How is it that this Assad adviser got the crazy idea that “the true Islam” would manifest itself in “hostility to Israel”? Doesn’t he know that Islam is a Religion of Tolerance that shows love for all, hatred for none? Or has he read that passage in the Qur’an that says that the Jews will […]
Archives for 2012
Pakistan: To settle a loan, stepfather sells 12-year-old girl to old man for forced marriage
“Whenever I protested against the marriage and asked to be freed, he told me I was his property as he has purchased me from my father.” This idea is a natural result of the treatment of women as commodities in Islamic law. “Forced marriage: Step-father, elderly “˜husband” arrested,” by Shamsul Islam in the Express Tribune, […]
Robert Spencer on Michael Coren Show, discussing mistreatment of women in Islam
…with a mention of the silence of the feminists. This is from last night. Video courtesy Blazing Cat Fur.
Egyptian clerics: Jews are donkeys and Ben Franklin hated them, hating Jews is a form of worshiping Allah
They also appear to be conflating Ben Franklin and Franklin Roosevelt. Priceless. More on the hoax of the “Franklin Prophecy” can be found here. As for the mention of donkeys, that is Qur’an 62:5, which alleges the Jews have fallen away from the true “Torah”: “The example of those who were entrusted with the Torah […]
Egypt: 300 Muslim lawyers storm court to prevent lawyers for Christian convicted of insulting Muhammad from entering
An update on this story. “300 Muslim Lawyers Storm Egyptian Court, Prevent Lawyers for Christian From Entering,” by Mary Abdelmassih for the Assyrian International News Agency, March 16: (AINA) — More than 300 Muslim lawyers inside and outside a courthouse in the southern Egyptian province of Assuit today prevented defense lawyer Ahmad Sayed Gabali, who […]
Head of Iran’s Basij forces: “We must raise public hate … and create the environment for the destruction of America.”
How many other countries out there employ this sort of rhetoric, about destroying other countries? No nukes for you. “Iranian military commander: We must destroy America,” by Reza Khalili for the Daily Caller, March 15: The head of Iran’s Basij paramilitary force says his country has no choice but to destroy America in order to […]
Pamela Geller: HuffPo Equates Freedom Fighters with Taliban
HuffPo Equates Freedom Fighters with Taliban by Pamela Geller John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus, has written a curious apologia for the irrational murders and riots taking place in Afghanistan in response to the inadvertent burning of Qur’ans at Bagram Airfield. In “America’s Image Problem in Afghanistan” in the Huffington Post, Feffer says […]
Indonesia: “Spiritual group” leader gets 4 years in jail for “blasphemy”
This story affirms in its own words what blasphemy prosecutions boil down to: sacrilege by disagreement, noting that “The defendant and the panel of judges still have a difference of opinion.” Such laws are a supremacist tool to keep dissenters and non-Muslims fearful and erring on the side of silence. “Spiritual Group Leader Gets 4 […]
Indonesian church bomber: “Conscience” told him to bomb church in revenge
Pretexts for revenge are a renewable resource, and, combined with an obsession with honor and shame, an endless supply of excuses for violence and collective punishment. Therein lies an inherent and profound source of instability within the society. “Indonesian court hears militant behind church blasts,” from Agence France-Presse, March 15: A convicted Indonesian terrorist said […]
Iran: More churches forbidden to hold services in local language
Linguistic apartheid. Islamic law forbids the propagation of non-Muslim religions, and this measure has been taken to that end, as well as to disrupt the worship of Farsi-speaking Christians. “More Churches are forced to cease Persian language services in Tehran,” from the Farsi Christian News Network, March 12 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): FCNN […]