There is not only the lack of a minimum age for marriage in the Qur’an, but also the permission for child marriage implied by the permission granted to divorce prepubescent girls (Qur’an 65:4), and of course, Muhammad’s own example in marrying Aisha at the age of 6 and consummating the marriage when she was 9. […]
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Mumbai: Indian forces besiege Jewish Center held by jihadists
More on this story. “URGENT: Indian Forces Assault Besieged Jewish Center in Mumbai,” from AP, November 27: MUMBAI, India “” Security forces assaulted a Jewish center in Mumbai where Muslim militants were believed holed up with possible hostages Friday, with black-clad commandos dropping from a Indian helicopter as sharpshooters opened fire on the five-story building. […]
Pakistan involvement in Mumbai jihad attacks?
It wouldn’t be a huge surprise. “Indian forces arrest militants, including Pakistani,” from News.com.au, November 28 (thanks to JE): INDIAN security forces have arrested three militants, including a Pakistani national, inside a Mumbai hotel attacked by a group of gunmen. Quoting official sources, the Press Trust of India news agency reported the arrests were made […]
Fighting erupts at Mumbai Jewish center seized by jihadists
Gunshots were audible on CNN-IBN’s coverage, which went dark moments later, at least on the internet feed. “Fighting reported at Mumbai Jewish center,” from CNN, November 27: MUMBAI, India (CNN) — Fighting broke out early Friday between government soldiers in a helicopter and gunmen holed up inside a Jewish center where two or three gunmen […]
Australian prof: Hindus responsible for Mumbai attacks
More lunacy re the Mumbai jihad attacks — this time from the Muslim Victimology Department. Marika Vicziany is a Professor of South Asian Studies at Monash University in Victoria, Australia. She isn’t saying that the Hindus mounted the attacks, but that they’re revenge attacks for Hindu mistreatment of Muslims. “Australian killed in Mumbai terror attacks,” […]
Saudi funded Mumbai jihadists?
Surprise, surprise: a possible Saudi connection to the Mumbai massacre. Are the “Indian Mujahideen” and the “Deccan Mujahideen” one and the same, or related in some way? Not necessarily, but that there would be a Saudi hand in the jihad in India at all is both unsurprising and something that bears further investigation. A September […]
Mumbai jihadists: “We urge the Indian government to return stolen Muslim lands”
Any land that once belonged to the Dar al-Islam belongs to it by right forever, at least as far as Islamic jihadists are concerned, and so this strange demand is not all that surprising. “Mumbai hostage rescue raids continue,” from AP, November 26 (thanks to Israel Matzav): […] The terrorists issued a first statement saying, […]
Muslim Brotherhood: The Jews and Hindus attacked Mumbai, not Islamic jihadists
Amaresh Misra, conspiracy fantasist It was all a Mossad conspiracy, doncha know. The Muslim Brotherhood, the organization that is dedicated in its own words to “a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that […]
Jihad in Mumbai: Death toll hits 125
Inner spiritual struggle all over the city Jihad against 73-year-old British entrepreneurs. “Mumbai Massacre: British tycoon killed moments after TV interview as death toll hits 125,” by Amar Singh, Richard Orange and Nicola Boden for the Daily Mail, November 27 (thanks to Alan): A British shipping tycoon was gunned down by terrorists in a Mumbai […]
Be thankful that you are free
Happy Thanksgiving. In past years I’ve written on this day that I’m thankful that there haven’t been more jihad terror attacks on U.S. soil. I am thankful for that this year also, but this year’s Thanksgiving comes in the shadow of the jihad attacks in Mumbai — and we must not forget that their defense […]