Polemics Featured "Islam is not a religion," Answer to Lloyd de Jongh - Part 3 "You shouldn’t be in the totalitarianism business if you can't exploit a ready-made reservoir of credulity and servility that’s as big as that." —Christopher Hitchens.
Polemics Featured "Islam is not a religion," Answer to Lloyd de Jongh - Part 2 There can be nothing more tedious than listening to believers in the throes of disagreement. Readers interested in this kind of discourse would do better listening to Mohamed Hijab or Zakir Naik. At least they'll be entertained.
Polemics Featured "Islam is not a religion," Answer to Lloyd de Jongh - Part 1 "Allah Most High prohibited the people to go out altogether in military expeditions and jihad, and ordered a segment of them to engage solely in becoming knowledgeable in the religion of Allah."
Dissidents/Ex-Muslims Featured Yom Kippur and my escape from Islam I apostatised because of Muslims as people. Everything I know today about the horrific set of ideas we call Islam and, indeed, how Islam turns Muslims into the people I ran away from, I have learnt since leaving Islam. Through leaving Islam, I began to see Islam.
Jihad Featured Mohamed Hijab: a dictator’s moment of conception A white female reporter publicly rejecting him to his face when he demanded to be interviewed, together with Muslims chasing him away within the hour, could well have constituted the moment Mohamed Hijab was set on the road to dictatorship.
In Memorium Gershon Weiss, the man who mastered time It is with sorrow that I share tidings of the passing away of Gershon Simcha Weiss on 1 September 2022. The Shofar shall sound by the life of his breath no more. Rest in Peace, dear friend.
Dissidents/Ex-Muslims "Take your Islam and go!" This is much more powerful than the already powerful "Death to the dictator!" Of course, it also implies death to dictatorship, yet nothing can be more direct and unequivocal than "Take your Islam and go!" It is not our Islam, we don't want it, and we don't want those who want it! GO!
Robert Spencer Austria: Mosque found to be hub for jihad terrorist recruitment A mosque is not a place of worship. It is a recruitment and operations centre. A madrassa is not a school. It is an indoctrination centre. We have to start from what things are, not from what we imagine, or would like, them to be.
Fascism Featured “Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.” Violence is the fuel of fascism. Mussolini’s gangsters, the Combat Squad, affectionately called the Black Shirts, recruited from the violent nether layers of Italian society, similar to the Ansar (helpers), who got Islam off the ground by exactly the same means.
Jihad Featured Anatomy of a madness, Part 4 I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.
Jihad Featured Anatomy of a madness, Part 3 I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.
Jihad Featured Anatomy of a madness, Part 2 I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.
Jihad Featured Anatomy of a madness, Part 1 I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.
Jihad Featured "Will Nupur Sharma ever lead a normal life? Should moderate Muslims speak up?" - A commentary - Part 4 I hate to be borne out in such a horrible way, but this sorry state of affairs obtains only because too many people, in their self-righteous ignorance and arrogance, insist on making a distinction between so-called "radical" Muslims and "moderate" Muslims.
Jihad Featured "Will Nupur Sharma ever lead a normal life? Should moderate Muslims speak up?" - A commentary - Part 3 Hindu talk of boycotting Muslim businesses is partly out of helpless despair, and partly out of an urgency to do something when they have no idea what to do. There is nothing either helpless or desperate about jihad murder. It is calculated, meticulously planned, and painstakingly executed.
Jihad Featured "Will Nupur Sharma ever lead a normal life? Should moderate Muslims speak up?" - A commentary - Part 2 That the "innocent" Muslim barber might go out of business is just tough, but Hindus did not create Muslims and certainly did not teach them jihad. Besides, it is not unlawful to save yourself from a Muslim unless, of course, you are a dhimmi.
Jihad Featured "Will Nupur Sharma ever lead a normal life? Should moderate Muslims speak up?" - A commentary - Part 1 Is there anyone on earth apart from Muslims, with whom something as natural as friendship goes hand-in-hand with life-threatening risk? Sure, between Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler, between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. But what kind of friendship is it when you have to watch you back all the time?
Totalitarianism Featured Christopher Hitchens’s “Axis of Evil” speech, Part 1 All the years that were spent in trying to contain, coerce, or civilise this man, had been wasted. They had all been exploited by him to advance his program. It seemed that his appetite for power only grew with the eating.
Totalitarianism Featured Eid al-Adha, sacrifice no more While the relationship between Islam and the kufaar expands Islam, the relationship between the scholars and lay Muslims sustains it. The rejection of the relationship between the scholars and lay Muslims is huge, for it is existential.
Polemics Featured Words, propaganda and head of a newborn babe, Part 2 Propaganda is truth presented in such a way as to achieve a particular effect on the one exposed to it, whether the claim is believed or not is unimportant, therefore whether it is true or not is unimportant. This is exactly why Muslims lie so much.
Polemics Featured Words, propaganda and head of a newborn babe, Part 1 It is possible that this was not a crime, but it was most certainly not a "botched surgery," as some are so anxious to declare.
Muslim Brotherhood When your enemy is the Muslim Brotherhood and their enemy is atheism, which one is your friend? A Muslim converting to another religion is bad, but to deny the existence of Allah is to destroy Islam, expose all prophets as frauds, and show that placing the “people of knowledge” over those who must hear and obey is a monumental scam.
Dissidents/Ex-Muslims Featured The ex-Muslim activist trap Ultimately, ex-Muslim hatred of non-Muslim scholars of Islam comes down to a combination of envy and fear of being eclipsed. After all, such scholars, mostly academics, are highly educated and highly read, while most ex-Muslims are stunted from their experience under Islam.
