A prominent Canadian Muslim lobbying group, the Canadian Islamic Congress, has decided to make those Canadian politicians who voted against the imposition of Sharia law pay for their decision at the ballot box. Their target: the same Liberal Party which regularly embraces every form of “diversity” imaginable. Not good enough for the CIC, according to […]
Archives for 2005
Spanish court sentences Al-Jazeera journalist to seven years
A Tayseer Alouni update. From the Morocco Times: Alouni appeared before the Spanish national court for the unique charge of meeting Ben laden in 2001, while he was Al jazeera’s correspondent in Afghanistan. Alouni’s wife, Fatima Zahra, reaffirmed that her husband is innocent from all the fabricated charges against him. “We will do everything we […]
It is forbidden to see a man’s private parts
Is the good Sheikh really concerned about protecting the rights of psychiatric patients or is the prevention of shocking dogmatic sensibilities more important? This report from the Arab News documents a problem that affects all societies, including Saudi Arabia’s. The National Society for Human Rights in Saudi Arabia yesterday said it would investigate allegations of […]
Al Qaradawi: Osama should be tried by Muslim judges
From The Peninsula, with thanks to Twostellas: Noted Islamic scholar, Dr Yusuf Al Qaradawi has said the Al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Abu Musad Al Zarqawi should be tried by Muslim judges if they are caught. A local Arabic daily quoted Dr Al Qaradawi as telling a German magazine in an interview that […]
U.S. Special Forces Kill No. 2 Terrorist in Iraq
A major development in Iraq. From FoxNews, with thanks to Ron: WASHINGTON “” U.S. Special Forces killed Al Qaeda’s No. 2 terror mastermind in Iraq, Defense Department officials said. FOX News has confirmed that Abu Azzam, who was believed to have been in charge of the financing of terrorist cells in the war-torn country, was […]
“Law-abiding Muslims have as much at stake in these laws being passed as law-abiding Christians or law-abiding atheists or law-abiding Jews or law-abiding Hindus. We are all in this together”
Australia tries to outlaw seditious speech, and a Muslim leader is worried that it will create more “public intolerance.” “Terror laws target web chatter,” from the Courier Mail, with thanks to Daryl: A THROW-away comment posted on a website praising a terrorist attack anywhere in the world could land a person in jail under tough […]
Pipes: “Unremarked by most Westerners, Islam’s presence has started to change their way of life”
In “Islam Enforced in Ontario?” at FrontPage, Daniel Pipes surveys the Ontario Sharia controversy, which ended with the government’s intention to end all religious arbitration, and concludes: That Orthodox Jews and others might lose out points to an emerging pattern, whereby efforts to integrate Muslims into the West upset a benign status quo. Other recent […]
Spencer: Saudi Arabia: Still the Face of the Devil
In FrontPage I take another look at Saudi claims to reform. Here is my earlier article on the Saudi Arabia Accountability Act. At FP there are links to the source material. [UPDATE: The link still works, but this piece has been taken down from the FP site for today — they tell me it has […]
A reply from Denis MacEoin
Denis MacEoin, who has published a bit on Islamic subjects, recently came across this Hugh Fitzgerald piece here at Jihad Watch, and sent me the reply below. His remarks on the comments are a bit out of focus, of course, since I have repeatedly called for civility and good sense from those who comment here […]
Sperry: From the White House to the Jail House
Grover Norquist does it again. From Paul Sperry in FrontPage: Last Monday, David Hossein Safavian, a high-ranking White House official and pal of GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist, was arrested in a federal corruption case involving lobbying bad boy Jack Abramoff. According to the FBI, Safavian repeatedly lied to federal investigators in order to cover up […]