On April 22, at the Urth Caffé in Laguna Beach, California, seated at one of the most desirable tables – that is, those on the outside patio, in the very front, with the unobstructed view of the beach — seven Muslim women, all wearing hijabs, talked and dallied. On their table, as on all the […]
Archives for 2016
Seven Myths of the Crusades
Seven Myths of the Crusades by Alfred J. Andrea and Andrew Holt, eds. Cambridge, Mass.: Hackett Publishing, 2015. 248 pp. $54 ($19, paper). As the editors make clear in their preface, Seven Myths of the Crusades is presented as an antidote to the “outpouring of exaggerations, misperceptions, errors, misrepresentations, and fabrications” that proliferate in popular discourse […]
Benghazi: Hillary’s “inaction on numerous requests for additional security…reveals a serious lack of competence”
“Placing trust in the various militia factions to set aside their longstanding differences and establish a governing body in the war torn country illustrates another amateur mistake.” This was no amateur mistake. This was an implementation of the policy called for by foreign policy professionals: to ignore whatever a study of Islamic doctrine and law […]
Video: Robert Spencer on Hudud, the punishments mandated in Islamic law
In this twelfth segment of my Basics of Islam series, I explain hudud punishments, the punishments for that are mandated by Islamic law and considered to have been commanded by Allah.
“Modern Islam Is Already Impossible”
“You can not reform a religion. If they are reformed, [the original meaning] is separated from it. Therefore, modern Muslims and a modern Islam is already impossible. If there is no separation between religion and state, there will be no democracy especially without equality for women. Then we will keep a theocratic system. So it […]
Mark Christian Moment: Can Any LGBT Individual Survive a Day Under Sharia Law?
Subscribe to the Glazov Gang‘s YouTube Channel. This special edition of The Glazov Gang presents the Mark Christian Moment with Dr. Mark Christian, the President and Executive Director of the Global Faith Institute. He is the son and nephew of high ranking leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in his home country of Egypt. After his […]
Ramadan in Baghdad: Muslim murders 12 in jihad attack on mosque
“The mosque was located in a predominantly Sunni area.” And so it may be that the perpetrator was Shia. Or it may be that he was Sunni, but considered the Muslims in the mosque to be, for whatever reason, insufficiently Muslim. For that, as for so many other things in Islamic law, the penalty is […]
FBI didn’t bother to inform some Americans they were on Islamic State kill list
Perhaps to do so would have been “Islamophobic,” or Obamoid FBI agents were too busy conducting outreach at the local mosque to get around to informing these people. “FBI didn’t inform some Americans they were on ISIS kill list,” by Sara Carter, Circa News, June 27, 2016: The FBI did not alert numerous Americans that […]
Israel: 3 Muslim doctors and nurse arrested for jihad terror bombing
Three doctors and a nurse? But John Kerry and other U.S. officials assure us that poverty and lack of opportunity causes terrorism! Reality is, of course, different. The New York Times reported in March that “not long after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001…Alan B. Krueger, the Princeton economist, tested the widespread assumption that poverty […]
Egypt’s highest Islamic authority — a “moderate” — says apostasy punishable by death
The line between “moderate” and “radical” Muslim continues to fade. On the question of apostasy in Islam—whether a born or converted Muslim has the right to abandon Islam for another or no religion—the radical position is well known: unrepentant apostates are to be punished with death. Yet one of the Muslim world’s greatest authorities, the […]