An unpleasant byproduct of the anti-hijab demonstrations in France. This from News.com.au, with thanks to Nicolei: A MINIBUS used to transport children to a Jewish school in the eastern French city of Strasbourg was set alight Sunday night, police said today. A few hours earlier assailants hurled stones at the door of a synagogue in […]
Archives for January 2004
A close shave for French Muslims?
French Education Minister Luc Ferry is now suggesting that beards could be banned in France along with headscarves if they’re found to be religious symbols. I doubt he’ll make any serious headway on this one, but France has surprised me before. In any case, this just shows the flaws in their entire approach: instead of […]
Saudi Grand Mufti Denounces Unveiled Women
The unthinkable has happened in Saudi Arabia: women have appeared in public without their headscarves “” and mingled freely with men! The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia is outraged, for “” note well “” the hijab was “ordered by God.” Western commentators have misled many people lately into thinking that the hijab was an invention […]
Photos from AMECA’s CAIR protest
Photos from AMECA’s protest at CAIR’s Anaheim, California office yesterday. Thanks to Steve Klein of AMECA for sending them:
Saudi May Have Sought to Be 20th Hijacker
Another possible 20th 9/11 hijacker has been identified: another Saudi. Unlike many of the actual hijackers, this one was actually stopped by an immigration official as he was trying to enter the country. Later, however, he turned up in Afghanistan, which most likely confirms that his intention was indeed jihad. This from AP: A Saudi […]
Religious freedom under Islam
From Norway’s Forum 18, a refreshingly honest appraisal of dhimmitude: Henrik Ertner Rasmussen, General Secretary of the Danish European Mission, “draws on his experience of living and studying in the Muslim world to examine how Islam understands religious freedom. He believes Muslims’ attitudes to religious freedom have been shaped by the concept of Dhimmitude, under […]
Forcible conversions of Mandaeans
Mary Beth Roderick of the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights has forwarded me some information about the plight of the Mandaeans, an ancient Gnostic sect, in Iraq. It comes from John Clugston, a human rights lawyer, and the Sabian Mandaean Association of Australia: The Sabian Mandæan Association in Australia has now been advised […]
Tariq Ramadan’s Two-Faced Islam. The West Is the Land of Conquest
Sandro Magister turns in an illuminating report on new Notre Dame professor Tariq Ramadan, whose carefully ambiguous statements about Islam and the Sharia I examine in Onward Muslim Soldiers. This from Chiesa: A Muslim intellectual has achieved star status in French-speaking Europe. He draws crowds of young immigrants and speaks to them with charismatic fervor. […]
Unfulfilled Promises: Pakistan’s Failure to Tackle Extremism
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s “jihad against extremism” hasn’t started out well. The International Crisis Group has found that despite his reform efforts, Islamic schools in Pakistan are still breeding grounds for Islamic radicalism. This from the ICG website, with thanks to Nicolei: President Pervez Musharraf’s promise to drive extremism from Pakistan’s madrasas, or Islamic schools, […]
Open society reduces Holland to ghettos
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says that multiculturalism has failed in Holland. Instead of a tolerant, open society, the Netherlands has become a nation of ghettos with no societal unity. And unless things change, what Holland is now, the rest of the West will be tomorrow. This from the Daily Telegraph via the National Post, with thanks to […]