Is Professor Awadh A. Binhazim some kind of Islamophobe? (Video thanks to Daniel.)
Archives for 2010
Muslim leader: Muslims could be behind the pigs’ heads found in Malaysian mosques
After Malaysian Muslims firebombed several churches, Christians seemed to retaliate with a non-violent but pungently symbolic gesture, leaving pigs’ heads at two mosques. But now a Muslim leader has suggested that Muslims were also behind this — in a naked attempt to incite the local believers to a murderous rage against non-Muslims. This recalls also […]
This is gonna work: UK, others to buy off Taliban with $500 million
Gordon Brown proves himself to be a true son and heir of Aethelred the Unready. But the only problem with paying danegeld is that you never get rid of the Dane. “Taleban fighters to be ‘bought off’ with $500m,” by Sam Coates and James Bone in The Times, January 28 (thanks to Kris): Britain is […]
UK: Muslim civil servant suspended for his “kill British” blog loses libel suit — claims had “absence of reality”
Azad Ali tried to sue a British paper for drawing attention to his blog that justified the jihad killing of British and American soldiers, but there was just one catch — his claims suffered from an “absence of reality.” An update on this story. “‘Kill British’ blog man fails in MoS libel bid,” by Oliver […]
Jihadis in Somalia murder Christian leader because he converted from Islam
And now they have threatened to kill his wife. Not that there is any Islamic law calling for the murder of apostates — of course not! “Islamic Militants in Somalia Murder Christian Leader,” from CDN, January 26: NAIROBI, Kenya, January 26 (CDN) — Islamic extremists shot the leader of an underground church to death outside […]
Copts to hold peaceful demonstration in Toronto against Muslim persecution
If you are in the Toronto area, please go: Please join this peaceful Christian demonstration in Downtown Toronto on Saturday. When: THIS COMING SATURDAY January 30, 2010 at 11:30 AM Where: 2 meeting places… 11:30 AM – Yonge & Dundas Square (Corner of Yonge & Dundas St.) or… you may want to park and join […]
Italian foreign minister: “Let’s ask ourselves if covering one’s face isn’t the first sign of refusal to integrate and closing oneself off… from the host community and its traditions”
Indeed. The face veil in its various forms is the most visible symbol of an ideology that wants nothing to do with equality and integration. “Italy: Foreign minister rejects face veil,” from AdnKronos International, January 27: Florence, 27 Jan. (AKI) – Italy’s foreign minister Franco Frattini on Wednesday voiced his opposition to the face veil. […]
The Left, Islam, hate and projection
In “Nothing To Fear: Misreading Muslim immigration in Europe” by John R. Bowen in the Boston Review‘s January/February 2010 edition (thanks to Quasimodo), there appears this paragraph: Europe’s anti-Islam sentiment may be expressed most visibly in memoirs because Europeans have been reticent to condemn Islam–or religion more generally–outright. Americans, however, seem to prefer a less […]
Spencer: Opening the Door to a Stealth Jihadist
In Human Events today I discuss the opening of America’s doors to the slick and crafty Tariq Ramadan: Five years after being barred from the U.S. for making charitable contributions to a group that sent those contributions to the jihad terror group Hamas, internationally renowned Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, often mislabeled “the Muslim Martin Luther,” […]
Iraq: Sunni jihadis open fire on buses full of Iranian pilgrims, killing two people
I told you that Sunnis and Shia would be at each other’s throats in Iraq. Hugh told you repeatedly, eloquently, and with substantial documentation from history and theology. But of course Hugh and I are just greasy Islamophobes — what do we know? We were confidently assured by the likes of Dinesh D’Souza that Sunni/Shia […]