Welcome to Stupidity Watch. As someone experienced in both the academic and entertainment industries, I (Greg) figured that I was the obvious choice to head up this new department. I haven’t cleared this feature with management just yet (so don’t tell Robert), but increasingly I come across items that don’t really fit into the current […]
South Korean Hostage Pleads for Help
From AFP via IOL: Kandahar — A woman said by the Taliban to be one of 21 South Korean hostages pleaded for help Saturday in an emotional telephone conversation with AFP, saying the captives are ill and frightened. “They threaten us, they tell us they’ll kill us,” the weeping woman said in the call set […]
No Dhimmi Here
After a week or so of running an isn’t-Islam-nice section at the top of their homepage, the Washington [bleep] includes a broadside by the formidable Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Here’s a taste: On the issues of holy war (jihad), apostasy and the treatment of women, the Koran and Sunna are clear. It is the obligation of […]
Videos You Might Have Missed
Greg here. For those of you following the wider release of our DVD, Islam: What the West Needs to Know, you may be interested in this pair of videos featuring yours truly and my unindicted co-conspirator, Bryan Daly. It’s tough to undo years of misinformation on Islam in ninety seconds, but, in the spirit of […]
Bosnian Muslims mark 600 years of Islam in Bosnia
From AP via The Star Online: SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian Muslims celebrate 600 years of Islam in their nation Saturday with a concert of spiritual music, a prayer for peace, and a gentle reminder to Europe: not all of the continent’s Muslims are of immigrant origin. “Recently we have noticed that Europe is obsessed by […]
Turkey: Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted party coasts to re-election
From EON: Ankara – Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to have easily won re-election with his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) winning almost 48 per cent of the vote, a result that will allow them to comfortably form a single-party government. With just over 70 per cent of the vote counted, the AKP […]
And this week’s winner of the Jihad Watch Wishful Thinking Award goes to …
… Sarah Barmak in the Toronto Star: Could it be that the end of Islamist violence will be brought about by Jihadists themselves? After collectively wringing our hands for years over how many hearts, minds and billions of dollars it will take to win the global war on terror, the secret weapon needed to fight […]
Want to (Mis)Understand Islam? Start Here.
Our old friend John Esposito chimes in once more, this time in the Washington [Bleep] (as Mr Liddy would say), about how swell Islam is. Like all good propagandists, Mr Esposito expertly combines vague truths with crucial omissions. Let’s take a look: Like Judaism and Christianity, Islam originated in the Middle East. As F.E. Peters […]
Upcoming SoCal conference on whether Islam is a religion of peace
More rumblings in southern California. A media advisory from Christian Newswire: We at Arabic Christian Perspective have heard many times the claim that Islam is a religion of peace. We believe that this is not true. By reading the Qur’an, one will see that the suicide bombers are not fringe fanatics on the outskirts of […]
Despite Plots, Britons See Peaceful Islam
Jihadist attacks — successful or unsuccessful — should not determine attitudes toward Islam as peaceful or violent. The essence of something exists independently of its practitioners — which is why the Crusades, etc. do not make Christianity a religion of violence. The violent nature of Islam is properly deduced from examination of its sources of […]