While the hopelessly compromised American Library Association cravenly capitulates to the foes of free speech, at least one library in Tehran is more hospitable to free thought and a genuine exchange of ideas. Last Monday evening I spoke at the University of California Irvine, at an event organized by an Iranian ex-Muslim who read my […]
Archives for 2012
Egypt’s draft constitution: Sharia main source of legislation
This is the same wording as in the previous constitution, but under the Muslim Brotherhood it is almost certain to have more teeth than it did under Mubarak. “UPDATE 1-Islam’s status unchanged in Egypt draft constitution,” from Reuters, November 29: Nov 29 (Reuters) – An assembly drafting Egypt’s new constitution voted on Thursday to keep […]
Jakarta Chief Imam: Muslims who say that Muslims are free to choose their religion must repent
Muhammad said: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence. Yet Muslim spokesmen such as Harris Zafar, Mustafa Akyol, Salam al-Marayati, M. Cherif Bassiouni, and Ali Eteraz (among many others) have assured us that Islam […]
Turkey’s President calls on West to “curb” criticism of Islam
Gul says he believes in free speech, but “incitement to hate and violence” should not enjoy free speech protections. By this he doesn’t mean the hate sermons of imams calling for jihad against Infidels, but the writings of “Islamophobes,” including accurate analyses of how jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to promote violence […]
Philippines: Muslims shoot Christian man and his Muslim girlfriend
Islamic law forbids non-Muslim men to marry Muslim women. That would be haram. But shooting such couples is pleasing to Allah. “Christian man and Muslim girlfriend shot in Zamboanga City,” from the Mindanao Examiner, November 29 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Nov. 29, 2012) — Police is searching for […]
Grim milestone approaching: 20,000 jihad terror attacks worldwide since 9/11
19,999 jihad attacks as of this morning. But remember: “Islamophobia” is the far greater problem! The number increases so quickly, the ad is already out of date.
Iran: Muslims murder Jewish woman to seize her property for a mosque
They wanted her property for a mosque, and ultimately their piety could not be restrained. “Jewish woman brutally murdered in Iran over property dispute,” by Ilan Ben Zion in the Times of Israel, November 28: A 57-year-old Jewish woman was brutally stabbed to death and her body mutilated on Monday by Muslim attackers in the […]
Taliban threaten to avenge execution of Mumbai jihad mass murderer
Of course, if it weren’t this, they’d find another pretext for their own jihad mass murders. “Taliban threaten to avenge Kasab death in a month,” by Omer Farooq Khan for TNN, November 29 (thanks to Narain): ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani Taliban faction has claimed that its fighters were holed up in Amritsar and Hyderabad to carry […]
Iran: “Despite the sanctions, most likely this year we will have a substantial growth in centrifuge machines and we will continue enrichment with intensity”
And the “world powers” are placing their hopes in a new “window of opportunity” for “diplomacy,” even though Iran has made it abundantly clear that it will not be dissuaded from uranium enrichment. “Iran ‘will press on with enrichment:’ nuclear chief,” by Yeganeh Torbati for Reuters, November 28 (thanks to all who sent this in): […]
Turkey’s PM Erdogan to visit Hamas top dog Mashaal in Gaza
Just a few years ago, Turkey was regularly held up in the mainstream media as proof that Islam and democracy, and even Islam and secularism, could coexist. Numerous commentators from all over the American political spectrum confidently held up Turkey as a model for what the Islamic world in general could and would surely forthwith […]