While vexing to many, the mega mosque set to be built two blocks from Ground Zero has produced one interesting but unintended consequence: like the 9/11 strikes a decade before it, the “9/11 mosque” is also creating a stir, is making people think and talk — about Islam. Consider: Before the Islamist strikes of 9/11, […]
Archives for August 2010
Taliban flog, murder pregnant woman for alleged adultery
“Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah Al-Ansari: A man from the tribe of Bani Aslam came to Allah’s Apostle and Informed him that he had committed illegal sexual intercourse and bore witness four times against himself. Allah’s Apostle ordered him to be stoned to death as he was a married Person.” — Bukhari 8.82.805 “Narrated Abu Huraira: […]
Muslim couple from UK gunned down in Pakistan in honor killing
A different twist in this one: the prospective in-laws and their son were murdered. “British couple gunned down in Pakistan in suspected honour killing after calling off marriage,” from the Daily Mail, August 9 (thanks to all who sent this in): A British couple who flew to Pakistan to settle a row over their daughter’s […]
Mosque used by some of the world’s foremost Misunderstanders of Islam finally closed
Long after it should have been, and only after it had “again become the city’s ‘main centre of attraction for the Jihad scene.’” Hamburg has a “jihad scene.” And it centered on a mosque. No one inside, however, seemed to manage to carry across the Qur’an’s True, Peaceful Teachings. Yet another puzzle for the learned […]
SIOA, FDI Sue New York City for Refusal to Run Ground Zero Bus Ads
Yahoo News has it: NEW YORK, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Friday, August 6, the human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI) and Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) filed a lawsuit against the city of New York for infringement of the freedom of speech, after New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) refused to […]
Indonesia: Founder of group behind Bali bombings re-arrested for jihadist activities of new group
He had been imprisoned before, but released in 2006 after his sentence was reduced. Clearly, it’s only gotten Indonesia more of the same jihad. Will they let themselves be fooled again? An update on this story. “Radical Indonesian cleric arrested for terrorism,” by Niniek Karmini for the Associated Press, August 8: JAKARTA, Indonesia – Radical […]
“Each time we pray, we are shadowed by terror”: Indonesian Christians can’t pray in a building, can’t pray in a field
“Bekasi Mayor Mochtar Mohammad reportedly promised to let the Christian group hold church activities in Bekasi’s public areas and also agreed to send police to safeguard the church’s activities. That appeared not to have happened on Sunday.” An update on this story. “Hard-line Islamic Groups Again Attack Praying Christians,” from the Jakarta Globe, August 8 […]
Starving Gazans smuggling in luxury cars
More suffering from the world’s largest prison camp. (Video thanks to Bob.)
French interior minister calls for withdrawal of citizenship for the practice of polygamy or female genital mutilation
In its introductory text, the Telegraph calls this a continuance of France’s “lurch to the right.” So, preserving the free, fraternal, and egalitarian nature of French society, protecting social services from being sapped by illegal and oppressive practices, and attempting to shelter girls in France from being maimed in a ritualized sexual assault by attaching […]
Not so fast: Planners of Islamic supremacist Ground Zero mega-mosque don’t own the whole site
Yet another in an ever-lengthening series of oddities and unanswered questions about this project. “Half-baked mosque: Developer owns only part of site,” by Isabel Vincent and Mellisa Klein in the New York Post, August 8 (thanks to all who sent this in): Not so fast. The developers of the controversial mosque proposed near Ground Zero […]