arabia have told the “Palestinians” to simmer down, and in effect, to accept the embassy move which, they know, will not be changed no matter what Mahmoud Abbas threatens.

Ramadan has been treated very differently by a Muslim community that, one might have hoped, would shun him the way Harvey Weinstein and so many others in the United States have been shunned. Instead, Ramadan continues to be lionized by a Muslim community that sees him as their champion, supposedly victimized by the enemies of Islam. Wild charges have been made by his supporters, including that of a “Zionist plot” designed to silence him.

Ataturk wanted to secularize Turkey so that it would not be condemned to a state of permanent backwardness. He was very clear in his dismissal of the baleful effects of Islam, which he contemptuously called “the religion of the Arabs.”

It is clear that Erdogan dreams of rivaling the Ottoman despots. He has outsmarted the army and outmaneuvered his civilian opponents.

These groups have defied threats by the Pakistani military to remove them physically from their sit-ins in front of, or even inside, government buildings. Tehreek-i-Labaik’s leader, Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi, known as a firebrand, has been the uncompromising organizer and public face of this protest, ranting against what to most of us would seem the most minor of infractions.

It’s not only the Hindus in Bangladesh who have endured Muslim violence. Buddhists and Christians too have been victims of Muslim mobs.

We have all heard Pope Francis over the years repeatedly utter disturbing words of praise for Islam. Some have wondered if perhaps he was playing a subtle game, trying to convince Muslims to be not as they are, but as he described them– to “measure up” to the Pope’s imaginary Islam. Others thought he was simply ignorant.

Is it somewhere written that the countries of the advanced West are required to admit Muslims into their lands, or to continue to endure their large-scale presence, no matter what information may come to light, with greater understanding as a result, of the meaning and menace of Islam?

The saga of Tariq Ramadan continues, as more revelations come out about this monstrous human being, for so long the privileged paladin of Islam in Europe.

As no details of this so-called “plot” have been revealed, I decided to supply a possible script, a fantastic tale which others are free to use, as long as payment, which I don’t think need be specified here, is provided by Ramadan’s loyal friends in the Arab Gulf.

Believing that issue could be taken with almost every claim made in the piece, I’ve chosen to take issue with just a few of his myriad misrepresentations.

How many times must Justin Trudeau congratulate himself, and Canada, on the country’s splendid every-which-way diversity? How often must he tell Canadians that Canada’s strength comes from that “diversity”? How did the Canadians manage for all those years without such “diversity”?

When Polakow-Suransky claims that “populist” leaders (a subdued synonym for “right-wing”) are “rebranding” themselves “by depicting Muslims as the primary threat” to “Jews, women and gay people,” don’t we have a right to reply that’s it not a question of “rebranding,” but of stating the truth: aren’t Muslims in fact the “primary threat” today to all three?

The Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without a state of their own, but as far as Erdogan and all other Muslim rulers are concerned, that counts for nothing.

Earlier this year, Saudi Arabia sounded as if it supported the Kurdish referendum on an independent Kurdistan in northern Iraq. But a week before the referendum was held, on September 25, the Saudis publicly offered a new view, declaring their opposition.

When Justin Trudeau, like so many others, calls attempted mass murder by a Muslim a “senseless act of violence’” it is not the attack that is devoid of sense, but the formulaic phrase “senseless act of violence” that is itself senseless and, even worse, prevents us from making sense of what has happened.

Carlos Khalil Guzman is a “revert” to Islam who is now going about the country, taking pictures of cheerful, fresh-faced smiling Muslims, each of whom is asked to choose a favorite verse in the Qur’an, or a saying by Muhammad in the Hadith, and to explain why he, or she, has made that particular choice.

Has he not paid attention to the practice of throwing homosexuals off of all buildings, as the bezonians of the Islamic State have so enjoyed doing, or hanging them from cranes, as is the punishment the Ayatollahs in Iran favor?

“Islam is against all types of oppression…It’s against racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism.”

Sounds good. But is it true?

Carlos Khalil Guzman has asked all of the sweet-faced, gentle young American Muslims he has photographed to choose their favorite Qur’anic verse, or statement by Muhammad as recorded in the Hadith, and discuss why it is their favorite. The results are all perfectly predictable, and as anodyne as all get out.

The third great fissure in the Camp of Islam is that of wealth.

After the sectarian divide between Shia and Sunni, the second major fissure within the Camp of Islam is based on ethnic differences.

There are divisions within the Camp of Islam, both sectarian (Sunnis and Shia) and ethnic (Arabs and non-Arabs) that can and should be exploited by non-Muslims.