Pamela Geller has the info: We are thrilled to announce that Ezra Levant, one of the leading lights in the West defending freedom of speech against encroaching Islamic blasphemy laws, will be speaking at our Freedom Rally on the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks against America at Ground Zero. Ezra Levant is a […]
Archives for July 2011
Coming August 5: Zayed/Spencer, the rematch
The Imam Moustafa Zayed is coming back for more: despite being thoroughly humiliated in our last debate (watch it below and see), and ignoring The American Muslim‘s cowardly plea to Muslims not to debate me, he contacted ABN and asked to debate me again. So we’re on for Friday night, August 5 from 9 to […]
Australia: Muslims break into house of convert to Islam and give him 40 lashes for drinking
Note that Ahmed Kilami doesn’t deny that this is the Sharia punishment for those who drink alcohol. He just objects to the attackers’ taking the law into their own hands. The law is clear: once Muhammad flogged a man forty times for drinking alcohol. “Intruders whip Silverwater man, 31, for drinking,” from AAP, July 18 […]
Raymond Ibrahim is back!
I am enormously pleased to announce that Raymond Ibrahim, whose writing appeared at Jihad Watch in 2008 and 2009, is coming back on staff and will once again be contributing regularly to Jihad Watch. Raymond is a historian and writer on the Middle East and Islam. A Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, […]
Herman Cain: U.S. communities have right to ban mosques
In the above video, presidential candidate Herman Cain talks mosques, Sharia and the Muslim Brotherhood (from The Other McCain, with thanks to Pamela Geller). “The fact that Islam is both a religion and a set of laws, Shariah law. That’s the difference between any one of our other traditional religions.” “Herman Cain Says U.S. Communities […]
Ibn Warraq: The Judeo-Christian Origins of Islam (Part 6)
The Judeo-Christian Origins of Islam by Ibn Warraq Part 6 Part 1 here; part 2 here; part 3 here; part 4 here; part 5 here. Tisdall takes up the story, “In the book to which we have just referred, the event is connected with the Flight into Egypt. The tale records how the Holy Family […]
U.S. Secretary of State and EU buy into OIC’s “religious defamation” charade
Western powers, often driven by political correctness, bend over backwards to speak in generalities about fighting “intolerance,” “stereotyping,” and “discrimination” in order to appear principled and even-handed, even at the expense of acknowledging specific, pervasive cases of all of the above. The EU’s document of “stuttering timidity” in response to the violent persecution of Christians […]
A peer into the crystal ball: Malaysia as a cautionary tale
Malaysia in 2011 has many of the trappings of a successful state. Superhighways, reams of soaring skyscrapers, with the dazzling twin Petronas Towers at the center of Kuala Lumpur, usually never fail to impress tourists or visiting foreign dignitaries. These visible signs of progress show Malaysia as a genuine economic success story, but how did […]
Iranian government blocks Google+, calling it America’s “new spy tool on the Web”
A likely translation of that claim is that Iran is alarmed at its current lack of ability to eavesdrop on its citizens who would use the service. The dependence on invitations to join, combined with the use of “circles” to separate information propagated to close friends and family as opposed to acquaintances presents additional difficulties […]
Iran’s “chastity squads” make arrests, impose fines for sandals, nail polish, insufficient veiling for the sake of “moral security”
The “chastity squads” could take as their motto a reversal of the old Vidal Sassoon slogan, pledging: “If you do look good, we don’t look good.” Along with satisfying the Islamic Republic’s inherent urge to mind other people’s business, morality police are a cheap way for the government to look busy while intimidating the populace […]