Did you think Turkey was a secular state? The crime of “insulting religious values” is in the Turkish penal code. “Turkey: Comedian convicted for ‘insulting’ Erdogan in show,” by Mark Hallam, DW, September 28, 2026: A Turkish comedian was convicted in Istanbul on Monday on charges of “insulting” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and “insulting religious […]
Saudi Arabia: Sri Lankan migrant worker faces death sentence for Facebook post claimed to be insulting to Muhammad
Contrary to the lies of Islamic apologists in the West, the idea of killing people who supposedly insult Muhammad comes from Muhammad himself. A critic of the prophet of Islam, Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf, had mocked Muhammad in verse. Muhammad asked his followers: “Who is willing to kill Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His […]
Pakistan: Muslim claims Christian said Muhammad appeared to him in dream, Christian arrested for blasphemy
The case against Samuel Arif rests entirely upon the word of Muhammad Umair Alam Khan, but since Khan is a Muslim and Arif is a Christian, Khan’s word could get Arif killed. Meanwhile, in claiming that Arif “intercepted” Khan’s two minor daughters, and claimed that Muhammad told him to marry the girls, Khan seems to […]
Muslim Cleric Affirms: Kill Those Who Insult Muhammad
The thing no Muslims believe turns out to be something many of them believe — again. Another Muslim cleric has acted upon Islamic beliefs that Islamic apologists and their leftist allies in the West constantly assure us that few, if any, Muslims actually believe. Western Islamic apologists and their leftist friends couldn’t possibly be lying to […]
Hey, Did You Hear the One About the English Guy Who Got Fined $1300 for a Joke?
New in PJ Media: Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a country with a rich and magnificent heritage, one of the trailblazers of global political philosophy and culture, suddenly decides, for no particular reason, much less any compelling one, to throw away the legacy of two thousand years. Its leaders invite in a group […]
Ghana: Imam says ‘Anyone who insults the Prophet Muhammad, if you kill him, you haven’t done anything wrong’
Where did he get this idea? From Muhammad himself as depicted in Islamic tradition, which tells these stories, among others: A critic of the prophet of Islam, Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf, had mocked Muhammad in verse. Muhammad asked his followers: “Who is willing to kill Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?” One […]
UK: Ex-policeman fined $1,355 for sharing jokes about Islam online
The thing is that Gray didn’t even originate these jokes. He just reposted them. And the jokes all have aspects of truth to them. Islam really does allow for child marriage, and Sharia-adherent Muslims, who might be more likely to avoid bacon than Muslims who ignore Sharia, are more likely to take the Sharia allowance […]
Rushdie Stabber’s Lawyer Says We May Never Know His Motive
“There could be a number of reasonable, plausible explanations as to what he was thinking.” The Iranian Fatwa targeting Salman Rushdie over his book was one of the early tests of Islamization in the West. And Western intellectuals failed badly, attacking Rushdie, who had come from a Muslim family, for offending Islam, rather than defending […]
Bangladesh: Muslim mob beats man and he is jailed for burning a COMMENTARY on the Qur’an
We have seen mobs beat people for burning the Qur’an before, and a Muslim or Muslims murdered Salwan Momika for doing so, but beating and arresting someone for burning a Qur’an commentary is something new. Leave it to Bangladesh to be on the cutting edge of global innovation. Of course, the commentary contains multiple quotations […]
UK: South Wales Police Now Forced to Halt Their Plan to Arrest People for ‘Anti-Muslim Hostility’
In the U.K., the South Wales Police wanted to adopt a definition of “anti-Muslim hostility” that went far beyond the definition accepted by the British government. Faced, however, with pushback from the Free Speech Union, the South Wales Police has for now halted its attempts to impose its expansive interpretation of what constitutes anti-Muslim hostility, […]