This photo epitomizes the tragic wrongheadedness of our misadventure in Afghanistan. But the lesson, as ever, will not be learned. “Pictured with the man who shot him dead moments later: RAF policeman grins alongside rogue Afghan policeman who opened fire on him and comrade,” by Anna Edwards for the Daily Mail, November 5 (thanks to […]
Archives for 2013
Netherlands: Dean of Islamic university that trains imams supports stoning
“The only truly clashing area is the penal code, and no Muslim has the intention of introducing that to America. The penal code is the area that people in the Western world are worried about — but these are things that aren’t even observed today in most of the Muslim world. Apart from the Taliban […]
“I want to kick this KAFIR Ass so Hard that He will never speak again!”
A few years ago I debated the Christian writer Peter Kreeft, author of Ecumenical Jihad and Between Allah and Jesus. The debate topic was “The only good Muslim is a bad Muslim” — a rather facetious way of expressing the fact that the more devout and observant a Muslim becomes, the greater the possibility that […]
Malaysia: Muslim group lodges police report over Facebook posting insulting Islam
“The FB account owner was said to display a picture of a grilled pig with the word ‘Allah’ and ‘Muhammad.’” Apparently the FB owner in question dislikes Islam intensely. In modern, moderate Malaysia, it appears to be illegal to express dislike of Islam in such a crude manner, or probably in any manner at all. […]
Khamenei, Rouhani “not optimistic” about Iran nuclear talks
Which means they are going to continue to develop nuclear weapons, and aren’t going to give an inch. They may well, however, wring important concessions out of the U.S. side, given its leadership. “Rowhani not “˜optimistic” about Iran nuclear talks,” from Al Arabiya, November 4 (thanks to Lookmann): Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani is not “optimistic” […]
Egypt: Islamic supremacists stepping up attacks on Christians
“The Muslim Brotherhood has come out and condemned the attacks, but what it hasn’t done yet is crack down on the anti-Christian rhetoric that fuels this type of violence.” “Attacks on Christians by Islamic militants rise in Egypt,” by Clarissa Ward for CBS News, October 30: (CBS News) CAIRO – A top leader of the […]
Syria: Bodies of Christians massacred by jihadis found in mass grave
Archbishop Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh said: “We have shouted aid to the world but no one has listened to us. Where is the Christian conscience? Where is human consciousness? Where are my brothers?” “Syria: Bodies of massacred Christians found in mass grave,” from Independent Christian News, November 4 (thanks to AINA): The bodies of 30 Christian […]
Sharia in action in Sudan: Woman faces whipping for refusal to wear hijab
“Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one’s religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state in our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That’s why the United States government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab […]
Pakistan: Islamic seminary gutted as explosives that seminary students were preparing go off prematurely
You’d almost think these Islamic schools actually had bomb-making classes: July 2009: Bomb kills nine at imam’s house used as Islamic school in Pakistan April 2007: 22 arrested for bombmaking in Islamic religious school raid in Afghanistan July 2006: Jihadist killed by his own grenade at religious school in Afghanistan September 2004: Nine prosecuted for […]
Connecticut church bringing in Hamas-linked CAIR rep to explain “misunderstood” aspects of Islam
But they will talk to churches The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is routinely presented in the mainstream media as a civil rights organization. Its consistent pattern of encouraging Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement is never mentioned. CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case “” so named by […]