The business about Hindus fighting in Israel, for the sheer joy of killing Muslims, is pure projection. The pornography charge is Abou El Fadl dredging up a 2002 incident in which “Palestinian” TV stations in Ramallah, not Hebron, began broadcasting pornography. An Israeli army spokesman said: “The Israeli security forces have no interest in putting […]
Muslim UCLA prof claims that ‘Palestinians’ are ‘dehumanized’ and ‘considered like animals’
The learned Dr. Abou El Fadl is projecting. Here is the reality: “Indeed, the worst of animals in Allah’s sight are the ungrateful who will not believe.” (Qur’an 8:55) “Already we have created many of the jinn and mankind for Gehenna, having hearts with which they do not understand, and having eyes with which they […]
Khaled Abou El Fadl’s Problematic Pulpit
“Colonized Muslims,” such as “immigrant Muslims, don’t like their own race” and “have learned to covet whiteness,” stated UCLA’s Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law Khaled Abou El Fadl during a recent webinar. Speaking with Stanford University Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies associate director Farah El-Sharif, the “liberal” Abou El Fadl further documented his […]
Khaled Abou El Fadl: Tariq Ramadan is the New Dreyfus
UPDATE: Khaled Abou El Fadl’s article about Tariq Ramadan, discussed below, has been removed, without explanation. Could even Abou El Fadl himself have realized its shoddiness and incoherence? — Ed. ———- Khaled Abou El Fadl is a professor of law at UCLA who stands very high in Khaled Abou El Fadl’s estimation. He runs a […]
Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl, Scholar of the House
[After referring to this piece about Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl in the recent article, “Khaled Abou El Fadl, Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law,” I am reprinting it here, by popular demand, with some small revisions.] Devotees of the genre know the pleasure to be derived […]
Khaled Abou El Fadl, Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law
Some time after my article on Khaled About El Fadl appeared in 2005, with its many links to his then-website www.scholarofthehouse.com, he apparently relinquished that domain name, and instead bought another. Now, if you click on www.scholarofthehouse.org (not .com), you will arrive at his current website: www.searchforbeauty.org. That website is awe-inspiring, in the sense that […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl as Scholar of the House (Part II)
Devotees of the genre know the pleasure to be derived from reading Hamid Dabashi’s eulogy to Edward Said, with its echoes, for the connoisseur, of Dzhambul’s 1936 “Song About Stalin” — the first verse of which you can find, if you wish, in Ogonyok, No. 14, 14 March 1990. The “Song About Stalin” goes thus […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl And His Orwellian Experience (Part I)
Wondering how the heightened scrutiny at our borders was affecting some of the most brilliant minds in Islamic studies, I naturally googled the name of Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl. I’ve been admiring him for years, ever since I first came across his website, www.scholarofthehouse.org, and I wanted to see just how he was faring […]
Washington Post quotes Islamic apologists’ taqiyya to “prove” Ben Carson wrong about taqiyya
The Washington Post, as credulous and eager to be misled by Islamic supremacists as ever, offers up taqiyya about taqiyya from some of the nation’s leading taqiyya artists. Qur’an 3:28 warns believers not to take unbelievers as “friends or helpers,” “unless that you but guard yourselves against them.” This is a foundation of the idea […]
Islamic scholars conclude again that Islamic State is not Islamic, ignore Qur’anic teachings on which it bases its case
This article is one of many lately that try to show that the Islamic State is not Islamic — not to dissuade young Muslims from joining the Islamic State (there are no articles devoted to doing that), but to reassure non-Muslims that they have nothing to worry about in regard to rapidly increasing numbers of […]