I recently participated in a FrontPage Symposium, “The World’s Most Wanted: A ‘Moderate Islam,’” about that great unicorn in which everyone believes and depends upon but which no one has ever actually seen, moderate Islam. In this special edition of Frontpage Symposium, we have invited four distinguished guests to discuss the question: Is there a […]
Archives for May 2010
Full video: Spencer at Florida State University Law School, March 30
Here is full video — with subtitles! — of my address on Islamic law at Florida State University Law School, March 30. Many thanks to Eric McCullough for the video.
Hosam Smadi, failed Dallas jihadi, reaches plea deal
The plea deal, if approved, would cap the prison term at 30 years. Smadi will only be about 50, and was in the U.S. illegally to begin with. “Dallas skyscraper bomb suspect reaches plea deal,” from WFAA, May 26: DALLAS — The Jordanian man accused of trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper last September […]
The problem lies in Pakistan
My friend Aymenn Jawad, who is working on translating my Qur’an commentary, “Blogging the Qur’an,” into Spanish, speaks truths others would prefer to ignore in this letter to the Independent: “The problem lies in Pakistan,” May 26 (scroll down): You are right that the “Afghan mission can still be made a worthwhile one, but not […]
Sex and the City 2: Anti-Muslim, or dhimmi to a fault?
Yesterday I posted a review of the new movie Sex and the City 2 (which is set in Abu Dhabi) that complained that it was “anti-Muslim.” But this new review, “Sucks in the city” by Kyle Smith in the New York Post, May 26, makes the film sound as if it treats Islamic issues with […]
New York Daily News smears SIOA religious liberty bus ads, Pamela Geller
This is what they call journalism these days: a full-out hit piece in the New York Daily News against out SIOA religious liberty bus ads. “Pamela Geller, blogger with Tea Party ties, launches ad crusade against ‘Islamization of America,’” by Barry Paddock, Anjali Khosla Mullany and Corky Siemaszko for the New York Daily News, May […]
Two Italian retail chains kowtow to Palestinian jihad, suspend sale of Israeli products
Two Italian retail chains look back nostalgically to the days when Jewish businesses were labeled as such and shunned by Nazis and those who feared them. “Mideast: Frattini, Coop-Conad Initiative Dangerous and Racist,” from ANSAmed, May 26 (thanks to Insubria): (ANSAmed) – WASHINGTON, MAY 26 – An initiative that “introduces an extremely dangerous element of […]
Pakistan restoring access to YouTube, but will block videos offensive to Muslims — beheadings? Nope — cartoons
Pakistan blocked Facebook and YouTube last week to save sensitive Pakistani eyes from seeing the cartoons of their prophet generated on “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day.” Now they’re easing some of the blockage, but material offensive to Muslims will still be blocked. I expect that means websites like this one, not, say, the video of the […]
Indonesia: Aceh’s religious police regent says women in jeans make Muslims want to rape
And if men aren’t moved to rape by the sight of a woman in jeans, it’s because they’re used to it. But the prospect of getting used to it doesn’t appeal to Ramli Mansur. More on this story: “Aceh’s religious police crack down on tight jeans,” by Tom Allard in the Sydney Morning Herald, May […]
Indonesia: Fatwa against transsexuals and transvestites
Yet most such people in the West would consider resistance to Sharia to be “bigoted” and “racist.” Sharia Alert from Indonesia: “Islamic scholars against trans working in women’s beauty salons,” by Mathias Hariyadi for Asia News, May 26 (thanks to Block Ness): Jakarta (AsiaNews) – A group of Islamic experts from the al Bahtul Masa’il […]