They have owned the property for 125 years, but according to the prior report — surprise! — the local government decided it was government property. The land is now worth a great deal. Local authorities have found that, as Hedy Hedley Lamarr declared in Blazing Saddles: “Unfortunately there is one thing standing between me and […]
Archives for 2012
Gay honor killing film shakes Turkey up, enrages Islamic supremacists
“Islamist daily Vakit called it ‘homosexual propaganda’ by a gay lobby bent on ‘legitimizing perversion through their so-called art.’” Remember, they’re talking about a film about an honor killing. Vakit doesn’t seem to mind the honor murder; it’s the immorality that upsets them. “Gay ‘honor killing’ movie shakes Turkey up,” by Ece Toksabay for Reuters, […]
Egypt: Islamic parties win 75% of parliament
These are the people who will be drafting the next constitution. A democracy is only as good as the values that inform its participants. “Islamists secure top spot in new Egypt parliament,” by Marwa Awad and Lin Noueihed for Reuters, January 21: CAIRO (AP) – Final results on Saturday showed that Islamist parties won nearly […]
Maldives: Government expresses concern about the rise in “extremist rhetoric”
There is nothing “moderate” about the Maldives, where religions other than Sunni Islam are forbidden. The government appeared willing to consider a variety of measures toward further Islamization of the nation when protesters demanded concessions ranging from a complete ban on alcohol and pork to a ban on direct flights to Israel. That appears only […]
Nigeria: At least 156 dead in wave of bombings, shootings; Boko Haram jihadists claim responsibility
All of this is supposed to usher in a paradise under Sharia, just as soon as they can kill and terrorize enough people who would stand in the way. “Scores dead as assailants target northern Nigerian city,” by Nima Elbagir and Hassan John for CNN, January 21: Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) — Nigeria imposed a 24-hour […]
HuffPo posts Islamic dawah from UNC prof Omid Safi, who claimed I threatened to kill him
As I’ve written before about Reza Aslan, one of the most unfortunate aspects of the politically correct straitjacket that binds contemporary public discourse is that deceitful mediocrities and intellectual flotsam and jetsam who aren’t capable of independent thought or of defending their own positions except with lies and scorn, are lauded and lionized by the […]
Victim of attempted honor killing speaks out
Video courtesy Answering Muslims. It is no accident or coincidence that Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely […]
Kuwaiti royal prince declares conversion to Christianity: “if they kill me because of it, then I will appear before Jesus Christ”
Why would Abdullah al-Sabah think he might be murdered for exercising his freedom of conscience? After all, Muslim spokesmen such as Salam al-Marayati, M. Cherif Bassiouni, and Ali Eteraz (among many others) have assured us that Islam has no death penalty for apostasy. Unfortunately, in doing so they fool credulous Westerners, but they disagree with […]
Stop Islamization of Nations (SION) Calls on UN to Protect Christians of Syria
From Yahoo News: NEW YORK, Jan. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A prominent international human rights organization is calling upon the United Nations and the international human rights community to act quickly and decisively to save the Christians of Syria, who are being increasingly threatened and victimized by Islamic supremacists. Stop Islamization of Nations (SION) notes […]
Shocker: Afghan soldiers “step up” killing of NATO troops
Give guns to large numbers of people with no durable sense of loyalty to unbelievers, whom they have been brought up since childhood to despise and to be prepared to fight, and there’s going to be some unfriendly “friendly fire.” That much should be obvious, but it is too politically incorrect to acknowledge. Western policy […]