In the West, we don’t arrest people for criticizing Islam. We just excoriate them as “far-right,” “bigoted” “Islamophobes,” and blacken their names to the extent that all decent people shun them. We are much more enlightened in the U.S. than they are in Egypt. “Atheist blogger arrested in Egypt for anti-Islam criticism,” The New Arab, […]
Al-Azhar on French call to reform Qur’an: “Go to hell!” Violent verses are “in reality verses of peace”
“No to freezing a single letter from the Koran, and those calling for this can go to hell.” Peaceful guy! Shuman also said: “What those who issued this call think are verses calling for their killing are in reality verses of peace,” claiming that the Qur’an only calls for fighting in self-defense. He seems to […]
Egypt: Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” smash church’s doors and windows, pelt Christian homes with stones
Will the Islamophobia never end? “Egypt church application triggers attack,” World Watch Monitor, April 19, 2018: …The government has legalised 219 churches and church-affiliated buildings this year, but 3,511 others remain on the waiting list. The churches were built without licence as it was “next to impossible” to build or restore a church until the […]
Jizya, “Military Exemption,” and Murdered Christian Soldiers
One of the staples of the Islamic whitewashing industry is the claim that jizya — the extortion money subjugated Jews and Christians were required to pay (a la Koran 9:29) — actually “entitled them to Muslim protection from outside aggression and exempted them from military service,” to quote Georgetown University’s John Esposito. By this widely held logic, […]
Did Medieval Christians distort the Koran to prevent Islam from spreading to Europe?
While discussing the history of the Koran in Europe during a televised interview on the Arabic-language program, “Allah Knows,” Dr. Ali Gom‘a, one of Egypt’s foremost clerics, said that early European translations of the Koran were rooted in Christian desires to learn more about Islam and its language, Arabic. But then he made the following assertion: The […]
Islam’s ‘Slow Motion Genocide’ of Christians
Iraqi Archbishop Bashar Warda made the following observation during a recent speech: “Having faced for 1,400 years the slow-motion genocide that began long before the ongoing ISIS genocide today, the time for excusing this inhuman behavior and its causes is long since passed.” That Muslims have cleansed non-Muslim peoples by the sword since the seventh century to the present is […]
Muslim cleric: Muslims must fight non-Muslims in jihad until they convert to Islam or submit and pay the jizya
Will Muslim spokesmen in the West denounce this call as un-Islamic, or remain silent about it? I’m betting the latter, in light of passages like these that make it clear that al-Qadi is speaking in complete accord with the Qur’an and Islamic law: “Fight those who do not believe in Allah or the Last Day, […]
Eliminate Israel, Eliminate Islamic Terrorism?
The plague of Islamic terrorism is based on “grievances” against Israel — so says Al Azhar, the world’s most prestigious madrasa (or Muslim “university”) that co-hosted Barack Obama’s 2009 “A New Beginning” speech. During a recently televised Egyptian interview, Ahmed Al Tayeb — Al Azhar’s grand imam, once named the “most influential Muslim in the […]
Islamic State urges Muslims to turn holiday hotspots in Egypt into bloodbaths by murdering Christian tourists
Relax. Keep your reservations. This is nothing that a bit of “Muslim-Christian dialogue” won’t fix, right? Right? “ISIS fanatics urge jihadis to turn Brit holiday hot-spots in Egypt into bloodbaths by deliberately targeting Christian tourists,” by Matthew Acton, The Sun, February 28, 2018: ISIS killers have urged fighters to turn holiday hot-spots in Egypt into […]
Egypt: Muslim TV host hands out chocolates to celebrate downing of Israeli F-16
We have many times seen the “Palestinians” celebrate the murder of Israeli civilians by passing out candies, and this is in the same vein. A culture of violence produces people who celebrate and glory in violence. “Israel was, remains, and forever will be the No. 1 enemy of Egypt and the Arab world, regardless of […]