As Stephen Brown says below, this does not mean that Libya is going to become a Sharia state a la Saudi Arabia or Iran — at least not at this point. Sharia being “the source of legislation,” which is language that is in recent Egyptian constitutions, is a slight distancing from “Sharia is the law […]
Archives for 2013
Russia: Muslims burn seven churches, priests “remain silent because they are afraid of being accused of incitement to religious hatred”
“Incitement to religious hatred” what the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is trying to compel the West to criminalize. Here we see what that would mean: Muslims persecute Christians, and the Christians are afraid to speak out against that persecution for fear of being charged with incitement. Even without the criminalization of “incitement to religious […]
Indonesia: Islamic supremacists and local authorities demolish church for lacking “building permit”
“In reality, now as in the past, the permit issue was but a pretext to block new buildings or demolish existing ones.” Sharia forbids Christians to build new churches or renovate old ones. “South Sulawesi: Islamists and local authorities pull down Protestant church,” by Mathias Hariyadi for Asia News, December 5 (thanks to C. Cantoni): […]
Western allies holding talks with Syrian jihadists
This is an admission of defeat and failure: the fading Western powers are tacitly admitting that the secular groups in Syria are finished. Yes, the same secular groups that just weeks ago they were confidently assuring the world were firmly in control. “Britain holds first face-to-face talks with Islamists fighting Assad,” by Richard Spencer for […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage Magazine: Spencer and Geller Banned from Britain for Supporting Israel
The capitulation of the UK to Leftists and Islamic supremacists. In FrontPage today: New revelations about why I was banned from entering Great Britain reveal how deeply compromised the British government is to hard-Leftists and Islamic supremacists — including the most virulent haters of Israel. As faithful FrontPage readers may recall, last June I was […]
AFDI fights for free speech in Boston
Yerushalmi, Muise, Geller, Spencer Pamela Geller and I were in Boston today with our ace free speech lawyers, David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise, as Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton of the U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, heard arguments in our free speech case against the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA). The MBTA, predictably, allowed a […]
UK: “Islamophobia” monitoring group claims government crackdown on “Islamist extremists” will lead to violence against Muslims
Fiyaz Mughal This is extraordinary: according to the dogmas that we all must accept on pain of charges of “Islamophobia” and “bigotry,” the vast majority of peaceful Muslims abhors and rejects the twisted, hijacked version of Islam represented by Osama bin Laden, Anjem Choudary and the like. Thus since the Cameron government is being careful […]
UK: Knives found hidden under prayer mats in prison mosque after mass brawl
Mr. Todd hastens to toe the politically correct line: “They are not devout Muslims. They are using the religion as cover. They are using religious views to promote violence. It is gangs hiding behind religion.” Of course. This is obviously true. After all, who ever heard of devout Muslims promoting violence? And of course the […]
UK: Prisoner accused of intimidating jail inmates to convert to Islam
Jude Odigie “There is no compulsion in religion,” says the Qur’an (2:256), but what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. After all, the institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. […]
India: Muslims killed man to raise money for jihad
Fakruddin “Persecution is worse than slaughter,” says the Qur’an (2:191). According to Islamic tradition, this verse was revealed after some of Muhammad’s men raided a caravan and killed some Infidels during a sacred month, when fighting was forbidden. The rule was set aside by this revelation, which meant, Well, yes, you slaughtered when you shouldn’t […]