From Mona Eltahawy of the Progressive Muslim Union of North America in the Christian Science Monitor, with thanks to Ali Dashti: NEW YORK — In January last year, the US-backed Iraqi Governing Council incurred the wrath of Iraqi women by ordering that Islamic law, or sharia, replace the civil code that had governed family and […]
Archives for 2005
Muslim Dilemma: Kill Jews or Convert Them?
A few choice MEMRI translations on a disagreement among Muslim clerics on how to deal with Jews. Neither one mentions the third option for dhimmis — subjugation as inferiors under Islamic law — although it has been invoked by imams in Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority in the last few years. I recount those […]
Central Asia: Researchers Say Polygamy Harmful to Regional Economies
From RFE/RL, with thanks to Ali Dashti: Prague, 2 February 2005 (RFE/RL) — A husband with several wives and many children usually spends his money on quantity rather than quality, and therefore his children receive a mediocre or even poor education. This, in turn, lowers the education level of those societies in which polygamy is […]
Saudi Court: The Value of One Woman’s Life is Equal to that of One Man’s Leg
The Islamic Society of Boston (to take just one example) maintains that Islam considers men and women “equal in the sight of God.” Mmm-hmm. From the Saudi Institute, with thanks to Ali Dashti: Washington, DC (January 29) — A Saudi court has ruled that the value of one woman’s life is equal to that of […]
Nigerian Muslim Militants “Pronounce Death Sentence” over Christian Students
Traditional Islamic law mandates death for those who leave Islam, and for non-Muslims who try to induce Muslims to leave Islam. That may have been a motive in the New Jersey murders — and for those who don’t believe that that sort of thing really happens, here is a story from Nigeria. From “Nigeria: Muslim […]
Darfur crimes continue
From SA, with thanks to Ali Dashti: Khartoum – Crimes against civilians in Sudan’s troubled region of Darfur are continuing while aid workers are “terrorised” and subject to arbitrary arrest, the United Nations envoy for Sudan said on Wednesday. Jan Pronk made the bleak assessment two days after a UN panel accused the Khartoum government […]
French pol: ” the Armenian problem is not an issue concerning Turkey-France relations”
Dhimmitude from a French politician? Why, it’s unprecedented! From “Debre: Armenian Issue is not Our Problem” in Turks.us, with thanks to Ali Dashti: Speaker of the French National Parliament Jean-Louis Debre discussed Turkey’s European Union (EU) membership bid just before his Turkey visit begins today. Debre responded to a question about whether the Armenian issue […]
Pakistan: “Music, dance and photos of women should be banned”
Sharia alert. Last night after I gave a talk a gentleman confronted me with the fact that only two states today fully implement Sharia — as if the rest of the Islamic world has nothing to do with it. In fact, it is advancing everywhere. Sir, this one’s for you. “MMA MPA seeks law against […]
Spencer: Dummies for Islam
Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer at FrontPage today on the Freedom House report and its implications for General Vines’ reading list: In a remarkable example of truth in advertising, Lt. General John R. Vines, the new U.S. ground commander in Iraq, has included on a booklist for his senior staff officers the deathless classic Islam […]
Hollandistan Follies : Dutch University to offer tax payer financed Imam course : “Because … many Imams don’t have much of a feeling for Dutch society”
“The Free University is getting an Imam-course,” a translation of “Vrije Universiteit krijgt imam-opleiding” by by Beila Rabinowitz, director of Militant Islam Monitor: The Free University in Holland (VU), is getting 1.5 million euro from the Ministry of Education to provide a course for Imams. According to the goverment such a course is necessary, because […]