There are many means of jihad, they note. Or in other words, a way to stick it to the infidel is a way to stick it to the infidel. Scholars differ on circumstances for acceptable use, and its position in the pecking order of means of jihad, but are in agreement in principle that it […]
Report: American Bible translators bowdlerize scriptures to avoid offending Muslims: no “Father” and “Son”
If this is true, for the parties they are trying not to offend, anything short of Islam — of professing that there is no god but Allah, and that Muhammad is his messenger — would be “offensive.” This is not making Christianity more palatable. It is de-Christianizing it. It is manufacturing yet another Christian heresy. […]
U.K.: Girls as young as nine being forced into marriage
Nine. There’s that number again. Now, everyone knows only the greasiest of greasy Islamophobes retail the notion that the practice of marrying girls as young as nine has something to do with Muhammad marrying Aisha when she was six and consummating the marriage when she was nine, and he was six times her age at […]
Defense secretary Panetta: Pakistan must have known someone of interest was in bin Laden compound
Indeed. It defies imagination that a secretive group holed up in a meticulously controlled compound in close proximity to the Pakistani military never made them wonder who their neighbors were. Panetta’s observations echo what he said after the bin Laden raid in May: either the Pakistanis were incompetent, or complicit, though Panetta now seems to […]
Tunisia: Retired teacher says “We spent our lives educating people, and now some want us to go back in time 14 centuries”
Wherever Sharia experiences a resurgence, the observable effect is an increase in harassment and a decline in tolerance, of human rights, and civil liberties. Note the woman below who even found the grocer scolding her about her jeans. And she observed: “Everything becomes tougher: Going to see a gynaecologist, what to wear, how to talk.” […]
Dutch plan ban on face veils
It is one thing to be unidentifiable in a society where one is always under the control of a male guardian and a perpetual minor, but in a free and open society, full participation requires being identifiable as an individual and not merely in relation to another. For that matter, in the West, unlike other […]
Egypt: Over 3000 Muslims attack Copts over a rumor about a cell phone photo
The organization and transition to violence always seem to happen more than a little too easily, once again suggesting a rampage waiting for an excuse. And any old excuse will do. These are not the makings of a stable society, and there can be no prosperity if society is so unstable that one fears anything […]
Egypt: Some protesters turn on the Muslim Brotherhood
In a country where the Ikhwan got 47 percent of the vote, that will only go so far, but it does underscore the fact that the group, which knows how to campaign (and how to tamper with voting), now has to figure out how to implement its plans to govern and maintain power. The Brotherhood […]
Boko Haram vows to fight until Nigeria establishes Sharia law: “You don’t put down your arms in Islam, you only put them aside”
The fundamental aim of jihad in all its forms is to impose Sharia, and that is why jihadists in supposedly “regional” conflicts find common cause with others far removed from them, as the spokesman here claims support in Saudi Arabia. Boko Haram has consistently targeted institutions, practices, and people that would stand in the way […]
Report: Hamas’ Meshaal may take a “high position in the Muslim Brotherhood movement”
That Muslim Brotherhood? The moderate, “largely secular” one? This is, of course, not so much a departure as moving from one department to another: Hamas’ charter describes itself as “one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine,” and the leader of the Brotherhood in Egypt, Mohammed Badie, has praised Hamas as a role […]