Clueless, and ultimately suicidal, dhimmitude from Russia. “Israel to Russia: Hamas is like the Chechen terrorists,” from Haaretz, May 12: The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday slammed Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s call to involve Hamas in the Mideast peace process, and likened the organization to the Islamist Chechen rebels. “Hamas is exactly like the Chechen terrorists […]
Archives for May 2010
U.S. government rejects SIOA trademark — it offends Islam
Sharia Alert from the U.S. government. WND picks up on this story. “Government protects Islam, rejects trademark,” by Bob Unruh for WorldNetDaily, May 15: A federal agency has rejected a request for a trademark by the organization “Stop Islamization of America” because its name may “disparage” Muslims. The group launched by Atlas Shrugs blogger Pamela […]
Muslims try to burn down Motoonist Lars Vilks’ house
Worth committing arson for Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks has enraged Islamic supremacists by drawing the cartoon of Muhammad above. There have been multiple attempts on his life, and now this. Swedish language story here (thanks to Fröken Sverige). Will the West defend the freedom of speech?
Geller: No 9/11 Mosque!
In “No 9/11 Mosque” in Human Events Friday, Pamela Geller explained what’s wrong with the new mosque planned near the Ground Zero site: The Community Board for New York City’s financial district last week unanimously approved the construction of a 13-story mosque and Islamic cultural center right across from Ground Zero. One might think that […]
Eric Holder: Jihad? What jihad?
This man is in serious denial. And note that Holder and Smith agree that there is a difference between “Islam” and “radical Islam” and that the latter is a misinterpretation of the former. On what grounds do they believe this? Where is this peaceful, benign version of Islam that teaches peaceful coexistence with unbelievers as […]
Indian lyricist gets multiple death threats after publicly dissenting from Islamic seminary’s fatwa against women working
We’re always made to affirm, on pain of charges of “Islamophobia,” that Islam is not a monolith, but rather a gorgeous mosaic notable for its multiplicity. The only things interfering with this inspiring picture are the recurring death threats against those Muslims who attempt to soften some of Islam’s sharper edges. Islamic Tolerance Alert and […]
“Relentless waves of bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, extortions and rapes have triggered a mass exodus of Christians from Iraq over the past seven years”
And all of it was perpetrated by Sharia supremacist groups acting in the name of Islam. “‘Obliterating’ Iraq’s Christians,” by Nina Shea in the Washington Post, May 14: What is most startling about the report of the heartless double bus bombings on May 2 that targeted and injured 80 Christian students traveling to northern Iraq’s […]
Fitzgerald: Should the U.S. government now develop a special program of domestic aid for Muslims?
Well, now we know why Faisal Shahzad did what he did. For god’s sake, you don’t have to be Robert Pape to know that Islam had nothing to do with it. It was loss of status. It was poverty. Here was poor Faisal Shahzad, the son of a high-ranking Pakistani Air Force Officer, who no […]
Fitzgerald: Isobel Coleman and Sakena Yacoobi “looking for loopholes” in the Qur’an, or, In the Muslim world, will Jesuitical casuistry improve the condition of women?
I listened recently on NPR to a discussion about Empowerment of Women In Islam. The two guests were Sakena Yacoobi, an Afghan who for many years lived in the United States and is now back in Afghanistan, and Isobel Coleman, who after years in business (mainly as a McKinsey consultant), began to take an interest […]
Sweden: Syrian diplomat tried to kidnap daughter because he didn’t approve of her boyfriend
The good news: He failed, and he’s been expelled from the country. “Sweden expels Syrian diplomat, tried to kidnap his daughter,” from the Associated Press, May 14: STOCKHOLM — A prosecutor says Sweden has expelled a Syrian diplomat in an alleged plot to abduct his daughter and bring her out of the Scandinavian country. Prosecutor […]