Over at CBN News (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I translate and put into context a well known Egyptian sheikh’s instructions that Muslim males are commanded to hate their non-Muslim wives — whom he further analogizes with rape victims — while enjoying them for their bodies, wealth, or any other appealing attributes: Often translated as “Loyalty and Enmity,” […]
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UNESCO on Brotherhood supporters: “˜Enemies of civilization and heritage”
[via RaymondIbrahim.com] After visiting the ransacked Malawi National Museum in al-Minya, Upper Egypt, as well as a nearby evangelical church that was torched, Pierre-André Lablaude, a UNESCO antiquities representative, expressed his “displeasure and dismay” concerning the “radical” groups responsible for such wanton destruction of historic buildings and antiquities, describing them as “enemies of civilization and […]
‘Vote for Me or Else’ – Patterns between Egypt and Pakistan
Over at Gatestone Institute (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I discuss how “elections” are the latest excuse to attack Christian minorities in the Islamic world In what seems to be a pattern in many Muslim nations of finding new pretexts to justify anti-Christian””and “anti-Other–”behavior, Egypt’s Christians and their churches are under attack, ostensibly because Christians joined the June […]
Syria: Hundreds of rebels pledge loyalty to al-Qaeda groups
And they can demonstrate their loyalty using U.S.-supplied weapons. “Hundreds of Syria rebels pledge loyalty to Qaeda groups: Activists,” from Reuters, September 20: Hundreds of rebels have pledged allegiance to al Qaeda-affiliated forces in northern and eastern Syria, activists and Islamist sources said on Friday, strengthening the group’s control in the region. Not only individual […]
Sharia in action in Turkey: New law takes effect curbing sale and advertising of alcohol
“O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, stone altars and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.” — Qur’an 5:90 Death of Turkish Secularism Update: “Sobering times for Turkish winemakers as new law takes effect,” from AFP, September 20: Blasted by winds whipped […]
California: Saudi princess charged with holding slave released, charges dropped
Being one of the six wives of Prince Abdulrahman bin Nasser bin Abdulaziz al Saud, a grandson of Saudi King Abdullah, gives you some clout — and if her actions contradict American law, so much the worse for American law. An update on this story. “Saudi Princess Released, Charges Of Human Trafficking Dropped,” by Gigi […]
Turkey: Pianist gets ten months prison for insulting Islam on Twitter
Rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey hands down a Sharia-inspired ruling. These are the kinds of laws that the purveyors of the “Islamophobia” myth want to bring to the U.S. “Turkish court sentences pianist Say to 10 months after re-trial,” from Today’s Zaman, September 20 (thanks to Joshua): An Ä°stanbul court on Friday sentenced Turkish pianist Fazıl Say […]
National Park Service produces videos praising Islam’s contributions to women’s rights
Your tax dollars at work. I am looking forward to seeing the National Park Service videos praising the contributions of Judaism and Christianity to women’s rights. “National Park Service Produces Videos Praising Islam’s Contributions To Women’s Rights,” from the Independent Journal Review, September 18 (thanks to Jerk Chicken): Another example of your hard-earned tax dollars […]
Tunisian women “waging sex jihad in Syria”
“Jihad al-nikah, permitting extramarital sexual relations with multiple partners, is considered by some hardline Sunni Muslim Salafists as a legitimate form of holy war.” Sounds like bid’a (innovation) to me — a serious sin in Islam. Those most likely to declare it as such, however, are those who are doing it. “Tunisian women ‘waging sex […]
FBI field offices knowingly engaged in outreach activity with Hamas-linked CAIR despite ban on such contacts
Hamas-linked CAIR is pushing the “Islamophobia” myth in a big way today, expanding its list of targets in a new report to include everyone, everyone, including your Aunt Gertrude, who has ever dared to speak a remotely critical word about jihad terror and Islamic supremacism. Maybe they’re trying to deflect attention away from the fact […]