You know you’ve got a problem when Ahmadinejad is the one momentarily sounding more “moderate” than the next guy (though that’s all “moderation” is — a position relative to others). And the photo above from May, which accompanied this report, shows Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati has some supporters… except that for all we know, the one […]
Archives for June 2010
E.U. judge releases jihad suspect wanted by U.S.
But “he has to report to police twice a week.” What could possibly go wrong? An update on this story. “Kosovo terror suspect wanted in U.S. released,” by Fatos Bytyci for Reuters, June 18 (thanks to Sr. Soph): A European Union judge in Kosovo has released from detention a Kosovo Albanian man wanted on U.S. […]
Is this America? Christian activists arrested in Dearborn just for showing up at Arab Festival
What happened at last year’s Arab Festival I received this note from David Wood of the account of Nabeel Qureshi: Yes, you heard it here first, folks. David and I, along with Negeen and Paul Rezkalla, were arrested and spent last night in jail. It is a long story which we will elaborate in full […]
UNRWA money going to Hamas, US giving $60 million to UNRWA
State.gov, June 18 (thanks to John): Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced today that the United States will be making an additional contribution of $60.3 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to support UNRWA’s core budget and special projects in the West Bank, […]
Fitzgerald: What’s not to like about Feisal Abdul Rauf and his mosque of “tolerance”
What was it all about, really, that rally in Lower Manhattan a few weeks ago? I mean the one that was attended by thousands (though the police did not offer an official estimate, a policeman present told one of the organizers that he estimated the crowd at “5,000”). I mean the one where a man […]
Egyptian government now not only persecuting Copts, but meddling with Christian doctrine
It is not enough that the Egyptian government facilitates persecution of the Copts, Egypt’s indigenous Christian minority. Now the government is interfering directly with the church’s autonomy concerning doctrine. According to the Assyrian International News Agency: The head of the Coptic Church in Egypt has rejected a court ruling that orders the church to allow […]
UAE: Gang rape victim gets one year in prison
Islamic law requires four male Muslim witnesses who actually saw the act to establish rape or adultery. Absent those witnesses, a woman who makes such an accusation is incriminating herself — even in modern, moderate Abu Dhabi. “Woman who reported rape jailed for one year,” by Hassan Hassan, Marten Youssef and Rym Ghazal in
Jizya returns: Jammu and Kashmir government charging fees on pilgrims to Hindu sites
Of course, everyone knows that the jizya, the tax levied upon non-Muslims and which they must pay with “willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” according to Qur’an 9:29 is a relic of history, never to be revived again. Everyone knows that now Islam is tolerant and peaceful, and accords full equality of rights to non-Muslims […]
Kashmiri Misunderstanders Of Islam threaten Hindu pilgrimages
Doesn’t Syed Ali Geelani know that Islam teaches tolerance? Has he been learning Islam from Islamophobes? When is Honest Ibe Hooper of CAIR going to catch a flight to Kashmir to straighten him out about the true nature of Islam? But of course, Geelani is not against the pilgrimage. He knows all about how tolerant […]
Communists love jihad, too: Fidel Castro denounces Israel, Indian Reds want ties with Iran
AFP, June 11: Former Cuban President Fidel Castro slammed Israel on Friday and compared its policies to those of Nazi Germany. He said Israel seems to have taken the swastika as its banner, and that it would “not hesitate” to send the 1.5 million Palestinians living in Gaza to “crematoriums”. The former communist leader published […]