Author: Robert Spencer

The Catholic Church has come a long way since the days of Pope Callixtus III, who vowed in 1455 to “exalt the true Faith, and to extirpate the diabolical sect of the reprobate and faithless Mahomet in the East.”

Led Zeppelin ripped off this song shamelessly in their “Lemon Song,” but — as is so often the case — the original is much better.

If jihad is simply a a word of truth spoken in front of a tyrant, why have thousands upon thousands of Muslims worldwide joined violent jihad groups? Why are there any violent jihad groups at all? Why is this misunderstanding of jihad so widespread?

Much of the hysteria about “Islamophobia” in the U.S. is driven by ignorance: not, as is commonly claimed, the ignorance of racist, redneck yahoos about the true, peaceful nature of Islam, but the ignorance of well-meaning non-Muslims about the violent and supremacist aspects of Islam.

Ellison was, as will come as a surprise to no one familiar with his career, lying.

Not much has been heard from the imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the former public face of the Ground Zero mosque initiative, since Pamela Geller and her team of patriots defeated that project.

This is what the British police are concerned about in the wake of the jihad massacres in Manchester and London: bacon.

Theresa May said it herself after the London jihad attacks. “It is time,” she declared, “to say enough is enough.” Great idea, Prime Minister. Enough is enough: it’s time for you to do the decent thing and resign.

“The month of Ramadan is a month of holy war and death for Allah.”

Linda Sarsour is a pro-Sharia Jew-hater; that means the New York Times loves her.

Once every foe of jihad terror is demonized and silenced, who will be left to speak out in resistance?

Mohammed Shafiq is the Chief Executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, which claims to be dedicated to combating “extremism.” In this interview with Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan after the Manchester jihad massacre, he does his best to equate jihad terrorist killers with the forces who oppose them (which he smears as “far right”), dissembles about Islamic teaching, and blames the Manchester attack on the British government’s foreign policy.

Do Linda Sarsour’s feminist friends and allies simply take everything they say at face value?

At the end of this disgraceful but all too typical Huffington Post article, John Guandolo says that the information he provides “can’t be debunked with facts, only by name calling.” Christopher Mathias proves that abundantly in this hit piece.

Here we go again. If President Trump’s National Security Adviser, H. R. McMaster, wields influence over the President, and if his characterization of the President’s upcoming trip to the Middle East is to be believed, Trump is now set to repeat all the mistakes that his last two predecessors made in dealing with the global jihad threat.

“The far right thrives on global networks. They must be fought online and off,” writes Julia Ebner in the Guardian. By “far right” she means, of course, Pamela Geller and me.

Apparently she intends to argue that female genital mutilation (contrary to constantly repeated establishment media myth) is justified in Islam, and that therefore Dr. Attar was just exercising his freedom of religion.

Now it’s “Islamophobic” to notice that a jihad killer screamed “Allahu akbar” after committing mass murder.

What is it about converts to Islam? Why do so many of them get the idea that their new religion commands them to commit treason and mass murder?

The Huffington Post must be getting nervous that too many people are discovering the truth about what Islamic texts really say.

If Anne Aly succeeds, the jihad can advance in Australia, and no one would be able to say a word in opposition to it.

An ongoing controversy in Canada shows the perils of assuming, as nearly everyone does, that mosques in the West teach peace and tolerance, and that the overwhelming majority of Muslims are moderate and loyal members of secular societies.

I have never met Donald Trump, and probably never will, but I have known him all my life.

As a movement today the Left is frankly authoritarian, intolerant of dissent, and increasingly intent on demonizing and destroying its opponents, rather than engaging them in rational debate.

These are difficult times — as Tom Paine would say, times that try men’s souls, with forces vying for the very soul of the nation.

Hate crime is a booming business in America today: both Leftists and their Muslim allies are making as much of use of hate crimes as they possibly can in order to discredit President Trump and his supporters, as well as foes of jihad terror and Sharia oppression, as racist, redneck, violent yahoos who deserve no place in the public square.

We can only hope that with the departure of these failed State Department officials, their failed policies will be swept out along with them.

Our long national nightmare didn’t end on January 20.

On January 6 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, the Scottish Episcopal Church’s cathedral in Glasgow, a passage of the Qur’an was read out denying that Jesus is the Son of God, a core tenet of Christianity.

The Mirror reported Sunday that the Muslim who “gunned down 39 people and injured 69 with a machine gun in an Istanbul nightclub ‘screamed Allahu Akbar’ during massacre.”

Christmas takes place today amid heightened security all over Europe and North America. And this year’s tense and nervous Christmas is just the beginning: get used to it, because Christmas is going to be like this for many years to come.

The establishment media has been running a series of stories since the election with the not-so-hidden subtext that Trump’s policies regarding Muslims will only make the global jihad worse.

The Daily Caller reported Thursday that “the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) considers the Orlando nightclub shooting, an ISIS-inspired attack that left 49 dead, a right-wing plot, along with the shootings of police officers by anti-white terrorists.”

This latest jihad attack on American soil vindicates President-elect Trump on Muslim immigration.

Fidel Castro is finally dead, and the old despot has left us with a parting gift: another demonstration of just how out of touch the American Left really is.

The “Hamilton” fiasco, with self-righteous Leftist cast members of the hit Broadway show berating Vice President-elect Mike Pence from the stage, brought to mind another New York event from 44 years ago, when entertainers – at least some of them – had a vastly different idea of their place in American culture.

[the_ad id=”81586″] Robert Spencer here. Pamela asked me to contribute a Bob Dylan post for tonight’s Friday Night Music entry, in honor of his Nobel Prize for Literature, and since Bob Dylan lyrics are essentially the Greek chorus for my life, I am happy to oblige. One of the ironies of this Nobel Prize selection,…

A Muslim stabbed ten non-Muslims in a Minnesota mall, and you know what that means as far as the mainstream media is concerned: Muslims are victims. Hamas-linked CAIR has been quick to claim victim status, whining about an anti-Muslim “backlash” that seldom, if ever, materializes after Islamic jihad attacks. And Minnesota’s governor is calling for…

UPDATE from Pamela Geller: “I have, for some time, been aware of the sleazy, fraudulent behavior of the Shoebats. Their material is unreliable and, in many cases, untrue. Their attacks and false accusations against other counter jihadists (myself included) in the past were unforgivable. But I did not publicly denounce them because this is a…

The 28-page section of the 9/11 report detailing Saudi involvement in the September 11, 2001 jihad attacks have finally been released (albeit with substantial portions still redacted), and it is now clear why one President who held hands with the Saudi King and another who bowed to him worked so hard all these years to…

The Islamic State (ISIS) attack in Medina shows once and for all that ISIS is not Islamic, right? After all, how could a Muslim group, much less a self-styled “caliphate,” set off a bomb in the city of Muhammad himself? That proves that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam, no? That’s what many Muslims…

The left is peddling this lie at Obama’s instruction: “Statistics Show White Supremacy is a Bigger Threat to the U.S. Than Radical Muslims” This patently false claim is part of the ongoing Big Lie campaign to try to downplay and minimize the jihad threat. It first surfaced in June, and in wake of the Oregon…

Platitudes, self-righteousness, distortions, tortured reasoning, self-promotion — that’s right, it’s another major speech by Barack Obama. Mind you, while the sharia-compliant president was bloviating at the UN, another major city in Afghanistan fell to the Taliban and the House Committee on Homeland Security released a blockbuster report that called the thousands of foreign fighters who…

Hamas-linked CAIR announced in a press release that it “today announced the renewal of its ‘Share the Quran’ campaign in response to Republican candidate Ben Carson’s false claim that Islam is ‘inconsistent’ with the Constitution.” Great idea! I’m all for the public’s having a better understanding of the Qur’an. People will read the Qur’an and…

Teen Vogue is just that: a magazine for teenage girls. Articles featured on its front page today include “Justin Bieber and Sam Smith Are Already Listening to Tori Kelly’s New Album, and You Should Be, Too”; “The 35 Coolest Back-to-School Backpacks”; “7 Desserts That Require No Baking At All”; “The Complete Guide to Washing Your…

The articles come almost daily now: Muslim (and non-Muslim) authorities assuring us that what the Islamic State and other jihad terrorists do — mass murders, beheadings, rapes, destruction — has nothing do with Islam, despite the jihadis’ quotations of the Qur’an and screams of “Allahu akbar.” And every day, mainstream outlets such as Newsweek here…

Note from Pamela Geller: Earlier today, Secretary of State John Kerry heralded the Saudi clerics’ “fatwa against terrorism” as if it were some magic wand that would validate Kerry’s absurd remarks on how Islam is a religion of peace. This is Saudi Arabia’s contribution to Obama’s phantom coalition. The Sauds want the infidel to fight…