More on the Islamic reluctance to give charity to non-Muslims. From UPI, with thanks to Doc Washburn: PARIS, France, Jan. 4 (UPI) — As the world is focused on the victims of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, a debate is raging among Muslim scholars about an ancient topic: Who is your neighbor? “Some insist […]
Archives for 2005
The Intifada Comes to Duke
“A university plays host to anti-Semites and terror advocates.” And glories in jihadist attacks on civilians. From OpinionJournal, with thanks to JS: A new ritual on the American academic scene is the annual conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement. The PSM is an umbrella organization that connects various U.S. and Canadian groups; its yearly gathering […]
Jihad: Basic definition of
Lately a Muslim has been writing me, angry because “the site is about only one meaning of Jihad.” Well, of course. There is only one meaning of jihad that leads Muslims to wage war against unbelievers. It is no concern of mine if a Muslim devotes himself to greater efforts to pray or resist sin. […]
IslamOnline: “Swiss Muslims Withstand Media Onslaughts in 2004”
The poor Muslims of Switzerland. They have had to spend 2004 fighting stereotypes. And — would you believe it? — the dhimmis have actually had the temerity to criticize Hani Ramadan, Tariq’s brother, for defending the stoning punishment for adultery! Of course, the way things are going, Hani has nothing to worry about (and adulterers […]
Dutch Muslim Site Spoofs Hirsi Ali’s Death
Rogier van Bakel of Nobody’s Business has kindly alerted me to this item from his site: Dutch Muslim Site Spoofs Hirsi Ali’s Death Www.elqalem.nl is a website by and for young Dutch muslims. It bills itself as a “completely neutral information platform.” The editors say the site should be considered a “part of the neutral, […]
Jihad Watches?
From “Homeland Security Warning: Could a Watch become a Weapon?,” from WABC, : According to U.S. intelligence sources, Al Qaeda is trying to obtain watches with a hidden butane lighter and watches with an altimeter built in, that together would be used to bring down commercial airliners. Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down over […]
Neither whores nor slaves
From AFP, with thanks to David Russell, who comments: “This issue of ‘ni putes ni soumises’ in France is very interesting, and is probably incomprehensible to most Americans. You can see it in the tone that this article takes, presenting it as a ‘feminist’ issue. Even in France, as you can see, many on the […]
Allah off the Richter Scale
More on this theme from Arnaud de Borchgrave. (Thanks to BigV for the link.) WASHINGTON — The killer wave that swallowed tens of thousands of Muslims was an act of Allah designed to punish the Christians. So went the convoluted logic of some Muslim imams in last Friday’s sermons from Saudi Arabia to the Palestinian […]
In Angry Waves, the Devout See an Angry God
In Islam Unveiled, I discuss a recurring phenomenon of Islamic history: when disaster of any kind strikes, it is all too frequently interpreted as having been caused by a failure on the part of the people to be Islamic enough. So the result is a renewed fervor, and new miseries for non-Muslims inside and often […]
Protestant Proselytizers Eye 10% of Turks: Report
From IslamOnline, with thanks to Ali Dashti, who suggests that Turkey may be ill-advised to present itself so openly as a “Muslim Club” while it is trying to join the EU: CAIRO, December 31 (IslamOnline.net) – Protestant missionaries are planning to proselytize some 10 per cent of Turkey’s 70 million population by 2020, the Turkish […]