Jamie Glazov interviews Gregory M. Davis, author of the excellent Religion of Peace? at FrontPage: Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Gregory Davis, the managing director of Quixotic Media and producer of the feature documentary Islam: What the West Needs to Know. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. He is the author […]
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Less Christianity, more Islam and Hinduism in schools
It’s a pity that everyone seems to assume that the host country has to alter its national character to accommodate immigrants, rather than asking the immigrants to adapt to its national character. “Less Christianity, more Islam and Hinduism, schools ordered,” from the Daily Mail, with thanks to Twostellas: A new religious syllabus for schools has […]
Somalia Town Threatens to Behead People Who Don’t Pray 5 Times Daily
The man’s name is Sheikh Rage. You just can’t make this stuff up. From AP, with thanks to all who sent this in: MOGADISHU, Somalia “” Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an official said Wednesday, adding the edict will be implemented in three […]
An orchestrated stunt?
This illuminating graphic accompanies the editorial “Tale Of Fibbing Imams” at Investor’s Business Daily (thanks to Paul Sperry).
Hussain: Naïve Experts’ Misleading Views on Jihad in Southern Thailand
Alamgir Hussain writes for Islam Watch (not affiliated with Jihad Watch), a website whose focus is “Islam under scrutiny by ex-Muslims.” When General Sonthi Boonyaratkalin (also known as Abdullah), the first-ever Muslim head of the Thai army, seized power in a bloodless coup on September 19 (2006), news media around world became flooded with expert […]
Australia: Muslim boys caught urinating and spitting on, burning Bible
Authorities appealed for calm in Western countries, lest riots and effigy burnings break out. Seriously, though, it is good news that two of the boys were expelled and one suspended, but the question remains: Where did the boys learn that kind of hatred? And while one Islamic school expelled them, it will be interesting to […]
Church elder murdered in Mosul, priest kidnapped in Baghdad
Pope Rage leveled against a Presbyterian clergyman. From Compass Direct: December 4 (Compass Direct News) — Grieving Christians in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul completed three days of mourning for a murdered Presbyterian Church elder yesterday, only hours before another Iraqi clergyman was grabbed off the streets of Baghdad this morning. The martyred churchman, identified […]
Islam gets concessions; infidels get conquered
“Double standards do not make for international justice.” An editorial by Raymond Ibrahim for The Los Angeles Times: IN THE DAYS before Pope Benedict XVI’s visit last Thursday to the Hagia Sophia complex in Istanbul, Muslims and Turks expressed fear, apprehension and rage. “The risk,” according to Turkey’s independent newspaper Vatan, “is that Benedict will […]
Pakistani clerics continue efforts to undermine Women’s Protection Bill; gov’t negotiator “agrees” some clauses un-Islamic
An update on this story. “Hadd,” according to the 1979 law, refers to punishments prescribed by the Qur’an or Sunnah. “Shujaat ‘agrees’ some women’s bill clauses un-Islamic,” from The Khaleej Times: ISLAMABAD “” Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, president of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML), has agreed “to some extent” that some clauses of the Women’s Protection […]
American among group caught in Egypt recruiting for jihad in Iraq
“Egypt says arrested foreigners had terror links,” from AFP: CAIRO (AFP) – A group of foreigners arrested in Egypt included French, US, Belgian, Syrian and Tunisian nationals with links to terror groups who were recruiting Islamists for “jihad” in Iraq, the authorities have said. “The security services have dismantled an organisation whose members follow jihadist […]