The amazing story of Yong Ki Kwon, yet another convert to Islam who has misunderstood the religion. One would think, as long as we are being compelled by American Muslim advocacy groups and their allies in the media and government to swallow this farrago about how Islam is a peaceful religion that has been hijacked […]
Archives for 2005
Extra Extra! Not Islam But “Culture and Tradition” Behind Mistreatment of Muslim Women, Indonesian Feminist Reveals
In “Islamic feminists stir the pot in Far East” from the Toronto Star (thanks to Skeetstreet), Haroon Siddiqui “speaks to religious scholar who blames Muslims, not Islam, for gender inequity.” Musdah Mulia is the scholar in question: She wears the hijab but says it’s not Islamically mandatory, a position augmented by a big majority of […]
And dhimmitude for all
Alyssa A. Lappen reviews my new essay collection The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats non-Muslims in FrontPage today: “A thing without a name escapes understanding,” warns preeminent Islamic scholar Bat Ye’or of jihad and dhimmitude””the Islamic institutions of, respectively, war and perpetual servitude imposed on conquered non-Muslim peoples. Both, Ye”or notes in […]
UK: Jewish MP pelted with eggs at war memorial
Muslim protestors attack Jewish MP at memorial to Jewish war dead. From the Telegraph, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: The campaign for what promises to be one of the most bitterly contested parliamentary seats got off to an explosive start yesterday when the MP Oona King was pelted with eggs and vegetables as she […]
Saudis’ tough line on gays
Here’s one for the moral equivalence crowd: Christians want to outlaw same-sex marriage; Muslims are sentencing gays to lashings. From the Guardian, with thanks to Skeetstreet: Dozens of Saudi men caught dancing and “behaving like women” at a party have been sentenced to a total of 14,200 lashes, after a trial held behind closed doors […]
Violent clashes rock central Iran
It’s a race to the finish: will the mullahs get nukes before they are toppled by their long-suffering people? From SMCCDI: Violent clashes happened, this morning, in Darioon which is a suburb of Shiraz located in central Iran. Hundreds of protesters retaliated against the brutal attack of the Islamic regime’s militiamen sent to smash their […]
Denmark: No More Immigrants, Major Towns Demand
An illuminating piece from the Norwegian Kafir’s Fjordman blogspot: Schools in larger cities” disadvantaged neighbourhoods say they are pressed to their limits by the flow of young immigrants and refugees, who move there from smaller towns and rural areas. Politicians from the cities of Odense, Ã…rhus, Vejle, and Kolding have called for the flow to […]
Arabic becoming 2nd language in Quebec’s francophone schools
Islamization of Canada update. From the Jewish Tribune, with thanks to Scaramouche: MONTREAL — For many years, it was the norm that English was the dominant second language throughout Quebec’s primary and secondary francophone schools. But if recent school enrolment trends continue, that linguistic status wil no longer be the case. English will be replaced […]
It ain’t me, babe
Skeetstreet has called my attention to a post at FaithFreedom by a gentleman calling himself ia786, who I believe has also posted here: I am a member of another forum, well a guy registered, he put his name as Robert Spencer. Well he challenged the God fearing brothers and sisters on the forum, well lets […]
An attempt to relegate dhimmitude to the dustbin of history
I have previously encountered Islamic apologists who claim that the dhimma is a thing of the past, or should be, that it should be abolished in Iran and not restored elsewhere. Unfortunately, acknowledgement that its traces remain all over the Islamic world, and that nowhere in the Islamic world today do non-Muslims enjoy full equality […]