In the course of research for my study of Islam I have naturally had to familiarize myself with the Western reception, perception, and sometimes misperception of the beliefs and practices of the Muslims. All types of texts swam into my ken. Only a representative sampling need be mentioned here. There was the early guide of […]
Archives for 2006
America Beware!
Stella L. Jatras sounds a warning: It is certainly no surprise that “Sharia law is spreading as authority wanes” in Britain, as reported in The Telegraph (UK) of 29 November. All the signs of this eventuality were there. Are we ignoring those same signs in this country? Today in Britain there are more practicing Muslims […]
Jihadists bomb music stores in Gaza
Music is forbidden in Islamic law, although this law is often ignored. Muslim hardliners don’t ignore it, and they don’t want you to, either. “Islamists Bomb Music Stores in Gaza,” from Middle East News Line, with thanks to Twostellas: GAZA CITY [MENL] — An Al Qaida-aligned cell has declared war on music and the Internet […]
Muslims in Pakistan stand up for rapists’ rights
More on this story. “Muslims demand rape law reverse,” by Bruce Loudon for The Australian, with thanks to Miss Kelly: ONLY 10 days after Pakistan’s military-led Government reformed the country’s medieval rape and adultery laws, Islamabad appeared poised for a major backflip on the issue yesterday in an effort to pacify Islamic fundamentalists who have […]
Muslims Seek Prayer Room at Airport
Imagine how convenient it would have been for Muhammad Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari and the rest of them on 9/11 if they had had access to a place like this. They would have had a a nice Muslims-only room where they could gather and arrange their boxcutters and other necessary materials in peace, go over […]
Muslims protest outside airlines headquarters over imams’ removal
The latest in the US Airways/Imam Rage controversy from AP, with thanks to Twostellas: …Yesterday, about 100 Muslims gathered in front of the airline’s Tempe headquarters to appeal for equal treatment and justice. The group protested the removal of six Islamic spiritual leaders aboard a flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix last week…. A spiritual leader […]
Minnesota Muslim columnist: post-9/11 US an “Islam-phobic country”
Ahmed Tharwat is the host of a weekly show on Twin Cities Public Television (Ch. 17). In “Ahmed Tharwat: Imams at airport should have known better” in the Star Tribune (thanks to Paul), he ascribes the USAirways/Imam Rage controversy to American “paranoia” — and completely misrepresents the facts of the case. From the view of […]
Dallas: FBI agent describes group’s jihad plot
Texas Jihad Update. “FBI agent describes group’s jihad plot: Photos show a Dallas student and 2 from Houston at weapons-training camps near Willis,” by Thomas Korosec in the Houston Chronicle, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: DALLAS “” An FBI agent testified in federal court Friday that at least four aspiring jihadists conducted firearms training […]
A new movement against “Islamofascism”?
I am all for new anti-jihad movements. The more the better. There is certainly a great deal of work to be done, and no one can say he is doing it all or can do it all himself. And now here is, possibly, a new attempt to put together a movement: “A new movement against […]
David Selbourne above it all
Here is a silly and misleading piece in The Spectator by David Selbourne, “Apocalypse on the US blogosphere.” Selbourne has written some excellent pieces about the global jihad in the past; his book, The Losing Battle with Islam, while enlightening in many ways, manifests a similar inconsistency. There is a world, increasingly driven by unreason, […]