When in Muslim countries, non-Muslims should conform their behavior to Islamic sensibilities. When in non-Muslim countries, non-Muslims should conform their behavior to Islamic sensibilities. Once you have grasped this basic principle, all will be well. “Cover up for pool event during next year’s Ramadan,” by Padraic Murphy in the Herald Sun, September 23 (thanks to […]
Archives for September 2010
Spain: Nightclub changes its name from Mecca after Islamic supremacists threaten “a great war between Spain and the people of Islam” over name
As long as Westerners keep bowing to violent intimidation, Islamic supremacists will keep engaging in it. “Nightclub forced to change its name from Mecca after threats from Muslim extremists,” by Tom Worden in the Daily Mail, September 16 (thanks to Kristian): A popular Spanish nightclub has been forced to change its name from Mecca after […]
Obama praises Turkey as it steps toward Sharia
In secular Turkey, the military has always been the foremost defender of secularism. It has carried out coups in the past against regimes that tried to weaken Kemalist secularism and impose Sharia. Now Erdogan is moving to make that impossible, and Barack Obama is pleased. More on this story. “Obama welcomes Erdogan’s referendum victory,” from […]
“Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” cartoonist changes name, goes into hiding
Molly Norris conceived of “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” as a joke, but it went viral in part because it was a gesture of defiance in the face of violent threats and intimidation: if Islamic supremacists were threatening to murder Motoonists Kurt Westergaard and Lars Vilks, and anyone else who dared to draw Muhammad, then if […]
Mega-mosque imam skips court date for squalid slums he owns in New Jersey, while his lawyer reminds us Union City’s “worst landlord” is a “man of peace”
And, he added, “integrity!” Said one resident: “he doesn’t take care of this building or the building around the corner, and he’s going to take care of a mosque?” Indeed, the backers of the most aggressive, insensitive, and insulting development project in recent history have shown themselves to be breathtakingly incompetent in all things real […]
Justice Breyer: Qur’an-burning might not be protected by First Amendment
Our freedoms hang by a slender thread. Five justices can decide to interpret away a basic right by hedging it all around with exceptions, and that right would be essentially obliterated. The Organization of the Islamic Conference has been trying for years to compel Western nations to restrict the freedom of speech by introducing “hate […]
Australia: Islamic validity of terror attacks debated in mosque
Is a transcript of this debate available? It could be exceedingly illuminating, particularly if those who were against the Islamic validity of such attacks did not object to them merely on prudential grounds, but on Islamic theological grounds. If so, this would be one of those rare sightings of that ever-elusive unicorn, an Islamic theological […]
Spencer: Media Blackout on Ground Zero Mosque Rally
In FrontPage this morning I ask the question: if the media doesn’t cover a rally, did anyone attend? The photographs don’t lie: at the 9/11 Rally of Remembrance against the Ground Zero mega-mosque, tens of thousands of people filled the streets. Flags were everywhere, along with numerous homemade signs. Meanwhile, two blocks away, at the […]
Priorities: 300 Egyptian security forces storm monastery with tear gas, batons, and stones to seize building materials, seriously injuring monks
Because nothing — nothing! — says “Religion of Peace and Tolerance” quite like beating up on a bunch of monks! At issue here once again is the provision in Islamic law that forbids dhimmis, or non-Muslims subjugated under Islamic law’s holy protection racket, from repairing their houses of worship or building new ones, as notably […]
Australia: Judge bars 14-year-old Muslim girl from being taken out of country to thwart parents’ plans to marry her to stranger
Despite the same tired religion-versus-culture excuse trotted out at the end of the report below, this is not merely a “cultural” practice, as amply demonstrated by its persistence in Islamic countries far removed from one another. It persists because Muhammad, as a “beautiful pattern of conduct” per Qur’an 33:21, made the practice sacrosanct: “The Prophet […]