Clever man, this Lies. Gaming the System Alert: “French Muslim man hits back in polygamy row,” from Expatica, April 26 (thanks to Sr. Soph): A Muslim butcher who could be stripped of his French passport over allegations of polygamy hit back on Monday, insisting that he had not broken the law. Lies Hebbadj, an Algerian-born […]
Archives for April 2010
Mauritania: Black students at Nouakchott University complain of “Arabisation”
As Hugh Fitzgerald has often noted here, Islam is a vehicle for Arab supremacism. The centrality given to Arabic, such that prayers cannot be offered and the Qur’an not properly recited in any other language, has led historically to clashes between Arab and non-Arab Muslims, with the former having a decided sense of superiority. “Negro-Mauritanians […]
U.K.: Atheist who mocked Islam and Christianity hit with “Anti-Social Behaviour Order” — but for which insult?
He also mocked the pope, but given the recent embarrassment over at the Foreign Office, the order, or “Asbo” can’t be about that. What if he just mocked Christian beliefs, and not Islam? Would authorities have pursued the case? And for that matter, if Taylor was accused of “causing religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress,” […]
Yemen: British ambassador escapes jihadist suicide attack
Two aspects of this story raise an eyebrow, given Yemen’s track record as a “bus station” for jihadists. One is the fact that the assailant was “known to authorities.” The other is an officials claim of “dozens” of arrests “as police raided addresses across Sana’a.” Now, if they knew where they were, why were they […]
“I got a lot of respect for a gun”
From Jihad Watch reader Camelia: An atheist passes a priest and shouts “Jesus is a lie!”. He then passes a Jew and shouts “God is a lie!”. He then passes a Muslim cleric and shouts, “Good day Sir!”. :))
Geller: “This is the first time anyone offered public help to people threatened under Islam’s death penalty for apostasy”
Over at Frontpage, Jamie Glazov interviews my SIOA colleague Pamela Geller about the bus ad initiative in Miami: Geller: Last Tuesday (April 13), Stop Islamization Of America and the Freedom Defense Initiative, the new organization I have begun with bestselling author and Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, rolled out our “Leaving Islam” ad campaign on […]
Omid Safi lies again, claims I threatened to kill him
The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do. A few years back I had a rather unpleasant exchange with Omid Safi, a professor at that time at Colgate University, now at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Or at least he […]
“British dad” accused of funding jihad from restaurant business
The translation of the original headline, according to Jihad Watch’s handsome, leather-bound American English / English-English Dictionary is “Birmingham purveyor of a particular curry dish is jihad kingpin.” And knowing is half the battle. “Brummie balti boss ‘is terror kingpin,” by Tom Wells for The Sun, April 26 (thanks to the aptly named Thomas Pellow): […]
U.N.: Iran angles for membership on commission to protect women’s rights
Another item for our ever-expanding You-Can’t-Make-This-Stuff-Up file. And this comes after their failed candidacy for the Council for Human Rights. Not that the Iranians would say they’re against women’s rights. They’re only interested in the position, privileges, and obligations in society that Sharia prescribes for women. Those are their rights, and nothing more. “Tehran candidates […]
Islamic Republic of Farmville: Second al-Qaeda leader’s “profile” shut down on Facebook
As was the case with bin Laden, it’s not who’s operating the page that is of interest, but the fact that, per this report, “experts say militant groups have been scrambling in recent weeks to get on sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.” And you thought Mafia Wars was annoying. “Terrorist No2 gets axe from […]