Gatestone Institute "Why are you killing Christians?" US President Donald J. Trump apparently shocked his Nigerian counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari, by asking this question the first time they met in the White House in April 2018. The Nigerian president admitted this, according to a September 8, 2020 report, toward the end of a recent talk with his cabinet members: [W]hen I … [Read more...]
Beheaded Infidels vs. Fear of Islamophobia
An 18-year-old Muslim man beheaded a school teacher in France last Friday for showing cartoons of Islam’s prophet Muhammad to his students, in the context of discussing free speech and expression. Some weeks earlier, another Muslim teenager killed an American citizen in Pakistan for also committing “blasphemy.” The murdered man, Tahir Naseem, was actually being tried for … [Read more...]
Was America Discovered by an “Islamophobe”?
Christopher Columbus—that “genocidal madman and racist,” as he’s better known among the “woke” crowd, some of whom have vandalized his monuments—is back in the news, this time for his alleged “Islamophobia.” In “Was Columbus’ Voyage to the ‘New World’ Driven by Islamophobia?,” an article published on Columbus Day (yesterday, Oct. 12) by Slate, Rebecca Onion asked author Alan … [Read more...]
Turkey Rekindles the Armenian Genocide
FrontPage Magazine As it has done in other arenas where “extremists” are attacking moderates or Christians—from Syria to Libya to Nigeria—Turkey is spearheading another jihad, this time against Christian Armenia. Context: Fighting recently erupted in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which borders Armenia and Azerbaijan. Although it is ethnically Armenian, after the … [Read more...]
Biden’s “Allah Willing” in Context
During the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, while the president was saying that he would release his tax returns once an ongoing IRS audit ends, Biden interrupted him by saying, “When—insha’allah?” The utterance of this Arabic phrase, which simply means “Allah willing,” by the Democratic candidate is strange, and a bit revealing. For starters, … [Read more...]