His family praised him for cutting off his own hand. Will they be arrested as well? The attitudes, assumptions, and beliefs that led to this barbarity go much deeper than this one cleric. “Police arrest cleric for ‘inciting’ boy to cut off his hand,” Pakistan Today, January 16, 2016: Police on Saturday arrested the cleric […]
Archives for 2016
Muslim stabs Israeli mother of six to death in her home
Heeding the exhortations of Muslim clerics. “Terrorist on the Loose After Stabbing Israeli Woman to Death in West Bank,” by Chaim Levinson and Gili Cohen, Haaretz, January 17, 2016: Israeli security forces are searching for a terrorist who stabbed an Israeli woman to death at her home in the West Bank settlement of Otniel and […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Islam à voile et à vapeur
There is a French phrase — “Il marche à voile et à vapeur” — literally, “it moves by sail or by steam,” which refers, however, not to a sailboat or a steamboat or a boat that can move using either means of propulsion but, rather, in the witty French manner, to a person who is […]
US to release $400 million in frozen funds to Iran, plus $1.3 billion in interest
Time for a fresh chorus of “Death to America!” in Tehran. Look how much the last one got them. “Iran to receive $1.7 billion from the US in a claim settlement,” by David Lawder, Reuters, January 17, 2016: The United States and Iran on Sunday settled a longstanding claim at the Hague, releasing to Tehran […]
Swiss convert to Islam tries to take her 4-year-old son to join the Islamic State
The boy’s Muslim father is shocked! shocked! that this happened, and the Daily Mail takes for granted that this woman’s conversion to Islam had nothing whatsoever to do with her deciding to join the Islamic State. That all came later, when she was “brainwashed.” But if Franziska Mirella had never converted to Islam in the […]
Germany: Muslims arrested for stoning transgender women
A glimpse into Europe’s future. But when Pamela Geller and I tried to call attention to the treatment of gays under Sharia, gay leaders criticized us for doing so. They will be in for interesting times. “North African men suspected of stoning transgender women in German city,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, January 16, 2016: […]
UK: Hijab-wearing Muslima tries to stab teen on bus
A random stabbing of a stranger by a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. What could have caused such a thing? Last October, a Muslim cleric waved a knife during his Friday sermon and exhorted Muslims to stab Jews, “cut them into body parts.” And in September 2014, the Islamic State called on Muslims to murder […]
Virginia: Two Muslims arrested in attempt to join the Islamic State
Not to worry. John Kerry is no doubt on his way now to explain to Joseph Hassan Farrokh how the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam. But why Muslims keep misunderstanding Islam, all in the same way, remains something about which Kerry and his colleagues are completely incurious. “Two Men Arrested in Attempt […]
IAEA certifies Iran’s compliance with nuke deal, US, EU lift sanctions
Peace in our time! Just ignore all those people screaming, “Death to America!” “US, EU lift sanctions against Iran amid landmark nuke deal,” by George Jahn and Bradley Klapper, Associated Press, January 16, 2016: VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. nuclear agency certified Saturday that Iran has met all of its commitments under last summer’s landmark […]
Virulent Anti-Semitism Passed Off as Mild Dissent on Campus
Anti-Israel BDS resolutions have been seizing campuses in Canada. According to an article in the Jerusalem Post, it is Hamas — an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood — that has fueled and directed the BDS and Israel Apartheid Week campaigns on university campuses across North America, through chapters of the Muslim Student Association and the Palestine Solidarity […]