From the Straining Out A Gnat And Swallowing A Camel Department: “Hundreds Attend Dedication Of Iranian-Christian Church,” from NBC11.com, with thanks to Susan: Hundreds of people gathered for a special dedication of the Iranian Christian Church in the South Bay. It is the largest one in the Bay Area. Nearly 600 Iranian Muslims who converted […]
Archives for June 2005
Rape victim takes case to Pakistan’s Supreme Court
This will be an interesting test of Pakistan’s attachment to the Sharia — not the tribe-ordered gang rape, which is some barbaric local custom, but the enforcement of Sharia evidence laws (requiring four Muslim men who saw the act to establish that it actually happened) by the court that overturned the original convictions. Mukhtaran Mai […]
Iran: President-elect renews allegiance with Imam Khomeini
Anybody still fooled by this guy? From the Islamic Republic News Agency, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Iran’s President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad renewed his allegiance with the late founder of the Islamic Revolution Imam Khomeini at his mausoleum in southern Tehran Sunday morning. Accompanied by some members of his publicity office, Ahmadinejad laid a wreath […]
Lodi: duped dhimmis still patsies
As the Man With No Eyes would say, You know, some men you just can’t reach. In “Lodi, California Series Part II – Bad Faith Exchange With Islam,” at PipelineNews (thanks to Mackie), William A. Mayer and Beila Rabinowitz detail how two of the non-Muslim religious leaders who signed a Declaration of Peace a few […]
UK: Quoting Koran Could Be Illegal Under Proposed UK Bill, Lawmaker Says
We already saw Daniel Scot in Australia forbidden to read from the Qur’an in court because it constituted incitement. It’s almost lights out in the UK. From CNSNews.com, with thanks to J: (CNSNews.com) – A British lawmaker says reading excerpts from the Koran that advocate harsh treatment for Christians, Jews and unbelievers would violate a […]
Iran’s New Puppet President
The indefatigable Elio Bonazzi and Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi expose Iran’s sham elections for what they were in FrontPage: Hardline fundamentalist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has swept to power in Iran, defeating his supposed “moderate” opponent Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in the second round of Iran’s presidential election on Friday. The Iranian regime admitted that 7 million less voters turned […]
Fitzgerald: What to do in Iraq (part 3)
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald continues his series of interlocking reflections on what to do in Iraq with these considerations of what it would take actually to win there. What would “winning the war” mean? Would it mean ensuring a unified state, so that the Kurds would have to give up the possibility […]
“The Koran says it is the duty of Muslims to bring terror to the enemy, so being a terrorist makes me a good Muslim”
Ever since I began doing this work publicly my point has been simple and consistent: that the jihad terrorists are working from mainstream traditions and numerous Qur’anic exhortations, and that by means of these traditions and teachings they are able to gain recruits among Muslims worldwide, and hold the sympathy of others whom they do […]
West Misjudged, Mistreated Islam: Swiss Expert
There are so many distortions and inaccuracies in this short article that it would take a book to disentangle them all. From IslamOnline, with thanks to Anthony: GENEVA, June 26, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) — The West has misjudged Islam and done it injustice, largely because of shallow knowledge of the Muslim faith driven from the distorted […]
‘My dream was to be a suicide bomber. I wanted to kill 20, 50 Jews. Yes, even babies’
More peace and tolerance. From the Telegraph, with thanks to Doc Washburn: It was about midday when a young Palestinian woman from the refugee camp of Jabalya in Gaza approached an Israeli checkpoint clutching a special permit to visit a doctor on the other side of the border. The girl had big, brown eyes and […]