Just one question: Why? “Pakistan Passes Obama’s ‘Religious Freedom’ Test””After Sentencing Christian to Death,” by Terrence P. Jeffrey for CNS News, September 16: (CNSNews.com) – Pakistan, which has issued a death sentence to a Christian mother of five for allegedly blaspheming the prophet Mohammed, and which regularly prosecutes Christians for allegedly blaspheming Islam, has passed […]
Archives for September 2011
Iran: Friday Prayers leader emphasizes Islamic nature of “Arab Spring” uprisings, says he hopes they’ll result in destruction of Israel
Somehow he doesn’t see the uprisings as a flowering of Western-style democracy and pluralism. Perhaps Nicholas Kristof or Reza Aslan should jet over to Tehran and straighten this guy out. “Cleric: Regional Nations Seeking to Revive Islam, Religious Populism,” from the Fars News Agency, September 16: TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Seyed […]
Malaysians fall victim to violent jihad in southern Thailand
The never-ending body count of Islam’s jihad has racked up three more innocent lives — in this case, three Malaysians (including a three-year old child) who were visiting a border town just across the border in southern Thailand have been killed in a bombing. As this information comes from a Malaysian newspaper account of the […]
New York Times takes up Hamas-linked CAIR’s cause of trying to force the FBI to stop telling the truth about Islam
This morning the New York Times has picked up on the effort by the hard Left and Islamic supremacist groups to intimidate the FBI into abandoning all attempts to teach the truth about Islam and jihad, which I wrote about at length yesterday here. The agenda of Hamas-linked CAIR is obvious in their outrage over […]
Pakistan: Asia Bibi, sentenced to death for blasphemy, did not have an attorney; court “under the obvious pressure of Islamic extremists”
We have not had an update on Asia Bibi in a while, but she remains in a Pakistani prison, unjustly sentenced to death for blasphemy charges brought in retribution for her defending her Christian beliefs and refusing to convert to Islam. The law is inherently abusive, and only lends itself to further abuses. Barack Obama […]
Muslims defy outdoor prayer ban in France
What a surprise. In this case the Muslims appear sure that the French will ultimately bend to their will. And why not? They have so many times before. “Muslims defy outdoor prayer ban in France,” from Newscore, September 16: PARIS — Hundreds of Muslims defied a French ban on outdoor prayer — which came into […]
A Tale of Two Apostasies
Cases dealing with apostasy in Islam””whereby Muslims who convert to other religions are tortured and executed””are on the rise and need to be acknowledged for what they are: one of Islam’s most visible attempts to suppress the human conscience””a phenomenon that has dire implications beyond religious freedom. Consider these two recent stories. First, from Somalia: […]
U.S. general warns of pan-African jihadist network
An update on this story. While U.S. operations have been making Swiss cheese of al-Qaeda’s operational structure in Pakistan, another threat has been quietly emerging over a broader geographical area. The rise of any of the current “Big 3” jihadist groups in Africa, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (or the Apparently-Not-Islamic-Enough […]
Jamie Glazov interviews Pamela Geller on Stop Islamization of America
An illuminating interview about an essential book: at FrontPage this morning, Jamie Glazov interviews Pamela Geller about her new book Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance: Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Pamela Geller, the founder, editor, and publisher of AtlasShrugs.com. She is the executive director of Stop Islamization of America […]
Turkish PM Erdogan wants jihad: “Israel cannot do whatever it wants in the eastern Mediterranean….Our navy attack ships can be there at any moment.”
More threats from the would-be caliph. “Erdogan warns Israel: Turkey can send warships to east Mediterranean at any time,” from Reuters, September 15 (thanks to Wimpy): Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Israel could not do whatever it wanted in the eastern Mediterranean and that Turkish warships could be there at any […]