Bid’a is innovation in Islamic doctrine or practice. It is considered a serious sin, since Islamic doctrine and practice is supposed to have been set entirely by Allah through Muhammad. This idea tends to discourage Islamic reform, including reform of the aspects of Islamic doctrine that call for warfare against and the subjugation of unbelievers. […]
Archives for 2010
Bulgarian police come down with Islamophobia, raid offices of Islamic foundation
They found “a large number of propaganda papers with radical content preaching religious hatred.” What? In an Islamic foundation? There must be some mistake! “Bulgarian police raid offices of Islamic foundation,” from AFP (no online link), October 6 (thanks to David): Oct. 06 (AFP) — Bulgarian prosecutors and police on Wednesday raided the offices of […]
Australia: Muslim convicted over “do-it-yourself” jihad book appealing on technicalities
Tying up the time and resources of the Infidel. “Man appeals ‘jihad book’ conviction,” from AAP, October 6: Highly prejudicial material was “inadvertently” tendered at the trial of a man later convicted over a terrorism “do-it-yourself” jihad book, a court has been told. Ian Barker, QC, representing former Qantas cabin cleaner Belal Saadallah Khazaal, said […]
France arrests 12 Misunderstanders of Islam in jihad terror plots
There has been a sharp increase in jihad plotting in France after the burqa ban. “France: 12 arrested in counterterrorism cases,” by Jamey Keaten for Associated Press, October 5 (thanks to all who sent this in): PARIS – Police in southern France arrested 12 people in sweeps against suspected Islamic militant networks on Tuesday, including […]
Dutch court rejects Wilders push to remove biased judge in Stalinist show trial
The railroading of Wilders proceeds apace. An update on this story. “Dutch Court Rejects Wilders Push to Change Judges at Muslim-Insult Trial,” by Jurjen van de Pol for Bloomberg, October 5 (thanks to all who sent this in): The Amsterdam district court rejected a request by Freedom Party Leader Geert Wilders, who is on trial […]
Campbell’s Soup goes halal with approval from Hamas-linked ISNA
ISNA has admitted ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. So why is Campbell’s Soup rushing to do its bidding? “M-M-Muslim Brotherhood Good?,” from Scaramouche, October 5 (thanks to Kathy Shaidle): Campbell’s Soup Canada is about to go halal. No biggie, right? Wrong. It is doing so under the auspices of the Islamic Society of […]
Algeria: Two Christians acquitted of offending Islam by eating lunch during Ramadan
It’s good that they were acquitted, but not so good that no one had the guts or the vision to stand up in the middle of the trial and say, “Wait a minute: we’re trying two Christians for offending Islam because they ate lunch during Ramadan? This whole proceeding is absurd.” Note also here, yet […]
“Join the Taliban and the Mujahedeen in the holy war against the infidel government so we can establish sharia law in Pakistan”
How refreshing it would be if once, just once, the Muslims in America who indignantly deny that people like this “German-speaking gunmen” are Muslims at all would explain just how they’re Misunderstanding Islam. But they do not do that, ever, except in deceptive and vague terms (condemnations of “terrorism” without defining who and what they […]
Pakistani Muslim kills wife by beating her with a brick for opposing the arranged marriage of her daughter
When a culture gives divine sanction to wife-beating (cf. Qur’an 4:34), this kind of thing is going to happen: a cultural atmosphere is created in which the brutalization of women is deemed acceptable. “Pakistani woman killed in Italy over arranged marriage,” from the Telegraph, October 4 (thanks to all who sent this in): A Pakistani […]
Times Square jihad car bomber: “Brace yourself because the war with the Muslims has only just begun”
Shahzad is clearly a Misunderstander of Islam: he seems to think that his attempt to commit mass murder in Times Square had something to do with a war being waged against non-Muslims by Islamic jihadists, and everyone knows that only greasy Islamophobes believe that jihadists are waging such a war at all. “Defiant Times Square […]