Remember Morsi’s promise to appoint a woman and a Copt as Vice Presidents? I got an avalanche of tweets and emails crowing that my prediction that Egypt would become a Sharia state under the Brotherhood had been proven incorrect. Well, here we are again: “Indeed he had promised to appoint a woman and a Copt […]
Archives for 2012
Veils In the Quran, Traditions, and Classical Law
13 Veils In the Quran, Traditions, and Classical Law Can Modern Islam Move Past Old Islam? James M. Arlandson, Ph.D. This series of articles is written for educators, legislators, city council members, police officials, judges, lawyers, government bureaucrats, think tank fellows, journalists, TV and radio talk show hosts, and anyone else who occupies positions of […]
Ibn Warraq: Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History (Part 39)
Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History by Ibn Warraq Part 39 Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9 / Part 10 / Part 11 / Part […]
North Carolina: Muslims who plotted attack on Marine base get lengthy sentences
Boyd is yet another convert to Islam who misunderstood his new, peaceful religion. Yet no Muslim group in the U.S. has any program in place to try to keep converts from misunderstanding Islam in this way. How odd! “Leader of Triangle terror cell, associate sentenced to prison,” from WRAL, August 24 (thanks to David): NEW […]
Polygamy In the Quran, Traditions, and Classical Law
12 Polygamy In the Quran, Traditions, and Classical Law Can Modern Islam Set Aside Old Shariah Laws? James M. Arlandson, Ph.D. This series on Islamic shariah law is intended for educators, legislators, lawyers, judges, journalists, city council members, government bureaucrats, think tank fellows, TV and radio talk show hosts, and anyone else who occupies the […]
Pakistan: Muslims demand that 11-year-old Christian girl with Down’s syndrome be punished for blasphemy
Merciless. “Pakistani Muslims: Disabled 11 yr-old Christian should be punished,” by Jibran Khan for Asia News, August 24 (thanks to Block Ness): Islamabad (AsiaNews) – If guilty of blasphemy, the child should be punished according to the laws of the country. This is a widespread view among Muslims in Pakistan, whether laymen or religious leaders, […]
CNN blames British for Pakistan’s death penalty for blasphemy
In “Explainer: Pakistan’s blasphemy laws,” by Reza Sayah for CNN, August 24 (thanks to David), we’re told that the British originated Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, which is routinely used to victimize innocent Christians: When were Pakistan’s blasphemy laws adopted? What fueled them? According to the public policy think tank Jinnah Institute, Pakistan’s blasphemy laws originated in […]
Ramadan – Islam’s ‘Holy Month’ of Christian Oppression
Over at the Investigative Project on Terrorism (via RaymondIbrahim.com, where links and images appear), I discuss how, whereas almost every year, stories appear of Christmas being suppressed to accommodate Muslim sensitivities in the West, in the Muslim world, Christians and others are suppressed, often brutally so, to accommodate Muslim sensitivities: The month of Ramadan, which […]
Only hundreds rally against Egypt’s Islamic supremacist president
Not nearly enough. But as I have said for years, Islamic supremacism and Sharia are popular in Muslim countries, as secular rule is considered un-Islamic. “Hundreds rally against Egypt’s Islamist president,” from the Associated Press, August 24 (thanks to Kenneth): Hundreds of protesters are rallying on the streets in several Egyptian cities to denounce the […]
Turkish Minister halts military band to allow crowd to chant “Allahu akbar”
Another sign of the rapid Islamization of Turkey and increasingly subjugated position of the military, formerly the guardians of Turkish secularism. “Minister halts military band to allow Islamic chant,” from the Hürriyet Daily News, August 24 (thanks to Joshua): Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister ErtuÄŸrul Günay stopped a military band at a soldier’s funeral from […]