Tag: Muslim

Giulio Meotti | Gatestone Institute The West has capitulated on freedom of expression. Nobody in the West launched the motto “Je Suis Avijit Roy,” the name of the first of the several bloggers butchered, flogged or jailed last year. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, sided with the Turks. She condemned the German comedian’s poem, called it […]

Gatestone Institute The first victim of the Islamist war in Algeria was a girl who refused the veil, Katia Bengana, who defended her choice even as the executioners pointed a gun at her head. In 1994, Algiers literally awoke to walls plastered with posters announcing the execution of unveiled women. In April 1947, Princess Lalla […]

Gatestone Institute As yet another enormous mosque has opened in the U.S. (funded by the Turkish government), Christians in Turkey are waiting for the day when Turkish state authorities will allow them freely to build or use their churches and safely pray inside them. In Turkey, some churches have been converted to stables or used […]

Gatestone Institute   Critics argue that by jumping on the Muslim fashion bandwagon, European brands are encouraging the visible public expression of Islam in Europe — and promoting Muslim separateness rather than integration. “When fashion brands praise the skinny image with anorexic models, we say this is dangerous for the health of young women. We […]

Gatestone Institute For Palestinian Christians, the destruction of the ancient Byzantine church ruins is yet a further attempt by Palestinian Muslim leaders to efface both Christian history and signs of any Christian presence in the West Bank and Gaza, under the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas. A growing number of Christians feel they are being […]

Uzay Bulut | Gatestone Institute Professional criminals convince parents that their daughters are going to a better life in Turkey. The parents are given 2000-5000 Turkish liras ($700-$1700) as a “bride price” — an enormous sum for a poor Syrian family. “Girls between the ages of twelve and sixteen are referred to as pistachios, those […]

Douglas Murray | Gatestone Institute The facts show is that all these “excuses” for terrorism are incorrect. Israel is not, for instance, carrying out the “war crimes,” “apartheid” or “genocide,” which propagandists have persuaded Europeans that Israel is engaged in. Israel is, quite the contrary, fighting an enemy that breaks every rule of armed conflict, […]

Judith Bergman | Gatestone Institute “Islam belongs in Europe…. I am not afraid to say that political Islam should be part of the picture.” — Federica Mogherini, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The Western narrative represents a complete refusal to examine the doctrines of Islam, out of fear of offending Muslims. […]

Judith Bergman | Gatestone Institute Documentary filmmakers in Denmark conducted an undercover investigation, with hidden cameras, into claims that Muslim imams are working towards keeping parallel societies for Muslims within Denmark. Abu Bilal, imam of the Grimhøj mosque told Fatma that her husband is entitled to take another wife. Fatma is not allowed to deny […]

Raymond Ibrahim | Gatestone Institute In 35 nations Islamic extremism “has risen to a level akin to ethnic cleansing” of Christians. Something else stands behind this rise of genocidal “Islamic extremism”: U.S. foreign policy. In every Muslim nation where the U.S. has intervened in the name of “freedom and democracy,” Christian life has exponentially worsened. […]