What do Afghan police recruiters do to guard against increasing Taliban infiltration? Why, nothing, of course. Since there is no clear difference between the Afghan police and the Taliban in terms of their understanding of Islam, despite the near-universal assumption in the West that the Islam of the Taliban is a “hijacked” version held only […]
Archives for August 2010
Huffington Post comes out for honor killings, runs false story that SIOA anti-honor killings taxi ads were pulled
Our SIOA campaign defending victims of honor killing ran its course in Chicago, but the false story went around yesterday that the ads had been pulled. “Yellow Cab Will Stop Running Anti-Islam Ads,” said the Huffington Post, August 24, and explained: Pamela Geller, who has been dubbed the “Queen of Muslim Bashers” and leads the […]
Sharif El-Gamal vs. Daisy Khan and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on the location of the Ground Zero mega-mosque
"Canny operative" “Muhammad Comes to Manhattan” by Mark Jacobson in New York Magazine, August 22, is just the sort of piece you’d expect from an ignorant Leftist journalist/propagandist who has his reservations about the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero, but his kneejerk cultural Leftism won’t let him express them. So in this lengthy article […]
Islamic supremacists serve Hindus beef in Pakistan flood camps
Remember this the next time you hear about Muslim prisoners or college students demanding halal food. Remember: in Muslim countries, non-Muslims must conform to Islamic norms. In non-Muslim countries, however, non-Muslims must conform to Islamic norms. Get the picture? “Protests erupt as Hindus are served beef in flood camps,” from the Press Trust of India, […]
Hannity: Pamela Geller vs. “civil rights lawyer” on Ground Zero mega-mosque
Civil rights. Sure. Just not for the victims of Islamic supremacism.
Iran: 30+ years of bipartisan appeasement
Our great friend the ace illustrator Bosch Fawstin explains here.
Christopher Hitchens discovers that the Ground Zero mosque imam is not as moderate as he is cracked up to be
Not too long ago Christopher Hitchens wrote that opposition to the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero was just bigotry and racism — the whole tired laundry list of Leftist cliches. But now he is deeply confused, for he has discovered that the Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is not as “moderate” as the cappuccino bomb-throwers […]
Moderate Muslim spokesman issues veiled threat over Ground Zero mega-mosque opposition and “Islamophobia”
You don’t want to get Reza Aslan angry. “European Islamophobia Finds A Home In The U.S.,” by Reza Aslan for NPR, August 23 (thanks to Anne Crockett): […] No matter what your feelings are about the proposed community center, there can be little doubt that Islamophobia is on the rise in America. A Washington Post […]
“Whoever Kills A Police Officer Enters Paradise”
“In their neighborhoods, state authority holds no [s]way. Muslims are the ones who decide. The consequence: violence, vandalism, burning automobiles, attacks against police, firemen and paramedics.” Eurabia Update: “Whoever Kills A Police Officer Enters Paradise,” from Politically Incorrect, August 20 (thanks to Fjordman): This statement is on the wall in the Göteborg suburb Hisingen. It […]
McCarthy: Inventing moderate Islam
In “Inventing Moderate Islam” at National Review, August 24, Andrew McCarthy skewers the general tendency to dismiss as “Islamophobia” statements by non-Muslim analysts that are taken for granted as true when they’re made by Muslim leaders: ‘Secularism can never enjoy a general acceptance in an Islamic society.” The writer was not one of those sulfurous […]