Did anyone in the camp opposing the stone throwers have a “Thank You For Proving Our Point” sign? “Islamists, liberals face off outside Tunisian assembly,” by Cecile Feuillatre for Agence France-Presse, December 3: Police fired tear gas as thousands of Islamist supporters swooped on central Tunis Saturday to confront liberal demonstrators rallying against extremism as […]
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More photos: Muslim mob destroys Christian-owned businesses after Friday prayers
Here are more photos of the expression of Islamic piety in Iraqi Kurdistan Friday. After Friday prayers, Muslim mobs promptly misunderstood Islam: they left mosques and ransacked Christian-owned liquor stores and other businesses. I am sure the mainstream media reports will be along presently to tell us that this has nothing to do with Islam. […]
Islamic cleric misunderstands Islam, issues fatwa permitting jihadis to kidnap, imprison, and rape infidel women
Here we go again. Will one of the vaunted and lionized Moderate Muslim Spokesmen in the U.S. (Honest Ibe Hooper? Boy Reza Aslan? Man of Peace Rauf? Anyone? Anyone?) or anywhere in the West kindly explain how Sheikh Abu Humam Al-Athari, despite his membership in a Sharia council, has become a Misunderstander of Islam? Of […]
Pictures from the work of savages
The savages in question were (as you can see from the video here) well-dressed, happy about their work, and completely untroubled by the prospect of law enforcement resistance. Here is an update on this story: the Iraqi reader who sent me the video writes this today about the photos above: This was a small social […]
Egypt: Salafist candidate denounces Egyptian Nobel Prize winner’s work as “inciting promiscuity, prostitution and atheism”
And they wonder why their assurances are met with skepticism. Remember that this is the group that has won upwards of 20% of the vote so far, and will have a role, along with the Muslim Brotherhood, in writing Egypt’s next constitution. We tried to tell you. There will undoubtedly be more hollow assurances about […]
Iraq: Hundreds of Muslims ransack Christian properties, and “the police did not react”
“The fundamentalist wrath was unleashed by the vitriolic sermon of an imam in the local mosque, after which punitive raids were launched across the city.” More on the story about which we received eyewitness reports yesterday as the violence was ongoing. Will the imam or the participants in the rampage face any meaningful consequences? “Zakho, […]
Egypt’s Salafists set out plans for Sharia: “In the land of Islam, I can’t let people decide what is permissible or what is prohibited”
Attempted charm offensives aside, it’s back to business as usual. The Muslim Brotherhood is still the proverbial 800-pound gorilla in Egyptian politics, but the Salafists’ unexpectedly strong performance in the election (weren’t they supposed to be a Tiny Minority of Extremists?) sheds new light on the ideological orientation of the electorate. A democracy is only […]
Cardinal: “Let’s suppose that tomorrow part of Jerusalem belongs to a Palestinian state: one morning a group of fundamentalist Muslims could decide to build a mosque where the Holy Sepulchre stands”
Cardinal Tauran has thus called attention to the very real possibility in the future that Christian sites may be used for blackmail as a bargaining chip against Israel and the West, and that their security cannot be guaranteed by Palestinian governance. Indeed, one will recall the desecration of the Church of the Nativity in 2002, […]
Bridge for sale: Egypt’s Salafists attempt charm offensive after strong showing in elections
Speaking of reassurances that are lacking in substance, the spokesman for the Salafist al-Nur party says Egypt’s Copts have nothing to worry about. There are two problems with his approach. First, he employs the common tactic of speaking in pleasant-sounding generalities, almost entirely avoiding specific tenets of Sharia. The Salafists’ general disposition toward Sharia law […]
Iranian women fight so-called “family protection” bill that would allow men unlimited “temporary” marriages and ease requirements for polygamy
If there were truth in advertising, it would be the “Free Sex for Me, But Not for Thee Act of 2011.” Not all Iranian women are willing to see the bill sail through unchallenged, knowing how they will be victimized by it. An update on this story. “Iranian women fight controversial ‘polygamy’ bill,” from Payvand […]