Those who think that financial sanctions or an oil embargo can stop the desire of Muslims to acquire nuclear weapons are simply wrong, or perhaps blind and deaf. Iran continues to enrich uranium, creating components for a nuclear bomb. It threatens to destroy entire countries, and at the same time wants to prove to the […]
Archives for 2012
Kuwait: Pro-Sharia Islamic supremacists win landslide majority
“Liberals were the big losers” — that is, those who believe in a freer society, not totalitarian-minded Western liberals. Yet the learned analysts and deceiving Islamic supremacists still applaud the “Arab Spring” transformation of the Middle East, despite the Sharia horrors that are in the offing — or maybe because of them. “Islamist-led opposition wins […]
Pakistan: Honor killers hunting down couples who marry for love
“It’s not a crime to marry the person we want to. But back home, our elders think women are their property. We can’t do things we want to do.” “Insult and honour: Tribal predators hunting down newlyweds in Karachi,” from the Express Tribune, February 2 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): KARACHI: Back home, Z […]
German Misunderstanders of Islam plead guilty to smuggling jihad bomb instructions into Britain
Still more converts to Islam misunderstand their new, peaceful religion. And yet, despite the frequency of such instances, no one, anywhere, is calling upon Muslims to institute instruction classes for converts to Islam to help safeguard them from this curious misunderstanding. “German converts plead guilty to smuggling bomb instructions into Britain,” by Duncan Gardham for […]
Ibn Warraq’s insightful and inspiring defense of Western civilization
In my Crisis column this week I review Ibn Warraq’s extraordinary new book, Why the West Is Best: Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of Liberal Democracy. By Ibn Warraq, Encounter Books, 286 pages, $19. One principal reason why the Islamic jihad is advancing with such confidence around the world today is […]
“Moderate” Palestinian Authority TV: Palestinian children created to fertilize the land with their blood
Now, remember, these are the “moderates.” That is, of course, unless they have been taken over by ancient Aztecs, as this rhetoric would tend to imply. “Palestinian kids created as ‘fertilizer,’ to saturate the land with blood,” by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik for Palestinian Media Watch, January 31: Dying for the sake of […]
Israel: 1 in 10 homes in southern Lebanon used to store weapons
Human shields, partly for strategic purposes, and partly for propaganda purposes. “Israel: 1 in 10 houses in south Lebanon used for arms storage,” from the Daily Star, February 2: BEIRUT: Israeli Intelligence estimates that one in every 10 houses in south Lebanon serves as a missile storage facility or a launch pad for destructive devices […]
Predictable: Calls in Indonesia to behead atheist arrested for blasphemy
This self-righteous instability will eventually impoverish the entire society, both materially, as angry mobs destroy what they will, and intellectually, as dissent becomes physically dangerous. An update on this story. “Calls to Behead Indonesian Atheist Alexander Aan,” by Presi Mandari for the Jakarta Globe, February 2 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Jakarta. A defiant […]
UN’s Ban Ki-moon sides with “Palestinians,” who show their gratitude by pelting his car with shoes
All Israel settlements violate international law, said Ban Ki-moon. All of them. And for that he got stones and shoes thrown at his car. If he had said that some settlements were acceptable, I suppose his car would have been blown up. Gratitude to the Infidels Alert: “All talk, no action as Israel’s settlements remain […]
Lebanon: Hizballah members indicted in Hariri assassination to be tried in absentia
Hizballah intends to ensure they serve their sentences in absentia as well, and there appears to be no political will in Lebanon to demand otherwise. One of those indicted has boasted that authorities know where he lives, but cannot arrest him. The track record so far calls into question whether “all reasonable steps” were really […]