Andrew Harrod
As protests rage across Iran, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding (ACMCU) Honorary Fellow and perennial think tanker Shireen T. Hunter assured her audience that American policymakers “know that Iran doesn’t have that kind of capacity” to develop…
“If you are supporting our prisoners, you are supporting some of the best people on the planet,” stated Coalition for Civil Freedoms (CCF) prisoner and family support coordinator Nada Dibas during a recent webinar on “Ramadan Behind Bars.” These “best…
Hamas is “represented in a hysterical way,” stated Fordham University associate professor of modern Islam Sarah Eltantawi, during an August 20 webinar on “The Nexus of Anti-Palestine Campaigns and Islamophobia.” Her apologetics for Hamas were just one of several disturbing aspects…
Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative, a project of its Saudi-founded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), claims it exists to combat the pernicious spread of “Islamophobia.” ACMCU’s June 30 webinar featuring former Bridge research fellow Jordan Denari Duffner…
“Zionist greed knows no bounds: no matter what you give them, they want more,” declared Yasir Qadhi on June 5 at the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) in Texas, where this prominent Muslim academic and cleric is a resident scholar….
“Israel is a colonial, apartheid regime,” an “international crime,” said Lubnah Shomali, the advocacy manager for the Bethlehem-based Palestinian “refugee” organization BADIL during a May 10 Middle East Institute (MEI) webinar. Entitled “The Palestinian Nakba: What Happened in 1948 and…
Concerning Palestinian Authority (PA) elections set to begin on May 22, George Washington University political science professor Nathan Brown wants “not to sound Pollyannaish” over “developments that will be not entirely unhealthy for the Palestinian political system.” This was perhaps…
The “historical reality” of blasphemy restrictions exists “across all schools of mainstream law, Sunni and Shia,” admitted leading hardline Pakistani-American Islamist cleric Yasir Qadhi during a March 11 webinar, “The Question of Blasphemy in Islam: Between the Sacred and the…
“I respect him and I love him,” gushed Rice University sociology lecturer Craig Considine about Islam’s prophet Muhammad during a March 8 webinar for Islamabad, Pakistan’s National University of Modern Languages. Such unscholarly, puerile infatuation characterizes Considine’s seemingly never-ending promotion…
“Islam is not a danger to democracy, but a source of strength for it,” claimed University of Pennsylvania political science professor Anne Norton during an online conference hosted by Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University (IZU). She somehow missed the irony of…
