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• A Startling Thesis on Islam's Origins May 18, 2012
  Until recently, it was generally considered that Islam, the youngest of the great world religions, was born "not amidst the mystery which cradles the origin of other religions, but rather in the full light of history," as Ernest Renan, the French scholar of Middle East civilizations, put it in 1883. Most textbooks and popular biographies still take […]
• Why Invent Mohammed? May 18, 2012
  Why invent a new religion? Robert Spencer’s excellent new book Did Mohammed Exist? collates recent historical research questioning the existence of the historical Mohammed, much of it previously not accessible to a lay American audience. This is a dangerous thing to do, and a courageous one. Some years ago I chided Spencer for giving the Koran too much credi […]
• New French prez wastes no time in bowing down to Islam – BANS PORK from Presidential Elysee Palace May 18, 2012
  New French president wastes no time in bowing down to Islam – BANS PORK from Presidential Elysee Palace And you thought Sarkozy was an Islamopanderer. Not even in office for a week and Francois Hollande has banned all dishes containing pork products from all government offices, in deference to France’s demanding and perpetually offended Muslim population. Ho […]
• Sheikh Bakri Helps Wafa Sultan Educate All Americans on Islam May 18, 2012
  The courage of Western convictions Dr. Wafa Sultan, a remarkably courageous and thoughtful Muslim freethinker, recently debated Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad. Dr. Sultan watched passively while the good Sheik expressed without equivocation his pious views—in full accord with classical, mainstream Islamic doctrine on jihad—and then politely added her own plain s […]
• Saudi Arabian Father Auctions off Son to be a Suicide Bomber May 18, 2012
  A father in Saudi Arabia auctions off his son as a suicide bomber at a hotel in Jeddah. The winning bid was 1.5 million Riyals ($400,000). It was a party atmosphere. Video link: http://youtu.be/DuGhi-WlBEU An unbelievable leaked video of an auction for a suicide bomber against Syria. This takes place in a hotel conference room in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The at […]
• See No Shariah May 17, 2012
  The educational elite still remains unmoved by the prospect of radical Islamic Shariah law even as manifestations of it pop up in the United States. For example, recently, Middle East experts from the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment, along with two graduate students, agreed that in dealing with Islamic states, the U. S. should ignore Shariah […]
• Uncovering Early Islam (New books question the conventional history of Mohammed and Islam) May 17, 2012
  The year 1880 saw the publication of a book that ranks as the single most important study of Islam ever. Written in German by a young Jewish Hungarian scholar, Ignaz Goldziher, and bearing the nondescript title Muslim Studies (Muhammedanische Studien), it argued that the hadith, the vast body of sayings and actions attributed to the Islamic prophet Mohammed, […]
• Rev. Wright Was a Second Father to Obama May 16, 2012
  “At this secret meeting with him, Obama practically begged him not to go on and speak any further,” Klein says. “This was after one of Obama’s best friends had sent an email to a member of the church saying that he was prepared to give the Rev. Wright $150,000 if he would shut up. The Rev. Wright told me that he has saved that email.” In the recorded intervi […]
• Wright: I “Made It Comfortable” For Obama to Accept Christianity Without Having to Renounce Islam May 16, 2012
  In a shocking interview yesterday on the Sean Hannity Radio Show, author Ed Klein said Barack Obama’s former pastor helped Obama accept Christianity without having to renounce Islam. The Daily Caller reported: Klein also said Wright told him he “made it comfortable” for Obama to accept Christianity without having renounce his “Islamic background,” which Klei […]
• Chairman of Joint Chiefs removes instructors, material that is offensive to Islam May 16, 2012
  America’s top military officer condemned in the strongest possible terms a Defense Department course that taught troops to prep for a “total war” on Islam using “Hiroshima”-style tactics. “It was totally objectionable, against our values and it wasn’t academically sound,” Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at […]