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…denying that political Islam as an ideology has its foundation in Islamic doctrine. However, “Islam,” “Islamism,” and “Muslims” are distinct concepts. Not all Muslims are Islamists, let alone violent, but…

…Islamism and its civilizational jihad. Islamists of any variety divide the world into the “Land of Islam” (Dar-al-Islam) and the “Land of War” (Dar al-Harb). Islamists will continue to promote…

…A: Your question is the very reason we called this movement the Muslim Reform Movement rather than Islamic reform. If you define Islam as Wahhabi Islam or Salafi Islam, then…

…familiar debate about Islam, terrorism, and Islamophobia. The anti-Islam camp, mainly on the Right, insists Islam is uniquely, intrinsically violent and that distinctions between radical Islamism and Islam only obscure…

…of “a well-intentioned but dishonest campaign to deny the Islamic State’s medieval religious nature.” Graeme then breathlessly revealed, “The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic.” That…

…to impose a single version of Islam on an entire society. Islamism is not Islam, but it is an offshoot of Islam. It is Muslim theocracy.” So too with jihad,…

…Have to Do With Islam Nevertheless, in the coming days we will certainly be told again and again by Islam’s apologists that “this crime has nothing to do with Islam.”…

…Islam because we know almost nothing about it.” Many Americans have little meaningful exposure to Muslims, Islamic studies, and Islam as an organic faith that has always flexed and adapted….

…it consistent with Islam for a man to beat his wife, and the rise of the Islamic State in Syria has provided us current examples of Islam sanctioning slavery, including…

…line. At Slate, Yascha Mounk tried to finesse the point by suggesting Europeans need to be bolder about standing up to Islamic fundamentalists, while also taming the Islamophobia that “invokes…

…preoccupied—with Hitler, communism abroad, and a fascist movement at home—was exceptional. And penetrating. Why Islam Is Strong As early as 1937, Belloc foresaw Islam’s capacity to reverse its then-current diminution…

…knows that Islam and Islamist terrorism have a relationship. What’s more, refusal to acknowledge that Islam contains within it groups of people dedicated to such carnage actually does more damage…

…me the constant, patronizing dismissal of their religion must be maddening. I’m talking about the almost universal unwillingness among liberals in the media to let Islam be Islam, but to…

…and religion isn’t radical. It’s simply what Islam calls for, because Islam is a fundamentally political religion. That doesn’t mean there aren’t alternative interpretations of Islam that reject that notion….

…too fragile to hear a frank discussion about Islam. According to him, “to say that Islam has no problems is just as problematic as saying Islam and Muslims are the…

…not use the term “Islamic terrorism,” or the more widely accepted “Islamist terrorism,” which acknowledges that terrorism done in the name of Islam belongs to only one of many branches…

…we need to recognize that as a problem. Is Islam Dangerous? The president is among many who would blithely assert that radical Islam is somehow a misinterpretation of the faith….

…Islamist terrorism are in Syria and Iraq. The official White House video, however, cuts out Hollande’s voice and that of his interpreter when he says “Islamist terrorism” and references a…

On Sunday, Pope Francis responded to questions from reporters about why he won’t call out Islamic violence or reference Islamic terrorism when responding to terrorist attacks like the one that…

…identified al-Qaeda as a threat to America, Obama refused to describe the enemy as it describes itself: “Islamic.” Islamic Terrorists Have a Religious Goal Emboldened by their success in Beirut…

…progressive, as well as Islamist, strategy for delegitimizing concerns about Islamism. Rather than engage the problem and pervasiveness of Islamic extremism, they accuse anyone who expresses concerns about it of…

…hard to eliminate phrases like “Islamic extremists,” “radical Islamic terrorism,” and “jihadi terrorism” from public discourse, as by having then-Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and then-counterterrorism adviser John Brennan…

…or Islamism, is a movement within Islam: it works toward the increasing implementation of Islamic law and values in all areas of life—usually via state control—in order to make Islam…

…and tolerance that then reinforces the underlying supremacism. Islam weaponized as a political tool, including weaponizing language such as “Islamophobia,” only advances Islamists. Islamism is not a representation of Islam….

…shares one religious identity, it’s intellectually dishonest at best and evil-enabling at worst to focus on Islamophobia rather than examine Islamic jihadism for what it is. By Islamophobia, of course,…

…Islamist public relations operators like Awad are less concerned about Native American culture, heritage, and lands and more focused upon leveraging a political victory towards the Islamist agenda, which includes…

…step in psychological power over radical Islam. It’s also key to driving policy-based solutions. Being able to say “Islamic extremism” or “radical Islam” or “jihad” without fear of backlash is…

…Islam into an essentially feminine religion. The subtitle of Qudosi’s “The Song of the Human Heart: Dawn of the Dark Feminine in Islam” contains what appears at first as a…

…can only make Christianity more vulnerable in the Islamic world. And compels Catholicism to play the stooge: “If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence,’ Francis…

…Islam: “The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East…

…Al Qaeda and ISIL and groups like it are desperate for legitimacy. They try to portray themselves as religious leaders—holy warriors in defense of Islam…. They no more represent Islam…

…to Islam. As the novel presents it, Islam seems superior to both Christianity and secularism. Christianity demands that human beings transcend their nature, e.g., by living monastically. Islam takes a…

…for Petraeus’ use of rhetorical clichés more commonly expected from the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s “Islamophobia Observatory,” including such standards as “inflammatory political…

…friend of “Islamophobes” and discouraged students from attending. Nomani wrote in January about the campaign to label critics of radical Islam as “Islamophobes.” This kind of “bullying” “often works to…

…from criticism. One of their lines of attack is to allege their targets are insulting Islam, the prophet Muhammad, and Muslims using a made-up word, “Islamophobia.” That tactic is heralded…

…of women, the increasing number of Islamist advisors to our government—including Muslim Brotherhood-backed groups like the Islamic Society of North America and the Center for American-Islamic Relations—and the growing treatment…