Does that include videos of shootings? And beheadings? The learned clerics didn’t say. “Deoband says shooting videos against Islam,” by Sanjay Pandey for the Deccan Herald, December 20: Clerics issue fatwa against making films of ceremonies A new fatwa by the prestigious Islamic seminary Darul Uloom, Deoband, has said that videography conducted at any ceremony […]
Archives for 2012
Flashback: Anwar al-Awlaki leading Muslim prayers on Capitol Hill, 2002
In 2002, PBS produced a documentary on the life of Muhammad, Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet. I wrote in a National Review article at the time that the documentary presented an “attractively packaged, sanitized version of Islam.” It features Islamic apologist Karen Armstrong; Daisy Khan, the deeply deceitful “moderate” who shot to national prominence in […]
Why Christian Persecution Is Islam’s Achilles’ Heel
Over at FrontPage Magazine (via RaymondIbrahim.com), I discuss why Muslim persecution of Christians and other minorities is especially damaging to Islam’s image: Which of the following three headlines is most difficult for the media””including the usual array of liberal pundits, apologists, academics, and politicians””to whitewash or rationalize away? Which most exposes Islam’s inherent intolerance? A) […]
Muslims in neighborhood of Toulouse jihad mass murderer: “Mohammed Merah, you know, he’s a hero, he’s a martyr of Islam”
We’re always told that the Vast Majority of Muslims abhors and rejects violent jihad. Yet again and again we see stories like this one. Apparently Les Izards is full of misunderstanders of Islam. “Neighborhood Is Torn Over a Killer’s Legacy,” by Scott Sayare in the New York Times, December 19 (thanks to Block Ness): TOULOUSE, […]
Egypt: 50,000 Muslims led by sword-wielding men march through Christian areas, chanting that country would be “Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians”
And making sure the Christians didn’t vote in the referendum. More on this story. “Fear keeps Egypt’s Christians away from polls,” by Hamza Hendawi for the Associated Press, December 18 (thanks to Betsy): ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) – A campaign of intimidation by Islamists left most Christians in this southern Egyptian province too afraid to participate […]
#MyJihad in Thailand: Muslims storm municipal office searching for Buddhists to murder; finding none, they burn down the office
Will the Islamophobia never end? “Militants hunt Buddhists in Narathiwat,” from the Bangkok Post, December 20 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): NARATHIWAT – A gang of Islamic militants burned down the Bacho Tambon Administration Organisation office on Thursday, after failing to find any Buddhist employees to kill. Seven armed men stormed into the offices […]
Tunisia: Muslim cleric calls for “sterilizing the wombs of Jewish women”
The “Arab Spring” in full flower. “Tunisian imam sued for call to “˜sterilize the wombs of Jewish women,– by Michael Bassin for the Times of Israel, December 20 (thanks to Jerk Chicken): The Tunisian Association to Support Minorities is suing a prominent Tunisian imam for hateful incitement against Jews. During a Friday sermon broadcast live […]
Lawyers for Oregon would-be #MyJihad mass murderer claim entrapment
What would it take for you to commit mass murder in the name of Allah? Would you do it for money? For love? Out of a sense of justice? Out of a sense of religious duty? Absurd as they may seem, these are serious questions, for as jihad mass-murder plots are being uncovered in the […]
Robert Spencer: Obama Finds His Benghazi Fall Guys
In FrontPage this morning I discuss the heads rolling at the State Department: After an independent report found that mistakes were made in the Obama Administration’s handling of the Benghazi jihad massacre, Barack Obama immediately took action against those who apparently made them: Eric Boswell, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security; Charlene Lamb, […]
Former Marine says he burned Ohio mosque because “every day you turn on the TV, you see Muslims trying to kill Americans”
There is no excuse for what Randy Linn did. He is a criminal, and he richly deserves his twenty-year prison term. This incident is being used, of course, as part of ongoing efforts to discredit the anti-jihad movement, but it no more does that than the murdering thug John Brown’s massacres discredited the anti-slavery movement. […]