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We often hear "everything changed after 9/11." What's changed in the last 10 years?
- Academia's Love Affair With Islam
During a brief stroll through my Alma Mater, CUNY, I was shocked to find enthusiastic attention and admiration for Islam. I picked up the monthly schedule of events to find it packed with lectures devoted to Muslims and Islam. The emphasis is on the unfair...
- Is America Islamophilic?
Islam has become the golden religion in the mainstream media. Watching recent news reports and news commentators, there is a general tacit agreement that any criticism of Islam is unwarranted. Critics of Islam are considered bigots a priori. No debate...
- You Only Need To Kill One
The following is an article by Bill Warner: A Democratic congressman was at a public meeting that included a military officer. The question was asked: What is the most important function of the military today? The officer replied that fighting Islamic...
- Does Jihad Mean "inner Struggle?"
Bill Warner, at Political Islam, is doing some interesting and original work. He simply counts up the statistics in Islamic doctrine to arrive at useful, insightful, illuminating facts. For example, 61 percent of the Koran is about non-believers. That's...
- Islam The Biggest Religion In The World?
A story came out yesterday that the Vatican has announced that Islam has overtaken Catholicism as the "biggest single denomination" in the world. This story was number one on Drudge, and it was at the top on most news pages. But, it is a ridiculous story...
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Anti-Anti-Islam
We often hear "everything changed after 9/11." What's changed in the last 10 years?
In today's mainstream culture it is nearly impossible to express apprehensions about the religion of Islam. Catholicism and Evangelical Christianity are fair game. Islam is off limits. Critical examination of Islam is strictly forbidden by the doctrine that pre-ordains only happy-talk when it comes to what is arguably a supremacist ideology founded by a political and military leader.Read the rest here.
Our Western tradition, going back to Socrates, demands that all beliefs be subjected to a critical analysis before they are accepted as knowledge. It still remains a core purpose of a liberal arts education; many institutions required a course in "critical thinking." In principle, any position can be critically examined. However, in practice, only anti-Islam can be "deconstructed" and damned. And the conclusion is mandated before the examination is undertaken.
Charges of bigotry, prejudice, and racism (what race?) are hurled at anyone who entertains a negative appraisal of some aspect of Islam. No matter how many atrocities jihadis commit and how extensively they quote the Koran and Hadith, the conclusion is, once again, preordained: Islam has nothing to do with it.
- Academia's Love Affair With Islam
During a brief stroll through my Alma Mater, CUNY, I was shocked to find enthusiastic attention and admiration for Islam. I picked up the monthly schedule of events to find it packed with lectures devoted to Muslims and Islam. The emphasis is on the unfair...
- Is America Islamophilic?
Islam has become the golden religion in the mainstream media. Watching recent news reports and news commentators, there is a general tacit agreement that any criticism of Islam is unwarranted. Critics of Islam are considered bigots a priori. No debate...
- You Only Need To Kill One
The following is an article by Bill Warner: A Democratic congressman was at a public meeting that included a military officer. The question was asked: What is the most important function of the military today? The officer replied that fighting Islamic...
- Does Jihad Mean "inner Struggle?"
Bill Warner, at Political Islam, is doing some interesting and original work. He simply counts up the statistics in Islamic doctrine to arrive at useful, insightful, illuminating facts. For example, 61 percent of the Koran is about non-believers. That's...
- Islam The Biggest Religion In The World?
A story came out yesterday that the Vatican has announced that Islam has overtaken Catholicism as the "biggest single denomination" in the world. This story was number one on Drudge, and it was at the top on most news pages. But, it is a ridiculous story...