A Syrian reformer articulates some truths that urgently need to be heard. “When Islam Acts Like a Conquering Army,” by Farid Ghadry of the Reform Party of Syria at AINA, August 7: One does not celebrate a victory by planting one’s flag on the soil of the enemy unless he is occupying that land or […]
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Taliban murder 10 medical workers in Afghanistan
They let one man go because he recited verses from the Qur’an. “Taliban Kill 10 on Medical Aid Mission in Afghanistan,” by Rod Nordland and Sharifullah Sahak in the New York Times, August 7 (thanks to Twostellas): KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 10 medical personnel, including six Americans, were murdered in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, […]
Palestinian apartheid from Abbas: “I would not agree to having Jews among the NATO forces, or that there will live among us even a single Israeli on Palestinian land”
Go ahead, blame the Jews. “Beware Palestinian apartheid,” by Jonathan Dahoah Halevi in Ynet News, August 4 (thanks to Marc): […] While briefing the Egyptian media in Cairo, Abbas divulged last week his version of the failure of the peace talks with former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his positions regarding the political settlement of […]
Muslim victim of 9/11: “To the supporters of this new Islamic cultural center, I must ask: Build your ideological monument somewhere else, far from my mother’s grave, and let her rest”
During the recent controversy over the planned Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero, Muslim spokesmen have begun claiming that Muslims were killed in the Twin Towers on 9/11, as if that somehow proves that the destruction of the towers was not an Islamic jihad attack. As they’ve done so, they’ve characteristically begun wildly to inflate […]
Zanzibar: Muslim stop building of church, build mosque in its place
Not that Muslims have any desire to place mosques on sites that are important to non-Muslims that jihadis have targeted. Oh, no. That never happens. (And certainly not at Ground Zero, you greasy Islamophobe, you.) “Zanzibar Muslims, Officials Stop Church Building, Erect Mosque,” from Compass Direct News, August 6 (thanks to all who sent this […]
This weekend: The Post-American Presidency on C-Span Book TV
Saturday, August 7th at 8am (ET); Sunday, August 8th at 10pm (ET); and Monday, August 9th at 6am (ET), you can catch Pamela Geller and me on C-Span’s Book TV, speaking at Book Revue bookstore in Huntington, New York about The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War On America. Seriously, now, you’re busy at 8 […]
Bloomberg “doesn’t care” who’s funding Ground Zero mega-mosque
I should care, I should go around weeping I should care, I should go without sleeping Strangely enough, I sleep well ‘cept for a dream or two But then I count my sheep well Funny how sheep can lull you to sleep So I should care, I should let it upset me I should care […]
New Deobandi fatwa forbids women from being judges
They’re just working from Islamic texts: If the Qur’an — Allah’s own words, if you believe Muhammad — says a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man (Qur’an 2:282), the idea of a woman as arbiter of the testimony of x number of men, and of women (multiply x by 0.5), and the […]
Al-Qaeda responsible for jihad attack on Japanese tanker
Maritime Jihad. “UAE: Al Qaeda Responsible for Japanese Tanker Attack,” by Khaled Wassef for CBS News, August 6: Ten years after the deadly attack on the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole in the Gulf of Aden, al Qaeda once again struck at sea with a suicide attack on a Japanese oil tanker. A UAE Coast […]
U.K.: Report states that ideology of “non-violent Islamists” differs from that of violent jihadists “only on tactics”
Once again, when we or any non-Muslims say something like this, we’re racists, xenophobes, Islamophobes, and so forth. The Quilliam Foundation is not without its issues (especially with regard to its co-director Ed Husain), but it will be interesting to see what response this report generates without the usual charges of Islamophobia to be issued […]