I tried to tell you. “We will insist on applying Sharia in Egypt, Islamist MP says,” from al-Arabiya, March 27 (thanks to Ashraf): Egypt’s Construction and Development Party (CDP) “won’t give up the application of the Sharia [Islamic law]” in Egypt, an Egyptian MP representing the party told an Egyptian daily on Monday. CDP is […]
Archives for March 2012
‘Ethnic Cleansing of Christians’ in Syria; 50,000 flee
Democracy on the march! Remember: Obama is considering aiding the forces who are responsible for this. “‘Ethnic Cleansing of Christians’ in Syria; 50,000 Flee,” by Stefan J. Bos for Worthy News, March 27 (thanks to Kenneth): DAMASCUS, SYRIA (Worthy News)– Islamic militants with ties to terror group al-Qaida have launched the “ethnic cleansing of minority […]
CIA’s counterterrorism chief is convert to Islam
He is a “collection of contradictions,” says the WaPo. He “presides over a campaign that has killed thousands of Islamist militants and angered millions of Muslims, but he is himself a convert to Islam.” He converted to Islam to get married (Islamic law forbids a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man) and “is not […]
Robert Spencer: The Empire of Fear
At Atlas Shrugs yesterday I explored the difference between virtue and fear, in connection with Islamic morality: As I wrote last week, Muslim and non-Muslim analysts often tell us that Muslims hate the West for its decadence, its immorality, its lasciviousness, which they contrast unfavorably with the supposed morality and uprightness of the Islamic world. […]
Germany: Muslim convicted of misunderstanding Islam, supporting al-Qaeda
“Palestinian man convicted in Germany of supporting al-Qaida,” from the Associated Press, March 22: BERLIN “” A German court has convicted a 26-year-old stateless man of Palestinian origin of supporting al-Qaida and sentenced him to five years in prison. The dapd news agency reported that the Koblenz state court found Hussam S., whose full name […]
Egypt: Muslim cleric calls for implementation of Sharia punishments: crucifixion and amputation
I tried to tell you. “Egyptian Cleric Muhammad Hussein Yaaqub Calls for the Implementation of Islamic Punishments in Egypt: Execution, Crucifixion, and the Amputation of Opposite Hands and Feet,” from MEMRI, March 16: Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian cleric Muhammad Hussein Yaaqub, which aired on Al-Nas TV on March 16, 2012 : […]
Syria: Muslim cleric says it is permissible to kill Alawite women and children
No one will pay any attention to this. But just imagine if this were a Christian cleric saying it was permissible to kill Muslim women and children. Imagine if it were any kind of non-Muslim cleric saying it was permissible to kill anyone. But when it comes to Muslims, people are so used to Muslim […]
Robert Spencer speaks in Denver, March 23
Here is the video of one of my speeches in Colorado last week, at Faith Bible Chapel. Pamela Geller and I spoke last Thursday in Denver to a crowd of over 1,800 as well as at Colorado Christian University, and on Friday to a standing room only crowd in Colorado Springs. The crowds were enthusiastic […]
Robert Spencer: Canada: Muslim Book Sanctions Wife-Beating
So what else is new? In FrontPage this morning: A book discovered in a Toronto Islamic bookstore is causing an Internet uproar: A Gift for the Muslim Couple by the Islamic scholar Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi advises Muslim men that “it might be necessary to restrain” their wives “with strength or even to threaten” […]
Fireworks over Iran on the Glazov Gang
Part 2 of this video.