Savagery. And yet the world community is much more upset about the chimera of “Islamophobia” than it will ever be about this. “Taliban cut nursing woman’s breast, asked others to eat pieces: UN-backed report,” from the Press Trust of India, December 16 (thanks to Pamela Geller): Islamabad : Pakistani Taliban fighters cut the breasts of […]
Archives for 2011
Critic of State Department/OIC meetings on restricting free speech detained as “security threat”
Pamela Geller has the incredible story here: “Emulating their Sharia Partner, the OIC, State Department Detains Andrea Lafferty as ‘Threat,’ ‘The very restriction on free speech the UN Resolution was pushing is exactly what they used against me’”: The Obama administration is harassing and detaining law-abiding patriots. SIOA and the Traditional Values Coalition have been […]
Spencer: Fooling Kristof
In FrontPage this morning I discuss the astonishing credulity of New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof: Ace New York Times pundit Nicholas Kristof recently had dinner in the Cairo home of some Muslim Brotherhood members, and he had a wonderful time. And from this experience, there is something he wants you and the world to […]
Australians warned about Islamic “jihad by stealth”
Human rights activist Babette Francis Babette Francis is Indian-born and experienced life in Muslim-majority provinces before the Partition of the Indian sub-continent into India and Pakistan. I am wearing a traditional Indian garland that she kindly presented to me. Here is her account of one of the talks I gave during my recent Australian tour. […]
Robert Spencer and Raymond Ibrahim at Restoration Weekend, November 2011
In November at Restoration Weekend, Raymond and I spoke on a panel along with Daniel Greenfield and Frank Gaffney. Jamie Glazov was the moderator. Videos are above and transcript is here.
Robert Spencer interviewed in Australia, part 2
Toward the end of my recent speaking tour of Australia, I did three short interviews with Sheik Yermami and Vlad Tepes. Above is the second. The first is here.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula reportedly considers re-branding as “Sharia Helpers”
The disembodied hand trademark has been taken. The Arabic word Ansar translates as “helpers,” and also refers to those who aided Muhammad in Medina. The choice of the new name underscores the fact that the fundamental aim of all jihad is the imposition of Sharia, the various excuses du jour notwithstanding. Besides, all the cool […]
U.K.: Cambridge University issues directives against shaking hands with Muslims to avoid causing offense
Some might be offended by the idea of shaking hands. But others might be offended by a pre-emptive, patronizing refusal to shake their hands by people who attempted to guess what they want and slavishly obeyed the conclusions of a guess. As with the case of the “Islamic” anti-littering campaign, an attempt to pander to […]
Off again, on again: Libya to allow British police to investigate Lockerbie bombing
In September, the National Transitional Council firmly declared the case to be closed. As this report notes, however, there is no timetable just yet for British police to travel to Libya. When or if there is, will Megrahi take another impeccably timed sudden turn for the worse? “Libya to allow UK police to probe Lockerbie: […]
Afghan authorities suggest Saudi Arabia or Turkey for Taliban “liaison office”
Similar proposals have been floating around for some time, and have included not only Turkey, but Qatar, as discussed below. Such measures carry a major risk of granting the Taliban a veneer of false legitimacy, an undeserved upgrade in international standing, and a tool to buy time by going through the motions of overtures toward […]