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Ed Husain's autobiography The Islamist: why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left (Penguin, 2007) is a remarkably candid account of the life of a British-born Muslim who was initially seduced by radicalism but gradually came to his senses to return to the more spiritual and devotional Islam that had defined his early years. It is also an important work, in that it both carefully grounds the issue of radicalisation that has so dominated recent intellectual and political discussion of Muslim communities in Britain, and points to potential solutions. Ed Husain grew up...

SEPTEMBER 11, 1565: Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent dominated the Mediterranean, with intentions of not only invading Sicily, Sardinia, Majorca, and southern Spain, but Rome itself. The only thing standing in his way was the small rocky Island of Malta just south of Sicily, defended by the Knights of Malta. In March of 1565, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent sent Algerian Admiral Dragut to Malta with 200 ships and 40,000 Muslim soldiers, including 6,500 elite Janissary troops. Dragut stated: "Unless you have smoked out this nest of vipers, you can do no good anywhere." Queen Elizabeth I of England is said to...

A new survey shows the majority of Europeans are supporting the de-Islamization of western countries. One America’s Kristian Rouz explains.

Political Islam implies a constitutional order fundamentally incompatible with the U.S. Constitution and the ‘constitution of liberty’ that is the foundation of the American way of life.

Political Islam is not a religion. It is a political system that disguises itself as religion in order to achieve its ultimate goal: to conquer and subjugate the entire world to Sharia law through terror. Political Islam’s modern-day method of accomplishing this goal is to use the laws of free nations to their advantage in order to further their political agenda. Political Islam has enslaved civilizations for over 1400 years. Most were subjugated by violence. However, in recent history this ideology has seized control of western nations incrementally. The first stage is accomplished through propaganda. This method of repeated deception...

Columbus, OH - The Ohio Council of Churches, Rebecca J. Tollefson, executive director, is urging people to demonstrate a caring spirit toward Muslim Ohioans and place a "Blessed Ramadan" sign in their yards, office window, home window, church during the month of Ramadan, as a gesture of witness and welcome. Ramadan is the month ... It is June 6 - July 5. ..... One of the Five Pillars of Islam, .... Signs can be ordered - Telephone: 651-489-0803 or visit www.impactprintingstpaul.com

Database of 548 Jihad battles in which Islam fought against Classical Civilization. Video of dynamic battle map of Mediterranean, showing the battles in groups of 20 year increments - into France, Spain, Italy, eastern Europe and the islands.

Obama’s remarks about the evil of the Crusades, needs to be factually examined in detail. Here is such a list: 0355 After removing a Roman temple from the site (possibly the Temple of Aphrodite built by Hadrian), Constantine I has the Church of the Holy Sepulcher constructed in Jerusalem. Built around the excavated hill of the Crucifixion, legend has it that Constantine’s mother Helena discovered the True Cross here. 0613 – Persians capture Damascus and Antioch. 0614 – Persians sack Jerusalem. damaging the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the process. 0633 – Muslims conquer Syria and Iraq. 0634 –...

Political Islam breaks it down: crusades25 The Jihad That Lead to the Crusades Obama’s remarks about the evil of the Crusades, needs to be factually examined in detail. Here is such a list: 0355 After removing a Roman temple from the site (possibly the Temple of Aphrodite built by Hadrian), Constantine I has the Church of the Holy Sepulcher constructed in Jerusalem. Built around the excavated hill of the Crucifixion, legend has it that Constantine’s mother Helena discovered the True Cross here. 0613 – Persians capture Damascus and Antioch. 0614 – Persians sack Jerusalem. damaging the Church of the...

Nothing says bug-eyed clerical fanaticism more than inviting a hate-spewing Saudi cleric to address your religious revival meeting. But this is part of the under-reported history of the Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS) Convention, a conference that Justin Trudeau, a frontrunner in Canada's Liberal Party leadership race – and son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau – will address this weekend in Toronto. It's also why moderate Muslims and non-Muslims are aghast at the prospect of Trudeau's presence legitimizing the conference and some of its notables. Although organizers pitch the gathering as "A Unique Youth Effort" "to help overcome new...

Dr. Bill Warner appeared tonight on Michael Coren’s program to talk about what he means by "political Islam”, and why Islam is fundamentally and irreconcilably different from all other religions: Vid - 8:42

ISLAMIC GENOCIDESome of highlighted mass casualties by (political) Islam in course of the last century, from 1915 and on (updated June, 2012) Casualties: 2,700,000 Chritians - (1915-1923) by Ottoman-Empire Muslim Turkey. 750,000 Assyrians, 500,000 Greeks and 1.5 million Armenians.[1] Nature: 1.) Ethnic cleansing.[2] 2.) Islamic Jihad.[3] Casualties: close to 27,000. In Israel between 1920-2012, at the hands of Arab/Muslims. 24,526 Israelis/Jews killed, 35,356 injured, and 1,967 Arab "Palestinians" killed by other Arab "Palestinians."[4] Nature: roots and motivation: the genocide campaign[5][6][7][8] began (mainly) in the early 1920s by the supreme Islam leader, the pan-Arab Mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, motivated by both:...

Muslim propagandist: ' Most Communists, were White Christians, including Catholic Joseph Stalin.' Reply to a Muslim anti-Israel propagandist writing to me. First of all, being brought up in a certain way, doesn't --automatically -- make you as such. True, Joseph Stalin studied to be a Catholic priest in his youth, yet, as soon as he proclaimed his Communism, he showed he is NOT Christian - any more. The same with those 'mostly Christians,' or atheist secular Jews vs the religious and conservatives. Now let's see political Islamists and Communists in action... PLO Granted Observer Status at the UN, 1975 The...

A year after an attack by ultraconservative Muslims raised the spectre of a wave of religious strife in Egypt, the Christian churches in Cairo’s Imbaba district have been repaired, with sturdy wooden rafters, fresh paint and portraits of the Virgin Mary and Jesus ready to be hung anew. But the deep wounds from those attacks and ensuing clashes, which left 12 dead, cannot be painted over. Coptic Christians, whose forefathers lived in Egypt before the arrival of Islam, had hoped that the 2011 uprising that ousted authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak would give them equal rights. Instead, things have worsened. Egypt’s...

Zuhdi Jasser is a respected Arizona-based doctor of internal medicine and nuclear cardiology, formerly a lieutenant-commander in the US Navy and attending physician to the US Congress. As founder and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, he is also one of the most controversial Muslims in the United States. Jasser, raised in Wisconsin by Syrian immigrant parents, describes himself as a devout Sunni Muslim, but his organization’s unyielding battle against political Islam has placed him in the crosshairs of groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Islamic Center of America, which he says have failed to...

We are creatures of history even as we make history. (Click here for Roger L. Simon's reply to Salim's original letter.) Dear Roger,Thanks for your extending our conversation in cyberspace. I welcome your questions, and expect more to follow.I believe it is more than right for you to pose them, since I wrote you as a Muslim. In these times, Muslims do have a lot to answer for — and non-Muslims do have reason to be skeptical.But I am a student of history, much more so than theology, and I trust you will grant me the following observation. We live...

In some parts of Europe it appears you can abuse Muslim women, but you can’t speak out against the Muslim men doing it. This week Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff actually stood trial in a Austrian court for speaking out against the dangers of Sharia. It appears when Sharia moves in to a multicultural society, free speech must be pushed out. Last September Wolff was informed that she — like the Netherland’s Geert Wilders and Canadian Ezra Levant — had been charged with “incitement to hatred” and “denigration of religious beliefs of a legally recognized religion”. The first charge means jail time and...

"Just as in the case of Tunisia, we’ve been caught off guard by the rapid pace of events in Egypt. Commentators are having a difficult time understanding the dynamics of the Arab world and especially the role of religion in this latest apparent revolution. Many wonder why this isn’t an Islamic Revolution, and are audibly breathing a sigh of relief that it isn’t—assuming that somehow Egypt would follow Iran’s rather unique trajectory in 1979 and thereafter. So why isn’t Egypt’s revolution an Islamic one? And what sets Tunisia and Egypt apart from Iran? Due to the quickly shifting nature of...

Moderator: Robert Siegel. Speaking for the motion: Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Paul Marshall and Asra Q. Nomani. Speaking against the motion: Reza Aslan, Richard W. Bulliet and Edina Lekovic Before the debate, the audience held these positions: 46% were for the motion, 32% were against the motion, 22% were undecided. After the debate, the audience was polled again. The results were: 73% were for the motion, 23% were against the motion, 4% were undecided. I really enjoyed this debate. It is one of those that the Muslims actually admit the point of the debate. One example of this is when Nadir Ahmed...

As a dedicated American Muslim activist, I have devoted my life to advocating for reforms against political Islam – the root cause of Islamist terrorism. To that end, I debated Bilal Kaleem, executive director of the Muslim American Society of Boston (MAS) at an April Ford Hall Forum in Boston. I focused on the threat of Islamism (political Islam and shar’iah) to the west, human rights, and freedom. When confronted, Mr. Kaleem feigned ignorance and dismissed the realities of political Islam staying lockstep with his employers. And why wouldn’t he when a coalition of local faith and political leaders continue...