The Ahmadis are considered heretics by mainstream Muslims, in part because they eschew violent jihad (but not dawah or Sharia). So this apparently means that they deserve no police protection from Muslim thugs, even in modern, moderate Indonesia, that paragon of Islamic tolerance. “Indonesia: Police Failed to Protect Ahmadiyah Mosque from Attacks,” by William Gomes […]
Archives for May 2012
Egypt: “Christians are seriously worried from candidates with Islamic background especially because they do not hide their hardline stance towards Copts and refuse a civil state”
Islamic law at center stage in Egyptian presidential candidates’ debate. “Religious Freedom, Shariah Take Center Stage During Egypt’s Presidential Debate,” by Luiza Oleszczuk for the Christian Post, May 11: The two front-runners for the Egyptian presidency recently faced off during the country’s first televised presidential debate, with religion and Islamic law dominating the discussion. The […]
Israel not invited to NATO summit after Turkish veto
For the Turkish veto, see here. The fact that the increasingly belligerent Islamic supremacists of Turkey are still in NATO shows how outmoded that organization is: it is still fighting the last war. “NATO issues reserved guestlist,” by Sevil KüçükkoÅŸum for the Hürriyet Daily News, May 12 (thanks to Joshua): NATO members have agreed on […]
Brits to give Afghans $1.6 billion of military vehicles when they leave Afghanistan
How many of these do you think will make it to jihads in various places? But hey, what’s a few jihad mass murders? Maybe this will win us a couple of hearts and minds! “Our war legacy to Afghans: £1bn of military vehicles will be given to national army when British troops pull out,” by […]
Morocco: Pious Muslims stone and beat woman wearing dress they thought too revealing
Wearing revealing clothing: haram. Assaulting a woman wearing revealing clothing, and stripping her naked in public: halal. “Rabat Salafists assault woman over dress,” by Mohamed Saadouni for Magharebia, May 11 (thanks to David): Intense debate on personal freedoms renewed recently in Morocco after a young woman wearing a short modern dress in a Rabat market […]
Victory: Kansas Senate passes law banning Sharia
A victory for the defenders of the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and equality of rights for all people before the law. This law now has to go to the governor, who may veto it, and Hamas-linked CAIR and other pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist groups will try to get it overturned by lying about […]
Uzbekistan cracks down on jihad groups home Bible studies
Priorities. “Uzbekistan: An ‘unsanctioned meeting in a private home’ – with a bomb?,” by Mushfig Bayram for Forum 18 News Service, May 9 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Uzbekistan has continued to punish people exercising the right to freedom of religion or belief without state permission, Forum 18 News Service notes. Between February and […]
Pull my other leg: Pakistan’s PM denies Pakistani complicity in sheltering bin Laden
There is no way he lived in that military neighborhood all those years without people knowing and approving at the highest levels of the Pakistani government. “Gilani says Pakistan not “˜complicit” of sheltering Osama bin Laden,” from APP, May 10 (thanks to Twostellas): pISLAMABAD, May 10 (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has insisted […]
Pre-dawn raids across France net 19 suspected misunderstanders of Islam
It’s odd, isn’t it? We all know (on pain of charges of “Islamophobia”) that Islam is a Religion of Peace. Yet its glorious and unparalleled complexity renders it so susceptible of being misunderstood by its most devout adherents that they are constantly misunderstanding it, and — oddly enough! — always in exactly the same way. […]
Nigeria: Sunni jihadists misunderstand Islam, gun down Shi’ite leader
Condoleezza Rice was referring to the Middle East when she said in January 2007: “There’s still a tendency to see these things in Sunni-Shia terms. But the Middle East is going to have to overcome that.” But she isn’t having any better luck in Nigeria. “Suspected radical Islamist sect gunmen kill Shiite leader; military arrests […]