Sheik Mohammad Isa Okete was indeed fired for teachings contrary to Islam, but they involved adultery and the Ramadan fast. Note also that after another Muslim preacher, Khalifa Tijjani, denounced Okete’s teaching as Satanic, Okete’s followers violently attacked Tijjani, and Tijjani’s followers carried out a reprisal attack. Religion of Peace! The main point about this […]
Archives for 2012
Bin Laden to his children: “Do not follow me down the road to jihad. Go and get a good education in the West”
This kind of hypocrisy is common: Osama bin Laden would by no means have been the first jihad leader who preached blood and murder against the West but then turned around and told his children to go get a good education at a respectable kaffir university. If they attain their goal of destroying the Great […]
Gaza top dog in Tehran: Hamas “will never recognize Israel”
And Hamas is forming a unity government with Fatah, which the Obama Administration regards as the moderate faction to which Israel must make concessions in order to bring about peace. “Gaza premier: Hamas ‘will never recognise Israel,’” from AFP, February 11 (thanks to Wimpy): Hamas “will never recognise Israel,” Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniya said […]
Robert Spencer speaks at Franciscan University, November 2011
Just found out this was online (thanks to Jihad Watch reader Benedict) — hence the 3-month delay in posting.
Saudis used Interpol’s “red notice” system to track down columnist who insulted Muhammad
This is the international equivalent of calling 911 because your pizza delivery is late. It is bad enough if the Saudis are persecuting alleged “blasphemers” on their own dime, but to hijack an international system designed to assist law enforcement in tracking down the perpetrators of actual crimes for their own ridiculously disordered priorities is […]
Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller confront a hysterical, dishonest and unhinged Suhail Khan at CPAC
Friday evening at CPAC I saw Suhail Khan and renewed the challenge to debate that I issued here before. This was after Khan had called me out that morning, handing out a whitewashed, deceptive paper on Sharia and claiming that “Robert Spencer doesn’t know what he is talking about.” I dissected his Sharia paper at […]
Egypt: Charges finally filed in army’s massacre of Christians, but…
Not surprisingly, authorities are not holding the army accountable, but are instead leveling retaliatory charges against two Coptic priests for “incitement.” Egypt’s post-revolutionary government is beating Orwell at his own game; one will recall that this was the first large-scale public act of brutality of its kind by the army against its people. The Maspero […]
Saudi committee calls for “harsh punitive measures” against author of “blasphemous” Twitter post
How many things can you think of in Saudi society that would actually be worth this much outrage? Child marriage? Sexual abuse of foreign domestic workers? The treatment of women as permanent minors? Antisemitic preaching and textbooks? Persecution of non-Muslims? One could go on. But the righteous indignation is reserved for a 23-year-old with a […]
Syrian Christians fear genocide if Assad falls
Unfortunately, all they need to do is look all around them, to Iraq, where the Christian population has been decimated, and to Egypt, where many who can flee are also doing so. There is every reason to believe that Syria’s case would follow the same pattern. “Syrian Christians Fear Genocide if al-Assad Falls to Muslim […]
Iran’s Thug-in-Chief promises “major nuclear announcement” within days
Iran is turning into North Korea, increasingly showing itself willing to trade the hunger and poverty of its people for the sake of the single-minded pursuit of a military advantage. As for the West, every time an announcement along these lines comes out, the specter of an Iranian nuclear test looms larger, though Iran will […]