Symposium: When Does a Religion Become an Ideology?
Is it significant that, in Islam, the pillars of faith are rituals rather than moral values?
Is it significant that, in Islam, the pillars of faith are rituals rather than moral values?
I recently participated in a FrontPage Symposium, “The World’s Most Wanted: A ‘Moderate Islam,’” about that great unicorn in which everyone believes and depends upon but which no one has ever actually seen, moderate Islam. In this special edition of Frontpage Symposium, we have invited four distinguished guests to discuss…
Four top experts on Islamic theology battle it out on whether a democratic and liberal Islam exists — or can exist.
Activists dare speak the name of radical Islam at the site of the attempted Time Square terrorist attack.
Like Islamic radicalism, the totalitarian doctrines of communism and fascism are fundamentalist creeds. “The fundamentalist does not believe [his] ideas have any limits or boundaries,… [therefore] the goals of fundamentalist terror are not to eliminate injustice but to eliminate opposition.”10 That is why the humanitarian nature of America’s mission to Mogadishu made no difference to [...]
Fox provides an illuminating profile of the young convert to and Misunderstander of Islam, demonstrating yet again the jihadists’ consistent tendency to portray themselves as the exponents of authentic, pure Islam — and featuring Hamas-linked CAIR’s Honest Ibe Hooper pretending that he never heard a jihadi speak before. “Road to…
Ignoring the jihad threat, appeasing jihadist Pakistan — all this and more is in Obama’s favor, as far as Omar Sacirbey is concerned. But he still has to do more! It’s never enough! “Obama walks the talk in new Muslim outreach,” by Omar Sacirbey for the Religion News Service, April…
In FrontPage this morning I discuss the new policy on Islamic terrorism, same as the old policy on Islamic terrorism: Barack Obama has removed all mention of Islam from the National Security Strategy document, which during the Bush Administration said: “The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological…
Another empty statement of Islamic moderation.
In “Obama Tries to Eradicate Radical Islam: Not from America, but from America’s mindset” at Pajamas Media (via Middle East Forum), our old friend Raymond Ibrahim discusses the unreality of Obama’s policies regarding the global jihad: The Obama administration has just announced its intent to ban all words that allude…