Wait ’til he finds out the meat dress wasn’t halal. “Lady Gaga’s Jakarta Concert Is Haram, Declares MUI Chairman,” by Anita Rachman & Arientha Primanita for the Jakarta Globe, March 18: A high-ranking member of Indonesia’s highest Islamic authority has urged Muslims not to attend Lady Gaga’s upcoming concert in Jakarta, declaring that the pop […]
Archives for March 2012
Libyan police “too scared” to jail thugs who desecrated British WWII graveyard, said to be linked to al-Qaeda
They are setting a precedent that will quickly come back to haunt them. An update on this story. “Libyan police too scared to arrest cemetery vandals despite capturing three who desecrated graves,” from the Daily Mail, March 17: Police in Libya captured three members of an armed mob that desecrated British war graves in Benghazi […]
Indonesia: Police kill five suspected of plotting attacks on Bali resorts
“It was possible the group had been planning to carry out attacks on Thursday, the eve of Nyepi, or the annual Day of Silence marking Bali’s Hindu New Year.” “Indonesia police shoot dead suspected militants in Bali: media,” from Reuters, March 18: (Reuters) – Indonesian counter-terrorism police have shot dead five men suspected of planning […]
Pro-Palestinian Israeli women activists complain of sexual harassment from Palestinians
Ever get the feeling you’re just being used? “Israeli leftist activists: We are being sexually harassed in the West Bank,” from Haaretz, March 18 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The activist sent the letter to her friends at Anarchists Against the Wall, in which she wrote of the incidents of sexual harassment she had […]
Pakistan: 50% of women in urban areas “get beaten by their husbands”
The elephant in the room is Qur’an 4:34, and somehow, once again, people in the Muslim world are following what it says, and not some fanciful rationalization from the HuffPo Tafsir Bureau. That tactic is nothing new, of course, but helping to perpetuate the real and ongoing suffering of untold numbers of women by turning […]
Indonesia: Thugs in “luxury minivan” attack church with air rifles
The attack destroyed some windows, but what is worse than this particular incident is that it may not be the last. As this report notes, the getaway vehicle yielded more information on the church and other planning documents. Like the Yasmin Church in Bogor, it has been “put on the map,” so to speak, for […]
Robert Spencer: Time to Get Out of Afghanistan
In the American Thinker this morning I explain why: The Afghan mission is imploding, and the Obama administration is covering for Islamic jihadists. Last week, Marine officials revealed that a Marine killed on February 1 in what the Pentagon called “combat operations” at the time was actually murdered by a jihadist in the Afghan army. […]
Friend of honor killing victim Jessica Mokdad: “It was Islam that caused her death”
Here is an extraordinarily informative ABN special on Islamic honor killing. It is essential viewing from beginning to end, but be sure to catch Darwin Jiles, friend of honor killing victim Jessica Mokdad. Jiles comes in around the one hour, 32 minute mark, and explodes the claims from some members of Jessica’s family, that her […]
Death threats — it’s something you get used to. Interview with Swedish Muhammed cartoonist Lars Vilks
Translated by Nicolai Sennels from the Danish Free Speech Society’s internet magazine sappho.dk, March 14th 2012. “Death threats — it’s something you get used to“: It is Friday afternoon in early March. The sun shines and the car glides slowly through the flat countryside of SkÃ¥ne in southern Sweden. I am going to visit Lars […]
Yemen: American teacher killed on suspicion of “Christian proselytizing”
In a climate of fear created and perpetuated by Islamic supremacists, all one needs to do in order to be vulnerable to accusations of proselytizing is to be visible in daily life as a non-Muslim. To be involved in charitable or philanthropic work also makes one a competitor: the “vilest of creatures” (Qur’an 98:6) and […]