Western officials including Colin Powell explained that the tsunami relief was supposed to win Muslim hearts and minds. And it’s doing so — one lashing at a time. “Tsunami survivors given the lash,” by Michael Sheridan and Dewi Loveard in the TimesOnline, with thanks to all who sent this in: WHEN people around the world […]
Archives for 2006
Iranian students hide in fear for lives
Remember those Iranian students who dared protest against the Thug-In-Chief in front of Ahmadinejad himself? Well, so does Ahmadinejad. What was that again about it being “possible to govern based on an approach that is distinctly different from one of coercion, force and injustice,” Mahmoud? From the Mail & Guardian, with thanks to DFS: Iranian […]
Vote for Hero and Idiot of the Year at Faith Freedom International
The superlative Ali Sina at the must-read site Faith Freedom International is holding voting for Hero of the Year and Idiot of the Year. Exercise your civic duty and vote!
Jews far more likely to be victims of faith hatred than Muslims
Belying the victim status that Muslim leaders in the U.S. and Britain so assiduously cultivate, and manifesting yet again the lethal character of Muslim anti-Semitism, which is nourished by the Qur’an, and the supine response to it on the part of British officials. By Tom Harper and Ben Leapman in the Sunday Telegraph, with thanks […]
Ignorance May Be Bliss, but It Makes for Bad Policy: Analysis of the Iraq Study Group Report
And the article is even better than the title. Here is an analysis of the Baker/Hamilton Report by Timothy R. Furnish, Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Perimeter College, author of Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, their Jihads and Osama bin Laden, and proprieter of the informative website mahdiwatch.org. In perhaps no region of the world […]
UK: Parents angered as every pupil is given halal school meals
It’s easier that way, just as in the case of the cemetery that decided to bury everyone facing Mecca: the Muslims stand for something, you see, and the non-Muslims don’t. So the path of accommodation is easiest — for those bereft of any sense of the value of their own culture and traditions. “Parents angered […]
O, Muslim town of Bethlehem…
“As Christians, we have no future here.” By Elizabeth Day in the Daily Mail, with thanks to Twostellas: All is quiet in Bethlehem. On Manger Square, the Church of the Nativity stands in the pale gloom of dusk, its doors open to passing pilgrims. But inside, the nave is empty of visitors and the collection […]
Neighboring Thai villages at center of violence between Muslims, Buddhists
It’s All About Israel Update. By Kim Barker in the Chicago Tribune, with thanks to Twostellas: OUTSIDE NARATHIWAT, Thailand – Once they were friends, the chiefs of neighboring Buddhist and Muslim villages, separated by less than a mile of rice paddies and rubber-tree plantations. Violence drove them apart. And when Muhammad Dunai Tanyeeno, the chief […]
Fitzgerald: The Awful Truth
A poster at this website recently asked: “There is an excellent PhD just waiting to be written re. the peculiar mental pathologies that Islam inculcates in its adherents….Has that PhD been written?” Yes. Here and there. Look at Andre Servier’s book, now on line (put online by a JW poster alerted to its merits). Look […]
Gingrich: Imams should have been arrested
Newt Gingrich speaks truth to power about the Flying Imams rage incident. From UPI, with thanks to Doc Washburn: MANCHESTER, N.H., Dec. 16 (UPI) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told an audience in New Hampshire Muslim clerics pulled off a plane for praying should have been charged criminally. Gingrich made the remark Friday night, […]