Catch-22: Report the rape without four witnesses, and risk being thrown into jail for adultery. Try to hide it for fear of adultery charges and other reprisals, and get thrown into jail for “concealing” it. A similar charge was tacked onto the much more widely known case of Gulnaz in Afghanistan. “Victim gets jail term […]
Pakistan to shoot down any drones in its airspace
So, does anyone still say “friend and ally?” “Pakistan says U.S. drones in its air space will be shot down,” from MSNBC, December 11: ISLAMABAD — Pakistan will shoot down any U.S. drone that intrudes its air space per new directives, a senior Pakistani official told NBC News on Saturday. According to the new Pakistani […]
We tried to tell you: Hamas sets up forward bases, rocket production facilities in Sinai
Sinai threatens to become an intentional blind spot and site of selective sovereignty within Egypt, perhaps not unlike Pakistan’s frontier provinces. As described below, the area is largely demilitarized according to the Camp David Accords, but this situation may at some point be used to make Israel choose between an area “militarized” by jihadists, or […]
One wounded in southern Lebanon by rocket fired toward Israel that didn’t quite make it
Hallmark doesn’t make a “Thanks for Understanding, We Were Aiming at the Infidels” card. It would have to have a tidy little pocket for diyya, or blood money allowed under Sharia. “One person wounded in south Lebanon by rocket,” from Reuters, December 11: BEIRUT (Reuters) – One person was injured in southern Lebanon Sunday when […]
Report: Hamas makes tactical retreat from Sharia-enforcing thuggery
For the moment, the Muslim Brotherhood wing known as Hamas appears to be aligning its behavior more closely with its increasingly influential big brother next door, where gradualism is the name of the game. “Hamas in Gaza says it’s learning from Arab Spring,” by Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh for the Associated Press, December 11: […]
Nigeria: Jihad against soccer fans
But not just soccer: “The explosions occurred in predominantly Christian areas of the city.” “Bomb blasts targeting football fans kill one in Nigeria,” from Agence France-Presse, December 11: Three bomb blasts, targeting bars as fans watched a Spanish football match on television, rocked the Nigerian city of Jos officials said Sunday, with one death and […]
Muslim Brotherhood’s Yusuf al-Qaradawi calls for “gradualism” in applying Sharia
Some might try to spin this statement as “moderate” and somehow reassuring, but it is exactly why the implementation of any Sharia is alarming and must be resisted: Sharia is a package deal (as even Imam Rauf knows), and any Sharia is a foot in the door with which to leverage more: after all, now […]
Maldives: Silent protest for religious tolerance attacked with stones, bricks, participants threatened with death
This was another protest in need of a “Thank You for Proving Our Point” sign. Indeed, just last weekend, a rally against “extremism” in Tunisia was attacked by “Islamist” stone throwers. “Protesters calling for religious tolerance attacked with stones, threatened with death,” by JJ Robinson for Minivan News, December 10 (thanks to The Religion of […]
Somalia: Al-Shabaab reportedly plans to re-brand itself as Imaarah Islamiya, “The Islamic Authority”
The old name meant “The Youth,” in the most common translation in the American media. Now, they’re going for the image of a more mature bloodthirsty, paranoid jihadist thug. “Al-Shabaab terrorists change name which means ‘lads’ because its leaders are all getting old,” by Dan Newling for the Daily Mail, December 6: Somalia’s Al-Shabaab terrorist […]
Saudi man could be stoned to death for adultery with ex-wife, who had no idea she had been divorced
Formal reconciliation would have been extremely complicated, well beyond their actual relationship. As this story notes, “he could be stoned to death because what he had done amounts to the most serious adultery since she is prohibited to sleep with him unless she marries another man and is divorced again before returning to the former […]