Posted by The Directors If you read no further, know this: RedState supports the Anti-Defamation League in its opposition to the so-called “Ground Zero mosque.” The ADL is right on all counts: in its rejection of bigotry, its affirmation of American religious freedom, and its declaration that common decency demands the end of this effort. […]
by David J. Rusin • Jul 26, 2010 at 10:47 am Western governments may be swimming in red ink, but there has been no slowdown in public resources being devoted to placating Muslims and conducting comical exercises in multicultural outreach. A few recent lowlights spanning three countries: Netherlands. “Nijmegen municipality sees no reason to withdraw […]
Opposition to the construction of mosques has skyrocketed in cities and towns across the country, scholars and advocates of Muslim culture tell The Upshot. Public protests against three planned mosques have made news in the past week: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin joined others in opposition to the building of a mosque a few blocks […]
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu A “last-chance” public hearing to block the proposed 13-story $100 million mosque planned near Ground Zero, the site of the 9/11 attack on New York Tuesday puts Mayor Bloomberg on the defense. He has rejected opponents’ demands that the backers of the plan be investigated for possible links with terrorists or […]
Building the American Caliphate, One Enclave at a Time by Ryan Mauro FrontPage Magazine July 9, 2010 It seems almost unthinkable, but Islamist groups are, as we speak, hard at work creating Muslim states-within-states in the U.S. Indeed, this process has been unfolding for a long time across the Western world, through the creation of […]
by David J. Rusin • May 28, 2010 at 9:40 am Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind Cordoba House, the giant mosque and Islamic cultural center planned just two blocks from Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, speaks of tolerance. Yet he promotes one of the most intolerant sociopolitical systems on the planet: Shari’a law. In […]
by David J. Rusin • May 31, 2010 at 10:03 pm Call it the fashion trend of the year. Westerners are sick and tired of burqas and niqabs — the face-covering veils worn by a minority of Muslim women — and they are not going to take it anymore. Most remarkable of all, many politicians […]
A growing rage is gripping New Yorkers over plans to build a 13-story mosque just two blocks away from the site of the worst terror attack ever perpetrated on U.S. soil. “What could be more insulting and humiliating than a monster mosque in the shadow of the World Trade Center buildings that were brought down […]
by David J. Rusin • Apr 16, 2010 at 12:28 pm For Siraj Wahhaj, a New York-based radical imam, it is a time of recovery. Just as good medicine has improved his health, bad journalism is helping to improve his image. Wahhaj appeared in Philadelphia last month to announce the creation of a network of […]
by David J. Rusin • Mar 5, 2010 at 10:39 am Even as Shari’a courts sprout up like mushrooms on UK soil, secular ones across Europe increasingly bend to an Islamist worldview. Consider the phenomenon of exempting Muslims from the standard practice of rising before judges. In January, seven radicals on trial for shouting insults […]
