In August, France’s top counter-terror judge opined: “It’s been shown that AQIM is only able to strike in its own zone, by wanting to kill tourists “” and we have seen nothing emerge as a significant foreign operation in Europe that was really organized by AQIM.” But U.S. General Carter Ham and other European authorities […]
Archives for September 2011
Pakistan: Schoolgirl accused of blasphemy over spelling mistake denounced in Friday sermons as part of “conspiracy” against Islam
An update on this story. This report explains and translates the exact misspelling, and also sets her age as several years younger. Whatever her age, the uproar this supposed offense has caused among grown adults is beyond absurd. “Pakistan: ten year old girl accused of blasphemy and sentenced for a spelling mistake,” by Jibran Khan […]
Amnesty International accuses Thai jihadists of war crimes
Beyond the imposition of Islamic law, which is the fundamental aim of jihad in all of its forms, the next strikingly common trait among jihadist groups is the utter lack of concern for civilian casualties. Fatwa after vague fatwa about “innocents” won’t stop them: it all depends on your definition of “innocent.” “Amnesty Accuses Thai […]
Saudi woman to be lashed for driving
But hey, it’s not all bad: they can vote for Islamic Supremacist #1 or Islamic Supremacist #2! “Saudi woman to be lashed for driving car,” from the Telegraph, September 28 (thanks to E.): A Saudi woman has been sentenced to to 10 lashes for challenging a ban on women driving. Amnesty International reported the sentence […]
Herman Cain’s multiple personalities
Presidential candidate Herman Cain won the Florida Straw Poll the other day, and my only question is, Which Herman Cain won it? Was it the Herman Cain who, as Pamela Geller reported yesterday, promised that he would “aggressively pursue a criminal investigation of CAIR and all Muslim Brotherhood groups named as co-conspirators in the largest […]
Pakistan “has decided not to take action against the Haqqani network for the time being”
“We are not in a position to undertake an operation at this point.” Great. When will you be in control of your country again so we can pencil that in on our calendar? More on this story. “Officials: No action against Haqqani network by Pakistan military,” from CNN, September 26: Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — The […]
Malaysian Muslim party: ‘Hudud law is nothing for you infidels to worry about’
The Malaysian Muslim political party known as PAS is going out of its way to reassure everyone — nervous non Muslims especially — that its plans for the eventual implementation of hudud law in Malaysia (or parts thereof) are nothing, absolutely nothing to worry about. In fact, this PAS devotion to Islamic law is causing […]
Spencer: Useful Idiots” Stockholm Syndrome
These particular useful idiots are the hikers that Iran just freed from captivity. My column in FrontPage this morning: Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, the leftist American hikers who unwittingly ventured across the Iran/Iraq border and were convicted of espionage and imprisoned for two years in Iran, have been freed — and at a press […]
Spencer: A Palestinian State Will Not Bring Peace
It isn’t even really intended to bring peace. My Human Events column this morning: Millions around the world believe that when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas submitted an application to the United Nations Friday for admission of Palestine as an independent state, he was setting the stage for a new era of peace in the […]
Islam — A (Jewish-) Christian Sect? (Part I)
Islam — A (Jewish-) Christian Sect? A short history-of-dogma examination By Peter Bruns Translated by Anonymous Translation edited by Ibn Warraq The question of whether it is allowable to even inquire into Islam in the context of a Christian history of dogma was already posed by Adolf Harnack in his Leipzig dissertation from the year […]