Ilana Mercer has an excellent column in WND, with thanks to The One Who Must Not Be Named. Those who talk up the root causes of Muslim disaffection are cultural relativists with a difference. For example, they’ll be the first to point to how ignorant we are of the centrality of honor in Arab culture. […]
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South Carolina: Muslim on FBI watch list enters church service with suspicious package, “message from Allah”
He didn’t turn out to have a bomb. “Suspicious Man Stopped At Church Service,” from the Carolina Channel, with thanks to The One Who Must Not Be Named and DC Watson: GREENVILLE — A man has attracted the attention of the FBI after an incident at a Greenville County church last weekend. Sheriff’s deputies said […]
Suicide bomber kills 10 recruits in Baghdad
Islamikazes continue to target Iraqi “collaborators” and Sunnis suspended their participation in the writing of the constitution after yesterday’s assassination. From MSNBC: BAGHDAD, Iraq – A suicide attacker wearing an explosives belt detonated himself Wednesday outside an army recruiting center in Baghdad, killing at least 10 people, police and army officials said. The attacker blew […]
London bomber’s uncle defends nephew’s ‘sacrifice’: Report
From ZeeNews, with thanks to Romy. London, July 17, The uncle of Shahzad Tanweer, one of the four London bomb suspects, has defended his nephew’s actions as a desperate “sacrifice” in an interview with the British tabloid newspaper ‘The News of thee World’. “These suicide bombers are desperate people,” Bashir Ahmed told the Sunday Paper. […]
London mayor defends the use of Palestinian suicide bombers
Moral equivalence from “Red Ken” brought to us by Haaretz, with thanks to Sr. Soph. Less than two weeks since the London terror attacks, the city’s Mayor Ken Livingstone has sparked controversy by defending the use of suicide bombers in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and charging that Israel had indiscriminately slaughtered Palestinians in acts that “border […]
Indonesia bans Ahmadiyah teachings
The people mustn’t be allowed to learn about a reformed form of Islam. From Antara News, GOVT BANS AHMADIYAH TEACHINGS IN INDONESIA, MINISTER SAYS, with thanks to Two Stellas. Jakarta – The government has banned the Ahmadiyah, a splinter group of Islam which believes Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as a prophet after Prophet Muhammad, from propagating […]
Hardline Muslim cleric Qardawi scraps plans to visit Britain
They say he scrapped his plans because of pressure from the Daily Express newspaper. From ZeeNews: London – A hardline Muslim cleric based in Qatar has scrapped plans to speak to Muslims in Britain following an outcry in the wake of the July 7 London terror attacks, a newspaper reported. Qatar-based Sheikh Yussef al-Qaradawi, a […]
Egypt Clears El-Nashar of Complicity
An update on the alleged accomplice to the London bombings who conveniently turned up in Egypt. It is not known whether the Egyptian government allowed British investigators to interrogate him or not. Egypt has no extradition treaty with the UK. From Arab News: CAIRO “” Egyptian authorities said yesterday that investigations have proved so far […]
India: Victim ordered to wed rapist
Imrana update and Sharia alert from the Washington Times, with thanks to Ruth King: BOMBAY — Hard-line Islamic clerics in a northern Indian village have declared that a woman’s 10-year-old marriage was nullified when her father-in-law raped her — and ordered the mother of five to marry the rapist. The fatwa, or religious edict, was […]
Lebanese Cabinet includes Hezbollah member
From AP: BEIRUT, Lebanon – Lebanon’s prime minister-designate announced his new Cabinet on Tuesday, a government dominated by opponents of Syria but including a member of the militant Hezbollah group, which Washington brands a terrorist organization. The 24-member Cabinet, the first since Syria withdrew its troops from Lebanon, omits prominent Christian representation of followers of […]