Anwar al-Awlaki on Capitol Hill and the Problem of “Extremists” and “Moderates”By Robert Spencer In 2002, PBS produced a documentary on the life of Muhammad, Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet. I wrote in a National Review article at the time that the documentary presented an “attractively packaged, sanitized version of Islam.” It features Islamic apologist…
Jihad with a Human FaceBy Robert Spencer Pamela Geller has described the new #MyJihad ad campaign from by the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as an “insult to our intelligence,” and that it certainly is. In one of the CAIR ads, a hijabbed woman lifts a barbell while explaining, “My Jihad is to stay…
Muslims In France Sue to Stop Free SpeechBy Robert Spencer France 24 reported last week that “two Muslim groups are suing the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo after it published inflammatory cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. In a law suit that will revive the debate between freedom of speech and dangerous provocation, the weekly magazine’s…
Hamas-linked CAIR, UPI whine about fictional “anti-Muslim” media biasBy Robert Spencer UPI last week published one of the most outstanding examples ever of mainstream media denial and obfuscation of the nature and magnitude of the global jihad, and its eagerness to carry water for Islamic supremacists: “Study: News stories aid anti-Muslim groups.” Anti-Muslim fringe groups…
Grover Must GoBy Robert Spencer Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) has become the latest Republican politician to see the writing on the wall and break with anti-tax guru Grover Norquist. America has voted for socialism, and socialism is what it is going to get, and the statesmanlike Saxby is not going to be the one who…
Mona Eltahawy Coulda Been A Contender (Instead of a Bum Which Is What She Is)By Robert Spencer In the classic movie On the Waterfront, the failed boxer Terry Malloy complains in anguish to his brother: “I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.” Those words…
Did “Islamophobia” Beat Romney?by Robert Spencer Since the election the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Islamic supremacists, along with their Leftist allies, have been crowing that the voters rejected “Islamophobia.” They claim that the defeats of Allen West, Joe Walsh, and Adam Hasner, and even of Mitt Romney himself indicate that the…
Can We Survive Four More Years of Obama? By Robert Spencer Can America afford four more years of Barack Obama as President of the United States? In the most literal terms, probably not: his reckless deficit spending can’t be sustained indefinitely, and as he has campaigned on a platform of more free goodies for everyone,…
Is the foe religious or political?By Robert Spencer Recently the Wall Street Journal published an analysis of Obama’s foreign policy failures that, aside from a few nods in the direction of the reigning politically correct fictions about the relationship of the jihad doctrine to Islam itself, was surprisingly clear-sighted: “Feith and Cropsey: A Foreign Policy…
What Would It Take For You To Go On Jihad? By Robert Spencer What would it take for you to commit mass murder in the name of Allah? Would you do it for money? For love? Out of a sense of justice? Out of a sense of religious duty? Absurd as they may seem, these…
New York Review of Books calls for criminalizing of criticism of IslamBy Robert Spencer A piece published last week in the New York Review of Books and written by the formerly respectable Islamic scholar Malise Ruthven is so full of errors, false claims, and inaccuracies that it is surprising that the New York Review of…
Insulting Muhammad by Robert Spencer As the world continues to be roiled by riots blamed on alleged insults to Muhammad, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is attempting to shore up its “moderate” bona fides by claiming that Muhammad didn’t react to insults the way the rioters have. CAIR-St. Louis Executive Director Faizan Syed…
The Fashionable New CowardiceBy Robert Spencer Without anyone really noticing, cowardice has overtaken the American public square, and is now widely retailed as if it were the sensible, proper response to violent Muslim intimidation. Last week Newsday ran an opinion piece about Pamela Geller’s pro-freedom American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) ad in the New York…
The Suicide of the Free Press by Robert Spencer As the Muhammad movie riots continue to roil the world, prominent Muslim leaders in the U.S. and elsewhere are calling for restrictions on the freedom of speech, including the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, and the Muslim Brotherhood – and in…
Max Blumenthal Dhimmis DownBy Robert Spencer Hard-Left pseudo-journalist and propagandist Max Blumenthal has weighed in on the Muhammad movie riots, and predictably enough, he has come down squarely in favor of restrictions on the freedom of speech and adoption of Islamic blasphemy laws in the West. The way he does so is revealing of the…
Obama Will “Make Netanyahu Pay”By Robert Spencer The elimination and then restoration (after, and only after, a national outcry) of language calling Jerusalem the capital of Israel from the Democrat Party platform last week was revealing enough, but a more significant abandonment of Israel came when the Pentagon decided to decrease drastically its participation in…
Accommodating Islam When It Inspired Murder by Robert Spencer Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi is a pious man, and he wants to pray. Al-Irlandi, better known as John Walker Lindh or “the American Taliban,” is currently serving a twenty-year prison sentence in Terre Haute, Indiana, for fighting alongside the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan against American troops….
San Francisco Examiner reluctantly comes out for free speech, smears pro-Israel bus adby Robert Spencer It is good, and rather surprising in today's climate, to see the San Francisco Examiner, in an unsigned editorial, come out for Pamela Geller's free speech rights and say that her pro-Israel ads should be allowed to run. However, the…
“Institutionalized Islamophobia”? Really?By Robert Spencer Arab News, an English-language Saudi publication based in Jeddah, published an opinion piece last week by its editor, Rob L. Wagner: “Institutionalized Islamophobia.” Apparently Wagner, an American convert to Islam who lives in Saudi Arabia and is married to a Saudi woman, expressed views that are widespread among English-speaking Muslim…
Exploiting Mass Murder: Islamic Supremacists Using the SikhsBy Robert Spencer A neo-Nazi last week stormed a Sikh temple and murdered six people in Wisconsin. Ever since then, Muslim organizations in the U.S. such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), abetted by the mainstream media, have been cravenly exploiting this horror for their own…
The Blue Belt in Olympic JudoBy Robert Spencer Now the whole story of the Saudi girl who got Olympic rules changed so she could compete in judo wearing a hijab has finally come out. Wojdan Shaherkani, who forced a rule change in the Olympics so she could compete in judo while wearing a hijab, which…
Islam and Sex SlaveryBy Robert Spencer Muslims from the Twin Cities area ran an interstate sex trafficking ring until they were caught and indicted in late 2010. The dirty secret behind such reports is that this behavior is sanctioned in Islam. The Qur’an forbids Muslim men to have sexual relations with “wedded women, save what…
Imam Rauf Meets His MatchBy Robert Spencer “You’re a well-intentioned man…and you want good things to happen to Americans.” So said Bill O’Reilly to the former Ground Zero Mosque imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, last May, during a Rauf met his match in the intrepid Canadian journalist and author Michael Coren. Coren cut through Rauf’s blandly…
Covering Up Islamic Anti-SemitismBy Robert Spencer When the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles canceled Pamela Geller’s scheduled talk on Islamic Jew-hatred on June 24, it handed a major victory to the virulently anti-Semitic Islamic supremacist foes of Israel. Even worse, the mainstream media, as always taking its talking points from those same Islamic supremacist groups,…
Muslims Assault Free Speech in DearbornBy Robert Spencer Recently Muslims took offense to a group of Christians at the Arab-American Festival in Dearborn, Michigan, and began pelting them with rocks and other objects, while shouting “Allahu akbar.” (See the Atlas Shrugs video here.) Dearborn police were more concerned about what the Christians had done to…
Which is worse: Jihad terror or “Islamophobia”? by Robert Spencer “Which is the more serious problem today: Islamic extremism or anti-Islamic bigotry?” This is the question Reason magazine’s Cathy Young asks in a new piece on “Islamophobia.” Young long ago demonstrated that she had no understanding of the nature or magnitude of the jihad threat,…
National Review Comes Out for Sharia by Robert Spencer Last week National Review published an article by Matthew Schmitz, deputy editor of First Things, claiming that “the anti-sharia movement in this country…endangers our national security by alienating loyal Muslim citizens and assaults religious liberty.” It’s unfortunate, but not surprising, that a publication whose editors Ann…
Ray Bradbury Dead, Censorship On the RiseBy Robert Spencer The man who wrote the novel about censorship, Fahrenheit 451, died last week at age 91. Nowadays the really dangerous book-burners are not those who torch an occasional copy of the Qur’an, a futile symbolic act against an oppressive ideology that is everywhere advancing today. No,…
Deep Thoughts from Tariq Ramadan by Robert Spencer Reza Aslan, the immature young apologist for the Islamic Republic of Iran and Sharia oppression, recently bragged in a tweet about being among the “people that press actually takes seriously.” But how does the “press” select those whom it “actually takes seriously”? Does it undertake a rigorous…
Is Freedom Worth Defending?By Robert Spencer Muslim threats last week led Lady Gaga to cancel her planned concert in Indonesia. Because of their disapproval of Lady Gaga, some conservatives in the West have applauded this, noting that Christians there opposed her as well, and asserting that any non-Muslim society with a healthy regard for decent…
As Long As Men Take the Qur’an At Face Value, Women Will be At RiskBy Robert Spencer The treatment of women in Islamic countries is consistently shocking to modern Westerners, although the fog of political correctness that blankets the Western world today prevents most observers of the mistreatment of Muslim women from saying anything about…
Kansas Senate Votes for Freedom by Robert Spencer The Kansas Senate just passed legislation restricting the use of foreign law in state courtrooms, and many other states are considering similar laws. These laws are designed to halt the use of Islamic law, Sharia, by American judges – a measure that many see as necessary, since…
Can we even ask if Muhammad never existed?By Robert Spencer Did Muhammad exist? The question startles most people, either because they have taken for granted that he did, or because they are aware that asking such questions can get you killed. My new book, Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry Into Islam’s Obscure Origins, came out…
Muhammad: The Man Who Wasn’t There By Robert Spencer When I mention the title of my new book Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry Into Islam’s Obscure Origins, many are startled, as they had no idea that there was any question that such a larger-than-life character might be legendary rather than historical. But in reality, no…
Save the Misunderstanders of Islam!By Robert Spencer Why don’t the leading Muslim groups in the United States care about Muslims? It’s a serious question. Its urgency became clear yet again last week, when three more warriors of Allah got their just desserts: Tarek Mehanna, a young Muslim in Massachusetts, got seventeen and a half years…
Framing Geller and Spencer For MurderBy Robert Spencer Shaima Alawadi, murdered in her home, and for awhile, it was the fault of Pamela Geller and me. A hijab-wearing mother, in death Alawadi quickly became much more prominent than she had ever been in life. Paired with Trayvon Martin, she was made into the symbol of…
Accommodating Islam On the Checkout LineBy Robert Spencer Wegman’s, a supermarket in Rochester, New York, has set up a special checkout line for a hijab-wearing Muslim cashier, directing customers to go to other lines if they have pork or alcohol. Islamic law forbids Muslims not just to eat, but to handle or sell pork or…
The Empire of FearBy Robert Spencer As I wrote last week, Muslim and non-Muslim analysts often tell us that Muslims hate the West for its decadence, its immorality, its lasciviousness, which they contrast unfavorably with the supposed morality and uprightness of the Islamic world. Often this boils down to a Muslim critique of Western “freedom,”…
Sex, Jihad and Islam By Robert Spencer They hate us because we’re pigs. No, not the apes and pigs into which Allah transforms the Sabbath-breaking Jews in the Qur’an (2:62-66; 5:59-60; 7:166), but pigs as in…dogs. Wolves. Immoral, lecherous, lustful, fornicating creeps. Western immorality is a frequent feature of the Islamic critique of the contemporary…
I am happy to announce a new feature: Robert Spencer's popular column, called Jihad Watch like his weblog (which is also essential daily reading), has run weekly for nearly ten years elsewhere and been widely acclaimed. Now it is exclusively here at Atlas. Here's the first, "Why Can’t Non-Muslims Criticize Islam?": The Organization of Islamic…
Here, in an Atlas exclusive, Robert Spencer on this news story Atlas covered here: Mr Jihad's Neighborhood Is the Jihad On Its Way to Your Neighborhood?By Robert Spencer National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair said last Thursday that some of the 240 prisoners who are still being held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base may be…
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