This is not a religious freedom issue. No one has ever understood the freedom of religion as granting an untrammeled license to build any structure anywhere, as long as it’s religious. If the KKK announced plans to build a shrine at the site of the 16th Street Baptist Church, would Obama be talking about religious […]
Archives for 2010
France: Priests and bishops refuse to baptize Muslim converts to Christianity, for fear of the consequences
Why do Muslims engage in violent intimidation? Because it works. Until people are willing to stand up and defy it, it will continue to work. “Christians and Muslims from Algeria to Italy in the footsteps of Saint Augustine,” from Asia News, August 13 (thanks to Twostellas): Rome (AsiaNews) – A group of Christians and Muslims […]
Trying to get the Ground Zero mega-mosque moved, Governor Paterson offers to make Islam New York’s state-sponsored religion
I was so pleased that a sitting politician actually came out against the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero that I completely overlooked this crucial aspect of Governor Paterson’s offer of state land for mosque. His heart is in the right place in trying to get the triumphal mosque away from Ground Zero, but giving […]
Taliban: Pakistani flood victims must refuse aid from “foreign infidels”
Heading off a corrupting influence. “Taliban calls for boycott of Western aid as Swat Valley ravaged by floods,” by Neil Tweedie in the Telegraph, August 11 (thanks to Mackie): The Taliban has told victims of Pakistan’s floods to boycott aid from “foreign infidels” as the UN called for $460 million in emergency aid to prevent […]
Geller: Obama Ramadanadingdong
More reflections on Obama’s ridiculous Ramadan ruminations. “Obama Ramadanadingdong,” by Pamela Geller at Big Peace, August 13: Barack Obama this week extended his “best wishes to Muslims in America and around the world” and wished them a “Ramadan Kareem.” And he wrote, as he did in last year’s Ramadan message also, about “the principles that […]
Indonesian churches donate Qur’ans to Muslim prisoners in Australia
Qur’an 5:14: “From those, too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a covenant, but they forgot a good part of the message that was sent them: so we estranged them, with enmity and hatred between the one and the other, to the day of judgment. And soon will Allah show them what it is […]
Fitzgerald: A Little More On Obama, Islam, History, and “Getting On The Right Side Of History”
Robert Spencer’s dissection of the Obama Ramadan greetings here was lucid and unrelenting, but I’d like to add some observations, stopping first to note the funniest phrase in what was, otherwise, necessarily – given the nature of the material to work with – unrelievedly bleak: “Obama then retails a few platitudes lifted straight out of […]
Mr. Obama, “Islam had no influence on the origins and development of the United States”
The Washington Times sets the record straight on Obama’s Ramadan message. “EDITORIAL: Obama’s Islamic America: What country is he talking about?,” from The Washington Times, August 12: […] That Islam has had a major role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings may come as a surprise to Muslim women. […]
Now the owner of the Ground Zero site planned for the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque says he’s willing to talk about moving
Maybe Sharif El-Gamal, whose vague and misleading explanations of why Ground Zero needs an Islamic supremacist mega-mosque I discussed here, is feeling the pressure from the increasing public opposition that his group’s arrogant and imperious stance has provoked. “SoHo properties, developer of Park51 mosque near Ground Zero, willing to talk about moving,” by Glenn Blain […]
Geller: Free Speech Wins A Narrow Victory In New York
In “Free Speech Wins A Narrow Victory In New York” at Fox News.com today, Pamela Geller explains how we just won a narrow victory for the freedom of speech — but the battle to defend it continues: Last Friday, my organization the Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI), my colleague Robert Spencer and I filed a lawsuit […]