“One really has to wonder about the amount of time that the New York City police department has to deal with petty crime, but considering the amount of time it is spending to prosecute a book flushing it is no wonder al Qaeda is still looking at their city. Charges against Stanislav Shmulevich, a former Pace University student, for throwing a couple of Qurans in toilets are absurd on their face, but show that too many people are afraid to upset some in the Muslim faith just to keep their towns from burning….

“Muslim students are not only being coddled by the university, but also the state of New York. Charging a young man with vandalism is fine – he threw a book owned by Pace University into a toilet, but putting him on trial in a city where the reality of Islam showed itself on September 11, 2001 seems hardly to be a rational spending of taxpayer money…. So long as crimes are done in the name of Allah it seems only logical to follow that committing an act of civil disobedience against the book where radical Muslims find their courage to kill Americans is justified….

“The Quran gives comfort, indeed permission, to radical Muslims to blow us up. Would we disallow people to have thrown away Hitler’s books or Japan’s rantings during WWII? Of course not, but our war today is being fought ineffectively because America is too sensitive about how and who we fight. Those who kill us grasp the Quran before they go to bed at night and they praise Allah at their success….

“We’ve been asking ourselves for too long how we can live life free of the burden of worrying about offending Muslims. We’ve gone so far over the top to keep the so-called Muslim street happy that we cannot just call an act of vandalism an act of vandalism. No, sir – we have to appease Muslim students by calling water logging a book that some use to justify our death and destruction a hate crime.”

Steve Yuhas at The Conservative Voice, 4 August 2007

Republican presidential hopeful Tom Tancredo says the best way he can think of to deter a nuclear terrorist attack on the U.S. is to threaten to retaliate by bombing Islamic holy sites.

The Colorado congressman on Tuesday told about 30 people at a town hall meeting in the state of Iowa that he believes such a terrorist attack could be imminent and that the U.S. needs to hurry up and think of a way to stop it.

“If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina,” Tancredo said at the Family Table restaurant. “Because that’s the only thing I can think of that might deter somebody from doing what they otherwise might do.”

A Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group responded in anger Thursday, calling Tancredo’s statement “unworthy of anyone seeking public office in the United States.”

“Perhaps it’s evidence of a long-shot candidate grasping at straws and trying to create some kind of a controversy that might appeal to a niche audience of anti-Muslim bigots,” said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Associated Press, 2 August 2007

“Whoever coined the term ‘Islamophobia’ was quite shrewd. Notice the intellectual sleight of hand here. The term is not ‘Muslim-phobia’ or ‘anti-Muslimist’, it is Islam-ophobia – fear of Islam – yet fear of Islam is in no way the same as hatred of all Muslims. One can rightly or wrongly fear Islam, or more usually, aspects of Islam, and have absolutely no bias against all Muslims, let alone be a racist.

“The equation of Islamophobia with racism is particularly dishonest. Muslims come in every racial group, and Islam has nothing to do with race. Nevertheless, mainstream Western media, Islamist groups calling themselves Muslim civil liberties groups and various Western organizations repeatedly declare that Islamophobia is racism.

“… if one says that Islam does not appear compatible with democracy or that the Islamic treatment of women is inferior to the West’s, he or she is labeled a racist Islamophobe … the term ‘Islamophobia’ has one purpose – to suppress any criticism, legitimate or not, of Islam. And given the cowardice of the Western media, and the collusion of the left in banning any such criticism (while piling it on Christianity and Christians), it is working.”

Dennis Prager at Real Clear Politics, 31 July 2007

It was Prager, you may recall, who attacked US Congressman Keith Ellison’s decision to take his oath of office on the Qur’an. Prager claimed that “the act undermines American civilization” and went on to compare the Qur’an to Mein Kampf. (See here, here and here.)

“Despite the best efforts of Islamic advocacy groups to obscure the connection between Islam and violence and supremacism, the sheer volume of Islamic terror attacks (over 9,000 around the world since 9/11) has awakened at least some Americans to the fact that the ideology that fuels those who are determined to destroy us is deeply rooted within Islam….

“The Newsweek poll should become the occasion for renewed debate about the attitude of Muslims in America toward Islamic Sharia law, and about the posture of American Muslims advocacy groups toward the U.S. Constitution. It should be the occasion for a new public examination of Muslim immigration and the monitoring of mosques. It should provide the foundation for a new public call to Muslims in America to renounce Sharia and Islamic supremacism….”

Robert Spencer responds to the recent Newsweek poll of US Muslims.

Front Page Magazine, 24 July 2007

The planned crescent-shaped “memorial to heroes” of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania is nothing less than a huge outdoor mosque that pays homage to Islam, charges the author of a new book.

Alec Rawls’ Crescent of Betrayal: Dishonoring the Heroes of Flight 93, published by World Ahead, documents a long list of Islamic and terrorist memorializing features in the Flight 93 National Memorial.

The primary feature, he says, is the giant central crescent of what originally was called the “Crescent of Embrace” design. A person facing into this half-mile wide crescent – still present in the superficially altered “Bowl of Embrace” redesign – will be oriented almost exactly at Mecca.

That is significant, Rawls said, because a crescent that Muslims face to point them in the direction of Mecca – called a “mihrab” – is the central feature around which every mosque is built.

World Net Daily, 25 July 2007

Yes, that’s the same World Net Daily who brought you the “Muslims eat children” revelations.