Author: Hugh Fitzgerald

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.

Islam is an all-encompassing ideology. It offers a Complete Regulation of Life.

Among the best-known apologists of Islam, the monstrously prolific Karen Armstrong has been spreading her wildly inaccurate versions of Islam and Islamic history for several decades.

Demographic jihad is not just occurring in our countries because of the Muslim immigrants allowed so heedlessly into the West, nor because, once in our countries, Muslims tend to have far more children than do non-Muslims. There is also the phenomenon of conversion. And one of the most fertile places for such conversion-to-Islam efforts are our prisons.

It has been important to Muslims to enroll themselves as early as possible in the American narrative, “as part of America’s story,” and to backdate, too, what appears to be the sympathetic recognition of their existence in American life.

A Kurdish state in what is now northern Iraq will have tremendous consequences.

The Kurds in Northern Iraq are holding a referendum on independence on September 25. This could be a momentous event, and not just for Iraq.

Even some Israelis have sought to minimize the role of Islam in the war being made against their country. For many Israelis were eager to believe — who can blame them? — that their war of self-defense against the Arabs did not have to be forever, that the enmity might end if Israel would only show itself amenable to a territorial compromise, and relinquish territory it had won in the Six-Day War. The alternative, that the war against Israel was a Jihad that had no end, was for many Israelis — and still is, for some on the left — too painful to contemplate.

Of all the “peoples” who have presented to the world their claims to peoplehood, and some from that also lay claim to a right to statehood — from the Tibetans, to the Basques, to the Bretons, to the Kurds, to the Berbers, to the Ibos of Nigeria (who tried in the Biafra War to defend their independent state of Biafra) — it is the “Palestinian people” who have been most single-minded and successful.

Let’s keep in mind that the Arabs are the most richly endowed with states — some 22 in all — of any people on earth.

In fact, the war against Israel is not, and never was, a war over this or that sliver or slice of territory but, rather, a classic Jihad, which has no end until the Infidel state of Israel ceases to exist.