And, with an indifference reminiscent of officials in Egypt, Pakistan and Indonesia, police did nothing. “Israeli student attacked by Palestinians in Italy,” by Menachem Gantz for Ynet News, November 14 (thanks to Joel): An Israeli student at the University of Genoa in Italy was harassed and threatened by Palestinian students last Tuesday, only to be […]
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Despite massacres of Christians in Iraq, Swedish officials regularly deporting Iraqi Christian refugees back to Baghdad
“We have gone through hundreds of asylum rejections with lawyers, and we have seen fatal mistakes being made.” “Why Iraqi Christians Are Running Scared — in Sweden,” by Vivienne Walt in Time Magazine, November 13 (thanks to AINA): With numerous attacks against Iraq’s Christians in recent weeks — including a Halloween day massacre in a […]
Arkansas jihadist: “Step by step I became a religiously devout Muslim, Mujahid — meaning one who participates in jihad”
This lengthy piece contains numerous revealing extracts from writings by Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, who murdered one soldier and wounded another in a jihad attack outside a military recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas. He makes his Islamic motivations fully clear. I didn’t reproduce here the material from various learned analysts explaining how Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad […]
Lebanese police arrest jihadist cleric Omar Bakri days after he boasted that he wouldn’t serve a day of his life sentence
Allah willed otherwise! An update on this story. “Radical Preacher Bakri Mohammad Arrested,” by Huw Borland for Sky News Online, November 14 (thanks to Steven): Lebanese police have arrested radical Islamic preacher Omar Bakri Mohammad days after he boasted he would “not spend one day” of a life sentence behind bars. A security official said […]
“In Pakistan, some 2.8 million Christians are treated as second class citizens”
Although the laws of the dhimma mandating a second-class status for Christians are not fully in force in the Islamic world today, in many areas they remain as a cultural hangover, manifesting themselves in various ways to the detriment of equal rights for Christians and other non-Muslims. An update on this story. “Asia Bibi’s conviction […]
Islamic supremacist Reza Aslan veers from promoting literary work to bashing freedom fighters
Aslan unhinged: We are always on his mind On November 3, I wrote here about Islamic supremacist pseudo-moderate Reza Aslan’s emails to me (which I will publish once I’ve collected a few more of them) that Aslan “will not deal on the level of facts and discuss matters rationally, but instead works consistently from the […]
Amil Imani: Iran’s Akhood Mafia
Amil Imani, leader of our Iranian Freedom Initiative, writes vividly this morning in the American Thinker: On a sunny autumn mid-morning Friday, a huge howl made me run out of the house I was visiting. I rushed toward the sound, which was coming from the center of the village. The minute I saw the source, […]
Geller: CAIR Fights Oklahoma Anti-Sharia Law, Not Jihadis
In Human Events this morning, Pamela Geller asks some pointed questions about CAIR’s action against Oklahoma’s anti-Sharia law: Oklahoma became the first state to pass a proposition that Sharia-based court decisions and foreign law should be banned, an idea any patriot could love. But on Monday morning a federal judge, Vicki Miles-LaGrange, issued a temporary […]
UK: Jihadist Abu Hamza’s family home gets taxpayer-funded $64,000 renovation
Is this madness some kind of winning hearts and minds initiative? Do they think they will impress jihadis into becoming good Labour voters by coddling Abu Hamza and his family? “Jailed hate preacher Abu Hamza’s home has a £40,000 makeover… paid by taxpayers,” by Tom Kelly And Eleanor Harding for the Daily Mail, November 13 […]
“Interfaith values” project between synagogues and mosques in Buffalo area hits snag over sponsors’ ties to Muslim Brotherhood
A Jewish leader quoted below ably articulates the reason for reservations about the “twinning” project, explaining that “he and other Jews struggle over what extent they can discuss interfaith values with people who ‘are on one side promoting peace and on the other side participating in virulently anti-Israel rallies’.” There is ample reason for alarm […]