Here is a particularly audacious exercise in deception from Sheikh Ahmed Hassoun, the Mufti of Syria. I say deception because his assertions are so flagrantly at variance with the Qur’an and Sunnah that he simply must know that what he is saying is false. And while it is remotely possible that he is attempting to […]
Archives for 2010
Nigeria: Muslims set church filled with worshipers on fire
Showing respect for the People of the Book. “Nigeria: Religious Violence Kills 27,” from AP, January 18 (thanks to Logan’s Warning): Angry Muslim youths set fire to a church filled with worshipers, starting a riot that killed at least 27 people and wounded more than 300 in Jos, in northern Nigeria, officials said Monday. Sani […]
Iraq: Targeted execution of Christians continues, media and government silent
“The tactic is to murder Christians, because the media does not talk about it.” “Mosul: targeted execution of Christians continues in media and government silence,” from AsiaNews, January 19 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Mosul (AsiaNews) – The second targeted attack against the Christian community in less than 24 hours, the indifference of the security forces […]
Swedish “minister for integration”: Jihadists “a ticking bomb in our society”
She didn’t say “jihadists,” of course. She said “violence-affirming Islamists.” And that is just one small indication of the probability that when Swedish authorities tackle the problem of how to lure Muslims away from jihad, they will do so in complete ignorance of the jihad doctrine, and with the evidence-free assumption that Islam teaches peace […]
Google just can’t seem to figure out how to fix the bug that censors negative suggestions about Islam — Day 13
Google’s self-imposed dhimmitude is just one more outcropping of the same self-imposed dhimmitude that kept Western newspapers, formerly proud bastions of the freedom of speech and energetic warriors against censorship, from publishing the Muhammad cartoons, and that keeps mainstream media outlets, Left and Right, from speaking honestly about the jihad threat. That’s why I am […]
Pakistan: Jihadists bomb, destroy boys’ school
Equal-opportunity enforced ignorance. “Pakistan: Militants blow up boy’s school in northwest,” from AdnKronos International, January 18: Landi Kotal, 18 Jan. (AKI) – Militants on Monday blew up a government primary school for boys in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber tribal region, Pakistani media reported. The militants planted two powerful bombs which exploded simultaneously, destroying the school. No […]
Yemeni jihadists: “The duty of our Muslim nation is to declare jihad against the infidels…As they declared it to be an open war on the people of Islam, we must declare an open war against them”
I trust that moderate Muslim spokesmen all over the U.S. are even as I write this hastening to explain that it is not the duty of Muslims to declare jihad against Infidels, and that Al-Qaeda has in this particular gotten Islam all wrong, wrong, wrong, and that they are beginning comprehensive, transparent programs in American […]
500 Sunni candidates banned in Iraq — election “threatened”
I told you so, back in April 2003. (The link goes to an old Insight On the News symposium featuring Abdulwahab Alkebsi and me. The topic was “Does President Bush have a realistic plan for bringing democracy to the Middle East?” I wrote the section entitled “NO: Insisting that the nations of the Middle East […]
Baha’i leaders on trial in Iran
Dangers to the Iranian state “Using the courts as an instrument of religious persecution.” Islamic Tolerance Alert from the Islamic Republic of Iran: “Trial underway for Baha’i leaders in Iran,” from CNN, January 12: (CNN) — Seven leaders of Iran’s Baha’i minority went on trial in Tehran Tuesday accused of spying for Israel, a charge […]
Canada: Jihad attack mastermind gets life sentence
The noble mujahid “Terrorist mastermind given life sentence,” by Colin Freeze for the Globe and Mail, January 18 (thanks to Sounder): Zakaria Amara, the mastermind of a 2006 terrorist plot to bomb Toronto, has been given a life sentence by an Ontario judge, a punishment that represents the courtroom climax of the so-called “Toronto 18” […]