These Muslim preachers and religious scholars believe that Islam is incompatible with democracy. They must all be Islamophobes. “Muslim preachers laude [sic] revolution, slam democracy,” from Al-Arabiya, February 21: A group of Muslim preachers issued a statement supporting the revolutions of Tunisia and Egypt while slamming democracy and “un-Islamic” political parties. A statement issued by […]
Archives for February 2011
Libya: “Islamic Emirate of Barqa” seizes arms, takes hostages
This is a sizable group — on Friday members of it seized 70 military vehicles. Now they’ve taken grenade launchers and kalashnikovs, with the collusion of a Colonel in the Army — which is yet another indication of the fact that such groups’ claims to Islamic authenticity and rigor find a positive reception across a […]
Claremont-McKenna prof praises Hamas, Hizballah, decries “Zionist killing machine”
And he is training tomorrow’s diplomats. “Claremont McKenna’s Pro-Islamist Professor,” by Charles C. Johnson in National Review, February 21: Claremont McKenna College is a nationally recognized leader in training Defense Department officials and State Department personnel (including numerous ambassadors). Professor Bassam Frangieh is head of Claremont McKenna’s Arabic Department and Middle East Studies program, where […]
Fjordman: Medieval Myths
Medieval Mythsby Fjordman I should thank the pro-Israeli, Islam-critical blog Document for bringing this to my attention. The two Norwegian essays cited here were written by Ole Jørgen Benedictow, a professor emeritus at the University of Oslo specializing in the history of the Middle Ages. The translations were made by me, and the shorter excerpts […]
Tunisia: Islamic supremacists terrorize prostitutes
Islamic supremacists always claim the moral high ground against the West. Yet a moral calculus that decries prostitution while justifying mass murder and even regarding it as service to the supreme being is, at best, peculiar. It ought to go without saying that one may oppose and deplore prostitution while leaving the molotov cocktails and […]
Russia: Jihadists murder three in jihad against $14 billion ski resort plan
The “beardies” step up their jihad in the North Caucasus. More on this story. “Masked gunmen kill three as Islamist militants target £9bn ski resorts plan,” by Tom Parfitt in the Guardian, February 20: A wave of killings is sweeping the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria as Islamist insurgents expand their battle across the strife-ridden North […]
Somalia: Misunderstanders of Islam murder five in suicide attack at police station
We are constantly told that suicide attacks like this one are political, not religious in nature, and have nothing to do with Islam. Yet one wonders how many of these kinds of attacks we would still see if the bombers ceased to believe that they would be guaranteed Paradise for killing and being killed for […]
“The army is flirting with Islamists at our expense”: Egyptian Copts march to demand a secular state
Coverage of this event has so far been almost non-existent. These protesters deserve the full support and attention of Washington and the rest of the world, but alas, they are not a fashionable group. “Egypt’s Copts march to demand a secular state,” from Al-Masry Al-Youm, February 20: Hundreds of Coptic Christians protested in front of […]
Coptic bishop: “The court imposed one death sentence because one Muslim was killed, and the Egyptian judiciary wasted the blood of the six murdered Copts”
Even in death, Sharia confers greater value upon the Muslim than the non-Muslim, whether retribution is sought in blood money (diyyah), or in another form. There is perhaps no more cynical or mean-spirited expression of Islamic law’s subjugation of unbelievers than its discrimination even among dead bodies. “Egyptian Christians Enraged Over Court Acquittal in Christmas […]
Muslim Brotherhood: No women or Copts as president of Egypt
Shades of things to come where institutionalized inequality under the law — Sharia law — is concerned. “Muslim Brotherhood: Christians and Women Unsuitable for Presidency,” from Assyrian International News Agency, February 20: “Political parties have the right to nominate women or Copts for the presidency,” said Muslim Brotherhood leading figure Mohsen Radi. “But we find […]