Get ready for Cartoon Rage II. From AP: CAIRO, Egypt – Egypt’s largest Islamic group, the Muslim Brotherhood, on Saturday denounced what it called “new Danish insults” to Islam and urged the world to boycott countries that allow offenses to all religions. The Brotherhood’s condemnation came a day after word spread about a Web video […]
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Iran: Christian couple released on bail
An update on this story from Compass Direct: October 5 (Compass Direct News) — After nine days in secret police custody, Reza Montazami and his wife, Fereshteh Dibaj, were released on bail this morning by order of a Revolutionary Court in Mashhad, Iran. Montazami’s elderly parents were summoned to the court at 8 a.m. today […]
Attack on US embassy in Damascus “planned in Saudi Arabia”
Remember when the Saudis were claiming that they had removed all the “extremist preachers” from Saudi mosques? So do I. Friend and Ally Update: “US embassy attack ‘was planned in Saudi Arabia,’” from Reuters, with thanks to Sr. Soph: Damascus: Last month’s attack on the US embassy in Damascus was planned in Saudi Arabia and […]
Fitzgerald: A menace to Europe, the West, and the civilized world
Javier Solana, Chris Patten (now, grotesquely, permitted to call himself the Chancellor of Oxford University — at what speed do you think John Sparrow is turning in his grave?), Miguel Moratinos, the ineffable Mary Robinson (having ended up in hugely-salaried safety at the World Institute of world-conquering Jeffery Sachs — they all do): these are […]
UK: violent Muslim/non-Muslim clashes
Or in the deceptive and misleading racial euphemisms employed by the British press, violent clashes between “whites” and “Asians.” But they don’t mean Norwegians are fighting Hindus from India. “Race clashes hit Windsor,” from the Evening Standard, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Extra police are being drafted into the Windsor area today after three […]
UK: ‘Unclean’ guide dog banned by Muslim cab driver
Islamic Republic of Britain Update: “‘Unclean’ guide dog banned by Muslim cab driver,” from the Daily Mail, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: A Muslim minicab driver refused to take a blind passenger because her guide dog was “unclean”. Abdul Rasheed Majekodumni told Jane Vernon she could not get into his car with the dog […]
Musharraf: “Islam Bad” (no, call off the beheading — it’s a typo)
One of the most exciting and frustrating days in any author’s life is the day the book arrives. After all the toil, tears, and sweat (if not blood), here are the fruits of one’s labors. But no matter how superbly eagle-eyed and indefatigable editors proofreaders are (and the ones at my publisher, Regnery Publishing, are […]
Fitzgerald: Goodnight, Great Britain — it was swell while it lasted
“…their obvious awareness that an English person (as they would probably call me) might well think of Islam as being anything but peaceful. True enough, they were cocky. Yet behind the front lay a defensiveness that all Muslims must surely feel….” — from this nauseating article by Dave Hill What a perfect mixture of sentimental […]
New Swedish Integration Minister an “Islamophobe”
It doesn’t take much to get called an “Islamophobe.” I have earned the title by daring to report on what the Islamic sacred texts say and how those texts have been understood in Islamic tradition, and to ask self-proclaimed moderate Muslims to acknowledge the existence of those texts and traditions, and come up with some […]
Abbas Tells US PA Will Recognize Israel, Says Opposite on PA TV
Arafat taught him well. “War Is Deceit” Update from Hana Levi Julian in Israel National News, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said this week he would “˜fire Hamas” if the terror group won’t recognize Israel, but sang a different tune on PA TV. Abbas convinced U.S. Secretary of State […]