…which would be an act of war and abrogation of the Camp David accords. “Hamas says Egypt’s Mursi will end Gaza blockade,” from Reuters, July 13 (thanks to Mackie): The head of the Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip said on Friday he was confident Egypt’s new president would shield the Palestinian enclave from […]
Archives for 2012
Islamic Sodomy or “Islamophobic Hoax”?
In “Sodomy for the Sake of Islam,” I wrote about Abdullah al-Asiri, the 2009 suicide-bomber who inserted explosives in his rectum, and how news emerged later that he likely relied on a fatwa permitting sodomy to “widen” his anus to accommodate the explosives. (Click here for a graphic picture of the aftermath of this approach.) […]
Chicago: Qur’an translator intended to become jihad/martyrdom suicide bomber
How did this man who had immersed himself in the peaceful teachings of the generous Qur’an misunderstand Islam so spectacularly as to want to kill and be killed for Allah (as per Qur’an 9:111)? Why does the proliferation of stories like this one never shake the mainstream narrative about Islam being a Religion of Peace […]
Modern, moderate Indonesia: Shi’ite cleric convicted of blasphemy, sentenced to two years in prison
If the likes of Nathan Lean and Jonathan Freedland get their way, those resisting Islamic supremacism in the West will be forcibly silenced, and face penalties much like that meted out here to Tajul Muluk. “Convicted Shiite cleric: I am not an infidel,” by Indra Harsaputra for The Jakarta Post, July 13 (thanks to John): […]
Iran’s Supremo: “Iran will stand by all those who will confront America and Israel”
Itching for war. “Iran vows to back any nation that fights America, Israel,” by Reza Kahlili in the Daily Caller, July 13 (thanks to David): Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a defiant speech in the face of Iran’s conflict with the West over its nuclear program, vowed that “Iran will stand by all those who will […]
Ibn Warraq: Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History (Part 20)
Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History by Ibn Warraq Part 20 Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9 / Part 10 / Part 11 / Part […]
Indonesia: Muslim mob attacks Ahmadiyya community, injuring four
Meanwhile, Ahmadis in the U.S. carry water for the Muslims who kill them in Pakistan and Indonesia. “Four Injured as Mob Attacks Ahmadiyah Community in Bogor,” by Vento Saudale for the Jakarta Globe, July 13 (thanks to Lachlan): An angry mob attacked members of Bogor’s Ahmadiyah community on Friday as a team of Dutch journalists […]
Ahmadinejad: “American people lack freedom of choice; it is the Zionists that decide who will become the (U.S.) president according to their needs”
Hitler and the Nazis said the same thing about America in their day: that it was secretly controlled by Jews. Antisemitic paranoia tends to be repetitive, as do the antisemitic paranoiacs’ final solutions. But the Iranian Thug-In-Chief’s analysis here will certainly come as a surprise to Barack Hussein Obama, America’s most anti-Israel president ever. “President […]
Interview with KM Faina Kirshenbaum: Middle East will turn into a nuclear arms competition
Recently in Israel I interviewed Knesset member Faina Kirshenbaum on the nuclear threat in the Middle East: How would you rate the third round of negotiations between Iran, the European Union and the international community over Iran’s nuclear program? After the third round of negotiations, which the European Union and the world community led in […]
Muslim gets fifteen years of prison dawah for misunderstanding Islam, plotting to kill Obama
After all he has done for them, this is the thanks he gets. “Uzbek man gets more than 15 years for Obama threat,” from the Associated Press, July 13 (thanks to all who sent this in): BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An Uzbek man who came to America pursuing an Ivy League medical degree but wound up […]