An update on this Sharia Alert from AP, with thanks to Nicolei: BIREUN, Indonesia — Fifteen convicted gamblers were flogged Friday for illegal gaming in Indonesia — the first time caning was used as punishment in the world’s most populous Muslim country. After traditional Friday prayers, the 15 convicts were brought to a stage erected […]
Archives for June 2005
Australia: Free speech farce
Andrew Bolt comments on Australia’s Victoria State ridiculous hate speech laws in the Herald Sun (thanks to OBL r Us): PREMIER Steve Bracks promised four years ago to give us “racial and religious tolerance” if we gave up our free speech. What fools people were to believe him…. Every case, each more trivial than the […]
Indonesia: three Christian women arrested for attempting to convert Muslims
“Three Women Arrested, Charged,” from Compass Direct, with thanks to Nicolei: June 23 (Compass) — A Muslim council has accused three Indonesian women of attempting to convert Muslim children. Dr. Rebekka Zakaria, Eti Pangesti and Ratna Bangun were arrested on May 13 and taken to the Indramayu State Prison, where they await trial. Dr. Zakaria […]
Defaced Koran angers Nashville Muslims
A prime entry from our Too Stupid For Words Department, from the Nashville Tennessean, with thanks to zzzadig. The police didn’t respond fast enough? What could they have done if they had gotten there sooner? Put the defaced Qur’an on life support? Pounded its chest and brought it back to life? Come on. Police should […]
Ahmadiya mosque set ablaze in Bangladesh, two others attacked
The Muslims in Bangladesh who did this consider the Ahmadiyas heretics, and thus justifiably to be killed. Not a few would-be Muslim reformers in Bangladesh and elsewhere suspect this would be their fate also, and thus keep silent. From DPA via M&C, with thanks to Twostellas: Dhaka – Suspected Islamic militants on Friday burned down […]
Turkey: 14-year-old shoots mother in botched ‘honor’ killing
An older but important piece from The Guardian of Istanbul via the Taipei Times, with thanks to Twostellas: Birgul Isik had not expected to find her oldest son waiting for her at the bus station when she and four of her children returned from Istanbul to the central Anatolian province of Elazigon on Tuesday. She […]
Spencer on the John Batchelor Show tonight
Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer will be on the John Batchelor Show tonight at 11:20 PM EDT. For convenience’s sake, here is the infamous flag-trampling video that led to the death threats, which we are set to discuss.
Kidnap and decapitation manual found in Baptist hideout — oh, wait…
Yes, I know it’s the same joke over and over. Just in case you hadn’t noticed, I am trying to make a point. Anyway, it wasn’t a Baptist hideout, of course, it was an Islamic jihadist hideout. But it could just as well have been Baptists, right? Right? They’re secretly sharpening their knives even now. […]
Islamic Jihad leaders running scared: “God has ordered us to take care against the plans of the Zionist enemy”
See: a posture of strength works. These guys don’t want to be the next Yassin. Their work is disrupted, for which all decent people can rejoice. “Jihad chiefs avoid rally after Israel death threat,” from Reuters, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) – Islamic Jihad activists marched on Friday, vowing […]
Christian leader urges more violence — oh, wait…
What’s that? Hamas isn’t a right-wing Christian group? It’s a Muslim group? Oh, well, then, they are reacting to illegal occupation and oppression. Give them a state! What’s that? They celebrate the murder of innocents on buses and in restaurants? What are you, some kind of Islamophobe? “Hamas leader urges more violence,” from UPI, : […]