Aceh is a case study in how creeping Sharia works. It gets a foot in the door with promises of moderation, tolerance, and limited applications — after all, “War is deceit,” according to Muhammad. As its proponents gain confidence, enforcement of Sharia becomes more aggressive and intrusive on private behavior, because, in truth, Sharia is […]
Archives for March 2011
“Despite fears of an increase in Islamophobia, there have been no reports anywhere of angry gays storming mosques or attacking Muslims”
Islamohomophobes Double standards abound. Neither the anti-gay violence nor even the placard shown above would be tolerated of any other group in Britain. Denunciations would be swift and unequivocal. It would be a top news story. But even in the British media, this story has not been a high priority. As noted in a prior […]
“Don’t compel us to resort to more persuasive measures!!!” Veiling enforced in Chechen campaign of intimidation
By thugs inside as well as outside the Chechen government. Human Rights Watch has published a detailed update on its report from last November, in which it noted that Chechnya’s enforcement of an Islamic dress code violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Where is Obama, who argued so passionately for the “choice” […]
Muslims enraged at King’s hearings show that Islam is a Religion of Peace by threatening his life
And despite the propaganda offensive by Hamas-linked CAIR and other Islamic supremacist groups, most Americans support the hearings. I certainly hope they do some good, and that King no longer allows himself to be cowed by his opponents. Certainly their fury and mendacity as the hearings begin indicate that he is getting close to areas […]
Indonesia: Church forced to close on the word of one Muslim cleric
Sharia forbids the propagation of non-Islamic religions. He accused the church of proselytizing, and also invoked Indonesia’s permit system for places of worship. Being at the mercy of the Muslim majority for a permit stacks the deck against building new churches and lends itself to excuses for closing existing ones, as is described in detail […]
Ethiopia deploys troops to stop wave of Muslim violence against Christians
An update on last week’s story, which reported that five churches were burned following a rumor that Christians desecrated a Qur’an. The count is now up to “55 churches, 30 Christian homes, a Bible school, a Christian orphanage, and a church office,” with 3000 Christians displaced, one dead, and several beaten. This was a rampage […]
Germany: Jihadist’s wife gets short jail term for supporting jihad orgs, claims “she had not realized her own radicalization”
“‘It seems to me that it was a different person who wrote the texts,’ she said, adding that she despised war and violence…” Stateside, where insanity defenses seem to be explored quite often in jihad cases, that could have been a multiple-personality claim in the making. An update on this story. “Wife of German terror […]
Deobandi fatwa: Women can’t travel more than 48 miles without a male guardian
“Its ruling was based on the Hadiths … The 48 mile limit is believed to reflect the maximum distance one could then travel by camel or horse in one day through dangerous desert.” The Sahih, or “sound,” “reliable” ahadith of Bukhari and Muslim do contain many a hadith where Muhammad restricts a woman’s radius of […]
“I deeply regret that things came down to what they came down to”: Muslim TV exec gets 25 years for beheading wife
“… and I truly wish there would have been some alternative mechanism.” Playing the victim to the end, after one last-ditch attempt to delay the inevitable, as the prosecutor observed, by trying to switch attorneys before sentencing. An update on this story. “Hassan sentenced 25 years to life,” by Emily Lenihan for WIVB, March 9: […]
Muslim woman: “He has hit me in the past, yes. He hit me once.” Member of Britain’s Sharia Council: “Once only. So it means it’s not a very serious matter.”
The hell it isn’t, if you’ll pardon the language. And the fact that Hasan can’t see that is just one reason why this court should never have opened in Britain. Amazingly, that quotation, from a video at the Guardian (around 4:00 — note how he almost chuckles), appears in commentary by Guardian writer Afua Hirsch […]