We have covered many more stories about problems obtaining the official recognition of non-Muslim identity in places like Egypt, where changing one’s religion on the national ID card from Islam is well nigh impossible, and Malaysia, where in a few bizarre cases, the surviving family was blindsided with claims about the Muslim identity of the […]
Archives for June 2011
International solidarity: Geert Wilders and Oskar Freysinger in The Hague
1ère Rencontre Wilders Freysinger à la Haye le 9… by enquete-debat Pamela Geller has background: Perhaps we are witnessing a new political movement of international Western-allied nations to preserve our hard-won freedoms. Here Geert Wilders, the Dutch MP and extraordinary defender of Western values, meets for the first time with Oskar Freysinger, a politician of […]
Kansas: Muslim driver hits, kills man, drives for three miles with corpse on the roof of his van
New York City cabdriver Mohammed Azam ran over two of his passengers for no apparent reason. Another cabbie, Hassan Daly, who was described as a “devout Muslim,” plowed his cab into a crowd on a sidewalk in San Diego, injuring over 24 people. Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar explicitly grounded his hit-and-run in the teachings of the […]
Kuwait: Teacher fired for praising Jews
“Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews” (Qur’an 5:82), so praising them in a school in a Muslim country is inviting trouble. “Kuwait Teacher Sacked for Praising Jews,” by Chana Ya’ar for Israel National News, June 12 (thanks to Tziona): A teacher in Kuwait has been sacked after holding […]
Egyptian political groups ask Muslim Brotherhood to guarantee secular state
The National Association for Change (NAC) is a loose affiliation of anti-Mubarak groups in Egypt. Mohamed ElBaradei is nominally in charge of it, and the Muslim Brotherhood is involved in it, but it contains numerous non-Brotherhood entities as well. Apparently, those groups consist of venomous Islamophobes, because only the latter believe that the Muslim Brotherhood […]
NBA objects to adoption of Sharia
No Sharia: A slam-dunk issue The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has objected to the adoption of Sharia by Borno State, which is only considering doing so in order to placate the Islamic jihad terror group, Boko Haram (“Education Is Sin”). The NBA points out that this will only reinforce the idea among jihadis that violence […]
What else is new? Saudi fatwa committee bans mingling of men and women in the workplace
Just in case the wheels of progress ever start to turn in earnest, the fatwa committee is there waiting with a roadside bomb. Ironically, it is rulings like this which give rise to creepy, awkward situations like the one described in this story, where women in Saudi Arabia have to deal with male lingerie salesmen […]
Pakistan: Muslims involved in murder of 10 Christians, burning of churches acquitted
This is justice in our friend and ally Pakistan, to whom we continue to give billions. “Punjab: acquittal for 70 Muslim extremists on trial for the Gojra massacre,” by Jibran Khan in AsiaNews, June 11 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Lahore (AsiaNews) — Pakistan’s fundamentalists are rejoicing following the acquittal verdict. The country”s Christian minority is […]
Shame: Muslim culture’s armour. Weapon? Humour.
Shame: Muslim culture’s armour. Weapon? Humour. By Nicolai Sennels Time travelling is actually possible: If you want to know how the culture was one and a half millennium ago on the Arab peninsular, you just need to visit an Islamic country – or a Muslim parallel society in your own country for that matter. They […]
U.S. intelligence officials give Pakistan tips on jihad bomb-making factories, only to find them empty before troops arrive
Here is yet more evidence that Pakistan’s ISI is directly aiding the jihad. “US intelligence to Pakistan compromised: report,” from AFP, June 10 (thanks to Sanjay): WASHINGTON: US intelligence officials have twice handed Islamabad tips about insurgent bomb-making factories, only to find them abandoned before Pakistani troops arrived, The Washington Post reported Friday. The vacated […]