Instead of spending $100 million on a mega-mosque at Ground Zero, why doesn’t the Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and financier Sharif El-Gamal take the $100 million and donate it to the Pakistani flood victims? In doing so, they’d make up for the umma’s indifference to those victims’ plight, and create a great deal of good […]
Archives for 2010
48 murdered in jihad/martyrdom attack outside Iraqi army recruitment center
Saudi comedy provokes anger with episode in which woman marries four husbands
Call it interfaith cooperation of sorts, as steaming Saudi Sunnis prove the Shi’ite Ayatollah Khomeini’s assertion that: Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There […]
Tel Aviv: Misunderstander of Islam takes hostages at Turkish embassy, threatens to burn down building, kill Jews
Based on Injaz’ behavior, he may be called yet another in a line of “insane” defendants who have committed acts of jihad. But one can’t look at Islamic popular culture in the Mideast, and at the content of the Qur’an (2:65, 5:51, 98:6), and ahadith themselves, and claim that mentality originated between his own ears. […]
Caucasus: Two suicide bombings target vacationers, police
“Pyatigorsk lies to the north of the most unstable mountainous regions of the Caucasus and is a genteel town normally untroubled by such violence.” Now, one may suppose, it’s “restive.” “Two blasts rock Russia’s Caucasus region,” from Radio Netherlands Worldwide, August 17 (thanks to Twostellas): Two blasts hit Russia’s Caucasus on Tuesday, one killing a […]
Bosnia: “Radical Muslims” urge fellow believers not to join state security forces, the “forces devoted to a fake god who we should fight against with all of our powers”
The central question here is: do the “moderates” here have the political will, support of the population, and is it their own genuine intention, to prevent the outright Islamization of Bosnia? Time will tell. And a follow-up question: do said “moderates” have a better defense than to glibly insist the chapters and verses quoted by […]
Generous donations stream from wealthy Islamic nations to their desperate brethren in Pakistan — no, wait…
While Gaza is lavished with attention, money, and weapons for a vastly exaggerated “crisis” that is of Hamas’ engineering and staging (those poor people have to smuggle in luxury cars!), tens of millions of Muslims are suffering in Pakistan after the floods — hungry, wet, and under the threat of outbreaks of cholera and dysentery. […]
Iran expects to commission first nuclear reactor this Saturday
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: […]
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 […]