Western powers have likely been afraid that defending the rights of Christians in Muslim lands would be interpreted as showing partiality. It would not be partiality, of course, to demand impartiality in the protection of human rights by governments that claim in glowing generalities to have no problem doing just that. Christians have lost heartbeats […]
Archives for 2011
Nigeria: Three churches “reduced to rubble,” pastor and child killed in latest Boko Haram rampage
Jihad causes poverty, in Boko Haram’s drive to “fix” the country by breaking it. More on this story. “Clashes between sect, police kill 61 in Nigeria,” by Jon Gambrell and Ndjadvara Musa for the Associated Press, December 24: MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) “” Fighting between a radical Muslim sect and paramilitary forces in Nigeria has killed […]
Jihad Bells, Jihad Bells — Jihad All The Way!
“Oh what fun with a knife or gun a Christian guy to slay “” hey!” Rarely do humor and sad truth come together so well as in this video.
Merry Christmas!
The Byzantine icon above is the work of the 16th-century iconographer Theophanes the Cretan. Many Muslims around the world today would consider it offensive and insulting to Islam. Muslims in the Balkans just a few years ago have entered churches and destroyed icons like this one for precisely that reason. How does this icon insult […]
Egypt: Islamic parties take 65% in second round of voting
Weren’t the Salafists and their supporters supposed to be a Tiny Minority of Extremists? “Main Islamist parties take 65% of second-round votes,” from Agence France-Presse, December 24: AFP – Egypt’s main Islamist parties won 65 percent of votes for party lists in the second round of a historic election for a new parliament after Hosni […]
Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood claims responsibilty for blasts that murdered 44
UPDATE: The Brotherhood now denies making this claim, and says it was false information planted by the regime. —————————————————– Remember, the Brotherhood is “moderate.” “Extremists” would have killed 88. More on this story. “Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood claims responsibilty for deadly blasts,” from AFP, December 25 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): SYRIA’S Muslim Brotherhood has […]
“This is what Islam does to you. When you are in it, your life is nothing but living in the fear of hell, and once you leave it, it is not less than hell because you are constantly scared to lose your life.”
Here is a new post over at Liberated, the new blog written by an ex-Muslim: …During the course of last four months, I have done nothing else but read, read and read. I spend hours a day reading Ali Sina and watching videos of David Wood and others who are trying their best to expose […]
“We don’t have freedom of speech in Islam. We have the freedom to obey Allah.”
“Freedom of speech means you can curse the prophet, and democracy will protect you.” Cartoon Rage from a Muslim spokesman who must be some kind of Islamophobe. Video thanks to Answering Muslims.
Indonesia: Punk rock fans detained in Aceh may face further indoctrination and harassment
They were held incommunicado from their families and kept away from school and work for ten days. They have completed their ten-day detention, but are not free. There will evidently be follow-up indoctrination, and they remain under the thumb of authorities. Is there still a government in Jakarta? One could be forgiven for doubting. The […]
Pakistan: New round of persecution against Ahmadis, using blasphemy laws
The blasphemy laws are a supremacist tool aimed at scaring non-Muslims and dissenting Muslims into silence and keeping them in line according to the whims of their overlords, as are all assaults on free speech that aim to suppress criticism of Islam. “Harassment: Three Ahmedis accused under blasphemy laws,” by Rana Tanveer for the Express […]