For them, it was an exercise of piety to slay the infidels wherever they were found (cf. Qur’an 9:5) during the holy month. “Islamists kill 20 in Nigeria’s north,” from AAP, July 29 (thanks to Kenneth): Suspected members of Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram have shot dead more than 20 civilians when a vigilante group […]
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Ramadan observance in Iraq: Jihad-martyrdom suicide bomber murders eight security personnel
A jihadi decides to renew his commitment to Allah, which is the goal of Ramadan, in a big way by laying hold of Allah’s promise of Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for him (Qur’an 9:111). “Suicide bomber kills eight Kurdish security personnel in Iraq,” from Reuters, July 28 (thanks to Kenneth): TIKRIT: […]
Hamas-linked CAIR calls on Obama to condemn attacks on Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
The Investigative Project reported in 2007 that the FBI had identified CAIR as part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee: Dallas–In testimony Tuesday, FBI Agent Lara Burns reported before the jury in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was listed as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine […]
Canada: Jihad plotter says Allah will punish nations that “spread secularism,” rejects Canadian law as not coming from Allah
Presumably he thought that Allah was going to use him as an instrument of the divine wrath by derailing the Toronto-bound Via passenger train. So does he think that the foiling of the plot and his arrest are Allah punishing him? “God will send natural disasters to “˜punish” nations that “˜spread secularism,” VIA Rail terror […]
Ramadan observance in Somalia: Islamic jihadis murder six in attack on Turkish embassy
“…in an effort to implement a stricter form of Islamic law in the country.” “Police: 6 killed in attack on Turkish embassy in Somalia,” by Omar Nor and Greg Botelho for CNN, July 27 (thanks to Pamela Geller): Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) — Blood and body parts littered the ground outside Turkey’s embassy in Somalia on […]
Pakistan: Muslim leader says jihad of Hizballah, Taliban, and Hamas will continue until “revolution of Islam”
And members of his party staged a pro-Morsi demonstration in Karachi. Recently Islamic supremacists in the U.S. who have strenuously denied having Muslim Brotherhood ties, including Hamas-linked CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush, Hamas-linked ISNA’s former president Ingrid Mattson and DHS official Mohamed Elibiary, have tweeted out strong support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. They make pro-forma […]
Muslim Brotherhood top dog blames bloodshed on “haters of Islam”
The Brotherhood is trying to make the question of whether or not they should be in power a question of whether Muslims there are loyal to Islam or not. They are trying to rule out the idea that one can be a Muslim and prefer secular government to Sharia. It is interesting to note how […]
“Spencer’s comprehensive understanding of his Christian faith and Islam along with lucidly insightful writing give lie to his international notoriety as a bigoted ‘Islamophobe'”
Here is a fine review of my book Not Peace But A Sword (which you can get here) from the Institute on Religion & Democracy: “Cutting through Theological Confusion: Robert Spencer’s Not Peace but a Sword Distinctly Divides Christianity from Islam,” by Andrew E. Harrod for the Institute on Religion & Democracy, July 27: Any […]
Egypt: Assassin of secularist Farag Foda justifies his act: “The punishment for apostasy is death”
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. The Tafsir al-Qurtubi, a classic and thoroughly mainstream exegesis of the Qur’an, says this about Qur’an 2:217: “Scholars disagree about whether or not apostates are […]
Ramadan observance in the Philippines: 6 dead, 48 wounded as Muslims bomb restaurant
Will the Islamophobia never end? “Doctors among dead in Philippines hotel blast,” from Agence France Presse, July 28 (thanks to Maxwell): CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines: Six people were killed and as many as 48 wounded in the Philippines when a bomb struck a restaurant filled with doctors after a national convention, police said Saturday. Police […]