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Leicester terrorist cell that laid seeds of Paris atrocity
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Convicted terror leader with link to Paris whom we cannot deport
A convicted al-Qaeda terror fundraiser with links to the Paris attacks is residing in the UK after using the Human Rights Act to prevent his deportation back to his native […]
Crazy Edwy Plenel: Not Islam But We — We French! — Are The Ones To Blame
Here. Message of Edwy Plenel: Muslims are in France, therefore they are “part of France” and “are French.” Those killings? They were monstrous. But Islam had nothing to do with […]
Egyptian Researcher Islam Behery: Days Of The Caliphate Were Dark And Bloody
Here. Forget the Caliphate, the days of the Caliphate were dark and bloody. Forget the ideal of the Caliphate, it was a terrible thing, right up to the Ottomans, “may […]
Just A Little Sermon From The Islamic State About What Happened In Paris
I hope you weren’t expecting Donne’s Devotions. Here.
Frosty The Snowman, Like The Mona Lisa And Practically All Of Western Art Haram
Here. The fatwa-issuer might have allowed just a little fun, explained that there was no need to forbid something so fleeting, that diffugere-nives and all that would quickly take care […]
Radical Islamist or Violent Extremism: “What difference does it make?”
Earlier today, we posted on the purported contrast in responses at yesterday’s White House joint news conference by UK Prime Minister David Cameron and President Obama to a question […]
Muslim Mobs Burn Down Churches In Niger
Here. Someone I know from NIger, who lives in France, who is vaguely Muslim, was horrified by what he saw when he returned to Niger, after years of absence, about […]
When Tim Winter Became Abdal Hakim Murad, He Found A Peace That Passeth Understanding
Those who find their peace by living within the pre-fabricated grid of Islam, that Compleat Regulation of Life and Total Explanation of the Universe, are not limited to the economically […]
Police probe ‘hate crime’ after Holocaust posters graffitied with ‘liars’ in east London
From the London Evening Standard. The police have released CCTV. That’s a man in a dress – and he’s not Danny la Rue or Grayson Perry – that looks like […]
Majid Freeman, The Late Alan Henning’s Friend, Has Opinions He’d Like To Share
But not with you. He’d like to share them with fellow Muslims. Unfortunately for him, others have been able to eavesdrop. The story, publishd last November, here.
A Musical Interlude: Lovable And Sweet (Annette Hanshaw)
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Suppose, Somehow, Islam Could Be "Reformed" — How Long Would It Take?
A few dozen francophone Arabs and Berbers have signed a petition calling for less Charlie-Hebdo hysteria, and so on. A sweet Asma Doumani writes a hopeful article that appears in […]
That MESA Nostra Contest One More Time
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Fitzgerald: Why I Call It Mesa Nostra [re-posting]
Here. I didn’t put in anything in that original piece about Carl Ernst, or Omid Safi of the Islamic Studies Center at Duke. At that time I was focussed on […]
Fitzgerald: A Brief Taxonomy Of MESA Nostra [re-posting]
“The vast majority of people in the Arab world sympathize with al Qaeda only because it champions their issues and speaks their language and it’s seemingly effective against their enemies.” […]
