Fifty five hundred bucks for this “I want to shock. I’m an artist and this is my profession. I need to survive,” says the artist. Such is the degraded state of the art world today. He is doing what sells. But what about the people who are buying? What illness has overtaken them? How is […]
Archives for 2010
UK: Muslim cab driver refuses blind couple with guide dog
The Muslim revulsion for dogs comes from Muhammad: “Ibn Mughaffal reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) ordered killing of the dogs, and then said: What about them, i. e. about other dogs? and then granted concession (to keep) the dog for hunting and the dog for (the security) of the herd, […]
U.S. adds yet another Islamic charity to terror blacklist
Yet another Islamic charity ends up financing jihad terror. Once authorities realize that this is one way for Muslims who are not prepared to join in hot warfare to aid the jihad, they will no longer consider this kind of thing anomalous. “U.S. Adds Islamic Charity To Terror Black List Over Its Links To LeT,” […]
UN committee approves law criminalizing “vilification of religions”
“Most importantly, the resolution still seeks to curtail and penalize speech.” Indeed. That’s exactly its purpose. The point here is to criminalize honest discussion of how Islamic jihadists and supremacists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify their activities. The OIC wants to render the West mute, and hence defenseless, against the advancing […]
Indonesia: Funding pulled for traditional pre-Islamic performances. Turkey: V.S. Naipaul withdraws from event after Muslims enraged over his saying they don’t value pre-Islamic culture.
V. S. Naipaul has had to withdraw under pressure from an event in Turkey because Muslims were outraged over his saying that Islam “has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral […]
Australia: Muslims complain about “Say No to Burqas” mural
Standing up for the rights of women will get you branded a racist and a sexist these days. And while women in Australia are free to wear the burqa, apparently Sergio Redegalli is not free, at least in the eyes of many, to call on them not to wear it. Yet another Islamic challenge to […]
Al-Azhar asks Coptic Church to denounce U.S. report saying Copts face discrimination
Historically, if dhimmis complained about their treatment, their contract of “protection” was revoked and their lives were forfeit. Even today, that idea remains as a cultural hangover in the Islamic world: non-Muslims who are persecuted know they better keep silent about that persecution, or things will get even worse. “Al-Azhar asks Coptic Church to denounce […]
Newsmax turns 9/11 into an occasion of Muslim victimhood
Newsmax illustrates here that cluelessness about the jihad threat, and an appallingly naive willingness to accept the Muslims-Are-Victims narrative that is constantly being pushed by Islamic advocacy groups and Islamic spokesmen in the U.S., are not solely the province of the Left. I don’t think it’s coincidental that my colleague Pamela Geller’s Newsmax column was […]
Muslims project Islam’s worst traits onto Israel and the Jews
Sometime back, I noted that Muslims have been projecting the worst aspects of Islam(ism) onto the Copts, Egypt’s Christian minority. This raised more questions: Is Islamist projection onto the Copts a unique phenomenon? Do Muslims project against other non-Muslims? Is there a trend? To answer this question, it seemed logical to begin with how Islamists […]
Iran to execute Christian pastor, a former Muslim, for apostasy
Islamic apologists in the U.S. routinely deny that Islamic law mandates that apostates from Islam be murdered. Unfortunately for the apostates, the facts are otherwise. Muhammad, the prophet of Islam and supreme example of conduct for the Muslim (cf. Qur’an 33:21), said: “Whoever changes his Islamic religion, then kill him.” (Bukhari 9.84.57) The Tafsir al-Qurtubi, […]