Leftists and Anti-Semites are Discovering that Islam is Just the Thing for Them
The new trendy, chic thing among America’s addled and miseducated youth.
[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Who would have guessed that the next trendy, chic thing among America’s addled and miseducated youth would be Islam?
It was perhaps inevitable that young secular Westerners, their self-centered lives achingly meaningless, would gravitate to the only force that seems to present an alternative to the culture of materialism, hedonism, and increasing madness in which they’ve been marinating since birth. But many of these people are likely to wake up in the morning with a massive buyer’s remorse headache.
First, there was the Osama bin Laden craze on TikTok. Hordes of witless millennials suddenly discovered the terror titan’s 2002 letter to America and professed to find wisdom in its whiny grievance-mongering and Jew-hatred. But that was just the beginning. Now the same disaffected, diseducated, and rationality-challenged millennials are embracing not just Osama, but the whole hog, or if you prefer, the whole halal enchilada, and converting to Islam.
High-profile “influencers” are driving much of this trend. First, there was former kickboxer and accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate, who converted to Islam precisely because it sanctifies brute force and intolerance, qualities that he confuses with strength and sees lacking in the woke, relativistic half-men and men who think they’re women of the contemporary left. Following Tate into the Religion of Peace was the “Internet personality” Sneako, who is now doing his part to bring into the fold of Muhammad the legions of antisemites who have revealed themselves since Hamas’ Oct. 7 jihad massacre in Israel.
On Thursday, the venomously anti-Israel propagandist Jackson Hinkle, who has over two million followers on X, tweeted (X’d?) a video in which Sneako presents him with a biography of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. Hinkle wrote: “Thanks @sneako for gifting me the biography of the Prophet Muhammad. It’s already a very eye-opening read.”
It is indeed, although Sneako is unlikely to have given Hinkle a Muhammad biography that will enlighten the anti-Israel advocate about Muhammad’s violence, cruelty, Jew hatred, misogyny, and the like. Or maybe he did, as it could be that they both regard all those aspects of the Islamic prophet’s life (as it is depicted in early Islamic texts) as positives.
Either way, if Hinkle decides to convert to Islam, he could meet up with some interesting people in the new converts class at his local mosque. The UK’s Daily Mailreported Sunday that hatred of Israel and support for Hamas, so prevalent among leftists since Oct. 7, is now leading many millennials to embrace Islam, which they see as the “ultimate rebellion against the West.”
Some of these people should have looked before they leaped. One is a woman named Alex, who describes herself as a “leftist queer gremlin.” This particular gremlin has been going to pro-Hamas demonstrations and recently bought a Qur’an, made a formal conversion to Islam, and started wearing a hijab.
But has Alex noticed that the population of leftist queer gremlins in Gaza is vanishingly small? Is Alex aware of what happens to leftist queer gremlins in the Islamic land she so admires? Almost certainly not. But if she continues with her little rebellion against the West, she is liable to find out, and will likely be thinking as her tormenters close in that maybe the much-maligned West wasn’t so bad after all.
Inspiring Alex to embark upon this path was another new Muslim, Megan Rice, yet another TikTok “influencer.” Rice explained in a recent video that Palestinian defiance of Israel led her to Islam: “It just seems that Palestinians have this ironclad faith even in the face of losing quite literally everything.”
It will become abundantly clear to the world, once the ceasefire ends, that the Palestinians have by no means lost everything and have plenty of rockets and other weapons on hand, but Rice is unlikely to look back. The Mail notes that “she founded the World Religion Book Club where she conducts live readings of the Quran. The online community now boasts 13,000 members.”
It is unlikely in the extreme that Megan Rice or any of these other new Western converts to Islam have the faintest idea of what their new religion teaches. They just like the idea of rebelling against The Man, who in their thoroughly propagandized minds is a white Christian; they haven’t noticed that the people who have the real power today are those who share their hatred of Israel and are determined to destroy and are happy to see this Islam craze spreading among young people because it furthers their larger goal of destroying the West in order to pave the way for socialist internationalism.
By the time these young dupes wake up to how they’re being manipulated, it is likely to be far too late. But others in the West should realize how dangerous this blend of hatred of Jews, hatred of America, and embrace of Islam really is, and begin to formulate ways to counter the appeal of the noxious mix.
Robert Spencer
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 26 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest books are The Critical Qur’an and The Sumter Gambit. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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Pro-Hamas Rallies Have Twice Targeted LA Holocaust Museums
There's a reason this keeps happening.
When pro-Hamas supporters rioted outside the Museum of Tolerance for screening footage of Hamas atrocities on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, Mayor Karen Bass and the media, including most shamefully the JTA, described it as clashes between both sides and denounced “violence”.
Now some of the groups behind that protest, which have openly defended Hamas, decided to head to the site of another local Holocaust museum, the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum in Pan Pacific Park for their pro terrorist hate rally.
There’s a reason this keeps happening. And there’s a reason that no one actually condemns it.
KKK rallies outside black churches would lead to an immediate response. Supporters of murdering Jews protesting outside Holocaust museums hardly even rates a mention.
This comes at a time when the DSA and other leftists, and their members, like this Bernie Sanders supporter, feel increasingly emboldened to attack Jews in Los Angeles.
A home invasion suspect reportedly shouted “Free Palestine!” and threatened to kill a Jewish family in Studio City Wednesday morning.
According to various local reports, a man broke into a home on the 3000 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard sometime around 5 a.m. The suspect, who was armed with a kitchen knife, allegedly threatened to kill the family “because you are Jewish… Israel kill people,” per KTLA. The homeowner is reportedly from Israel. All the doors to the house are also reportedly adorned with mezuzot.
The family, which according to KTLA consisted of two adults (one of whom is nine months pregnant) and four children, hid in a safe room until the father came out and pushed the man into the backyard, where the suspect was subsequently arrested.
The suspect can be seen in video footage shouting, “Free Palestine” repeatedly and “brown lives matter” as he was being taken into a police vehicle.
Then we had this in Brentwood.
This is the work of a leftist movement that learned in 2020 that it could terrorize people with impunity. There’s no political or criminal accountability and little in the way of critical coverage. Behavior like this has become legitimized. And it won’t end here.
When pro-Hamas supporters rioted outside the Museum of Tolerance for screening footage of Hamas atrocities on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, Mayor Karen Bass and the media, including most shamefully the JTA, described it as clashes between both sides and denounced “violence”.
Now some of the groups behind that protest, which have openly defended Hamas, decided to head to the site of another local Holocaust museum, the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum in Pan Pacific Park for their pro terrorist hate rally.
There’s a reason this keeps happening. And there’s a reason that no one actually condemns it.
KKK rallies outside black churches would lead to an immediate response. Supporters of murdering Jews protesting outside Holocaust museums hardly even rates a mention.
This comes at a time when the DSA and other leftists, and their members, like this Bernie Sanders supporter, feel increasingly emboldened to attack Jews in Los Angeles.
A home invasion suspect reportedly shouted “Free Palestine!” and threatened to kill a Jewish family in Studio City Wednesday morning.
According to various local reports, a man broke into a home on the 3000 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard sometime around 5 a.m. The suspect, who was armed with a kitchen knife, allegedly threatened to kill the family “because you are Jewish… Israel kill people,” per KTLA. The homeowner is reportedly from Israel. All the doors to the house are also reportedly adorned with mezuzot.
The family, which according to KTLA consisted of two adults (one of whom is nine months pregnant) and four children, hid in a safe room until the father came out and pushed the man into the backyard, where the suspect was subsequently arrested.
The suspect can be seen in video footage shouting, “Free Palestine” repeatedly and “brown lives matter” as he was being taken into a police vehicle.
Then we had this in Brentwood.
This is the work of a leftist movement that learned in 2020 that it could terrorize people with impunity. There’s no political or criminal accountability and little in the way of critical coverage. Behavior like this has become legitimized. And it won’t end here.
Daniel Greenfield
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I’m Grateful for Israel’s Christian Allies
Where would we be without them?
A series of ads from the 1960s featured the slogan, “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s real Jewish rye.” They were illustrated with pictures of a choir boy, an Asian child, an Italian mother, an Irish cop, and other obvious non-Jews happily munching on the kosher product.
Given the outpouring of Christian support for what Muslim radicals call the Zionist entity, today, we could say, “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Israel.”
America’s 100 million Evangelical Christians are a bulwark of support in a raging sea – antisemitic mobs roaming our college campuses, much of the Democratic party going over to the Palestinians and crass celebrities, like Susan Sarandon, essentially telling Jews they have it coming.
Some 700 members of Passages joined the Nov. 14 March for Israel in Washington, D.C. The organization brings Christian students to Israel to explore the roots of their faith. In the wake of the Oct. 7 attack, its members visited synagogues throughout the United States in a show of support.
With an estimated 10 million members, Christians United for Israel raised $2.65 million for Israeli charities in the days following the Hamas massacre. As part of its Don’t Look Away Campaign, CUFI projected pictures of the hostages high above New York’s Times Square, along with images of rope-bound hands, a bloody pacifier and an empty wheelchair.
The Rev. Johnnie Moore, president of the Congress of Christian Leaders, promises, “Every time an antisemite spews hate, then we shall express our solidarity with the Jewish community.”
An Evangelical Letter in Support of Israel, signed by more than 2,000 pastors, theologians and educators, declared: “In the wake of the evil and indefensible atrocities committed against the people of Israel by Hamas, we, the undersigned, unequivocally condemn the violence against the vulnerable” and “fully support Israel’s right and duty to defend itself against further attack.”
Dr. Jurgen Buhler, president of the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem, explains: “God is a covenant-keeping God” who has “affirmed His promise to give Israel the Land of Canaan.”
Russel Moore, editor of Christianity Today, urges: “As Americans, we should stand with Israel because it is a fellow liberal democracy – and a democracy in a region dominated by illiberal, authoritarian regimes. As Christians, we should pay special attention to violence directed toward Israel – just as we would pay special attention to a violent attack on a member of our extended family.”
Catholic theologian George Weigel calls antisemitism “a gangrenous wound eating away at everything from higher education to politics.” The biographer of Pope John Paul II writes: “There is no excuse – none – for the wave of Jew hatred that has washed across the Western world like an acid bath. Antisemitism is usually a sign of social and cultural rot, and this ancient outbreak of an ancient social disease is no exception.”
Skeptics have tried to tie Christian support for Israel to prophesies of the end times to make it seem a self-serving affirmation of Evangelical theology.
For some, that may be true. But it’s far more likely that in supporting Israel and the Jewish people, Christians are re-affirming the roots of their faith. There could be no New Testament without an Old Testament. According to the Gospels, Jesus was not only a Jew but a descendant of Israel’s royal house.
Christian ethics are largely based on the Mosaic code, hence Judeo-Christian morality. While disagreeing on important points, there is so much that unites religious Jews and Christians, especially in the face of the neo-paganism that has captured our culture.
Both religions are under constant assault by a militant Islam bent on world domination, as they have been since the 7th century.
Hamas is an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt in the 1920s. Then, the Brotherhood had a slogan: “First the Saturday people. Then the Sunday people.” First the Jews, then the Christians.
Consider the relentless persecution of Christians in Pakistan, Somalia, Iran and every other Muslim-majority country. Christians can’t live openly in Saudi Arabia, where Islam’s holiest sites are located, as if the presence of unbelievers would somehow pollute them.
In this civilizational war, Christians and Jews must be united.
Ingratitude is a grave sin. Jews are commanded to thank those who’ve helped us.
As a Jew, words do not suffice to express my gratitude for Christian support of the Jewish state and the Jewish people. Where would we be without them?
Don Feder is a columnist with The Washington Times.
This article first appeared in WashingtonTimes.com.
A series of ads from the 1960s featured the slogan, “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s real Jewish rye.” They were illustrated with pictures of a choir boy, an Asian child, an Italian mother, an Irish cop, and other obvious non-Jews happily munching on the kosher product.
Given the outpouring of Christian support for what Muslim radicals call the Zionist entity, today, we could say, “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Israel.”
America’s 100 million Evangelical Christians are a bulwark of support in a raging sea – antisemitic mobs roaming our college campuses, much of the Democratic party going over to the Palestinians and crass celebrities, like Susan Sarandon, essentially telling Jews they have it coming.
Some 700 members of Passages joined the Nov. 14 March for Israel in Washington, D.C. The organization brings Christian students to Israel to explore the roots of their faith. In the wake of the Oct. 7 attack, its members visited synagogues throughout the United States in a show of support.
With an estimated 10 million members, Christians United for Israel raised $2.65 million for Israeli charities in the days following the Hamas massacre. As part of its Don’t Look Away Campaign, CUFI projected pictures of the hostages high above New York’s Times Square, along with images of rope-bound hands, a bloody pacifier and an empty wheelchair.
The Rev. Johnnie Moore, president of the Congress of Christian Leaders, promises, “Every time an antisemite spews hate, then we shall express our solidarity with the Jewish community.”
An Evangelical Letter in Support of Israel, signed by more than 2,000 pastors, theologians and educators, declared: “In the wake of the evil and indefensible atrocities committed against the people of Israel by Hamas, we, the undersigned, unequivocally condemn the violence against the vulnerable” and “fully support Israel’s right and duty to defend itself against further attack.”
Dr. Jurgen Buhler, president of the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem, explains: “God is a covenant-keeping God” who has “affirmed His promise to give Israel the Land of Canaan.”
Russel Moore, editor of Christianity Today, urges: “As Americans, we should stand with Israel because it is a fellow liberal democracy – and a democracy in a region dominated by illiberal, authoritarian regimes. As Christians, we should pay special attention to violence directed toward Israel – just as we would pay special attention to a violent attack on a member of our extended family.”
Catholic theologian George Weigel calls antisemitism “a gangrenous wound eating away at everything from higher education to politics.” The biographer of Pope John Paul II writes: “There is no excuse – none – for the wave of Jew hatred that has washed across the Western world like an acid bath. Antisemitism is usually a sign of social and cultural rot, and this ancient outbreak of an ancient social disease is no exception.”
Skeptics have tried to tie Christian support for Israel to prophesies of the end times to make it seem a self-serving affirmation of Evangelical theology.
For some, that may be true. But it’s far more likely that in supporting Israel and the Jewish people, Christians are re-affirming the roots of their faith. There could be no New Testament without an Old Testament. According to the Gospels, Jesus was not only a Jew but a descendant of Israel’s royal house.
Christian ethics are largely based on the Mosaic code, hence Judeo-Christian morality. While disagreeing on important points, there is so much that unites religious Jews and Christians, especially in the face of the neo-paganism that has captured our culture.
Both religions are under constant assault by a militant Islam bent on world domination, as they have been since the 7th century.
Hamas is an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt in the 1920s. Then, the Brotherhood had a slogan: “First the Saturday people. Then the Sunday people.” First the Jews, then the Christians.
Consider the relentless persecution of Christians in Pakistan, Somalia, Iran and every other Muslim-majority country. Christians can’t live openly in Saudi Arabia, where Islam’s holiest sites are located, as if the presence of unbelievers would somehow pollute them.
In this civilizational war, Christians and Jews must be united.
Ingratitude is a grave sin. Jews are commanded to thank those who’ve helped us.
As a Jew, words do not suffice to express my gratitude for Christian support of the Jewish state and the Jewish people. Where would we be without them?
Don Feder is a columnist with The Washington Times.
This article first appeared in WashingtonTimes.com.
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