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Salwan Momika burns a copy of the Quran in Stockholm, Sweden, on July 31, 2023. Credit: Frankie Fouganthin via Wikimedia Commons.
Anti-Islam Iraqi activist shot dead at his home in Sweden
Authorities suspect foreign involvement in the murder of Salwan Momika, who burned a copy of the Quran and has spoken out in favor of Israel.
Canaan Lidor
Jan. 30, 2025
Author Salman Rushdie speaking in Novello, Italy, May 29, 2011. Credit: Andersphoto/Shutterstock.
How the ‘fatwa’ against Salman Rushdie marks the timelessness of the Islamist war against the West
Reflections on the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks in the backdrop of a 34-year-old religious edict that threatens lives.
Shireen Qudosi
Sept. 11, 2023
Children in Gaza participate in Hamas-instigated riots on the Israeli border,  Aug. 24, 2021. Source: Twitter.
Iraqi Islamic council sets out case for fatwa against Hamas
The clerics lodge 15 charges against the terror group, including “use of child soldiers,” “theft of international aid” and “corruption of the Palestinian education system.”
Etgar Lefkovits
March 23, 2023
Palestinians shop in the market in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 1, 2022. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90/
Islamic group issues fatwa against Hamas for oppressing Gazans
The Iraq-based Islamic Fatwa Council slammed the terrorist organization for its treatment of Palestinians.
March 13, 2023
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) headquarters building on Portland Place, London. Credit: William Barton/Shutterstock.
The BBC’s perfectly sealed thought system
Complaints about its bias against Israel and its indulgence of Islamist extremism get nowhere.
Melanie Phillips
Sept. 1, 2022
American and Iranian flags. Credit: Dmitriy Prayzel/Shtterstock.
Iran denies responsibility for Rushdie knifing, Blinken decries continued incitement of violence
“In this regard, no one can blame the Islamic Republic of Iran,” said Nasser Kanaani, spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry. “We believe that the insults made and the support he received was an insult against followers of all religions.”
Dmitriy Shapiro
Aug. 16, 2022
Salman Rushdie at Le Livre sur la Place in 2018. Credit: ActuaLitté via Wikimedia Commons.
‘Rushdie’s attacker had direct contact with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’
Sources say it is “clear” that at some point before the attack, Hadi Matar had been in contact with “people either directly involved with or adjacent to the” IRGC Quds Force.
Neta Bar
Aug. 15, 2022
Illustrative photo of a knife attack. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
The satanic stabbing of Salman Rushdie and the dangerous Iran deal
President Biden should consider the assault to be a metaphor for the dangers inherent in the West’s falling prey to the deadly machine that emboldened the terrorist from New Jersey. But he didn’t even dare to mention the “fatwa”—or terrorism—in his public statement.
Ruthie Blum
Aug. 14, 2022
Salman Rushdie at Le Livre sur la Place in 2018. Credit: ActuaLitté via Wikimedia Commons.
Salman Rushdie stabbed on stage during lecture in New York State
A “fatwa” (religious edict) was placed on the author by Iran in the late 1980s; it has since been upgraded to a $3.3 million bounty.
Aug. 12, 2022