Stopping Iran’s progress is about to get a lot harder, as John Bolton observes below. If the political will to stop Iran from developing the capability to build nuclear weapons hasn’t been there so far, it is reasonable, unfortunately, to expect the world’s complacency to continue until (and after) Iran tests its first bomb. “Bolton: […]
Archives for August 2010
Young couple killed by stoning in Afghanistan; Karzai objects to execution without trial — anything else?
Choosing his words very carefully, and revealingly so. It’s not just the story reproduced below, but other sources from Reuters to RTTNews, that show he condemns the fact that there was no trial, but stops short of condemning the idea of Sharia punishments (lashes or stoning) for “adultery,” and of condemning the cruel, unusual, and […]
“The Batak Christians deserve to be stabbed to death”: Indonesian Muslims terrorize Christians as children shout “Allahu Akbar”
More on this recent incident, along with the Islamic Defenders Front’s persecution of Ahmadi Muslims in the days leading up to Ramadan. Despite the title of the article, which implies a more reciprocal level of activity, the “pushing back” occurring here is but a demonstration held on Sunday, and the ongoing, determined defiance of religious […]
Spencer: Obama’s Ramadan pandering
In Human Events this morning I discuss Obama’s Ramadan gifts to the Islamic world: Ramadan didn’t fall around Christmas time this year, but Barack Obama came bearing gifts anyway. At an Iftar dinner Friday night at the White House (the third night of Ramadan), Obama endorsed the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero. In doing […]
Alaska: Muslim couple made 20-target “hit list,” had “moved to the operational phase”
The list contained “seven individuals, seven military members, two religious organizations, two publishing companies, a publishing executive and a media personality.” An update on this story. “Feds: US couple accused of domestic terrorism had 20 names on hit list,” by Mark Thiessen for the Canadian Press, August 16: ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A rural Alaska couple […]
US News and World Report likens Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero to Walgreens
US News and World Report spreads false information. “The ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Is Not a Mosque (or at Ground Zero),” by Robert Schlesinger at US News & World Report, August 16 (thanks to Dave Washburn): Despite what you might have heard, a 13-story mosque is not going to be built at ground zero in lower […]
No mercy: Iran rebuffs Brazil’s offer to take in woman facing death by stoning
Muhammad, you see, said to stone adulterers to death, not to send them to one of the world’s most beautiful and beguiling nations. A update on this story. Sharia Alert from the Islamic Republic: “Iran won’t send woman who faced stoning to Brazil,” from AP, August 16 (thanks to all who sent this in): TEHRAN, […]
Ground Zero mega-mosque leaders’ anti-Semitic tweet
Haaretz published an erroneous story saying that the leaders of the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero were going to move the mosque elsewhere. In response, the Park51 group, that is, the mosque leadership, published the anti-Semitic tweet at the bottom of this series (thanks to Pamela Geller): Park51: Correction, we will be publishing an […]
Bloomberg: It would be a “sad day” if the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque were not built at Ground Zero
Increasingly isolated, the dhimmi mayor sticks to his guns. He’s being played for a fool by the the Islamic supremacist Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and Daisy Khan, and if he reverses himself now, he’d be admitting that. “Ground Zero mosque cancellation would be ‘sad day,’ says Mayor Bloomberg,” from AP, August 16 (thanks to all […]
Islamic supremacist mega-mosque, like Skokie Nazi march, legal but hurtful
But of course, the Islamic supremacists behind the Ground Zero mega-mosque have already shown that, contrary to their protestations of interest in creating interfaith harmony, don’t care who they hurt. “Cordoba Mosque, Like Skokie March, Legal But Hurtful,” by Judith Apter Klinghoffer at History News Network, August 16: The most apt comparison between the debate […]