“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” — Barack Obama, September 25, 2012 “Indian charged in UAE with ‘insulting Islam,’” IANS, April 14, 2015: Dubai, April 14 (IANS): An Indian man has been charged in a UAE court for allegedly posting on a social networking site comments that insult […]
Dubai: British visitor jailed for drinking during Ramadan
This British man sounds like a drunk, obnoxious creep, but in any case his obnoxiousness doesn’t justify his arrest and jailing for violating Sharia prohibitions. If he had been arrested for damaging the cab, that would have been fine. But instead, the arrestable offense seems to have been that he was drinking during Ramadan, a […]
Spurning Infidel pleas and quoting Qur’an, Dubai Mufti reasserts fatwa forbidding one-way trip to Mars
Mars One pleaded for this fatwa to be lifted. They really, really, wanted Muslims on their mission to Mars, as they have a taste for dealing with imagined insults, fabricated grievances, feigned and manipulative outrage, arrogant contempt for outsiders, and supremacist threats. But Dubai’s Grand Mufti is standing firm: Mars One is just going to […]
UAE: Rape victim arrested for sex outside marriage when she reported, and told she had to marry rapist
This is a result of Muhammad’s exoneration of his favorite wife, Aisha, who was suspected of adultery. Allah gave him a revelation requiring four male witnesses to establish such a crime: “And those who accuse honourable women but bring not four witnesses, scourge them (with) eighty stripes and never (afterward) accept their testimony – They […]
Book your trip now: Dubai’s Qur’an theme park to open in 2015!
What fun this will be! I look forward to visiting the Apes and Pigs Pavilion, where Allah transforms disobedient Jews into those despised animals: “And well you know there were those among you [Jews] that transgressed the Sabbath, and We said to them, ‘Be you apes, miserably slinking!’” (Qur’an 2:65). “Say: ‘People of the Book, […]
Sharia in action in Dubai: Rape victim faces jail for sex outside marriage
“Why did they not produce four witnesses? Since they produce not witnesses, they verily are liars in the sight of Allah.” — Qur’an 24:13 Because of the Qur’an-derived stipulation that sexual crimes can only be established by the testimony of four male Muslim witnesses, along with the Sharia provision that women’s testimony is not admissible […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage Magazine: Blaming the Rape Victim in Dubai
In FrontPage I discuss the case of Marte Deborah Dalelv, and why it shouldn’t surprise anyone. Dubai, not willing to take the international heat, has pardoned Marte Deborah Dalelv, a Norwegian woman who had been sentenced to sixteen months in prison for making the mistake of reporting that she had been a victim of rape. […]
Dubai police asked rape victim “Are you sure you called the police because you just didn’t like it?” — then jailed her
UPDATE: Dubai, not willing to take the international heat, has pardoned Marte Deborah Dalelv. (Thanks to Block Ness) ———- “Under UAE law, rapists can only be convicted if either the perpetrator confesses or if four adult Muslim males witness the crime.” That is pure Sharia, based on Qur’an 24:4 and 24:13. Those verses, according to […]
Modern, moderate Dubai: Norwegian woman raped, gets 16 months in jail for sex outside marriage
In Islam the victim of rape is to blame, for she has sullied the family’s honor by engaging in sexual immorality. The fact that it was forced upon her makes no difference at all. Think this is only something that greasy Islamophobes say? Think again. We have seen a Muslim rape victim ostracized in India; […]
Fun for the whole family: Dubai set to open Qur’an theme park
“The estimated $7.3-million project will include a garden with plants mentioned in the Islamic holy book and an air-conditioned tunnel depicting events from the Qur’an.” What fun! I can’t wait to see these passages depicted: 2:65 Allah transforms disobedient Jews into apes “And well you know there were those among you [Jews] that transgressed the […]