Is Islam in Tehran the same as the Islam in the Phillipines? Is Islam in India different from Arab Islam? Via FrontPageMagazine: What are the differences between Arab Islam and Islam elsewhere — such as in India, Indonesia and in Africa? What do these differences signify? To discuss these questions with us today, Frontpage Symposium has assembled a distinguished panel, including: Mike Ghouse, a Muslim thinker, speaker and writer, and president of the Foundation for Pluralism. He is a frequent guest on talk radio, discussing interfaith issues. He also founded the World Muslim Congress. His articles can be found at
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Via HotAir. This week’s edition of Jihad Watch looks at the actions of the Texas Legislature in inviting a Khomeinist Imam to pray at a session. Robert Spencer reports on the video: “Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled or incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world… But those that study Islam will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world.” — Ayatollah Khomeini Study up, boys and girls. Surely, your knowledge of Islam will be tested
Read More +Folks, as I wrote here, one of the foremost experts on Islam, Robert Spencer, was singled out in the latest videot-tape released by al-Qaeda. Robert Spencers response to al-Qaeda’s threat that he convert is excerpted here, from My Invitation From al-Qaeda By Robert Spencer…And my counter-offer: In American al-Qaeda operative Adam Gadahn’s convert-to-Islam-or-die message to America released last Saturday, he extends a special invitation to the President, as well as to Daniel Pipes, Michael Scheuer, Steve Emerson – and me: If the Zionist crusader missionaries of hate and counter-Islam consultants like Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, Michael Scheuer, Steven Emerson, and
Read More +In the 48-minute video posted on an Islamic militant website last Saturday which I posted about here, al-Qaeda’s No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri appears with Adam Yehiye Gadahn, a 28-year-old American convert to Islam and threatens invites the forefront experts on Islam to convert: Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, Michael Scheuer, and Steven Emerson. Here is Daniel Pipes reply: In a statement today, Al-Qaeda’s American rep, Adam Gadahn (né Adam Perlman, whom the FBI seeks “in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States”), has this to say: If the Zionist crusader missionaries of hate and counter-Islam consultants like Daniel Pipes,
Read More +As I hoped, more articles are appearing about the forced conversion to Islam of the two Fox News journalists akin to mine. Here’s one by the expert on Islam, Robert Spencer. An excerpt from Fox News and Forced Conversions: The most bizarre element of the two weeks of captivity suffered by Fox News reporter Steve Centanni and photographer Olaf Wiig at the hands of Gaza’s Holy Jihad Brigade was the video that surfaced depicting their conversion to Islam. Even before the journalists revealed that their conversions had been coerced, there were disturbing indications that they were not acting freely. While
Read More +FrontPage magazine.com :: After August 22 by Robert Spencer:—————Iran drew concern worldwide for refusing to respond in a timely fashion to the West’s offer of an incentives package in exchange for Tehran’s abandonment of its nuclear program. Iranian officials brushed aside the June 29 deadline set by the West and said Iran would respond on August 22. Some, including Farid Ghadry of the Reform Party of Syria (as I reported several weeks ago) and Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis, suggested that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the mullahs in Iran’s inner circle may have chosen that date in order to establish
Read More +Via WND: MAD, or mutually assured destruction, just won’t work any more, according to one Mideast expert whose forecasts that the night of August 22 may prove to be cataclysmic are fueling worry around the world. Bernard Lewis of Princeton has had opinion pieces circulating for two weeks now about how that night, the anniversary of one of Islam’s holiest events, could be a time Iran would pick to spark a battle Muslims believe forever will resolve the battle between “good” and “evil.” That MAD policy, which prevented nations for decades during the Cold War from pushing the button, isn’t
Read More +Via Robert Spencer of JihadWatch: I was on Glenn Beck’s CNN Headline News show Thursday evening, and Alex Porter has kindly made a video clip available here. Even though it is a few days old, we are discussing the signifance of August 22, so it is still pertinent for another week. Those looking for background on August 22 can consult my July 27 article for background. Bernard Lewis also wrote about it a few days ago, and now others have begun to pick up on it too. Since many people have been asking me, I think it is incumbent upon
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