Striking at the enforcement of non-Sharia law, on the heels of yesterday’s large-scale attack targeting civilians in a market. One commenter asked yesterday: “if the bombers are targeting Muslims [sic] populations how can we call it part of the global Islamic effort?” Muslim-on-Muslim jihad is nothing new; in fact, it is one of the most […]
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Saudi diplomat seeks asylum in the U.S., saying he fears for his life over being gay and friendship with Jewish woman… but says Islam is tolerant
Never mind the mountain of anecdotes from expat workers in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Muslim world describing a prison-like subculture of male encounters fueled in part by the the rigid separation of the sexes, and the subjugation of women as inferior, morally deficient sources of temptation. Despite that breathtaking hypocrisy in the Kingdom […]
Rally of Remembrance today: Yes to freedom, no to Ground Zero mosque
Our rally today is for those who were murdered nine years ago today — murdered in the name of a religion and a book whose followers now plan to place a victory mosque at the site of the murders. And make no mistake, it will be seen as a victory mosque in the Islamic world. […]
Pakistan: 13-year-old Hindu girl kidnapped from house, forced to convert to Islam; police won’t pursue case
Qur’an 2:256 says there is no compulsion in religion. But also in the Qur’an, and throughout Islamic law, there is coercion (9:29), and entrapment, and attempts to force unbelievers into impossible choices between conversion and unlivable situations (see also: Pakistani non-Muslims seeking flood aid), hunger, terror, war, and death. Or under the Ottoman devshirme system, […]
Not unexpected: More violence, threats over Qur’an burning that didn’t even happen
It is a sense of entitlement to be above insult and criticism, coupled with the Qur’an’s own endorsement of fighting and killing to establish and ensure Islam’s supremacy (9:5, 8:39), that leads to histrionics like those we are seeing in Afghanistan. Indeed, violence against insults to Islam, like so many other problems in the Islamic […]
Sound familiar? Political correctness silences debate on Islam in Germany
On Theo Sarrazin, Hugh Fitzgerald offers background and clarification here. But as noted in the editorial below, the problem of illiberal liberalism (a term coined in an article written a few months before 9/11) quashing free speech and the right to voice unpopular (or unpedigreed) concerns and opinions, and unpleasant facts about Islam is far […]
Spencer: Surrendering to the Nameless Enemy
In Human Events today I assess where we are nine years later: Nine years after George W. Bush went to a mosque and proclaimed Islam a religion of peace, all too many Muslims worldwide are less peaceful than ever, and the U.S. government is more determined than ever to ignore, deny, minimize, and even accommodate […]
Service provider pulls website of of Florida church that planned Qur’an burning
A company spokesman “said the move had been requested by a complaint about the content posted by Dove World Outreach Center, but declined to say from where it had come.” Silencing your opponents in this manner makes it look like you have something to hide — that there is speech you are unable to engage […]
Cyber-jihad group implicated in massive virus attack earlier this week
The security vendor SecureWorks has traced the virus to a cyber-jihad group called Tariq ibn Ziyad, named after an 8th-century Muslim conquerer of Spain (also the name of the “Minnesota Madrassa” we have covered here, if the name seems familiar). The symbolism of the name is indeed telling. “Cyber jihad group linked to ‘Here you […]
Thailand: Expat Muslim workers in Malaysia send back money to fund the jihad
After all, someone’s got to keep up the jihad against teachers, rubber tappers, telephone workers, and fathers and daughters, just to name a few. If they were into bumper stickers, the might run off a few thousand urging: “Keep Thailand Restive.” “Envoy: Thai workers in Malaysia funding insurgents,” from the Bangkok Post, September 10 (thanks […]