“For promotional purposes, many companies ask their employees to wear holiday season paraphernalia, including Santa hats, when serving customers ahead of Christmas and New Year celebrations. Recently, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued an edict banning companies from forcing staff to wear such items, deeming it haram.” When has the Indonesian Ulema Council or the […]
Archives for 2016
Saudis outraged as German Defense Minister refuses to wear hijab during Riyadh visit
The principle is always and everywhere the same: in Muslim countries, one should conform one’s behavior to Muslim sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, one should conform one’s behavior to Muslim sensibilities. Ursula von der Leyen is right, in regard to principles that thus far prevail in the West: “No woman in my delegation will be […]
Pakistan International Airlines staff sacrifices goat to keep flight safe and secure
Well, here’s a new take on air security. Dismantle all that TSA apparatus and stock airports with black goats! Imagine how safe and secure you would feel crossing the tarmac to board that flight and spotting the goat’s carcass and the blood flowing out. Now way could that plane possibly crash now! Seriously, this highlights […]
Egypt: Christians still denied churches while government opens 10 mosques every week
One week before the bombing of St. Peter’s cathedral chapel which left at least 25 Christians dead, hostility for Christian churches was being shown in the usual, less spectacular way. Egyptian authorities and politicians held a meeting sponsored by Al Azhar, the nation’s topmost authority on Islam, in the village of Naghameesh, Sohag. Those present […]
“It is now time for the Islamic conquests”: Iran threatens Bahrain, Yemen
Paid for by Barack Hussein Obama. “Iran threatens Bahrain, Yemen with ‘Islamic conquest’ like Aleppo,” Middle East Monitor, December 17, 2016: A senior Iranian military commander has threatened further wars of conquest after describing the recent collapse of the Syrian opposition in Aleppo as an “Islamic conquest”, as footage has appeared showing Syrian refugees attempting […]
Syria: Muslims use 7-year-old girl for jihad suicide attack at police station
No end to the savagery and bloodlust. “Now they are turning children into bombs! Girl, seven, walks into a Syrian police station to ask to use the bathroom and is blown up when handlers detonate her suicide vest by remote control,” by Hannah Al-othman, Mailonline, December 17, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A […]
Muslim cleric banned in Pakistan is preaching in UK mosques
The letter to me from the UK Home Office banning me from entering the country said that I was banned for saying: “[Islam] is a religion and is a belief system that mandates warfare against unbelievers for the purpose for establishing a societal model that is absolutely incompatible with Western society…” — which is like […]
German school in Istanbul cancels Christmas
“The move was seen by German politicians as part of a larger change under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan away from secularism across Turkey.” Indeed. “German school in Istanbul cancels Christmas,” DW, December 18, 2016: Berlin expressed its dismay on Sunday that a German high school in Istanbul had canceled its Christmas celebrations. “We do not […]
Sam Harris replies to Robert Spencer, Spencer responds
As Sam Harris notes here, he is responding in this piece to one I wrote about him last week. My further responses are interspersed below. “Reply to Robert Spencer,” by Sam Harris, December 16, 2016: Over at Frontpage Magazine and Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer has published an essay titled “Sam Harris and the Collapse of […]
Australia: Muslim migrant mob beat beachworkers “senseless”
It isn’t enough that Muslim migrants are sexually assaulting children, seniors and scores of women throughout Europe, now in Australia, “a rampaging mob of 30 African migrants beat two men senseless during an unprovoked and horrifying attack on a beach.” In recent years, gangs of mostly Sudanese men have terrorised Melbourne suburbs with a spate […]