Sabatina James has spoken out before on how virtually no one in the present political establishment is willing to stand up for persecuted Christians, let alone ex-Muslims. When your cause is not fashionable, apparently your suffering does not count. “My mother wants me dead: Catholic convert speaks out after fleeing her Muslim family following ‘honour […]
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Taliban detainees at Guantanamo agree to be transferred to Qatar
These detainees are not bit players; some are reportedly considered “high risk.” Left unsaid in this report is what the U.S. gets out of it. It sounds as much as ever as if Washington is willing to trade risky American actions to see the Taliban to say the right things. “Taliban Guantanamo detainees agree to […]
Over 90 rockets hit Israel since Friday
Either Hamas is in control of Gaza, or it is not. It cannot have it both ways. What other country but Israel would be expected to tolerate the intolerable: an unstable, selectively sovereign neighbor with a stated intention of destroying its neighbor, and that can hide behind plausible deniability (or not) to lob rockets over […]
UK: Man gets year in prison for posting material “offensive to the Islamic faith” in his front window
Is England Saudi Arabia now? Is Sharia in effect? Is it now illegal to post material “offensive to the Islamic faith” in a window? If Conway had posted material “offensive to the Christian faith,” would he have been arrested or jailed? Who decides what is offensive? I haven’t seen what Conway posted, and I do […]
Pamela Geller: HuffPo’s Pro-Jihad Propaganda
In “HuffPo’s Pro-Jihad Propaganda” in the American Thinker today, Pamela Geller skewers the latest example of the Huffington Post’s ongoing tendency to carry water for the most oppressive ideology on earth: 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 […]
Gaza jihadists fire 40 rockets into Israel, wound 8 people
While Obama tells the Palestinian jihadists to hold off on their statehood push until after the election, some jihadists are making the job of deceiving the kuffar more difficult — or at least they would be doing so in a sane world, but in today’s West the kuffar are everlastingly credulous. “Gaza militants fire rockets […]
Report: Saudi police used water cannons to break up women’s sit-in at university
You see, they had “‘gathered on the campus and began shouting in a way that contradicts’ campus regulations.” May a woman shout within campus regulations? Probably not. Wherever people are marked off as second-class citizens, they wind up bearing a disproportionate burden to keep the peace by knowing their “place.” More on this story. “Saudi […]
Tunisia: “This emerging movement of believers known as Salafis has seemingly appeared out of thin air”
Only if one were proceeding on ill-informed assumptions. In Iraq, policymakers were surprised at how flimsy the veneer of tolerance and modernity turned out to be. In Afghanistan, they expected tolerance and modernity if we just peeled away a veneer of Talibanization. In both cases, they were wrong. In Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt, little seems […]
Faux fatwa flummoxes faithful… film forthcoming
This “report” is a Purim prank, but it’s delightful, and casts a sharp contrast with the monumental wet blanket thrown by the Ayatollah Khomeini: “Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime […]
Egypt: Islamic parties move to get rid of National Council for Women
On display here is a tactic that turns up wherever politics are at work in a society: advancing one’s agenda under labels that employ pleasant generalities that sound like good things at face value. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (what, don’t you like the will of “the people“?). The Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (what, […]