Says MEMRI: “On November 21, 2003, Somali journalist Bashir Goth wrote an extensive article detailing how Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi Islam has corrupted the Islam of his native Somalia.” He calls Wahhabism an “alien, perverted version of Islam that depends on punctilious manners more than it depends on deep-rooted faith. A strange uniformity… has crept into […]
Chirac: There’s something about the veil
Chirac French President Jacques Chirac, of all people, has “denounced Muslim head scarves on schoolgirls as offensive and expressed concern about Islamic fundamentalism Friday as momentum grew in France to bar all religious symbols from public schools.” This from Reuters. What’s offensive about them? “Speaking on a visit to Tunisia, Chirac said the strictly secular […]
Germany mulls Islamic group probe
More evidence of the deep inroads that radical Islam has made in Europe: “Germany’s chief federal prosecutor is considering whether to take over an investigation into an Islamic group suspected of trying to smuggle suicide bombers into Iraq, a spokesman said Thursday. “It follows the arrest of an Iraq at Munich railway station Tuesday and […]
Culture clash in France
The conflict in France between Islam and secularism has so far centered around the hijab, the headscarf that Muslim women and girls wear. It has become symbolic of a larger challenge to France’s secular society: “A French school yesterday expelled a 12-year-old girl who refused to remove her headscarf in class, a family acquaintance said. […]
Dhimmis in California no longer compliant
The American Middle East Christian Association has staged a public protest against the teaching of Islam in a public school in California: “Hundreds of Christians who fled Egypt to the United States claiming persecution under Islam showed up outside a Southern California middle school yesterday to protest an extra-credit assignment urging students to participate in […]
Anti-dhimmitude from Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn’s column today addresses the furor over a comic strip that the Council on American Islamic Relations says insults Islam. Steyn, unlike CAIR, manages to keep a more balanced perspective. When asked to speak about the strip in The Media, Steyn declined: “Although I agreed of course that Islamophobic cartooning was the most pressing […]
Australian pol: radical Muslims could threaten Australia’s future
Watch for New South Wales Premier Bob Carr to be savaged as a racist for daring to declare that Australia faces a threat from “Islamists in Indonesia and I know there are different gradations of Islamist ideology and practice. But it was only 10 years ago we were being assured that aggressive Islamism would be […]
European Parliamentarians express concern over persecution of Pakistani Christians!
The Pakistan Christian Post reports that Claude Moraes, a member of the European Parliament, has declared that “the suppression of individual’s freedom to practice their religion is a violation of human rights and breach the fundamental ideals of democracy.” The report here is a bit unclear, but it indicates that at least a few people […]
Muslims “Must Choose the British Way – Or Terrorism”
“Foreign Office minister Denis MacShane told the leaders of the UK’s Muslim community today that they must make a choice between the ‘British way’ of political dialogue and Islamic terrorism. “Following the Istanbul bombs, Mr MacShane likened the terrorists to the Nazis and urged [imams] and other Muslim leaders to use ‘clearer, stronger language’ to […]
Bad dhimmi! Dr. Laura rebuked for “anti-Muslim tirade”
“A controversial Islamic lobby group is demanding an apology from radio counselor Dr. Laura Schlessinger for an alleged ‘anti-Muslim tirade’ on her program this week.” This from WorldNetDaily. This is what Dr. Laura said in response to a caller asking if she should allow her daughter to go on a field trip to a mosque, […]